The subject of the first plate, bred and fed by John Mann, Esq., of Fenstanton, near St. Ives, Hunts, and exhibited by him at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show in December, 1848, obtained the first Prize of Twenty Sovereigns, in Class 9. The Silver Medal was also awarded to Mr. Mann as the breeder, and the Gold Medal for the best beast in Classes No. 7, 8, and 9. This animal was a splendid specimen of the short-horn breed, taking into account her age; and had a very fine fore-quarter; was got by Mr. Ladd's Bull, Jeremy (2157), purchased of the late Earl Spencer. For pedigree see "Coates' Herd Book."

"The earth," says the Psalmist, "is full of cruel | poor to dwell in places where comfort is impossible, habitations ;" an expression which may be taken in and cleanliness and decency all but impracticable, its literal sense, as a pithy description of what are without producing, as the results, discontent and commonly called the "homes of the poor." The misery, vice and crime; an angel from heaven exertions of Howard have freed our prisons from could scarcely be expected to remain uncontaminated the imputation of being pest-houses, destructive to under such circumstances. But the evil does not human life, and disgraceful to a civilized commu-end here; the human beings so situated must suffer nity; but the efforts of a thousand Howards are necessary to raise the habitations of the poor to the position they ought to occupy, as the homes of human beings, of our fellow-countrymen, of those who fight and win our battles, who plough, and dig, and sow for us, and without whom all our own comforts would be at an end, all civilization would

cease.

physically as well as morally; health is as much dependent on pure air as on good water, an insufficiency of either renders a man feeble and indisposed to exertion; if he does work, infirmities come on him sooner than on other men, and his children will grow up feeble in body, vitiated in mind; his whole race will eventually be deteriorated. The well meant but injudicious attempts that have, in the great majority of cases, been made to improve the poor man's cottage, have but changed the evil, substituting small close unventilated rooms, for the comfortless, but airy, places the older cottages

Creatures of circumstances we all are, more or less; every individual, in his habits, thoughts, and conduct, is in some measure influenced by the circumstances surrounding him; it is not then possible to expose the great mass of the labouring afforded. OLD SERIES.]