RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE OF THE ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY,

From the 9th of June, 1834, to the 9th of April, 1835.

4 4 11

Arrears due to the Committee last year.... . .

£239 14 0

APPENDIX.

FANCY FAIR.

We have the pleasure to be able to stop the press to add, that a Fancy Fair of numerous ingenious and elegant articles, chiefly made by ladies, and patronized by the Countess of Shaftesbury, Lady Julia Howard, and Mrs. F. M. Thompson, has just taken place, which has been highly advantageous to the society's funds; and sufficient thanks can never be given to our fair friends for the zeal they have evinced on this occasion, in having thus devoted so much of their valuable time and ingenuity towards the objects of humanity. The particulars of which, according to their date, must, we are sorry to say, be deferred till the publication of our next Report.

FABLE OF A CAPTAIN AND A SEA GULL.

A certain captain having been long detained near an uninhabited shore, was surprised to find the different animals there so busy and apparently so happy. Still wishing to give the birds and beasts there an idea of his own superiority, he accosted a sea gull as follows:

CAPTAIN. I see by the familiarity of your manner before me, that you are not aware of the vast superiority we enjoy above you. Just look at your own works and then examine ours. Nothing but a paltry nest have you to show; but observe those immense vessels which have brought us thousands

of miles to visit you. Examine the majestic sails and stupendous steam engine by which they plough the ocean. Have you any thing a thousandth part so clever.

GULL. Truly we admire your astonishing works; but just try to make a little nest like ours without tools and instruction, as we do, and, in this, at least, would you not fail? But with respect to your wonderful vessels, sails, and steam engines, they would be useless to us; because God has given us two little paddles on our feet, and two to our shoulders, by means of the first of which we have learned how to plough the ocean as you do; and by the last, the Heavens and thus have we been enabled by our own individual exertions, to travel much further and faster than you do.

CAPTAIN, (a little surprised and disconcerted at so unexpected a reply.) But what is the use of the celerity of your motion if you cannot find your way. Here is a small box with a needle in the middle; this tells us where we are going. It may be dark, or it may be foggy, still this never deceives us. Besides this we have a plumb, line, and a log book, by which we keep out of danger, and know our progress. Now, you not having made yourselves such instruments, must be lost the moment you lose sight of your object.

GULL, (smiling.) Truly we have no such troublesome instruments to carry, and none do we want. The most unexplored regions can we traverse and never lose our way; because our knowledge is in our brains, not in our iron and our wood as yours is; and each individual among us, without any help, finds out his latitude, longitude, and destination. If you lose your instruments, you lose your knowledge, but we never can.

CAPTAIN. This is really astonishing; but still you must be greatly embarrassed for want of an instrument to tell you the time of day. Look at this complicated and elegant little machine out of my pocket, which the combined

ingenuity of man has produced; and, by means of which, we know the course of the globe itself, and are enabled to keep our appointments.

GULL. The instrument is really beautiful; but our watches too are in our brains, and we know the time by our reasoning faculty, as you do by your

machines.

CAPTAIN. Well, really this is unexpected. But I have found out the mystery; you are nothing but machines yourselves, actuated by a superior power, otherwise you would be above us, as you can do better without help than we with it. I cannot understand how you do it, and, therefore, I deny that the knowledge you boast is your own.

GULL. Neither do I know how you have done what you have; but I do know that God is the grand mover of the whole; and as we are enabled to adopt all our different actions to the occasion, as well as you, we are not to be robbed of the credit of possessing wisdom, because that wisdom particular, may, in some respects, exceed your own.

Go, from the creatures, thy instruction take :
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
Learn from the beasts the physic of the fields;
Thy arts of building from the bee receive;
Learn from the mole to plough, the worm to weave;
Learn of the little nautilus to sail,

Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale."

POPE.

CRUELTY TO INSECTS.

[From Dr. Percival.]

A certain youth indulged himself in the cruel entertainment of torturing and killing flies. He tore off their wings and legs, and then watched with pleasure their impotent efforts to escape from him. Sometimes he collected

a number of them together, and crushed them at once to death; glorying, like many a celebrated hero, in the devastation he had committed. Alexis remonstrated with him in vain, on this barbarous conduct. He could not persuade him to believe, that flies are capable of pain, and have a right, no less than ourselves, to life, liberty, and enjoyment. The signs of agony, which, when tormented, they express, by the quick and various contortions of their bodies, he neither understood, nor would attend to.

Alexis had a microscope; and he desired his companion one day, to examine a most beautiful and surprising animal. Mark," said he, "how it is studded from head to tail with black and silver, and its body all over beset with the most curious bristles! The head contains a pair of lively eyes, encircled with silver hairs; and the trunk consists of two parts, which fold over each other. The whole body is ornamented with plumes and decorations, which surpass all the luxuries of dress in the courts of the greatest princes." Pleased and astonished with what he saw, the youth was impatient to know the name and properties of this wonderful animal. It was withdrawn from the magnifier; and when offered to his naked eye, proved to be a poor fly, which had been the victim of his wanton cruelty.

ON THE SAME.

Mr. Melmoth, in one of his elegant letters, informs his friend, that the snails have had more than their share of his peaches and nectarines this

season; but that he deems it a sort of cruelty, to suffer them to be destroyed. It seems to be his opinion, that it is no less inhuman to crush to death a harmless insect, whose only offence is, that he eats the food which nature has provided for his sustenance, than it would be to kill a more bulky creature for the same reason. For the sensations of many insects are, at least, as exquisite as those of animals of more enlarged dimensions: the millepede rolls itself round upon the slightest touch; and the snail draws in her horns upon the first approach of the hand."

To every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat."-Genesis i. 30.

PIGS ENTITLED TO PROTECTION UNDER MR. MARTIN's ACT. Pigs were held to be Cattle in the case of the King v. Chapple. M. S. cited in Chet. Ed. Burns I. 447.

FORM OF BEQUEST.

To those benevolent persons who may be inclined to become benefactors by will, the following Form of Legacy is most respectfully suggested :

Item: I give and bequeath

unto the Secretary (for the time being) of a Society called or known by the name of the ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY, established in September, 1832, which said sum I desire may be applied towards carrying on the benevolent designs of the said Society; and the receipt of the Secretary shall be a sufficient discharge for the same.

N. B. Giving land, money, or stock by will, with directions to be laid out in the purchase of any estate for the benefit of this Society, will be void by the statute of mortmain, but money or stock may be given by will, without being directed to be laid out.

Any little fancy work made by ladies will be thankfully received by the Society, and any Person sending contributions to the Bankers are respectfully requested also to send their addresses.

E. Maddox, Esq. and John Weiss, Esq. have honoured the Society by becoming Members of the Committee in the room of Joseph Pease, Esq. M.P. and Samuel Gale, Esq.

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