NOTICE TO READERS AND CORESPONDENTS. On the completion of the four Numbers, a private Meeting of the Benefactors of this Work, at the latter end of May, will be announced in the next Number. Several suggestions for extending the objects of this publication have been received; and we beg to assure each of those valued correspondents that their communications shall receive the most mature consideration. Some recommend a weekly, others a monthly, publicacation; but it is evident, from the experience we have obtained, and which will then be submitted, that, to supply the funds for carrying our objects into efficient operation, as detailed in the Prospectus, the exertion of our friends is necessary to increase the number of Subscribers. We may observe, respecting one suggestion, that we have resolved to combine Petitions respecting the objects of this work; and, when requested, they will be drawn up and forwarded by Coach, gratuitously. The following sketch may be useful. To the Right Hon. the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the (City, Borough, Town, or Village, in the County of) Sheweth-that your Petitioners (Substance of Petition) implore your Honourable House to pass a Law for its immediate extinction. And your petitioners will ever pray. To the Hon. the Commons, &c. &c. Petitions will be free of postage if addressed to a Member of Parliament, when endorsed "Petitions," left open at both ends, and the weight not exceeding six ounces. The Petitions may be written on stout paper, when parchment cannot be procured. It is obvious that some further care than has hitherto been employed is necessary respecting the choice of Members to whom Petitions are entrusted. When petitioners are undecided in this respect, their Petitions, if addressed to the Editors, will be placed in the hands of Members who will do justice to the subject. To a large proportion of the public press we feel greatly indebted for the very able manner in which the objects of this publication were enforced and advocated. We feel lively gratitude, which we hope will never be obliterated, to those Editors who, at the appearance of our first number, sent us their own articles on the leading objects of this publication. We still renew the request to them, and to our readers, as it is quite impossible that we can see all that issues from the public press. Thus, we trust that, already, the acquisition of several valuable friends has been obtained, to whom, otherwise, we should have been strangers. Communications for insertion must arrive, at latest, before the termination of the month previous to publishing: and such as refer to the objects under discussion are particularly requested. We are not favourable to ANONYMOUS communications. The name and address should, at least, be confided to the Editors. From those who give us neither the influence of their name nor the assistance of their Benefaction we expect little. A Bill to amend the knackers' or horse-slaughtering Act, will appear in the following Number. We are desired to state that Benefactions are entirely independent of the sale of the work. The Bill for the prevention of canine madness, being at this time in progress, will be taken up in the next Number. Benefactions from the country are requested either to be enclosed in a letter, or to be paid into a Bank, with an order upon a Banker in London. 119 CONTENTS. Abattoirs contrasted with Slaughter-houses and Smithfield An amended Act to prevent the Cruel Treatment of Cattle National Tastes respecting Animal Food-The Pythagorean Poetry-Extract from a Poem entitled Humanity—The - Facts and Scraps--White Veal-Effect of Steam Coaches Letters from Correspondents- The second edition of the original pamphlet from which this periodical takes its name, and of which it may be considered the continuation, is still on sale at Sherwood & Co.'s, Paternoster Row. It contains observations on the Pits for bear-baiting, badger-baiting, dog-fighting, &c.—The Knackers, or Horse Slaughtering Houses.-The Slaughter-houses for cattle.-Wanton cruelty of useless experiments in dissect- ing living animals.-Abstracts of Acts of Parliament available to the cause of Humanity.-The Act to prevent the cruel treatment of cattle.-The Smith- field Act.-Rules, Orders, and Ordinances of the Mayor and Court of Alder- men respecting Smithfield Market.-4 George IV. cap. 54, against maiming or wounding cattle.-The Act for the better discovery of offenders, that orders the name and residence of the owners of carts, waggons, &c. to be affixed, and to affix plates on licensed carriages and vehicles.-50 George III. cap. 48, which regulates the number of Passengers, and the height of luggage.-The Acts to prevent furious driving.-Hints on the formation and regulation of Societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals. To which is added an Appendix, containing a summary of the evidence given before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the state of Smith- field Market and the Slaughter-houses, with observations on the remedial |