the hearts of our fashionable ladies, or induce them to rend their
much-beplumed garments. Thirty thousand black partridges have been
killed in certain Indian provinces in a few days' time to supply the
European demand for their skins. One dealer in London is said to have
received, as a single consignment, 32,000 dead humming-birds, 80,000
aquatic birds, and 800,000 pairs of wings. We are told too that often
"after the birds are shot down, the wings are wrenched off during
life, and the mangled bird is left to die slowly of wounds, thirst,
and starvation."]

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ART IN THE CITY.

(_A SKETCH IN THE CORPORATION GALLERY AT THE GUILDHALL._)

_The Gallery is crowded, and there is the peculiar buzz in the
air that denotes popular interest and curiosity. The majority
of the visitors are of the feminine sex, and appear to have
come up from semi-detached villas in the less fashionable
suburbs; but there is also a sprinkling of smart and Superior
Persons, prosperous City Merchants, who regard pictures with
respect, as a paying investment, young Commercial Men, whose
feeling for Art is not precisely passionate, but who have
turned in to pass the time, and because the Exhibition is
gratuitous, earnest Youths with long hair, soft hats, and
caped ulsters, &c., &c._

BEFORE DELAROCHE'S "DROWNED MARTYR."