THE HORSEFLESH ACT OF 1889.
[To no Boma or the .'Sramtros."]
Sut,—At last I am drawn into the correspondence, if you will allow it! I see it stated that exported and diseased animals return as food; but I would call attention to the Horseflesh Act, passed in 1889, by which no person shall sell, or keep for sale, for human food, any horseflesh, elsewhere than in a shop, &c., where in letters not less than four inches in length, and in a conspicuous position, he indicates the sale of horseflesh, and various penalties are indicated for infractions of the Act. I remember a ease under the Act in which a vendor of sausages containing horseflesh was fined 25. As a private Member I introduced the Bill in Parliament, and I wrote, on the subject of horseflesh, an article which appeared in the Nineteenth Century for April, 1890. Mr. Gladstone, moreover, took an interest in hippopbagy, and I have letters in corre- spondent:* with him about am, Sir, &c.,
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