REVIEW OF “THE VOICE OF HUMANITY. ’ 359 
too true:—“Calves are those unfortunate animals which,in this 
Christian country, are doomed to ‘ die more painfully, that man 
may live more luxuriously.’ We have received difierent heart¬ 
rending* statements respecting* the cruelties practised upon them, 
which commence immediately as they enter the slaughter¬ 
house, and terminate only with the last agonized groan. The 
preparatory bleedings, often repeated twice a-day, are so pro¬ 
fuse, that the calf falls down on the ground from faintness and 
exhaustion. Instead of pity or compassion in the breast of a 
slaughterman, the treatment that ensues is pinching and twist- 
ing the tail, and beating or kicking it, to make it rise. The 
average time, which varies, from the convenience and caprice 
of the butcher, between the calf leaving the dairy to enter 
the slaughter-house and the termination of its sufferings, is 
four days. Some of our correspondents, who reside near 
slaughter-houses, state that, day by day, they can recognize the 
different degrees of exhaustion, from these bleedings, in the 
altered sound of their moans, becoming more and more faint, till 
at length they express, unequivocally, the truest anguish. Com¬ 
plaining to the butcher is certain to induce an additional tor¬ 
ment,—that of tying up the mouth closely with cord, or securing 
it by a buckle-strap, to pass round the head, which is usua Hy 
adopted. When the ultimatum of torture arrives, suspended by 
the hind legs, with one hook run through the nostrils and another 
hook through the tail, to keep the neck in a bent position, to 
bleed to death, we find, in the bundle of communications lying 
before us on the subject, that some of the fashionable butchers 
are not behind our theoretical and experimental surgeons in 
ingenuity of torture, in their manufacture of white veal. We 
hear of the process of flaying or skinning being commenced 
before the calf is dead, to judge whether the flesh be sufficiently 
white , or whether, by checking the vital stream, it should bleed 
to death as slowly as possible, drop by drop, to produce a 
sufficient degree of whiteness . If our Legislature, disregarding 
the convenience and caprice of butchers, were to enact, that, 
before the termination of that day on which a calf was taken 
to the slaughter-house, it should be stunned by a blow T upon 
the head, after which the throat to be cut—we should then 
have true reason to congratulate our country on the advance¬ 
ment of humanity.” 
The Dedication Extraordinary of a sermon against cruelty to 
animals, by the Rev. James Granger, to Thomas Drayton, one of 
the most cruel characters in liis parish, may amuse our readers, 
while it tells well w ith regard to the point in question:— 
“ Neighbour Tom, 
Having seen you exercise the. lash with greater rage, and 
