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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUELTY TO HORSES.—Daniel Coakley, living in Dudley-
street, was charged before Mr. Knox with cruelly ill treat-
ing a horse by working it in an unfit state.
Mr. W. Love, chief officer of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, attended to watch the
two cases.

William Temperley, officer of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said that on the previ-
ous evening he saw a horse attached to a cart laden with
rubbish in Cranbourne-street. He examined the horse, and
found the saddle was pressing into a large raw wound of
old standing ; that it was lame in both forelegs, and quite
unfit for work; in fact, only fit to be destroyed. •

The wife of the owner of the horse said she took as much
care of the horse as of her children.

Rutherford, another officer of the society, corroborated
his brother officer.
Mr. Knox said the owner's wife said she took as much
care of the horse as her children. He should like to ask
her if she sent her children out lame and with large sores
on their backs? He would hear the other case.

Thomas Picking, in the employ of Mr. Thornton, a
carman at Battersea, was next charged with cruelty to a
horse.

Rutherford said that on the previous evening he saw the
defendant pulling the reins attached to a horse drawing a
carrier's cart, in Cranbourne-street. The prisoner was at
the time beating the horse, which could hardly get out of
the walk, with a stick. He stopped the defendant, and on
examining the horse found it to be in a miserable state—
mere skin and bone. It was old, and the back part of the
collar was pressing into a wound, and there were other
wounds and marks of violence about it. In addition, it
had both knees broken. On asking the prisoner why he
beat it, he said he was obliged to do so to get it along, and
on telling his master he was sure he would be locked up
his master said it was all nonsense, and that he must take
in out.

The prisoner said he only struck the horse once ; but
this tho officer denied.

After hearing evidence in corroboration, Mr. Knox in-
spected the horses, and on returning into court said that
as regarded the last case it was a positive scandal that the
horse was' allowed to live the poor creature being
scarcely able'to put one leg before the other. With regard
to the other, lie was not judge of horses enough to know
whether itsoulci be made use of again. The horse could
be examined by a'veterinary surgeon, and summonses
should be issued against the owners, and the prisoners
could appear again in a week.

