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 many unnatural and useless feats in a riding house, he is at last turned out, and consigned to the dominion of a hackney coachman, by whom he is every day corrected for performing those tricks which he has learned under a severe and long discipline. The sluggish bear, in contradiction to his nature, is taught to dance, for the diversion of a malignant mob, by placing red hot irons under his feet: and the majestic bull is tortured by every mode which malice can invent, for no offence, but that he is gentle, and unwilling to assail his diabolical tormentors. These, with innumerable other acts of cruelty, injustice, and in gratitude, are every day committed, not only with impunity, but without censure, and even without observation; but we may be assured that they cannot finally pass unnoticed or unretaliated.— Guardian.

Where pain and pleasure, happiness and misery, are concerned, there the obligations of morality are concerned; and a man who is not merciful to the animals in his power, whatever his pretensions may be to reason and religion, is, in truth, of a narrow understanding, and of a bad heart. What shall we say, then, of that morality, that religion, and that policy, which admits of the cruelties we see daily exercised on creatures, we derive benefit and pleasure from every moment of our lives?—The Rev. D.Williams's Lectures.

There is nothing argues so dastardly a spirit, as taking a diabolic satisfaction in the oppression of weakness; in directing barbarity against inoffensive beings, which have not the power or disposition of defence. Men's minds glow with resentment at a slight injury done to themselves, but they have no sense of the injustice which they commit on domestic animals. In passing through