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Lockharc, Professor Twiss, Mr. Key, Sir Francis 

 Palgrave, Mr. Hallam, Sir R. Inglis, and one or 

 two more besides R. O. I sat next but two 

 to Guizot, and had some interesting conversa- 

 tion with him about Cuvier and the Garden of 

 Plants.' 



Early in the summer Mrs. Owen writes : ' We 

 saw to-day in Great Queen Street one of the evils 

 of the Smithfield Cattle Market. A conveyance 

 such as is used for large flat articles, like pictures, 

 &c, passed, drawn by two horses, and tied down 

 on it lay a black bull with enormous horns. Three 

 or four men were sitting on the bull, and I noticed 

 a red mark on its neck as though it had been 

 goaded. R. discovered that the bull first ran from 

 Smithfield, and after wounding several people and 

 attacking the gate-keeper at Stone Buildings (who 

 saved himself by shutting the gates), he rushed at 

 a gentleman who was entering the Square from 

 Stone Buildings, and after butting him, ran one of 

 his horns into the poor fellow's left temple. They 

 carried the gentleman off in a senseless state to 

 King's College Hospital, where the house surgeon 

 recognised him as an old friend and schoolfellow of 

 his. The bull was chased back through Chancery 

 Lane, Holborn, and nearly as far as Smithfield, 

 when it rushed over a bar into a little court called 

 " Fox and Knot," where it was at last caught by 

 ropes let down from the houses. These occur- 

 rences are by no means rare. The animals get 



