The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-15 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS CRUELTY.

TONBRIDGE, KENT.—Yesterday Henry Jenkins, a
carman in the employ of a carrier named Barrett, resid-
ing at Tonbridge Wells, appeared before the bench to
answer the complaint of Mr. Thomas, the secretary of
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, which charged him with wantonly aid cruelly
beating a horse.
1-tr. Thomas stated the case to the bench, and called

Mary Fielder, who said that on the 30th of September
last she was in her house on Southborough-common,
when, hearing the sound of heavy blows, she looked
towards the road, when she saw the defendant standing
by a waggon and two horses, beating the shaft horse
about the fore and hind legs with a piece of iron called
a " ridger," and used as part of the cart saddle. The
defendant beat the horse repeatedly and so shamefully,
that she ran into Mr. Draper's, a neighbour, and begged
of him to interfere to prevent the infliction of further
brutality. She then returned to her house and saw some
person give the defendant a quantity of straw ; he
placed it under the hind legs of the horse and lighted it
with a lucifer match, the straw blazed up and the horse
kicked and endeavoured to get away from the flames.
'1 he animals appeared unable to draw the load.
Witness turned away from the sight as it made her
quite ill.
Cross-examined by the defendant—l saw you light
the lucifer and set the straw on fire.

William Draper was then called, and he stated that
he lets carriages for hire, and lives next door to Mrs.
Fielder, on Southborough-common. On the 30th of
September Mrs. Fielder ran into his house and begged
him to interfere and prevent the defendant from ill-
treating a horse. Witness got up, and saw the defen-
dant beating a horse in the shafts of a waggon very
cruelly with an iron " ridger." Witness did not go out,
but sat down to his breakfast, when his son said they
were setting the horse alight. He then went out and
saw a fire underneath the horse's belly, close to the hind
legs. Witness advised the defendant to get another
horse; he did so, and they drew the load up the hill
without difficulty.
Mr. Thomas—Did you examine the horse? Witness
—I did, sir.

Mr. Thomas—Now be so good as to describe the state
in which you found it? Witness—l noticed several cuts
through the skin on the legs where the defendant struck
it with the iron; but I did not see any blood.
Mr. Thomas —Was the horse burnt? Witness—l

can't say; I did not see it.
Mr. Thomas said he had another witness, but he
thought the case sufficiently proved, and he should not
call him.

The defendant did not deny the fact proved, but urged,
in mitigation, that the horse was a confirmed jib.
A witness gave the defendant an excellent character
for humanity, and hoped the bench would deal leniently
with him.

The Magistrate told the defendant that he had been
guilty of a great act of cruelty, for which he must pay a
fine of 20s. and the costs.

Mr. Scones, the clerk—The costs are 265.

Magistrate That's a large sum, and I reduce the
penalty.
Mr. Thomas—You can, sir ; but I think you have
dealt very leniently with him in reducing the penalty
to 20s.

Magistrate—Well, I shall reduce the penalty to 145.,
which, with the costs, will be 40s. You must pay 405.,
or be imprisoned 14 days.
Defendant—Will you give me time ? I will pay so
much a week.

Magistrate—l will allow you 14 days.
The defendant's witness advanced tkae money, and the
defendant, who richly deserved the full penalty of 405.,
and the cost, was discharged.