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held at its
house, Jolin-street, Adelphi, John Chapman, Esq., F.R.S.,
in the chair. There were also present Captain Sir E.
Perrott, Bart., Admiral Gordon, W. H.. Harton, Esq., Ad-
miral M'Hardy, Colonel Palmer, A. Boetefour, Esq., Capt.
De St. Croix, and Richard Lewis, Esq., the secretary. The
minutes of the previous meeting having been read, a reward
of £4 was voted to the crew of the institution's lifeboat at
Groomsport, fol. putting off during a heavy gale of wind
and rescuing the master of the smack Agnes and Mary, of
Glasgow, which had struck on the rocks off Groomsport
very early in the morning of the 30th May. A shore-boat
had previously altempted to save the man. A reward of
£7 was also granted to the crew of the tubular lifeboat of
the institution stationed at Rhyl, for going off and assisting,
in conjunction with a steam-tug, to save from destruction
the sloop Catherine, of Liverpool, and her crew of four
men. The vessel was observed in a disabled condition
during a fresh gale of wind off Rhyl, on the 11th ult. A
reward of £l3 was likewise granted to the crew of the life-
boat belonging to the institution at Bude Haven, for put-
ting off through a heavy sea, and saving the crow of four
mon from the schooner Johnson, of Exeter, which
was wrecked while attempting to enter Buds Harbour,
on the 30th ult. The cost of this valuable lifeboat
station, amounting to £6OO, was defrayed by a benevolent
gentleman in memory of his late mother. It was reported
that the Van Kook lifeboat of the institution at North Deal
had gone off in reply to signals of distress, with the view
of rescuing the crew of the schooner George, which was
found abandoned and sunk during a strong S.W. wind, on
the Goodwin Sands, on the 2d ultimo. The Ramsgate
harbour lifeboat had also gone out to the assistance of the
wreck, but neither lifeboats could find any tidings of the
wreck's crew. Various other rewards were also voted to the
crews of shore boats and others for saving life from ship-
wreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. Payments
amounting to £438 were ordered to be made on various
lifeboat establishments. It was stated that Eleanor,
Duchess of Northumberland, had expressed her wish to
station a lifeboat on the Northumberland coast, in memory
of her husband, the late duke, who was for many years
the president of the institution. A benevolent lady,
residing at Cheltenham had presented to the institution
£6OO, to defray the cost of a lifeboat station, at Anstruther,
on the Scotch coast. She wished the lifeboat to be named
the Admiral Fitzroy, "in commemoration of the scientific
efforts of the distinguished officer of that name to discover
the law of storms, with the benevolent view to diminish
the loss of life on our coast." New lifeboats and transport-
ing carriages had been sent during the past month to Noith
Sunderland and to Whitby. Both boats were the gifts of
benevolent persons to the institution. The Great Northern
and North-Eastern Railway Companies had, as usual,
kindly given the lifeboats and carriages free conveyance to
their respective stations. It was reported that the French
Lifeboat Society were having six or seven additional life-
boats built for them in England and elsewhere. Colonel
Fitzroy Clayton, of the Grenadier Guards, had re-
cently delivered a lecture at Eastbourne in aid of the
objects of the institution. Messrs. Peacock and Buchan's
composition had again been used in painting the large
fleet of lifeboats of the institution. The Devon and
Cornwall Lifeboat Bazaar, which was to lie held at
Teignmouth on the Bth and 9th of the ensuing month,
under the special patronage of the Prince and the Princess
of Wales, was reported as likely to be a very grand and
successful undertaking. Two benevolent ladies, who are
unknown to each other, had expressed a wish to present to
the institution the cost (£600) of two lifeboats, the amount
in each case being their housekeeping savings. A sailor's
daughter hy.d also sent to the institution, through Messrs.
Drummond, the bankers, a further contribution of £lOO.
The committee decided to place a new lifeboat at Cahore,'
on the Irish coast, and to name it the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeeb-
hey, after the late benevolent baronet of Bombay, who was
a munificent contributor to the funds of the institution.
Reports were read from Captain Ward, RN., the inspector,
and Captain David Robertson, R.N., the assistant-inspec-
tor of lifeboats of the institution, on their recent visits of
inspection of the society's lifeboat stations on the Irish and
Scotch coasts. They found, with few exceptions, all the
lifeboats in thorough working order. The institution has
now 149 lifeboat stations under its management, and dur-
ing the past eighteen months it had contributed to the
saving of upwards of 1,000 lives from various shipwrecks
on our coasts. The proceedings then closed.

THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR.—The rumour
which we announced on Tuesday has now been confirmed,
as Lord Cranworth has been appointed to the vacant office
of Lord Chancellor. The noble lord's experience, and his
familiarity with the duties which he is about to resume,
afford the best guarantee to the country that the selec-
tion of his lordship is as judicious as it is likely to be
beneficial.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS.
—Yesterday the erection of hustings for the nomination of
candidates at the general election, consequent on the disso-
lution of Parlianient, commenced in the Guildhall for the
City of London, in the Covent-garden market for the City
of Westminster, on Clerkenwell-green for Finsbury, and
the customary places for the boroughs of Marylebone,
Southwark, Lambeth, and the Tower Hamlets.

THE NEW SEWAGE ACT.—Yesterday the act to
facilitate the more useful application of sewage in
Great Britain and Ireland was issued. It recites that it is
expedient to remove difficulties under which local boards
and other bodies labour having the care of sewers in dis-
posing of the sewage in their districts so as not to be a
nuisance, and to give facilities to such authorities to make
arrangements for the application of such sewage to land for
agricultural purposef. There are various provisions in the
act. The sewer authorities are to prevent the pollution of
streams and to dispose of the sewage.

