The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

SARDINIA.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 12th
states that the King, whose health is much im-
proved, will himself, probably, open in pe,rcon the
session of Parliament. It is said that the deputy
Cadorna will be elected President of the Chamber.
His Majesty will, it is expected, be able to under-
take his intended journey by the end of the month.
The Italian Legion does not form very rapidly ; it
is mostly composed of Piedmontese.
A letter from Genoa says that the French lega-
tion at that court has officittlly notified that, by a
decision of the French and Englt,h Gov,rnments,
it has been decided that any vessels in ballast may
pass the blockade in the Strait of Kertcb, when
their object is to take on board corn, to be landed
at a port of the allied nations, or at a neutral one.

COLLISION OFF DOVER.—The Alderman Thompson
from Portsmouth, for Sunder'and, was run into by a
steamer (name unknown), at 12 last night off D v r
Carried away her mizenmast, and all the starboard
quarter completely cut down to the water. Lost ;inch r
and chain, and one man killed. She will proceed to
Ramsgate for repairs.
The impression still prevails that arrangements for
temporary accommodation are under discussion between
the Bank of England and the Bank of France.
TEE SOUND DUES.—The approaching Congress on the
subject of the sound dues is to be held at Copenhagen,
at the latter part of next month.
MEMEL, Oct. 11.—The weather is very unsettled,
wind westerly and squally. H.M. steamer Desperate
has arrived in the roadstead, and has sent in two prizys
—Swedes jacht Fortuna, and schooner Nicken.
Major-General the Earl of Cardigan has spent several
days in the inspection of the various cavalry depots at
Newbridge. The noble and gallant earl was entertained
at dinner by the officers quartered there.
SIGNIFICANT DEMONSTRATION.—Tbe youth of the city
of Rome have sent a subscription of 1,600 livres to the
Sardinian Contingent in the Crimea., for having well de-
served of the country, in supporting with honour and
glory, the name and flag of Italy.
A letter from Odessa, dated Oct. 3, and published in
the Nord of yesterday, says :—" Our troops are disposed
in such a manner, that on every piat which may be
attacked the enemy will meet with serious resistance.
In twenty-four hours 50,000 men, and in flrty-eight
hours 100,000 men can be assembled at any given point."
The Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China,
at their meeting at Bombay on the 17th of August,
stated the profits for the half-year at 17,0101., and, after,
payment of a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per an-
num, a balance of 3,8781. was carried to the reserve
fund, which now stands at 7,9101.
REFBETIIIINTATION OF ARMAGH. —A third Conservative
candidate is in the field flr Armagh, Mr. Sterne Miller
having received a requisition from a respec,able section
of the party to come forward. The other candidates are
Mr. Bond and Mr. Dunbar, for both of whom an active
canvass is leing carried on.
PROFITS OF AUTHORSIIIP.—The proceeds of the la,t
serial, "Bleak House," are understood t) have fallen
little short of 13,0001. The sale is assumed to have
varied from 30 to 40, averaging 35,000 per month,
which, at half the selling price, leaving the other half to
defray expenses, would be, in round numbers, 10,0001.
for the twelvemonths, on the monthly parts alone ; and
the parts extend to 20.

THE VINES.—The Cadiz papers contain reports from
the Xerxes district to the effect that the vintage of this
year is proceeding under very unfavourable etrcum-
stances, and that it is feared, if bad weather continue,
the few grapes that have escaped the disease will rot
upon the vines. Since the commencement of the autnm.i
there had scarcely been a bright day, at,cl recent heavy
rains had occasioned great damage t) the grapes lying
already gathered in the mats, as well as to those in
growth.
PRODUCE MARKETS.—The weekly reviews from the
Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce markets state that
operations have been less extensive, but that prices on
the average continue to be well supported. The busi-
ness in sugar, coffee, and rice has attracted the princi-
pal attention, owing to the recent movement in those
articles. The letters from Rouen mention that the mar-
ket for manufactures was inactive, with a tenueLcy to
decline.

