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THE BRUTAL TREATMENT OF IIORSES. 
phobia. Death took place, however, with all the symptoms of 
hydrophobia, without any of those which follow the bite of a viper 
having occurred. Prince Louis, however, thinks that the active 
principle of the poison, freed from all other circumstances, might 
prove more efficacious if injected into the veins of a person labour- 
ing under hydrophobia. The preparation of this substance (echid- 
nine) is somewhat difficult. 
The remedy (?) proposed by Prince Louis is not new. It has 
been tried by Bellingiera at Turin, and the patient died with the 
symptoms of the viper-bite well-marked, superadded to the hydro- 
phobia which previously existed. Prince Louis states that no 
such symptoms occurred in his case ; but Dr. Griffa maintained 
that the history of it, given by Prince Louis himself, proves the 
reverse. For our part, we think the trial of such a substance, as 
a remedial agent on man, is perfectly unjustifiable, even in so hope- 
less a disease as hydrophobia. 
We know not on what ground it could rationally be supposed 
capable of curing hydrophobia ; but we should say, if it must be 
tried, let its efficacy first be tested on rabid animals, of which, un- 
fortunately, there is no lack. 
TPIE BRUTAL TREATMENT OF HORSES. 
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- 
mals has been more than usually on the alert in the discharge of 
their duty. It is a Society that well deserves that increasing sup- 
port which, on every succeeding year, it is obtaining. As a fair 
sample of what it is effecting, we take the Holyhead and Carnar- 
von mail. No one would have thought that such a succession of 
atrocities could have been possible. 
Abergele , North Wales . — On Monday se’nnight, one of the 
drivers of the Carnarvon day mail appeared before the Rev. J. F. 
Roberts and J. W. Wynne, charged by Mr. Thomas with having, 
on the 27th of November last, wantonly and cruelly beaten and 
ill-treated his horses. 
Mr. Thomas stated, that, in consequence of complaints made to 
the Society of the wretched condition of the horses employed in 
the mails, particularly between St. Asaph and Abergele, he had 
been sent down to adopt the necessary measures to prevent the 
continuance of the cruelty complained of. The Society did not 
seek to obtain penalties against the drivers, but to compel the con- 
tractors to provide horses able to do their work. In the present 