LONGEVITY.—On Saturday Mr. Wm. Thurston,
of the White-house, Dymock, expired in his 92d year. On
his 90th birthday he went out fox-hunting, and seemed to
enjoy the sport as keenly as ever he did. Ever since he
has been in business he has lived in the same house—that
in which the "Man of Ross" was born. The late General
Sir J. Thackwell was first taught by Mr. Thurston to ride
to hounds. The present master of the Ledbury hounds,
Mr. J. C. Thackwell, can recount many a happy reminiscence
of his friend Mr. Thurston. Many will regret his death,
for he not only entertained the rich, but " ne'er forgot the
poor."—Gloucester Journal.

THE COAL TRADE AT LIVERPOOL.—At a meeting
of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board on
Thursday, Ir. C. Langton, the chairman of the Traffic
Committee, stated that from the Ist of July, 1863, to June
30, 1864, the coal which passed over tho High Level Rail-
way at the Bramley Moore and Wellington Docks,
amounted to 98,515 tons, and from July 1, 1864, to June
30, 1865, to 140,625 tons, showing an increase of 41,810
tons. This statement was considered exceedingly satis-
factory, as for a long period the export coal trade on the
Liverpool side of the Mersey was in anything but a pro-
gressive condition.

THE GREAT NORTHERN PLANT WORKS, DON-
CASTER.—On Thursday morning a fire broke out at
the Great Northern Plant Works at Doncaster, and it is
supposed that it was occasioned by the spontaneous com-
bustion of some lampblack kept in a portion of the carriage
erecting shops. The works of the company are of great
extent, and have recently been considerably enlarged. The
fire was discovered about 3 o'clock by one of the three
night watchmen. The supply of water for the town and
company's engines was obtained from the river Don, but
notwithstanding the exertions of both brigades the flames
extended to several carriages, and entirely consumed a di-
rectors' carriage, a first-class carriage, and a brake van.
Tho roof of the building was seriously damaged, the fore-
man's rooms wore burnt down, and not less than £1,500
damage has been done. There was no wind at the time,
and had the flames been at all fanned the whole block of
buildings would probably htive been destroyed.
FOUNDERING OF A BRIG.—On the evening of
Friday last the brig Emma Jane, of Newport, laden
with coke, from Middlesborough to Genoa, sprung a leak
off Cromer, and foundered. The owner was on board, who
together with the captain and crew took to their boats, and
were picked up the schooner Alfred, of Guernsey. On Sa-
turday at 9 p.m. they were landed at Dover, when the crew
were immediately taken to the Sailors' Home.
In the case of the convict Patrick Kilkenny,
under sentence of death in Ireland for murder, the judges
by whom he was tried had declined to support the recom-
mendation of the jury. The death warrant has been for-
warded to the county sheriff. A memorial is in course of
preparation to be presented to the Lord-Lieutenant for the
purpose of having the sentence commuted.
MEMORIAL OF " BULL RUN."—On the 16th of
June a stone monument 27 feet high was erected with duo
ceremonial on a crest, a little south of Henry-house, " in
memory of the patriots who fell at Bull Run Jnly 21,
1861." The spot selected is where Heintzelman's division
made their hardest fight, but were finally driven back by
Kirby Smith. A considerable force of troops were on the
ground, and a large company of civilians ; proper religious
exercises were gone through, some addresses delivered, and
then a salute was fired by Capt. Smith's Massachusetts
Battery on the very spot where Rickett's battery Was cap-
tured. The battle-field itself presents few evidences of
the engagement. Here and there a mound indicates
a grave, but they are not numerous, and the only
relic found was an old musket barrel. We (New York
Times) watched carefully along the entire route for evi-
dences of returning peace and prosperity, but in this part of
the State the people will recover their wrecked fortunes
very slowly, for they have suffered with terrible severity.
Around each farmhouse a few acres are temporarily fenced
and planted with apparently just enough to live on, but the
broad fields, now rich with full summer verdure, are fence-
less and tenantless pastures, all the way from Alexandria to
Manassas. A few waggons were observed making their way
out from the city with loads of supplies, but this country
has nothing to send to market. A drove of sheep on their
way to the city, crossing the battle-ground, attracted great
attention, especially from the soldiers, who were astonished
that there should be so many left in the State, but were
assured that they had already been driven many miles.