DEPARTURES FOR AUSTRALIA.—The departuns from
the port of London for the Australian colonies during
the past week have comprised five vessels—one to Port
Philip, one to Portland Bay, one to Adelaide, one to
Sydney, and one to Launceston—with an aggregate ca-
pacity of 3,451 tons. The rates of freight present
scarcely any alteration.
FESTIVITIES AT LORD DUFFERIN'S.—His lordship,
who has taken the deepest interest in the erection of
the monument to his lamented friend the late Earl of
Belfast, has invited the members of the Belfast commit-.
tee to a dinner and ball at his hospitable mansion. On
Th:irsday night the harvest home was celebrated by his•
lordship's tenantry with extraordinary rejoicirgs, mem-
bers of the nobility sharing in the festivities and taking
part in the dance.—Beljast Mercury.
The trustees of the late United Scrvice Annuity Bene-
volent Institution (the Earl of Hardwieke, Sir Thomas
Cochrane, and General Cater), in disposing of the ba-
lance of the funds of this society, which was projected
in 1839, but never brought to maturity, have granted
1001., through the surviving members of the committee
(Captain Sweny and Sir E. Nicolls) t,-., each of the follow-
ing inAitutions, viz. :—The Royal Naval School, New
Cross, the Wellington College, and the Royal Naval Fe-
male School.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF A JEWELLER.—On Saturday
the City Police issued information th;it an extensive rob-
bery had been committed at Mr. Aloaha,ui's No. 21,
Bevis Marks, jeweller, by a man named Albert STearnan,
who decamped, taking away gold bracelets, a gold watch
—enamelled back, set with diamonds—and other valu•
able property. A reward is offered for his apprehen-iii n
RAILWAY ACClDENTS.—Yesterday morning two seri-
ous railway accidents were admitted into Guy's Hospi-
tal. The first case is that of James Rose, aged 24 years,
who it appears was in the act of getting on one of the
trains while it was in motion at the Guildford station,
on the South-Western line, wlin he slipped, and the
wheels passed over his legs. Mr. Hilton, surgeon, per-
formed amputation, but the unfortunate mean remains in
a most precarious state. Scarcely had the operation
been performed before one of the firemen on the North
Kent Railway, named Wm. Hit', aged 39 years, was
brought in. He was also in the act of getting on the
engine while in motion. He fell between the platform
and engine, the wheels of which passed over the ankle,
which so terribly lacerated it that amputation was found
necessary.
THE RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN LANCASHIRE.—The par-
ties injured by the three railway accidents in. LanCashire
are all doing well, and there is a probability of their re-
covery. The accident at Fleaton Norris is undergoing
investigation by the company (not the magis•rates, as
stated yesterday), and it is probable that neither the
pointsman nor the driver of the mail train will be held to
blame. The goods train was only in the act of stopping
when run into. It had been losing time by the slipperi-
ness of the rails, and the mail train had approached so
nearly behind it, that there is reason to believe the driver
of the mail had passed the distance signal before it was
turned on, and consequently had not notice enough to
enable him to stop in time to prevent the collision. The
signalman is said to have first seen them both nearly at
the same time.
ANOTHER TRIBME SUNDAY.—The Preentan's Journal
states that the general collection in the Dublin chapels,
on Sunday, for Dr. Cullen's Catholic University, was in
a high degree satisfactory, but as the grand total is not
yet announced the public impatience must be restrained
for a day or two. At present it is only known that the
modest sum of 601. was contributed by the congregations
INFORMATION AGAINST A MAYOR.—The committee
disposing of
t
of the Blandfurd Institution assembled about a fortnight
ago
t two chapels.
the purpose
of
di
sp
o (thetheyi rmao
o officiated
newspaper, on
which occasion Mr. H. W.
as chairman and sold the respective papers to the
highest bidders. A young man of the name of John
Cole, apprentice to Mr. Wyatt, has, in consequence,
lai I an information against Mr. Abbott, for selling by
auction without a licence. Cole had wale ill-feeling
towards Mr, Abbott.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

MANSION- HOUSE.

TILE JEWS AND THE SOCIETY FOR THE
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

The a,lj,)urned hearing of this case, a charge of cruelty
to a bullock, but which really aff,cts the manner t,N
which the Jews have their cattle slaughtered, took place
this day before the Lord Mayor, assisted by Sir Peter
Laurie.

From the importance of the case, and the interest
attached to it, the court was densely crowded, and the
representatives of the evening papers are much indebted
to Mr. Goodman for the arrangements made by him for
their accommodation.

