The Society for the Abolition of Vivisection held a very
successful meeting on Wednesday, the chief business of which was to protest against the proposal of the "round-robin " lately addressed to the College of Surgeons, advocating the establish- ment of a physiological and pathological laboratory on a scale such as would compete with those at Leipzig and Strasburg. Cardinal Manning, who was in the chair, Lord Mount-Temple, Canon Wilberforce, and Mr. W. S. Lilly all delivered very interesting speeches on the subject, Canon Wilberforce carrying the meeting away by his religions passion, and Mr. W. S. Lilly by his clear and nervous argument. The meeting concluded with an address equally humorous and touching from Miss Cobbe, who has given a large part of her life and great abilities to this noble crusade on behalf of our poor relatives. No one mentioned at the meeting, what is, however, remarkable enough, that while the people of Hindostan,—supported, to the great credit of the Mahomedans be it said, by the Mahomedans themselves,—bad asked and, it is said, obtained the concession that during the celebration of the Queen's Jubilee there should be no slaughtering of cows, in order that the feelings of those who regarded that animal as sacred might be respected, English physiologists have treated the Queen's Jabilee as a specially fit occasion for the inauguration of a permanent institution which would wound more cruelly the moral instincts of millions of Englishmen,—her Majesty's included,—than any other imaginable mode of celebrating that auspicious occasion,
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