SUICIDE WITH A POISONOUS
QUACK COMPOUND.
On Monday Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Rutland
Arms, Rutland-street, Hampstead-road, on the body of
Mr. Charles Tatham, aged 41, army accoutrement-
maker, of 37, Charing-cross.
Mr. Henry Tatham, gun-maker, at the same address,
said deceased was his brother, and carried on his busi-
ness at the same premises, and at 52, Stanhope-street,
Hampstead-road. His brother died at the house last-
mentioned between ten and eleven o'clock on Thursday
night. From three o'clock to about five o'clock of the
same day deceased had been ill and troubled with con-
tinual nausea at Charing-cross, and, not getting better,
witness conveyed him to his residence in a cab. He
was put to bed and attended to, and about two hours
before his death he told his wife ho had taken poison,
purchased at the shop of Mr. Starkie, chemist, 4, Strand.
The moment the avowal was made deceased's medical
adviser was sent tor.
Mr. F. W. Mackenzie, surgeon, of Chester-place, Hyde-
Park-square, said that on visiting; deceased he found
him in a hopeless, exhausted state from the effects of
some irritating poison. He administered remedies for
the space of nearly two hours, but unavailingly. Since
death he had opened the body, and tested the contents
of the stomach in the presence of Professor Graham,
and dhcovered arsenic. tie had no doubt that was the
poison which destroyed life. Deceased said that iu the
course of the day he went to a chemist's in the Strand
and asked for arsenic to destroy rats. The chemist said
he had none, but would give him a powder that would
do as well. Deceased said he took the powder about
three o'clock on Thursday.
A packet of the powder was here produced, labelled
" Butler's Gloucestershire Vermin and Insect Killer,"
and stating " that it would entirely destroy them (rats);
and, at the same time, would not be liable to occasion
those serious accidents which constantly occur from the
use of common poisons."
Mr. Mackenzie said that the powder found in de-
ceased's stomach was identical with that in the packet.
Having examined a sixpenny packet of it, he was of
opinion that it contained arsenic enough to kill four per-
sons. It was a preparation of arsenic diluted with other
coloured ingredients.
Mr. Starkie, chemist, acknowledged selling the powder
as a safe thing, thinking that it was so from an adver-
tisement be had seen in the Pharmaceutical Journal,
alleging that though the powder would kill quadrupeds
it would not kill human beings. He had not analysed
it, and took the statement in the advertisement for
granted.
Mr. Mackenzie said he knew of no powder that would
kill quadrupeds and be innoxious to man.
Evidence having been tendered showing that deceased's
mind was sometimes unsound
The CORONER said that when he bought the powder
he was of more sane mind than the vendor of it, be-
cause he knew what Mr. Starkie did not know—viz.,
that a poison for quadrupeds must be a poison for human
beings.
Verdict, Temporary Insanity ; the jury appending,
" That they strongly condemn the sale of poisons in open
shops, without proper precautions being taken to pre-
vent the frequent fatal consequences of such sales.
They regard the present instance as one calling for
severe reprehension, and trust that a public exposure of
the facts will tend to prevent the mischief which they
believe is frequeittly occurring from the sale of poison
in druggists' houses."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 14.
STocx Excmomis. —The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, Bos-
ton, &c., 9-16 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction,
p.—Birmingham and Dudley, 2% p.—Eastern Counties, York
Extension, 1 5-16 p.—East Lancashire, 3% p.—Ditto, ditto, New,
p. —East Lincolnshire, to dis. —Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 1% c. p.—Ditto, Extension, 11-16 p.—Liverpool
and Bury, New Shares, 13-16 p.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
3% p.—London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters (A), 74 p.
—Ditto, ditto (B), 74 p.—Ditto, ditto (C), 6% c. p.—Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, % p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths,
5% p.—Ditto, Extension, % p.—Nortk Staffordshire, 2 1-16 p.—
Sheffield and Lincoln, 21s. dis.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters,
No. 3, dis.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, % dis.--Trent
Valley, Midlands, &c., 1-16 p.—West Riding Union, 11,fi p.—White-
haven and Furness, 3 7-16 dis.
LEEDS, OCTOBER 14.
STOCK EXCEIANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, 4 p.—Ditto,
New, 3 p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5% dis.—Hudderstleld
and Manchester, 275. p.—Ditto, Extensions, 6 p.—Leeds and Dews-
bury, 265. p.—Ditto, Branches, 15s. p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 5% dis.—
Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, p.—Ditto, Extensions, 16s. p.—
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 15s. p.—North British,
Quarter Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 435. c. n. p.—Ditto, Exten-
sion (scrip), 11s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 2 p.—York and New-
castle, 1114 p.—York and North Midland (East and West Riding),
11 p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, tnd Boston, 10s. dis.— Glasgow
and Dumfries, 20s. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 15s. dis.—
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% P.—Midland and Thirsk
Junction, 225. dis.--North Western, 2s. Gd. dis.—West Riding
Union, 3%.

