The Cattle Plague Increasing In England

Tho Loridon Times (reocived by the City of Boston) says : " There oan no longor be a doubt ab;ut the formidnblo growth of the oattle plaguo during the present month. During that brief period it has been go rapidly and fatally disseminated tbat the prospect has becoino very different from what it was a few weeks ugo. - When the commissioners issued their report at the end of üctobor, it was obvious to argue as it wasargued, that the ravages of the plague, as tbon ascertainod, constituted, upon the whole, a alighter infliotion than would be created by tho suspension of all tho cattle trafilo of the country. In the four months comprised between the first outbreak of the dise.iso aud the report of the oom? missioners tho total uumbcr of oases barely exceeded fourteen thouaand, wbile the deaths, from plague and poleaxo together, irere only about twélve thousand. This gave a mortality of on ly sevou hundred a weok uon au aggregate stock oí borned oatlle ostirnated at seven millions, aud it was asked nccordr ingly whether suoh a loss would justify tho application of such a remedy asi was proposüd. Tha questioq arose fuirly onough out of the facts as tbey then appearod, and as hopea wory ontertaiued that wo haJ soen tho worst of the piar gue, at any rate for the season, the sweeping meaaures of precaution pro. poaed by the oommissiouere found no grcat favor, But the aspect of things has beeo seriously chaagod by the returns of the month now expiring.- r These four weeks have alroady doubled the losses of the preeeding four months.. The attaobd havo risen from 14,000 to upwards of 27.000, autl the deathe, destruotion included, to upwards of 21,000. Betwcon tho 4th und tke lltb of the mouth tho Dumbur of cases iocreased by fif'ty por oent. In tbe ensuing week thinga vvei'ö not quite so bad, but there wns a further increase still. At present it raay bo assumed that the deatbs, instead of 700 a week, are at least four times that number, nd if winter does not toll in our lavor, the losses may be 5 000 or 6,000 a week before Christmas.