The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-07 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY _EVENING, tIULY 7, 1865.

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 Cruolty 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 nttached to a cart laden with
rubbish in Cranbourne-street. He examined the horse, and
found the saddle was pressing info a large raw wound of
old standing ; that it was lame in both forelegs, and quite
unfit for work; in fact, only fit to bo destroyed.
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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? Ho 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, ho 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 the 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, he was not judge of horses enough to know
whether it could be made use of again. The horse could
be examined by a veterinary surgeon, and summonses
should be issued against th© 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, John-street, Adelphi, John Chaprnan, Esq., F.R.S.,
in the chair. There were also present Captain Sir E.
Parrott, Bart., Admiral Gordon, W. H. Harton, Esq., Ad-
miral M'Hardy, Colonel Palmer, A. Boetefeur, 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, for pitting 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 attempted 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
men from the schooner Johnson, of Exeter, which
was wrecked while attempting to enter Budo 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 Cheltenhatn 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 North
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 lifpboats of the institution. The Devon and
Cornwall Lifeboat Bazaar, which was to be 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 had 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-
hoy, after the late benevolent baronet of Bombay, who was
a munificent contributor to the funds of the institution.
Reports were read from Captain Ward, R.N., 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.