The bull fight at Boulogne, on Sunday, 27th August, has reflected discredit upon us in an indirect way, for it was shown that Englishmen and women were present in considerable numbers, and it has been specifically stated bya correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from over the water, that it was got up for the express delectation of the British. This is, of course, exaggeration, though there is something in the accusation, Excursion steamers were no doubt arranged from this side and it was only the accidental postponement of the Bight from four in the afternoon to ten ofolock ut night, that prevented at least 1,500 of our excursionists from being present. It is a fact that tickets were issued to English boat passengers including admission to the ring." Therefore let us be a little less free in sneering ut the French for a love of sport, or brutality if we prefer the word, of which we are not wholly innocent. Human nature is pretty much the same everywhere, and if the laws of this happy lund permitted bullfighting in England, there would never b+ wanting a large audience of men and women of all classes of society to support it. The people who crowil to see two men pummel one another out of all human shape, and the fine ladies who applied the shughter of innocent pigeons xt Hurlingham, would not draw the line at a bull or two. One safeguard in all these matters is public opinion. We must all of us know good honest John Bull fellows who, to this day, are at heart cockfighters and ull-baiters. A good many people in the world are humane simply because they are obliged so to be.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.