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may pursue the chase with delight, will never be gratified with needless torture, 

 or unnecessary suffering." 



This ought to bring to remembrance and reprobation the abomination of the 

 Easter or Cockney Hunt, upon Epping Forest, where the poor stag, when taken 

 and torn down, was formerly, CUT UP ALIVE, into pieces, to be sold to the sur- 

 rounding Abyssians ' 



With respect to the grand, legalized infamy of Bull-baiting, its continuance 

 depends entirely on the protection or sufferance of the pious upper and middling 

 classes, by no means on the will of the fashionably and affectedly contemned lower 

 orders. A former Duke of Bedford, as we have stated, set the example how this 

 noble chartered right may be got rid of, in the most ancient case of Tutbury ; and 

 as to the common, unauthorised baitings, any Magistrate, or any Householder 

 within the parish, may by application to the proper authorities, abate the nuisance, 

 as a breach of the peace. A friend of OUT'S lately, was alarmed by the spectacle of 

 a great crowd and bull brought to be baited in front of his residence. He imme- 

 diately sent for the beadle of the village, who warned the parties of the conse- 

 quence of a breach of the peace, and the bull was withdrawn. 



Some years ago, we heard of a gentleman, in a northern county, whose charac- 

 ter otherwise, was generally humane, but who, strange incongruity, always hunted 

 and worried his sheep to death, with dogs, instead of the usual mode of killing 

 them! 



" In June, 1816, two valuable horses carrying twelve stone each, were matched 

 to run from Estroio near Bedford, to the Peacock Inn, at Islington, and back 

 again (100 miles) in the shortest possible time. They were so cruelly urged be- 

 yond their strength, by the unfeeling inhumanity of their riders, and other bar- 

 barians who accompanied them, some on relays of horses, that on their return, one 

 of them dropped and died, having gone about seventy -six miles ; and the other 

 having gone about eighty-four miles, failed, and died the next day at Hitchin : 

 the inhabitants of which place, at the same time that they expressed their utter 

 abhorrence and detestation of such a cruel and disgraceful transaction, regretted 

 exceedingly, that the parties concerned in it, were not amenable to the laws of the 

 country for their conduct." 



TREATMENT OF FOX HOUNDS. 



" Although we have greatly improved in the management of Horses and 

 Hounds first, as to cleanliness in the Stable and Kennel ; next in not keeping the 

 horses short of water, or the hounds short of food ; let me suggest another improve- 

 ment, which is, never to cut off any part of a Fox-hound's tail, or ever to round his 

 ears, nature designing the tail and ears, as a protection to the animal from briars, 



