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for Preventing Cruelty to Animals, in their 

 annual meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, 

 on Tuesday 2nd June, 1829, Sir George Duckett 

 Bart, in the Chair : " After many instances brought 

 forward of cruelty to horses, the speakers congratu- 

 lated the meeting, that the coach proprietors were 

 cooperating with them in their exertions, and had 

 formed themselves into a committee, so that passen- 

 gers witnessing cruelty on the part of any coachman, 

 if they laid the case before this Committee, the 

 coachman would most assuredly meet with that pun- 

 ishment which his conduct deserved, for it was the 

 wish, as well as the interest of the coach proprietors, 

 to put an end to that system of cruelty which at one 

 time existed— at the same time, such cruelty was 

 now, they were happy to say, not frequently wit- 

 nessed. " This, no doubt, is an advance; the society 

 further stands in need of some allies among the 

 respectable horse dealers and butchers, classes, in 

 which, as well as in all others, there must necessarily 

 be men of intelligence and humanity : Mr. Protheroe 

 is a striking example of this. 



Smithfield. — This infernal den of cruelty, im- 

 policy, national waste and disgrace, still remains in 

 statu quo, from the old influence of corporation 

 interests and unconquerable prejudice. About twenty 

 years since, at the suggestion of Lord Somerville, I 

 concerted a plan with the late Mr. Edmund Cotterill, 

 then largely concerned in the provision trade, for 

 the removal of Smithfield market to a considerable 

 distance north of the metropolis, and for the estab- 

 lishment of other cattle markets in the south and 