Mr. Bodkin appeared for the complainant, and Mr.
Ballantine for the nominal defendants—Yamkoff Cohen
and Thomas Reynolds.
Mr. Bodkin said the complaint was laid under an act
passed in 1849, for the more effectual prevention of
cruelty to animals, by the second section of which it was
provided that if any person cruelly ill-treated or tor-
tured, or caused to be tortured or illused, any animal,
every such offender for every such offence should forfeit
a penalty of 51., and by the interpretation clause animal
included " ox, bullock," &c. The question raised to-day
involved principles and feelings of the highest impor-
tance to a large and respectable class of the
community, and required patient and calm consider-
ation on the part of his lordship. These proceed-
ings had not been instituted from any personal or pecu-
niary motives, but by the members of the society he
represented, who desired to see the humane provisions
of the act carried out. Whatever the result might be
no one coald doubt but that it was a proper matter to
be calmly and dispassionately investigated, the mode
adopted by the Jewish community for slaughtering
cattle intended for their consumption. All must he
aware without study or research that the Jewish com-
munity have peculiar customs with respect to the
slaughtering of cattle intended for the subsistence
of their people, and from what he knew of the
educated class of that community (some of whom he saw
present) that no intentional cruelty or any indifference
to what amounted to cruelty would receive their sanction,
one of the chief characteristics of whom was kindness of
heart and disposition, and whom, if the abuses corn
plaine.l of were shown to exist, none would be moreifor-
ward to promote improvement calculated to serve tht
cause of humanity than those who were now affected lek
these proceedings. So far as he could understand th.
Jewish custom, the object of their present mode ot•
slaughtering the cattle, was to arrive at two points con
sidered essential bythem—first, that the animal should bee
living animal when operated on, and in the next that all the
blood of the animal should be completely extracted from
it before it was fit for food. The society was of opinion
that if the Jews adopted the modern system of slaughter
ing cattle—that of knocking them on the head—the
animal would not, in fact, be deprived of life, but ani-
mation would only be suspended, which would render
,he animal, during the remainder of the operation, per-
fectly free from that pain and agony which it now ne-
cessarily underwent, and, by cutting it nearer the heart,
death would ensue in two or three minutes. Jewish
writers agreed that any amount of life in the animal at
the time of slaughtering was sufficient to meet the re-
quirements of the Jewish community—even the move-
ment of the tail—and therefore, by the modern mode
there would be a living animal to be operated on,
and the means of extracting the whole of the blood.
If his Worship, after hearing the evidence, should be of
opinion, that by the Jewish mode of slaughtering,
cruelty was inflicted on the animal, but excusable in
deference to the religious rites of the Jews, and that by
slaughtering a bullock with a poleaxe would be a viola
tion of one of the Jewish rites, then it would be neces-
sary to have the question decided by the highest tri-
bunals. The Jews might claim the highest antiquity
for what they did, but he need not say that to go back
to olden times as the only justification fur this proceed.
ing was hardly feasible in the present day, but that
the march of civilisation that had ',emancipated the
Jews from their former grievances should induce
them to have recourse to the ' modern improve-
meets in physiological science, and pay a defer-
ence to the powers that be, and instead of resisting
should adopt such improvements as modern science pre-
sented to them. He called the following evidence.
Edward Dixon, police-constable of the D division,
deposed going with Seaman, one of the officers of the
society, to a slaughter-house in High-street, Aldgate,
where he saw Reynolds and Cohen. He saw three bul-
locks slaughtered, two without and one with a pole-axe;
the hind legs were fastened with a chain, and the fore
legs with a rope. It was then thrown down, and two
men knelt on it to keep it down. A ring was placed
into its mouth, into which was put a bent iron rod by
which the throat was stretched, the bar being brought
by the men back over the head on the eye to get a
purchase. The animal was held in that position two
minutes, the animal appearing to suffer much pain.
Then Cohen shaved off a little Lair from the throat, and
cut the throat near the jaw, nearly severing the head.
His impression was the animals suffered much more pain
by this mode of slaughtering than by the use of a pole-
axe, judging from the protrusion of the tongue and the
movements of the body. One of the animals was nine
minutes in dying.
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Ballantine as
to the Christian mode of slaughtering, in contrast with
the Jewish mode. A bullock, by the ordinary mode of
slaughtering, bad one leg hobbled. It was then struck
in the head with a pole-axe ;on which a boy put a cane
into the hole and stirred the brains, when the animal
died almost immediately. The cane " twiddled" about
in the brain no doubt caused pain, but he thought not
so much as that by the Jewish mode.
Mr. Seaman, the society's officer, deposed that the
bullock pole-axed, alluded to by the last witness, was
the largest of the three, and died quickest. He cor-
roborated the policeman's evidence 88 to the suffering of
the animal by the Jewish method, and gave it as his
opinion that a bullock died quicker by the pole-axe and
cane. •

Elward Morgan, a slaughterman, employed in the
slaughter-house in question, was present with the
former witnesses. They had described the process
pretty accurately. By the ordinary mode a bullock was
2 or 3 minutes dying, by the Jewish 9 or 10 minutes.
By Mr. Ballantine—He had frequently had to strike
a bullock more than once with a pole-axe.
Mr. Ballantine—How did the ox seem to like it ?

Witness—He must put up with it I suppose.
(Laughter.) He bad seen a bullock rise after being
knocked down and its throat cut.

R. Morgan and James Anderson, gave similar testi-
mony.

Dr. Lloyd, senior, physician of Royal Dispensary,
and late lecturer on Pathology at Guy's ilospit,d, was
next examined.

[We shall give the conclusion in our late edition.]