CRUELTY PROSECUTION : THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 174, 2 August 1898, Page 2

CRUELTY PROSECUTION : THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

To the Editor op "The Evening Mais." The Secretary of tha Nelson Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has just received the 73rd annual report at the Royal Society from its Secretary, Mr John Colam in which the history and objects of the Society are pretty folly ft ve ?«^ T r he Sooiety was inaugurated on the 16th June, 1824, and a plan of opera" tions under six different heads formulated. Hm r Mos L Gr f aci OUB MaJ eßty be«"ne « time its Chief Patron, and in 1840, by command of Her Majesty, the Society ww bonoured with the prefix of "Royal" Siace that period its progress hqa been regular, and its achievements encouraging, me Society is governed by a Council of noblemen and gentlemen ; assisted in the literature and education departments by a Committee of ladies. Many hundred thousands of small publications have been circulated; lectures have been deliveredsermons and addresses preached; schools visited, and books, tending to cultivate tenderness and compisfion to animals given to children; and Her Majesty's Inspectors, who visit nearly all the large schools in England are honorary members of the Committee (under the sanction of the Committee of Council on Education) It has recently organised the Band of Mercy Movement, wbioh consists of societies of children and yonng persons, who meet monthly for instruction oA the objects of -he Society In 1825, when Her Majesty was only 16 years of age, she became one of ite earliest patrons, and two years later she succeeded William the Fourth as reisnioa Z^aT 1 ib was d««™°le (hat sh! should be applied to, to act not as one of the patrons but as the patron of the society, to which she graciously acceded. Bt^;& 4lh> 188^ the<Jueen graciously Royal Albert Hall, when 10,000 persons were present, in order to testify to her continued and unceasing in-erest in the bociety. A loyal congratula-ory address was presented to Her Majesty on her glonoas reign of fiity years, expressing the Society's gratitude for her gracious support; to which the Queen.made the following gracious reply :— ■• ft gives me great satisfaction to receive your loyal and dutiful address of congratulation oa the completion of the fiftieth;year of my At a later date the Queen, having ascertained from the Baroness Burdett-Coui's th?£ * * B«aMtyl»d no medal, commanded that a suitable design should be prepared. L^rt' 1 WM *«Mtraeted to undertake the work on instrucions supplied by Her Majesty. The drawing having been examined, revised and approved, the Queen detected the absence of a domestic cab among the group of animals, which forms the obverse of the medal, and directed that a oafc should be inserted On the execution of the work, Her Maiestv ordered that this handsome medal, a7fro£ herself should be presented to and worn by P<*f nßJ"*°.m thespinien of the committee, should have performed distinguished services in the cause of the Society When the Queen ascended the throne, the Society employad only three officers whose labours were confinsd to the Strana, Fleet Street, Holborn, and Oxford Streei ' now more than 120 are daily doing duty id the large towns of England andValel, and the populous parts of counties from Tweed to Lanffs End. As the inspectors cover so large an area, no wouder that the convictions of the Society have increased Anon Ulialß3sto 7320 in 1896.-C Yours truly, ONE INTERESTED.