[Illustration:  (Armadillos.)]

The next Cut includes the House and Enclosure for Armadillos, who are, in sunny weather, located here with a “select few” rabbits.  The innocent gambols and restless run of the Armadillo over the turf are here seen to advantage.  This house as the distance of the Cut shows, is not far from the Llama House and circular Aviary.

Thus far in the Southern Garden, whence we reach the Northern by the Tunnel beneath the Park-road, as figured in The Mirror, No. 535, opposite to the end of the tunnel is a large squirrel-cage, and at the extremity of the walk to the right is a spacious building, called the Repository “the inhabitants of which are continually being changed as variations in the weather, or any other cause may render convenient.”  We last saw there the noble Lions from the Tower, together with the Hyaena, Jackal, Ichneumons, Coatimondis, besides an assemblage of splendid tropical birds.  The exterior of the building, especially the ornamented gable and doorways, is picturesque.

[Illustration:  (The Repository.)]

[Illustration:  (Deer.)]

[Illustration:  (Elephants.)]

Repassing the Squirrel Cage, the visiter must next proceed along the straight gravelled walk, which leads towards the western extremity of the North Garden.  Here is a range of buildings, among which is the Stable and enclosed Yard for Deer; Among which are specimens of the Wapiti, remarkable for its size and the amplitude of its branching horns when full grown.  Next is the Stable and Enclosure for Elephants, opposite the capacious Bath already represented in The Mirror, No. 560.

In a fortnight we may probably resume our graphic visit to this most interesting resort.

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THE VOICE OF HUMANITY.

“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