The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

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them to meet the centletted hoary demands on the InsUtalon's
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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7.

LOW. MACAULAY ham remarked respecting the
activity of the Puritans in putting down the sport
of bear baiting, that their zeal was inspired lam by

pity for the bear than by hostility to a pspulsr
amassment. The observation is often quo led ea

a favourite instance of the shrewdness of that
eminent essayist. It may, nevertheless, be an
open question whether it is not an .) i ject of even
more importance to withdraw man from pleasures
which brutalize him than to raw as the lower

animals from temporary pain. It is not entirely
by physical sympathy that society is :ed to can far
the protection of the brutes domesticated in its
service ; it has a rational, and, so to speak, a @elfish
interest in preventing the needless infliction of
suffering, because the disposition which is nourished
by the indulgence of cruelty to animals is
sure to be manifested sooner or later to-
wards man. ft is, doubtless, considera-
tion which leads the public to tolerate and
even gladly to support such an association as the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, although, as a rile, cDrobinations of
private persons to put the law of the land in opera-
tion against their fellow-subjects are justly re-
garded with dislike. The Society, as our columns
show every week, has many active officers, and
unfortunately they find only too ouch to justify
their vigilance. CMOs such as those of WILIJAMS,
who was fined at Worship-street Polioe-court

yesterday, furnish its every-day occupation.
This defendant was drawing stone with a horse
which, besides being generally past work, having
its muscles twisted, its sinews contracted, and a
laraenies of the off fore leg, had two large wounds
mused by the pressure of the harness ; but his in-
dignation knew no bounds when he learned that
an officer of the Society had interfered to protect
the animal, and he declared that inch a man
" ought to be shot." A more active species of
cruelty was alleged against ()sumac, another de-
fendant at the same court. This man was drawing
sand up an incline with a horse that was covered
with old sores on the back, leg, and hips, and was
suffering from internal disease. Being too weak
to draw the load, the defendant beat it savagely,
striking it between thirty and forty blows with a
whip. In these cues the cruelty, though real and
well deserving of punishment, was incidental to
business, and not exercised for its own sake. Per-
sons of small means, leading themselves a hard
life of labour, exposure, and privation, cannot be ex-
pected to have the same tender feelings towards
the beasts who share their toils am the refined spec-
tator of their excesses who may have little to do

but cultivate his aensibilities. Their shortcomings
require, therefore, to be treated with candour and
judgment. A very different class of offences are,
however, continually being brought forward.
There are those who are not only culpably indif-
ferent to the pain they unnecessarily inflict, but
seem to have a positive delight in it. On the Bth