9 JUNE 1894, Page 3

We heartily congratulate Sir Richard Webster on having -carried the

Third Reading of his Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act Amendment Bill, which passed on Wednesday, we suppose by favour of the Government. We cannot under- stand the view which Miss Cobbe expresses in another column, that any comparison between the public support given to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the public support given to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, is "odious," and looks like grudging to one Society the support which it gets and the other fails to get. When we say that one boy has failed to win a prize which another bas won, we are usually regarded as exciting the emulation of the unsuccessful boy, not as grudging his success to the prize-winner. We agree with Miss Cobbe that all cruelty is 41 the same evil type, and we hold, therefore, that the more -cruelty either Society detects and punishes, the more success is the other Society likely to gain. Emulation is not jealousy, bat the converse of jealousy.