TRIAL OF Dit. PRITCHARD

THIS DAY.

THE VERDICT.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

EDINBURGH, FRIDAY.

The intense interest manifested during the whole
of the four days this extraordinary trial has lasted
was greater than ever this morning. Crowds of
people outside the court who had not been success-
ful in obtaining admission were trying every means
in their power to gain an entrance into court, and
the police had the greatest difficulty in keeping a
space clear for those personally engaged in the trial.
As early as seven o'clock this morning Parliament-
square was densely crowded, and as the hour of
opening the court approached the crowd increased
to such an extent that it was difficult to reach the
top of the lligh-street. It was even greater than
on the celebrated trials of Madeline Smith (who
was tried eight years ago for poisoning her sweet-
heart, and was acquitted on the peculiar Scotch
verdict of " Not Proven") and Mrs. Gilmore, who
was also acquitted on a similar charge of poisoning
her husband. The latter female, it will be remem-
bered, was the first person brought back under the
extradition treaty with America.
The court opened at ten o'clock, but for some time
previous that portion not appropriated to the public
presented an extraordinary appearance. The jury
entered the court shortly before ten o'clock, and
upon their lordships' arrival the prisoner was placed
in the dock.

His appearance was much the same as it was at
the commencement of the trial. There was, how-
ever, a slight shade of sadness in his expression, but
no trace of that anxiety and deep mental suffering
to be expected in a person charged with such a
dreadful crime and with his life in such imminent
danger. During the continuance of the summing
up to-day, notwithstanding the strong remarks of
the Solicitor-General with reference to the damag-
ing points in the evidence against the prisoner, he
presented that coolness and indifference he has all
along exhibited, with the exception of the time
when his children were under examination.

The Lord Justice Clerk, in a very audible voice,
commenced his summing up, and having called to
the recollection of the jury the evidence adduced
both on the part of the Crown and for the defeiN,
concluded by earnestly impressing on the jury the
importance of their fully considering all they had
heard, and said that the case now only awaited their
verdict. Unless they thought that clear conviction
was brought to their minds it would be their duty
to acquit him. They were not to proceed upon sus-
picion, or even strong suspicion, but there must be
strong conviction in their minds, and if there was
any reasonable doubt, it was their duty to give the
prisoner the benefit of that doubt ; but if they came
to that clear conclusion of his guilt, they were not
to allow any suggestion made for the defence to
deter them from doing their duty. The learned
judge having reminded the jury of the oath they
had taken, concluded by beseeching an all-wise and
all-seeing Providence to direct them to a right
verdict.

The jury retired at half-past one o'clock, and,
after an absence of 55 minutes, returned into court.
The Clerk of the Court, addressing the jury,
said—Gentlemen, have you agreed to your verdict ?
The Foreman, in a firm tone—We have.

The Clerk of the Court—How say you, gentle-
men ; do you find the prisoner Guilty or Not
Guilty ?

The Foreman—We unanimously find the prisoner
" GUILTY" of murdering Mary Jane Taylor or
Pritchard, his wife, and also unanimously find
him " GUILTY" of the murder of Jane Cowan
or Taylor, his wife's mother
Silence having been proclaimed,

The Lord Justice Clerk put on the black cap and
passed sentence of death in the usual manner,
which he said would be carried into effect at Glas-
gow, on Friday, the 28th of July.
The prisoner was completely overcome when he
heard his doom.