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point of view. The dog, constant to his master, exhibits from 
first to last a gratifying* example of unshaken fidelity. The 
master, too generally faithless to the dog from the moment when 
his utility ceases, presents a disgusting picture of base cupidity 
and ingratitude. Like the black slave, whom the white Christian 
scourges at his work while he insults him with the title of a bro¬ 
ther, the dog, bearing the false name of a friend, is treated by his 
master as if he were his worst enemy; he is hunted, beaten, 
harnessed to carts, and made to do every sort of work; and 
undergoes a larger share of oppression than falls to the lot of other 
animals: and when his services are over, he is either left, like the 
old servants of tender-hearted gentility, to shift for himself, and 
gain a miserable subsistence on a muckheap in the street, or un¬ 
ceremoniously flung into a river and drowned, like the super¬ 
fluous children of the Chinese—and this, too, after the most 
eminently useful and acknowledged services. Man, as general 
oppressor, seems to taint every thing which he touches. Depraved 
in his own appetites, and suffering from a thousand moral and 
physical ills which his perverted passions have entailed on him, 
he seems capable of transferring, by domestication, many of his 
disorders to the brute creation; and thus the tame dog and the 
horse have engendered various distempers unknown to the wild 
specimens. This is a curious reflection, and it leads to another,— 
namely, whether the punishment that follows deviations from 
nature, both moral and physical, does not attach itself to other 
animals as well as to man. The constant warfare of all animated 
beings is an awful spectacle of life supported by death through¬ 
out all the creation. 
English Short Horns. 
The following is extracted from the Journal des HaraSy^ 
August, 1838. The Editor of that Journal is speaking:—At 
last the truth has conquered, and by dint of repetition—that a 
valuable breed of cattle not only cannot flourish, but cannot even 
exist, without a very considerable outlay, we have at length 
been heard, and our demand is about to be listened to. The 
Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture has decided that a herd of 
English short-horned Durham cattle, and other valuable breeds, 
shall be purchased and placed in the stud at Pin. Messrs. 
Yvart, inspector of the veterinary schools, and Sainte-Marie, 
the inspector of ‘Haras,’ at Pin, are charged with the selection 
and purchase of these cattle.” 
