18 MARCH 1876, Page 3

Lord Henniker asked the Duke of Richmond on Tuesday even-

ing, in the House of Lords, what line the Government intended to take in reference to the legal restriction of Vivisection recom- mended by the recent Royal Commission, but got no definite reply. The matter was still "under the consideration of the Government,"—which means, of course, not that it is under their consideration, but that it is waiting its turn to be taken into consideration. We hope steps may soon be taken to press that turn on,—that the "sympathetic nerve" of the Govern- ment may be stimulated, without any of the cruelty which some- times attends that process in physiological laboratories.