IIIIEFICNBLD„ na 14.
*gem Exciraxay.—The sales areGer—Gr at Grimsby and Sheffield,
61. 11. Gd. dis.—Ditto, Extension, 425. dis.—Manchester, Midland,
and Grimsby, 20s. Gd. dis.—Manchester and Lincoln Union, 223.
dis.—Slieftleld and Lincoln, 235. dis.—West Riding Union, 1 !i p.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, OCTOBER 14.
Sroca EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, New,
p.—North British, 8% p.—Ditto, Quarters, 1 3-9 ex new--North
Western, dis.—North Staffordshire, p.—Shrewsbury and
Hereford, 16s. dis.—West Riding Union, 235. 9d.—York and New-
castle Extensions, 12X p.—York and North Midland (East and
West Riding Extension), 12% p.
HULL, OCTOBER 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Leeds and Bradford, 74—Mid-
land Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 34%—North British, halves, 58s.
—Ditto, Quarters, 12s. 3d.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston,
412.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 21. 19s.—North Western, 2s.
dis.—Nerth Staffordshire, 2% P.—West Riding Union, 3 %—Leicester
and Bedford, 14s. 6d.

ORK OCTOBER 14.
STOCK EzcnANGE.—ThYe sales are —Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 1/. 18s. 9d.—lpswich and Bur, 11—Leicester and Bedford, 1
—London and York y
, 1 c. div.—Malton and Driffleld Junction, 2/.
1 ls.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21. 185.—North
British, Quarter Shares, 31. 7s. cum new—North Staffordshire, 41. 3s.
—North Western, 1/. 3s.—West Riding Union, 316 —York and New-
castle, New,
12% —York and North Midland (East and West Riding
Extension), 12%.

EDINBURGH, OCTOBEA 13.
STOOS EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 141. N.-Airdrie
and Bathgate, 4/. 55.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half
Shares, 15/. 10s.-Armagh and Portrush, 12s. 6d.-Ayr and Gal-
loway, 1/. 75.-Belfast and County Down, N.-British and Irish
Union, 21. N.-Caledonian, 201. 155.-Ditto, New, it. N.-Caledonian
and Dumbarton, 1/. N.-Clydesdale Junction, 32/. 10s.-Corn-
wall and Devon Central, 11. 12s. 6d.-Deeside Railway, 2/. 7s. 6d.
-Direct Northern, 11.65.-Dundee and Arbroath, 371.-Ditto, New,
251.-Dundee and Perth, 251.--East Indian Railway, 12s. 3d.-East
of Fife, 195.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 2/. IN.-Edinburgh arid Glas-
gow, 721. IN.-Ditto, Half Shares, 181. 10s.-Ditto, Quarters, 181.
-Ditto, ditto, New, 181.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Grantor, 181.-
Ditto, Preference, 201. 155.-Edinburgh and Northern, 91. 19s. 6d.-
Ditto, Newport, 21. Bs. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 11, 195.-Glasgow
and Ayrshire, 69/. N.-Ditto, New Stock, 861.-Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 171. IN.-Ditto, Halves, 51.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 11. 125.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 11. 13s. 9d.-Glasgow
and Garnkirk, 401.-Glasgow General Terminus, 91.-Glasgow and
Greenock, 161. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 81. IN.-Ditto, Prefer-
erica, 1/. 135.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 11. 12s. 6d.-
Granton Junction, 10s.-Great North of Scotland, 14s. 6d.-Larne,
Belfast, and Ballymena, 10s. 3d.-London, Bristol, and South Wales,
11. 3s. 6d.-London and York, 1/. I 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Half Shares, it.
155.-Midland and Eastern Counties, Ms.-Newcastle and Berwick,
25/. 12s. &1.-North British, 331.-Ditto, Halves, 14/. 10s.- Ditto,
Quarters, cum new, 31. 6s. 6d.-Ditto, New Quarters, scrip, 1/. 2s.
6d.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 10s.-North Staffordshire, 3/. 171.-North Wales
Mineral, 181.-Ditto, New, 91. 7s. 6d.-Scottish Central, 181. 10s.-
Ditto, New, 91.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Inaction, U. 10s.