A remarkable amount of attention has been devoted by the London newspapers, and by the English papers generally, to the series of Sunday bull-fights which are now taking place in Boulogne, first because itis the first deliberate attempt to dcclimatism the Spanish bull-fight in Northern France, and secondly because a large proportion—by some estimated at as much as 20 or 25 per cent—of the audience has been composed of English people, including many English ladies. The Mayor of Bou: logue has explained that, while disapproving of the shows, he has no power to prevent them, the promoters being, under French law, only liable to small fines for cruelty to animals. Bull-fights have, of course, for years been among the most popular of entertainments; but they are not all of the brutal Spanish type. The Boulogne fights, however, are an improvement on the Spanish form in only one' particular. The bulls are tortured in the same inhuman way, but there is not the same cruelty to the horses. A Spanish audience is not satisfied unless two or three horses are disembowelled to every one of the six bulls killed during a course; but in Boulogue the horses are protected. cRICKET.
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