The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-09 00:00:00

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY.

SHOCKING CRUELTY TO A HORSE. John Smith, a
carman in the employ of a green-grocer, was brought
before Mr. Bingham charged with cruelly ill-treating a
horse by beating it with a hammer.
It appeared from the evidence, that on the previous
afternoon the prisoner was sent by his master with a
horse and cart to Notting-hill, accompanied by a man
named Rice, a blacksmith, who had a hammer and other
tools in the cart, On their way, the horse not going so
fast as prisoner liked, the latter, in order to urge him on
to greater speed, and having no whip, seized hold of the
blacksmith's hammer, and severely belaboured the poor
animal on the top of its tail, the skin from which was
torn into shreds, and from the wound blood flowed freely.
Rice, the blacksmith, disgusted tarte cruel
and wanton conduct, got out of the and gave the
prisoner into custody.
The prisoner, in defence, said he had no whip, nor
could he afford to buy one, and as the horse was stub-
born and would not go, he took the hammer and gave it
a slight tap.
Mr. Bingham said prisoner was not fit to have the
care of a horse, and committed him to the House of
Correction for a month.

COLONIAL AND INTERNATIONAL PORTAGE.---The asso-
ciation which has lately been formed under the presi-
dency of Lord Granville for the promotion of cheap
and uniform system of colonial and internationalspotage
is pushing forward rapidly towards the attainment of
its object. The preliminary steps which have been taken
so far have been completely successful. Assurances of
sympathy and support have been received from all the
representatives of all the foreign powers, and corres-
pondence have been established in all the principal
towns in Europe and America. Almost all the commer-
cial bodies in this country have promised their assist-
ance, and those gentlemen in the provinces who acted
as local secretaries to the Great Exhibition, have con-
sented to act as local secretaries to the association. A
meeting of the Society of Arts was held last night, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the proposals of
the association, and after the reading of an able paper by
the corresponding secretary, the society give in its ad-
herence to the movement.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.-11T. Thomas Bond Sprague,
8.A., the senior wrangler, and first Smith's prize-man of
the present year, is, we understand, the grandson of a
late old and respected member of the Corporation of
London, whose name he bears. We find that he was
educated for college at Dr. Brindley's Collegiate Institu-
tion near Chester. He was for a short period a pupil
in the City of London School, but proceeded from Dr.
.Brindley's to St. John's College, after nearly seven
Years' tuition in that gentleman's institution, having re-
ceived his preparatory education from Miss Lamb, of
Reading.
INCORPORATION OF THE LONDON BANK OF AUSTRALIA—
The petition of the London Bank of Australia and
India, upon the shares of which the full deposits have
been paid, was presented to her Majesty at the Privy
Council yesterday, praying letters of incorporation for the
transaction of business in our Australian colonies.
STRIKE OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.--The exam-
ple of the agricultural labourers in Wiltshire is being
followed in various parts of the coubtry. The agricul-
tural labourers of Essex and other counties have struck
for an increase of wages, and their demands seem likely 1
to be complied with.