state of High intellect, barbarity of feeling is seldom united. Children and idiots are generally cruel. Cock-fighters, dog-fighters, badger and bull-baiters, and their admirers, high and low, are blockheads as well as barbarians. They have little power of reflection or imagination; they can seldom go beyond sensual perception; they cannot form ideas or draw conclusions, and often do not see the vices of which they are guilty, or think that nothing more than self-gratification is required to justify any thing they may be inclined to do.

Our calendars of crime are full enough-our prisons are enlarging, our penal inflictions are increasing in number; and with the knowledge that prize-fights and other exhibitions of the same character increase the aggregate number of offenders, and always add a fresh victim or two to the vengeance of the law, out of the crowds that flock to them, we are astonished at the supineness, if a term so complaisant may be used, when a stronger one would be more appropriate respecting those whose duty it is to prevent their recurrence. In vain may the press reprobate, and the judges set in a right light the question of power possessed by those who have the peace of the country confided to them-in vain the better part of society may discountenance them; they are still tolerated-still suffered to render us a spectacle to foreign countries. We are still seen defying the increased knowledge of the age, and proclaiming that our anxiety for the spread of good morals is a pretext. We think ourselves the best of all possible people; our laws, institutions, mainers, and customs, unequalled; but, in our selfinflation, we overlook the blemishes that are for ever staring us in the face. Attached as we are to our native land, knowing that we are a great and envied nation, and allowing that England contains a vast mass of noble and generous feeling, we are bound to confess, that the proverb is but too true, "that England is the hell of dumb animals." It is almost impossible, to say nothing of the country, to pass by the alleys and stable yards of the metropolis, and not see some exhibition of cruelty, a cat-hunt, a dog “tail-piped," (as the phrase is,) or the overworked horse, covered with galls and sores, labouring in torture. Here we encounter a party of bullock-hunters; and there a bird-catcher sits burning out the eyes of a singing-bird, under the pretence of increasing the power of its music. But animals in the metropolis are far better off, en masse, than those of the country ;* where more ingenious methods of tormenting may be every where seen. The treatment of the animal creation will be hardly classed as the best thing in this the best of all possible countries; for whatever the conventional laws of society may be, there cannot be a better proof of their want of moral justice, than their neglect of guarding the grade of creation but a little below ourselves, with special and definite protection.

* Mr. Martin deserves immortal honour for his bill; but with all due deference, we think, in the given population, the inhabitants of the country far less humane to animals than those of the metropolis. The writer has tracked a bullock two miles in the country by its blood, and has found that the drover has cut a vein in its neck to make it go more quietly by thus rendering it faint! This has more than once occurred to him.

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