The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

Cruelty to a Horse.

At the Enfield Petty Sessions, before E. Ford and R. C. L.
Beven, Eggs., a case of extraordinary cruelty to a horse was
tried. The position of the par:), charged—he being a gen-
tleman of considerable property and holding a high positio'i
in the neighbourhood of Southgate, where his seat (know n
as " Grovelande") is situate—and the unusually aggravated
nature of the case, caused an extraordinary amount of in-
tbrest in the neighbourhood, and tha court was crowded
during the hearing. The following is a report of the pero-
ceedings _ _

John Donithorne Taylor, Esq., was charged by the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals w ith
cruelly Musing azid beating a horse on the 28th of July, in
the parish of Enfield. _ _ _

Mr Ribton appeared for the prosecution, instructed by
Mr Colam, the secretary of the society. Mr Bignall ap-
peared for the defendant.

Mr Ribton, in opening the case, said it was with feelings
of extreme regret that be appeared to prosecute a gentleman
in the defendant's position in life upon a charge of this.
nature; but it did sometimes happen that gentlemea
allowed their passions to get the mastery of them; and he
believed that, when the Bench had heard the whole of the
evidence which would be given before them, they vvoiCd be
led to the conclusion that a serious not of cruelty had been
committed. On Friday, the Sth of July, Mr Taylor, the
defendant, was driving down Familia. lane, with his
daughter—the pony he was driving being a very quiet ,ene,
and one which Miss Taylor was in the habit of driving.
The pony had been very frequently driven along the road
in question by the lady, who generally called at Colc nel
Somerset's residence; and on reaching a particular spot
the pony swerved on one side, evidently with the iutfm;ion
of going to Colonel Somerset's as usual. Mr Taylor inane-
, diately struck it with li.;a whip; the poor animal reared,
upon which ho commenced beating it, causing the pony to
plunge and kick until it released itself from the vehicle.
Mr Taylor then got down, and gathering up the reins in has
left hand close to the pony's head, commenced beating it
about the head in the most cruel manner with the butt-eud
of the whip. He continued his brutal conduct for ['Lout a
quarter of an hour, beating the pony and kicking it vio-
lently in the stomach, till it trembled from head to foot
with agony, and, in the language of an eye•witrrss,
" looked as if a bucket of water had been thrown over it."
Those present, and even his own daughter, remonstrated
with the defendant, the latter exclaiming, " Oh, papa,
don't beat the beast so ; I shall never be able to drive it
again." To which he replied, "D— your eyes, you are
as bad as the pony." Mr Ribton proceeded to state some
further particulars of the offence. The summons, he said,
was taken out under the 12th and 13th Vic., chap. 92. He
trusted the magistrates would administer the law with
the same impartiality as if a poor man were concerned.
Several witnesses were then examined, who proved the fact
stated by connsel.
Mr Taylor, in defence, said the witnesses evidently did
not understand horses. He had known the pony four or
five times want to turn round, and on this occasion it wanted •
to go into Colonel Somerset's. He then gave it throe or
four cuts, and it reared ; he afterwards gave it several more
cuts on the side of the head, but not one on the front. He
did not consider he used unnecessary violence. He could
not say how the whip got broken, nor where the butt-end
had gone. He did not think the pony was thrashed half
enough yet—it wanted a good thrashing three or four
hours a day with a good thick ash stick I (Sensation.)
About a year ago he kept a horse six days and nights
without food and water for punishment, and this foolish
society prosecuted him then, but the magistrate laughed at
at them, and discharged the case. (Laughter.)
Mr Ford (addressing the defendant) said—From the evi-
dence we are of opinion that your case does come within the
statute, and that unnecessary violence was used. But if
you think otherwise you can appeal, and the penalty will be
fixed at 40s and the costs, to enable you to do so.

Defendant—l don't think it worth the tr6uble. I quitb
concur in your decision.

