The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

CAUTION To JOURNEYMEN.—Georye Seeker, a jour-
neyman in the service of Mr. James Bower, baker, of
5, Tothill-street, was charged with getting drunk and
neglecting his employment.
Complainant said that defendant, who was in laic ser-
vice, went out with his bread at about one o'clock on
Tuesday, and returned about three, so drunk that he was
incapable of following his employment. Complainant,
who supplies Tothill-fields Bridewell with bread, had at
the time two batches ready to put into the oven, but de-
fendant was too drunk to do it, and complainant was in
consequence put to very serious inconvenience. De-
fendant was also intoxicated on the following day.
Mr. BoND asked the accused what he had to say ?
Defendant replied—Nothing, I know that I have done
wrong.
Mr. BOND inquired how long he had been in com-
plainant's service, and what his conduct had been.
Complainant replied, five or six years or more, during
which time he had frequently indulged in liquor. He
(complainant) had repeatedly cautioned him, and pointed
out the sonsequenees that must ultimately result. It was
necessary that an example should be made, for tie lib e
fit of the trade.

Mr. BOND said, that if the master bakers were not pro-
tected, they might be put to great loss and inconvenience,
indeed they might be rained.
The defendant was committed for twenty-one days to
hard labour.

LAMBETH.
CHARGE AGAINST AN AUCTIONEER AND HIS MAN.--
Mr. William Rateliff, an auctioneer, whose rooms are at
135, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, and Charles Orridge, his
man, were charged with having stolen a pair of de-
canters, of the value of 65., the property of Mr. Woolfe,
a glass and china man, in the London-road.
From the evidence of the prosecutor and his wit-
nesses, it appeared that the prisoner Ratcliff was pre.
paring to sell by auction, on Monday next, the whole of
the stock of goods upon his (the prosecutor's) premises,
and had called at his shop with his man relative to the
arrangements about the sale. When they were gone
the prosecutor missed a pair of glass decanters, and
having, on previous occasions of their visits missed other
things, he proceeded to Ratcliff's rooms. He there saw
the prisoners, and perceiving a bag there with some-
thing in it, he examined it, and there found the pair of
decanters he had previously missed. He then gave the
prisoners into custody.
Th. prisoner Ratcliff treated the matter rather lightly,
saying that the decanters were taken more out of a lark
than anything else, and asked his fellow-prisoner if he
did not tell him to take back the decanters, and tell Mr.
.Woolfe how easily he could be robbed.
The prisoner Orridge,' in the most simple, manner ac,
knOwledged that this was certainly true, but it was not
'until after the decanters had bet‘n discovered'by the pro-
secutor that he gava such directions-, :He also said that,
he (Orridge) had taken away tliekeeanters from the
shop of the prosecutor by direction of his ma. ter.
Ratcliff denied this, and both prisoners were re-
manded to a future day. . _

THAMES.
ATROCIOUS CRUELTY TO A COw.—lley Elias, a Jew
drover. was brought up in custody of Gifford, a police-
constable, charged with cruelty to a cow which had just
been landed from a Rotterdam steamer, in a very bad
condition.
Gifford stated that on Wednesday evening he saw
the prisoner driving a cow along St. George-street, op-
posite the London Dock. The animal appeared to be
in a dying condition, and was bleeding from the nostrils
and mouth, where it appeared to have been knocked
about. The prisoner beat the cow severely with
his stick, and then twisted and screwed its tail to
make it proceed, and while he was doing so the
poor animal fell down. The prisoner then tried to beat
the cow up again with a long stick, in which he believed
a goad, or sharp pin, was inserted. The cow winced
under this brutal infliction, and at last did get up.
The prisoner then commenced twisting the tail again,
and drove his stick with great violence against the
beast, which continued bleeding. He remonstrated
with the prisoner, and told him the blood was flowing
from the animal's nose and mouth through his ill-usage,
which he strongly denied, and made another attempt to
urge the cow onwards, but the animal was too weak to
proceed. He warned the prisoner not to ill-use the
cow any more, and said the best thing he could do
was to obtain a cart, and after he had again beaten the
cow he went in search of one. Before he returned with
the cart the cow fell down in the street and died. He
understood the cow belonged to Marcus Poole, of No.
fa, Prescott-street, Goodman's-fields.
Two other witnesses confirmed the statement of Gif-
ford, and said the prisoner beat the cow over the head
with his stick, and pricked it with great force.
The prisoner denied all that was alleged against him,
and a person named Marcus Poole said he was the
owner of the cow. which was somewhat affected by the
voyage from Holland, and could not walk so fast as
others, but it was a good cow, and not in a dying con-
dition when landed. He gave directions to the prisoner
that it was not to be parted with to any butcher for less
than 141. 104:

Mr. BALLANTINE said the statement made by Poole
did not alter the facts of the case. Atrocious cruelty
had been exercised towards the cow while it was dying,
and he sentenced the prisoner to pay the maximum
penalty of 405., or to be imprisoned for one month. He
had been a magistrate twenty-five years, and this was
the first time a Jew had ever been charged before him
with cruelty to animals.
The fine was immediately paid.
SUNDAY TRADING IN PUBLIC-HOUSES AND BEER-
suors.— Jobn Barney, proprietor of a beer-shop in
London-street, Ratcliff; James Griffiths, of the Anchor
and Hope beer-shop in New Gravel-lane, Shadwell;
John Glazier, landlord of the Turk's Head public-house
in Green Bank, Wapping; Robert Webster, of the King's
Arms public-house in Brook-street, Ratcliff; and Wil-
liam Pattison, of the Ship and Green Dragon public-
house in King-street, St. George's-in-the-• East, appeared
before Mr. Ballantine to answer informations preferred i
by Inspector Valentine, of the K divison, for supplying
beer and spirits during the prohibited hours on Sunday
last.

The cases were made out against the various defend-
ants by the evidence of police-constables.
Mr. BALLANTINE fined four of the defendants 20s.
each and costs, and directed that Mr. Webster should
pay 2s. costs only, it appearing that he commenced busi-
ness at ten minutes before one on Sunday afternoon, and
there was a probability that he might have been ints
taken as to the time. The magistrate, among other ob
servations, said he should be quite content if no such
law existed, but while it did exist it must be obeyed,
and he was bound to enforce the law when a case
was made out. It was a great hardship on the pro-
prietors of houses of public entertainment who con-
formed to the law, and kept their houses closed for
thirteen hours, that they should be subjected to the
unfair competition of those who kept their houses open
and violated the Act of Parliament. He was determined
to protect the fair trader, and if any of the defendants
were brought before him again, a severe penalty would
be inflicted.