"The Association for promoting Rational Humanity towards the Animal Creation" exists--though, in one sense, as a blot upon the character of the age. They publish the above Journal quarterly, assembling acts of atrocity which make the blood curdle in our veins, and remind us that "all are not men that wear the human form." The funds of the society are not in a prosperous condition; the sand of their philanthropy is well nigh run out, and fresh appeals are to be made. Let us glance at the contents of, the _Voice_ before us. The subject "Abattoirs contrasted with Slaughter-houses and Smithfield-market," is continued--a plan which we illustrated in _The Mirror_ about five years since. True enough the Society write, but the people do not consider; they are so wedded to old prejudices and habits, and the mammon of money, that pestilential slaughter-houses are tolerated in the midst of a "city of the plague," notwithstanding a law exists for its prevention. Four hospitals are building in the metropolis--and markets are increasing for the sale of the necessaries and luxuries of life; the _Haymarket_ has been removed from a fashionable quarter to the suburbs, that loaded carts may not obstruct carriages in their road to St. James's, the Houses of Parliament, and the Opera--yet, not a single, _Abattoir_--for the health of the people--exists near the metropolis. The King and the Court patronize and plan horse-racing, throwing the lasso, and, if recent report be true, hawking; the Parliament legislate, a bill is "ordered to be printed"--yet, the inconsistency and tardiness of these proceedings compel us to ask, where is the truth of the motto--_Salus populi suprema lex_. Convictions before magistrates for acts of cruelty are not uncommon; yet, it is in this, as in many other laws, the poor are caught, while the rich break through the meshes of the net. In the work before us are recorded Mr. Osbaldeston's matches, including "the cold-blooded cruelty towards the generous and heart-broken _Rattler_, in riding him thirty-four miles in the space of 2 hours, 18 min., and 56 sec." Next are four police cases of cruelties towards horses, bullocks, and cats, the persons convicted being "of low estate." Yet there follows the fact of _a respectable woman_ boiling a cat to death! and next is this quotation from the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for April, 1789:--