The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-26 00:00:00

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

GUILDHALL.-Matthero Pittman, the driver of
the cart No. 138,031, in the employ of Mr. Coldry, butcher, at
Greenwich, appeared before Mr. Alderman Lu cAs yesterday,
upon a summons, to answer the complaint of the Rev. Jacob
George 'Wrench, for wilfully and maliciously ill-treating cer-
tain calves intrusted to his care on Friday last.
The Rev. CoMplainant stated, that he was passing over
Blackfriars-bridge, when his attention was drawn to a large
crowd of persons standing round a cart, and he found the mat-
ter of curiosity was four calves in the cart, two of them lying
down partly under the other two, and the defendant twisting the
tail of one of them, or rather bending it double, with both his
hand and all his strength, as if lie wished to snap it in two. This
cruelty was practised, he learnt, in order to get the animals
upon their feet; but it visibly put them to extreme pain, and
the peeple about were crying "shams ! shame !" lie remon-
strated with the defendant, and receiving only for answer from
him, that he considered it very hard he could not wring a
calf's tail without being interrupted, he took this step to con-
vince him that he would not be permitted to wound the feel-
ings of the public with impunity. The said wringing of the
tail was the cruelty he complained of. A butcher, who was
standing there, told him the cart was too small for the lumber
of calves.

Mr. Arthur Bedford, of George-street, Westminster, con-
firmed the Reverend Gentleman's statement.

The defendant said that one of the calves had jumped ont of
the cart twice, and in putting it up again it threw another of
them in the cart off its legs, and if ho had suffered it to remain
in that position it would have been seriously injured, by being
trodden upon by the others. He therefore resorted to wringing
the calf's tail, because it was the usual way in such cases, and
he had seen it done over and over again.
The defendant's master said he had brought a friend, a re-
spectable tradesman, who would prove that the cart was made
to hold six calves, and therefore there was no cruelty in putting
four in it.

The worthy Alderman, however, took that fact as granted,
and only examined the witness as to whether it was a com-
mon thing to twist a calf's tail in tile manner described,
which he declared it to be, and said it had a vast deal more
affect upon an animal than goading it with a pricker, or beat-
ing it with a stick. It also did not injure the meat as beating
did ; and in point of humanity he thought twisting the tail a
preferable practice, because from the extreme ►ensibility of the
part it produced the desired effect without fail, and immediately.
The Rev. complainant replied that it was now admitted the
twisting inflicted more pain than pricking with a nail, or beat-
ing with a stick. Let the defendant twist one of his own
joints in a contrary direction to that nature intended it to move
in, and then say it was a slight species of torture. It was not
out of humanity, but, it appeared, that he might not bruise the
meat that the defendant had resorted to this method.
Mr. Alderman Lucas said he gave the Rev. Gentleman cre-
dit for the purest motives in bringing forward this case, but he
could not convict the prisoner, and he would state why. Twist-
ing the tail was a very common practice, which he had frequent-
ly observed himself when beasts were being driven into slaugh-
ter-houses, and in this instance was resorted to, to extricate
the animal out of a situation in 1./Lich it must have received more
injury and experienced more suffering had it been allowed to
remain. A greater number of persons, too, would have been
disposed to complain of the defendant's cruelty, had he suffered
the two calves to continue long, trampled upon by the others,
the rest of the journey, and he should therefore dismiss the
complaint. But he warned the defendant it would be his in-
terest always to be cautious, and to behave civilly when lie was
admonished in the streets.—Complaint dismissed.

Letters from Copenhagen state, that at a late
meeting of the Asiatic Company, it was resolved
to send out an Expedition in the spring to China.
According to a statement which exhibits a ba-
lance of the accounts of the Company, the value
of each share is estimated at 250 rix dollars.—
The loss which the Asiatic Company sustained
by the capture of their ships and property by
the English is estimated at 1,335,265, rix dollars.
On the Ist inst. a new ship of the line was
launched near the Admiralty Dock-yards at St.
Petersburg!). It is called the Ilango-udd, and
carries 84 guns. It is the ship built in Russia
on the plan of Sir W. SEPPINGS.
THE STOMACH PUMP.—This instrument was
employed with the most complete success, on
Thursday evening last, by Mr. Magee, of Car-
low, apothecary, in the case of a man employed
in Mr. Fitzgerald's bakery, who had drank so
freely of ardent spirits as to have lost all power
of speech and motion. The contents of the sto-
mach were soon discharged by the operatio:i of
the pump) and the man is now fully recovered.

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extractqfrom the Morning Papers, 0ct.26, 1825.

[BRITISH PRESS.]

The Paris Papers of Sunday contain, in the
shape of news, only some rumours concerning a
Mutiny among the Egyptian troops at Navarino.
'We are however disposed to place little reliance
on the report. The Austrians complain of the
injuries their trade in the Levant suffers from
the Greek cruisers. They take so active and
undisguised a part in favour of the Ttirks, that
we know not how it can happen otherwise. If
they will he the carriers of Turkish stores and
munitions of war, they have no right to feel ag-
grieved because they are divested of their false
neutrality. Some dispatches have lately been
forwarded in great haste from Count Lieven, the
Russian Ambassador in this country, to Count
Nesselrode, the Minister of the Foreign De-
partmeht at St. Petersburgh, which dispatches
were subsequently sent forward with all Pos-
sible speed 'to the Emperor, who is on his
tour to the southern provinces. The corres-
pondent of the Moniteur supposes that those
dispatches relate to the affairs of Greece. 'We
have already stated that we had good reason to
believe that the subject was under. the considera.
tion of the great powers of Europe. May the
result he propitious to the gallant people whose
fate is in their hands! According to the Etoile,
the Pope's health is still in a very dangerouscon-
dition. His advanced age must seriously aggra-
vate his infirmities.

We are glad to learn that the capitalists of
Amsterdam have resolved to have nothing what-
ever to do with any loan for the Spanish Govern-
ment until the bonds of the Cortes are fairly and
fully acknowledged. This resolution has been
adopted in consequence of the endeavours which,
it is understood, have recently been made by M.
Tassin to 46 raise the %%ind" for his Catholic Ma-
jesty in Paris.—(lbid.)