The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-01 00:00:00

THAMES.

CRUELTY TO SHEEP.—Frederick Spencer, a licensed
drover, was charged by Mr. W. Love, the superintendent
of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, with wanton and unnecessary cruelty to sheep under
his care. The evidence was gone into on a former day be-
fore Mr. Selfe, who then expressed himself very strongly
on the folly as well as cruelty of striking sheep under any
circumstances whatever. The evidence of George Choice
and George Young, officers of the Royal Society, proved
that the prisoner was driving a quantity of sheep along
Duke-street, Whitechapel, and was thrashing them
on the head as he went along. One sheep was
struck three times on the head with a stick. Particles
of wool flew from the sheep when they were struck.
A sheep was knocked down by the prisoner, and when it
got up it was struck again. It also appeared that repeated
complaints had been made to Mr. Love of the cruelty of the
drovers of cattle and sheep landed at the wharves, and
Choice and Young had been specially appointed, at the re-
quest of numerous respectable persons, to the particu-
lar duty of watching the drovers on the way from the
wharves to the fairs and cattle markets.
The prisoner, in defence, said that he only pushed the
sheep to prevent their getting into the shops, and that one
of them fell unper a cart, and he gave it a poke to get it
up again.
The officers were recalled, and said the prisoner beat the
sheep, and struck them on the head.
The prisoner now called William High, a butcher, who
j said that with regard to the sheep in charge of Spencer he
I had a few words with the Royal Society's officers, and just
shoved the sheep along. IV hen the prisoner touched the
sheep with his stick he could not have hurt a fly.
Mr. Woolrych—l differ with you. That stick would
hurt something more than a fly
The prisoner's master said—Spencer has worked for me
seven years. He is a kind-hearted, honest, and industrious
young man.
Mr. Woolrych—A very flattering character certainly. I
have heard the evidence that was given before my colleague,
and I differ with you about his being kind-hearted. There
is some evidence of unnecessary cruelty to the sheep, an
animal that requires no beating. I fine the prisoner 10s.

NINE TIMES SEVEN.—There are some who be-
lieve that for man generally the number of the years of dis-
cretion has been wrongly settled by the mystical arithmetic ;
that three times three is the right multiple of seven;
and that man properly comes of age when he is
sixty-three. In the number sixty-three, observe the
six nod three, which, when added together, make
nine, the complete number of the muses, but when sub-
tracted one from the other, will make three, the number of
the graces; you cannot get the muses. Whether you add,
subtract, multiply, or divide, for them, they will not
come. For are not the graces led by youth, and the
muses by
experience ? Inheritance of property ou
coming of age
would obviously be preferable under
the rule of nine times seven. For while it would oblige
men whose ancestors have thriven, to live by their own
energy in years when a man ought to do so, it would se-
cure them a comfortable provision for the days of age, in
case they failed, or a well-timed, addition to the fruits of
their labour.—Adconss, ,
AR the Year Bound."