DEATH INADIVING APPARATUS.—An inquest
was held on board her Majesty's ship St. George, at Fal-
mouth, on Saturday afternoon, on the body of Samuel
Warren, aged 24, a seaman and diver belonging to that
ship, who was suffocated on Friday afternoon while diving
in Falmouth harbour. The deceased had previously been
diver on board her Majesty's ship Cambridge. He went
down from a boat between two and three o'clock on Friday
afternoon in thirteen and a half fathoms of water, at the
spot where the St George is lying, for the purpose of re-
covering a set of boat's crutches that had been lost from the
St. George. Ile selected his own attendants for the occasion
from the ship's company, and arranged with them the
signals, which were to be "one pull less air," "two pulls
more air," "three pulls to come up. About halt a minute
after he was down he signaled for more air, and more was
pumped down. Warren then walked about one fathom and
a half, there being about 15 fathoms and a half airpipes out,
when ho signaled to come up. The pulling up was innoe.
diately commenced. He had been about four minutes down
and the boat's crew were about two minutes in pulling him
up. The mouthpiece of the dress was taken off before he
was taken into the boat, and he put his right hand across
his mouth. The dress was immediately taken off, and
Warren was carried on board the St. George; his face, ears,
nostrils, and helmet were covered with blood. He did not
speak, but gave a convulsive struggle, and died just before
he was got on board. The diving dress was a new one,
which the deceased had borrowed from the Falmouth Dock
Company. It was found on examination that the air pipe
had burst at about nine fathoms from the helmet, and that
the valve for the outlet of foul air was fastened. This had
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Western Morning News.
HOW TO HATCH YOUNG DUCHS.—At the Sun 4
derland county petty scsdiund, on Saturday, three
boys, named Robert Blacklock, John Joseph Callum, and
Edward Robson, were charged with stealing a number of
eggs from the premises of Edward Arnison, of Carley-hill,
near Southwick. The had be.,..; sat upon,
and were
stolen throe weeks ago, and when rho offic.Ts di,:covered
the thieves they found out to their dismay that the stolen
couldar
t ol ens
ot were
b e ealt
no longers,d e yas, r ung duaks I'l he charge
and the young poultry fanciers wecfore broefec discharged. the
argmecrig. 14atrtacps:
peered the eggs had been slightly "chipped" when stolen,
and the boys by putting them into an oven completed the
hatching and produced a healthy young brood. The duck•
links were produced in court, and the case caused consider-
able amusement.—Fetecastle Chronicle.

GREAT NOUTHERN kiosriTAL CALEDONIAN4
noAD—Number of patients for the weeh: ending Aug. 13,
796: of which 250 were new cases,

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1864.

