An action brought in Paris by a lady, Madame Golyot,
of the Rue do la Sorbonne, against M. Paul Bert, the celebrated physiologist and vivisectionist,--who spoke, as we observed the other day, with so much horror in the Assembly of the im- moralities of the Jesuits,—for the nuisance caused by the miser- able dogs of his laboratory, has just been lost by Madame Gelyot; but it is pretty certain that an appeal will be brought, and more effectively prosecuted than the original action itself. Madame Gelyot, and indeed the greater number of the residents in her street, have been distracted now for two years and a half by the howliugs of these miserable creatures; she has had literary men among her lodgers, who could neither read nor write for the howling.; of the dogs, and the pain which the knowledge of the cause gave them. One left her on this account, who had resided. with her for nine years. Madame Gelyot asserts, we believe, that
there are fifteen dogs at one time kept in M. Paul Bert's laboratory for the purpose of vivisection. And we can believe it, for this is the physiologist whose own account of one of his own experi- ments was translated in the evidence brought before the late English Commission on Vivisection, and excited horror, we know, even amongst the warmest friends of that stony-hearted practice. M. Paul Bert is talked of in France as the coming Minister of Education. If that anticipation be verified, the Clericals will have reason to rejoice. What could strike a heavier blow at the Republic, than for the deliberate torturer of domestic animals to be set up on high, as the best possible direc- tor for the hearts and minds of the rising generation of French- women and Frenchmen P
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