At an important meeting of the Victoria-Street Society for the
Protection of Animals from Vivisection, held on Wednesday, at the house of the President, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr. Lawson Tait, the eminent surgeon, made a most effective and weighty speech, recording his own personal conviction of the entire use- lessness of vivisection from the surgical point of view. The meeting was also addressed by Cardinal Manning in a very im- pressive manner, and by Mr. Reid, M.P., Canon Wilberforce, Miss Cobbe, and Dr. Berdoe. It was announced by Lord Shaftesbury that the Victoria-Street Society, in addition to its own Bill for the Prohibition of Vivisection, had just introduced into Parliament another Bill, of which Mr. Anderson bad taken charge, and which was down for its second reading on the 27th Inst. This latter Bill would place all animals kept in confine- ment (e.g., in Zoological Gardens) under the same protection as domestic animals, and would put a stop to the so-called " sport " of pigeon-matches.
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