It has long been decided that the age of chivalry
is past, and surely if any confirmation were wanting
to the fact the Dane-German war has furnished
proof positive to that effect. From the commence-
ment to the close of this unequal struggle we have
witnessed nothing but extravegant extortion and
cruel aggression on the part of the German Powers.
Their course has been unparalleled in the annals of
modern times for rapacity and revenge, and this,
too, on a harmless people who had done them no
injury. Whatever there has been to denounce cn
the part of the Russians in their conduct towards
Poland, and to deplore in the sufferings of that
wretched land, it is certain that where once des-
perate natures have held sway they are not likely
to lose their hold without making a most desperate
resistance. The prey once grasped is still han-
kered after, and it is no easy matter to make the
spoiler yield his prize, however unlawful might
have been the means that once put it into his pos-
session. This reason, for it cannot be called an
excuse, does not in any way hold good in respect
to the attitude assumed by the Germans in regard
to Denmark and the Danes. They never held
dominion over the place they now so ruthlessly
attack, nor ruled over the people they relentlessly
persecute. Their vehement course, their violent
demeanour, and their fierce fighting for territory
show the bent of their grasping minds and the want
of consideration that actuates their course. If any-
thing could have aroused the inaction which Ira.
fortunately seized upon Europe at the time when
the united armies proceeded on their cruel expedi.
Con, surely it must have been the manner in which
the theories were put into practice, and the designs
executed by the aggressors. It was bad enough
to go to war at all, but to carry on the contest in
such a style as has been chronicled was outrageous
in the extreme. In times when honour was more
thoeght of an universal outcry from all the nations
of Christendom would have been raised against the
depredators, who in plenitude of power and pride
of possession marched on to carry desolation into
smiling provinces, and make the homesteads of
happy peasants the ecene of slaughter. It would
appear from the testimony of all 'witnesses
and the general aspect of affairs, as if the
desire of the German Powers had been to erase
Denmark altogether from the map of Europe, and
so incorporate her ravished territories with those
of her enemies, that the next generation would have
had nothing of a tangible nature to remind them of
the existence of that gallant little kingdom which
sent forth such brave armies to meet the advances
of a Powerful and pitiless foe. Doubtless the
general expression of public opinion in England,
and the strong language eniployed in the great
a,:bme on foreign eigai s .
r towards the close of the
~lesion, in some measure contributed to stay the
sacrifice and modify the catastrophe. Ia France,
also, although for political reasons nothing was
done of a material nature to afford assistance, the
sympathy of the press and people were warmly ex-
pressed on behalf of toe assailed State; and all
these secondary interpositions combined to ells.
vista the horrors of the final scene. Yet, when we
reflect upon the tidings that reached us of the mode
in which the warfare was carried on, the nnneces.
sary Violence aided to the inseparable horrors of
war, the brutality in which the Prussian troops in.
dulsed, sad the execute into which their officers

a lowed them to plunge, it must seem outrageous
to all thinking minds to know that, so far from
being ashamed of such extravagant and extreme
measures, there is rejoicing made, and boastings
heard of doings that bear no light of day upon
them. One would think that even Prussian as-
surance might forbear this last insult to the com-
mon sense, this oncrage on the good taste, and this
violation of the right feelings of the other great
Powers of Europe. When we hear of trophies of
such a war, of monuments to be erected in honour
of such a dishonourable affair, we may well under•
stand how the mighty are fallen, and how much
utilitarian influences have prevailed, to the extinc-
-1 tion of better feelings and good faith. The present
King of PRUSSIA has made nothing but blunders
since he first came to the throne. He has disap-
pointed the expectations of all who had prophecied
that he would do better things than his predeces-
sors. The self-sufficiency which prompted him to
take the crown from the altar and place it upon
his head with his own hands was symbolical of the
proud perversity and arrogant assumption with
which he intended to rule, or rather to
1 mis-rule, the people whom Providence had
committed to his care. Since that memorable
day how dark has been his doings. He has come
promised the liberties of the country at home, and
for ever tarnished its honour abroad. He has been
in league with the great enemy of European liber-
ties to put down freedom at any cost, and done all
directly and indirectly to crush out the smouldering
fire of liberty in unhappy Poland. He has listened
to the counsels, and kept as a constant adviser a
statesman whose policy has called forth the indig-
nation of all Europe. His course in respect to Den-
mark has signally disgraced him as a King, and
been unworthy of his position in every respect;
in short, no Monarch of conscientious principles,
and no ruler inspired with a spirit of magnanimity,
would think of allowing such a war to be made.
Still more would he have disdained the mode of its
procedure, and have refused to listen to the terms of
the propositions for peace. What can be said in
defence of a ruler who makes an attempt to cele-
brate the course of this war by the erection of
monuments it is difficult to imagine. Doubtless
some apologists may be found, but never will their
arguments prevail in communities that share the
honest conviction, and are actuated by the honour-
able feelings, of freemen. What is there to be
proud of in the affair ? It is a disgrace to the army
of Prussia to imagine that there was any difficulty
to advance in their engagements with the Danes.
For Denmark to be proud of her troops is another
affair altogether. Well might that gallant and
little nation have honoured their soldier sons who
so nobly exposed themselves to fearful odds, and
that without hope of success to crown their efforts,
and reward their endeavours. Of them it may truly
be said in the poet's glowing words— '
They aro true to the last of their blood and their breath,
And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
The column about to bo erected at the Hotel
des Invalides at Berlin in memory of the
late war, will be the monument of a
lasting disgrace to that city. Those who
set it up little know the harm that they are
doing, nor the reproach that will be visited on their
work. The more considerate among themselves
blush to hear of such a purpose, and bitterly regret
the nation that suggested its erection. Rightly
considered, it is one of the most barefaced attempts
to ignore the criticism lavishly heaped upon. the
unfair contest that has ever been witnessed. If
King Witeefeee's latest order be attended to, he
will have ample cause to regret its fulfilment. It
he la spared long enough to outlive the temporary
clamour of all this make-believe glory he will hear
plenty of reactionary statements. War cannot last
for ever, and when the people of Prussia find that
they have been hoodwinked into giving up their
civil rights for a war that has brought them no
honour, they may one day point with bitter scorn
to a trophy that celebrates the triumph of Might
against Right. It is a bitter thought for English-
men to dwell upon that this monument is to dis-
figure a capital where the eldest daughter of
England is one day expected to reien as a Queen.
It is quite inconsistent with the views and senti-
ments of this nation that the success of the strong
over the weak in a cruel war waged from no ex•
cusable motive should be thus signalised and set
forth in triumph. No real honour rests with the
affair, and when in the coarse of time the more fla-
grant instances of Prussian exaction shall have
almcst faded out of recollection, a glance at this
miserable memento will serve to bring back the
past in all its horrors to the memory. It will be a
landmark of tyranny and oppression, and a trophy
of the triumph of wrong. If such are to be set up
in the high places of a city, it is pretty evident that
the national spirit is not alive to the true instincts
of honour, and the popular recognition of greatness
is indeed obscured, if not altogether lost.

