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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH^ X. 
Lockharc, Professor Twiss, Mr. Key, Sir F'rancis 
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 lor 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 
