The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-23 00:00:00

BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.

CAUTION TO BUTCHERS, DROVERS, &c.
At the Petty Sessions, at the Town-hall, Brentford (Mr.
F. H. N. Glossop and a full bench of magistrates), Henry
Hetherington, a butcher, Wm. Widdick, a labourer, and
Richard Weight, a lad in Hetherington's employ, were
charged by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, the former with having caused and procured a
bull to be cruelly ill-treated and tortured, and the latter two
with having ill-treated and tortured the same animal at
Ealing on the 10th inst.

Mr. Wm. Love,inttructed by the secretary of the Royal
Society, attended to conduct the prosecution.
The evidence, which was lengthy, was fully explained in
Mr. Love's opening, from which it appeared that the bull
originally belonged to Baron Rothschild, and was kept on
the baron's estate at Gunnessbury, being a very docile
animal. A serious accident happening to one of its hind
legs, and all the care bestowed on it by the baron being of
no avail, the baron humanely ordered that it should be sold
to be slaughtered without delay. The defendant (Hether-
ington) became the purchaser, stipulating to send a convey-.
ance for it to the Kingston market on the following day,
but instead of doing so resolved if the animal could be made
to do so it should travel the distance on foot, notwithstand-
ing it was unable to put its injured foot to the ground.
Widdick, who was employed to drive it, procured
a long pole with an iron hook at the end of it, and fastened
this to a sing which was passed through the animal's nos-
tril, and so by dint of tugging and wrenching at its nostril,
assisted by the defendant Weight, who beat it in a most
brutal manner about the injured leg, the poor animal was
got as far as Kew-bridge, where it came to a standstill, and
at that time some gentlemen coming up, and seeing the
state it was in, interfered and caused it to be slaughtered
and put out of its agony.

The witnesses described the animal's sufferings to have
been intense, and it took nearly five hours to get it to the
shed 150 yards off.

Mr. Love urged that the defendant Hetherington's motive
could only have been to save himself the expense of a con-
veyance, thereby defeating the humane intentions of the
baron. He therefore felt bound to press for a severe punish-
ment.

The Chairman said the Bench could come to no other
conclusion than that cruelty of the grossest kind had:been
inflicted upon the poor animal. He should fine the defen-
dant Hetherington £2 and costs, or a month ; Widdick, £1
and costs or 14 days; and Weight would be cautioned and
discharged. The Chairman also said the cowman who per-
mitted the bull to be removed in such a state, disregarding
his master's orders, deserved censure.
The Lord Chief Baron Pollock occupied a seat on the
bench, and the case created considerable interest.