The arrival of the Calcutta mail fails to bring us
any striking intelligence, and we may congratulate
ourselves that such is the case. The wayfarer who
journeys along the broad and beaten highway has
little to tell when be gets to his journey's end ; it is
the traveller through rough and dangerous wilds
who has to encounter risks, dangers, and disconas
forts, who can give us an animated and exciting
narrative. In like manner the country which is on
Ithe high road of peace and prosperity, cannot hope
1 to compete in interesting intelligence with lands
that are desolated by a foreign invader or agitated
by internecine strife. Of the Bhootan affair we
hear very little. The Viceroy is, it is said, opposed
to war if it can possibly be avoided; and again, it
is stated in other quarters that he will not suffer
the maltreatment of a British Envoy to pass an.
punished. The Bhooteas, it is said, did not extort
the renunciation of the whole of Assam in the
unlucky treaty, but only of such parts as they
wanted. At all events the Government is silent,
and the authorities endeavour, as far as possible, to
check discussion on the matter, thinking, perhaps,
that it is better the Bhooteas should not sup.
pose we attach much importance to a trap.
section which, whatever its results, at present
savours of the ridiculous. Preparations are 1
being made in the arsenal, however, and a re.
committing cfficer has bees sent to the north-east
frontier to collect information, with a view to the
possibility of the jest becoming earnest. Forewarned
is forearmed, and whatever line of conduct the
Bhooteas may determine upon following, it is
scarcely likely that our authorities will be unpre-
pared to deal with them. The Mussulmaus are
still restless and mischief making. The headquar-
ers of their disaffection are at present at Petrie, i
whero their proceedings are closely watched. Whir,;;
the Government is on its guard there is not much
fear that the grand Mussulman's prophecy of over.
throwing the British rule this yeem will advance
very far towards its fulfilment. The religious
fanaticism of India had just received its most con.
spicuous illustration when the mail left. The great
Juggernaut saturnalia, which combines the two great
Lasts of Hindoo worship, had come off with UL-
wonted eclat, three iolantary victims being crusted
to death beneath the wheels of the tri amphant car.
From the description of the throngs
which pressed
around this dismal chariot, it is
not difficult to
=Agin° MA accidents Ware likely to occur, and the