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Auxiliary societies have also been established in severa 
provincial towns in the United Kingdom, so that the claims 
of all animals on the sympathy of man appear likely to be 
universally felt, and the newspapers may not be filled with 
those reports of injury and cruelty inflicted upon animals 
which mercy has long wept to behold, and which humanity 
and sympathy strongly condemn. 
I bring these remarks to a conclusion, with a quotation 
from the work, on c Humanity to Brutes,’ of our late re¬ 
spected friend and editor, Mr. Youatt, who says— 
“ The heart is hard in nature, and unfit 
For human fellowship, 
That is not pleased 
With sight of animals enjoying life, 
Nor feels their happiness augment his own.” 
I am. Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
Harry Daws. 
41, Duke Stx-eet, Manchester Square; 
Sept., 1852. 
THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1, 1852. 
Ne quid falsi dicere auaeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The stretch of human feeling and sympathy for the brute 
creation has recently been put to a severe trial by two 
foreigners. Monsieur and Madame Poitevin, who have lately 
introduced into this country a novel method of gratify¬ 
ing that appetite for the w onderful, the appalling, the cruel, 
which is but too apt to reign paramount in the breasts of 
the sight-seeing community, composed for the major part of 
the inferior grades of society. That persons should be found 
among our countrymen ready enough to afford place and 
opportunity for exhibitions of the kind need not excite sur¬ 
prise, w r hen we come to consider that the amor jpecunice is 
the ruling passion ; and yet, predominant as such feeling is, 
and among such people in particular, we would feign think 
better of the majority of them than to suppose that they 