FROJI THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Spenser St. John, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul-General
in the Island of Borneo, to be her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republic of Hayti,
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, APRIL 22.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Riddall Morri-
son, from the Ist Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Joice,
promoted to the 13th Hussars.
3d Hussars—Henry Richard Pim, Gent,, to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Doherty, promoted.
4th Hussars—Charles Harrison Hignett, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Samuel Charles Newton, ap-
pointed to the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards.
13th Hussars—Richard James Agar Webb, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Philip Williams, who retires.
16th Lancers—Sergeant Thomas Dynon to be Paymaster,
vice Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, vice
George Frederick Rosser, who retires upon half-pay.
Grenadier Guards—Captain Arthur Edward Augustus
Ellis, from 33d Foot, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice
Francis George Stapleton, who exchanges.
2d Regiment of Foot—Ensign Richard Arthur Corbet to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mello William Jackson,
who retires ; Charles William Hemphill, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Corbet •, Gentleman Cadet
Henry Longfield Ricard, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, without Hemphill, appointed to 26th
Foot.
sth Foot—Ensign Herbert Silverthorne Williams to be
Lieutenant, by purchasa, vice Charles Sutton, who re-
tires; Edward Drew, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Williams.
12th Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Lyford Barry
Thomas, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Gray, promoted in the 4th West
India Regiment.
19th Foot—Captain Richard Sweeny, from half-pay Royal
Waggon Train, to be Captain, vice Robert Concll3 Mar-
tin, who retires upon half-pay.
25th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Wellington Alexander Nel-
son Hood to be Captain, by purchase, vice Charles H.
Layard, who retires ; Ensign Richard Webster to be
Lieutenant, l‘ithout purchase, vice Robert Crossman,
deceased; Ensign James Pender to be Lieutenant, be
purchase, vice Hood; Augustus Owen, Gent., to bo
Ensign, by purchase, vice Pender.
26th Foot—Ensign James Ross Buchanan to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vice George Meldrum, deceased ;
Ensign C.IV . Hemphill, from 2cl Foot, to be Ensign,
vice Buchanan; Lieutenant Lancelot Allgood Gregson
to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Geo. Meldrum, deceased.
27th Foot—Captain David Aikman Patterson, late Pay-
master of the Royal Artillery, to be Paymaster, vice
Urquhart, deceased.
33d Foot—Lieutenant and Captain Francis George Staple-
ton, from the Grenadier Guards, to be Captain, vice
Arthur Edward Augustus Ellis, who exchanges.
45th Foot—Ralph Richardson Handy, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Henry James Burford Hancock,
who retires; Assistant• Surgeon Stephen Henry Mar-
shall, from the Staff; to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Han-
bury, who exchanges.
59th Foot—Surgeon Robert M'Wharrie, M.D., having
completed a period of twenty years' full pay service, to
be Surgeon-Major, under the provisions of the Royal
Warrant of Ist October, 1858; Assistant-Surgeon John
Warren, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Crisp, who exchanges.
626 Foot—Ensign Robert Nevill Gream, from 86th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Frederick Howes llorneman, deceased.
64th Foot—The Commission as Adjutant of Lieutenant
Charles Hamilton Sams has been antedated to the 13th
February, 1862.
65th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred Robert Ord, from 86th Foot,
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Frederick Baillie,
cashiered by the sentence of a general court martial, but
permitted to receive the value of a Lieutenancy.
68th Foot—Lieutenant Horatio Gordon Robley to be In-
structor of Musketry.
86th Foot—Ensign Henry Valentine Cullinan to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Ord, promoted, without pur-
chase, in the 65th Foot; Robert Nevill Gream, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cullinan.
98th Foot—James Anthony Corballis, Gett., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Arthur Henry Hallam Jesse, who
retires.
100th Foot—Ensign Augustus Frederick Tanner to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Fletcher, who retires;
Walter Hudson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Tanner.
Ist West India Regiment—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel James Travers to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without
purchase, vice Murray, who retires upon half-pay, on
being appointed Deputy-Adjutant-General, Windward
and Leeward islands; Captain and Brevet. Major Robert
Hughes to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Travers;
Lieutenant Wm. Henry Pe.
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oyre Fitz Morris Strachan to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Brevet-Major Hughes; Ensign Thomas
Nicholson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Ed-
munds, promoted, without purchase, to a Company in the
4th West India Regt; Edward Hamilton Barlow, Gent.,
to bo Ensign, without purchase, vice Atkinson, promoted
in the 4th West India Regiment; Richard Chas, Clarke,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Sealy, pro-
moted in the 4th West India Regiment ; Gentleman Ca-
det Anthony Coulton Allinson, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Barry,
promoted in the 4th West India Regiment.
2d West India Regiment—Captain and Brevet4lajor
James Delamain Mends tool be Major, without purchase,
vice Brevet-Licutenant-Conel Peter John Macdonald,
promoted to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy, without purchase,
without purchase, vice
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Captain, ;
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Baldwin, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
Vice Drinan, promoted in 4th West
Charles Henry Tongue, Gent., to be
Ensign,
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pureuase, vice Coward, promoted in the
4th West India Regiment.
3d West India Eegithent—Captain and Brevet-Major
Richard Plunkett Ireland to be Major, without purchase,
vice Conran, promoted to a Lieutenant-Coloneley, with-
out purchase,
-la the 4th West India Regiment; Lieute-
nant
B Franrevetics hearman to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Major Ireland.
4th West India Regiment—Lieutenant Henry Charles
RenrY Mansergh to be Instructor of Musketry.
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