The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-21 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

OVERTAXING HORSES. -At the Marlborough-street
Police-court yesterday, William Enever, a carman, of
Little Drummond-street, Euston-square, was summoned
before Mr. Tyrwhitt for cruelty to horses ; an officer of
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals watching the case. A gentlemrin on the 30th
ult. saw the defendant driving two horses attached to a
waggon laden with 4i tons of coals, the horses being
scarcely able to get along ; and having called a constable's
attention to the fact, a summons was taken out against
the defendant. The defendant's excuse was that, having
been to Belgrave-square with some coals, there was no
room for them, and he had to bring them back ; and that
he lent one of his horses to another man, who forgot to
bring it back to him, and therefore he was obliged to go
on without it. Mr. Tyrwhitt, after remarking that
tons was too much for two horses, said he had per-
sonay observed that horses were being more overtaxed
than ever. In the district where he resided he had
frequently noticed that only two horses were employed in
heavily laden coal waggons ; and such was the exertion
the horses had to make to draw the loads pint their sinews
were drawn out of them. He considered' such treatment
of horses as brutal as any that could be inflicted on them,
and should fine the defendant 405., or in default a month's
imprisonment.

AN UNGALLANT TAR.—Charles Stewart, a seaman
aged 35 years, was brought up, on remand, at the Thames
Police-court, before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing a
gold ring, value 45., from the finger of a woman named
Margaret Cotton, of No. 2, Jamaica-place, Limehouse.
The prisoner had been staying with the prosecutrix, who
wore a ring, a present from another man, to whom she
had shewed her favours, and the prisoner said he would
not allow her to wear a ring given her by another man,
and took it with force from her finger, in the presence of
another woman named Margaret Connor. The prisoner
was taken into custody by Norman, a detective, to whom
he said "If you touch me I'll bite you." He actually
attempted to seize Norman with his teeth, but the officer
soon overpowered him, and took him into custody. The
prisoner said he had the ring and meant to keep it, and
he would kick the woman's face in before she should have
it. The prisoner now said that he never had the ring,
and the charge was preferred to keep him here and pre-
vent him going to Scotland. Mr. Paget committed him
for triaL

Walter Pelgrave, a man of respectable appearance and
good address, was brought up on remand, at the above
court, charged with feloniously embezzling £2 he had
received for and on account of his master, Mr. John Amos,
carman and contractor, of Susannah-street, Poplar. After
some evidence had been given, the prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.

The Arctic has arrived at Wick with 13 whale
(140 tuns). She reports that the Camperdown has seven
fish, the Esquimaux five, and the Intrepid nine.
There is a passage in her Majesty's " Journal of
Our Life in the Highlands" which receives an accession
of interest from the impending marriage of the Princess
Louise. It occurs in the description of the royal visit to
Inverary. " Our reception," writes her Majesty, " was
in the true Highland fashion. . . , . The pipers
walked before the carriage, and the Highlanders on either
side, as we approached the house. Outside stood the
Marquis of Lorn, just two years old, a dear, white, fat,
fair little fellow, with reddish hair, but very delicate fea-
tures, like both his father and mother; he is such a
merry, independent little child. He had a black velvet
dress and jacket, with a `sporran,' scarf, and Highland
bonnet."

ENGLAND'S NECESSITY.-1t is neither by trade
nor by money that we can be saved, but by men and
arms ; and it is a truth that can never be too often
repeated that we must become a military people, or we
must become slaves. A nation which sets more value

upon its wealth than upon its valour will never ba even a
rich nation for any great length of time, because the
men of money who are, as .to their own private concerns,
the most cunning of all creatures, will always remove
their dearly-beloved treasure to the place of the greatest
security, to the place where there is the greatest degree of
physical force, animated by the greatest courage. • • •
The fall of a country is generally imperceptible ; it
comes down by degrees, like a new-made rick of hay;
you do not perceive in the evening that the rick is lower
than it was at noon; but at the end of seven or eight
days the inexperienced observer is surprised that so short
a ladder will suffice for the thatcher, when it required so
long a ladder for him to descend on who had finished the
rick. It is thus with nations. We, for instance, think
not much of the Russians being at the Dardanelles, intro-
duced to us gradually by an invasion of Spain, and an
occupation of the Morea. Next, it may be thought incon-
venient for us to be suffered to remain in the Seven
Islands. After that, the claims of the Knights of St.
John of Jerusalem to the Island of Malta might be
respectfully made to His Britannic Majesty. Another
year may bring us acquainted with a representation of
the uselessness of Gibraltar to us. Another year, or
perhaps less, would make it a question wbether it were
becoming—whether compatible with those friendly
feelings that ought to exist among great Powers—
that we should retain, as it were for the mere purpose of
insult, the trifling islands of Guernsey and Jersey ; and
where is the stock-jobber, the Quaker, or the loan-
monger who would not express his satisfaction that "His
iv*jesty's Government' had not plunged the nation into
"all the horrors of war" for so insignificant an object?
From Jersey it is but a couple of hours' sail to the Isle of
jeo
bsbheor
811,1 should
stock-jobbers,find hundreds a n
do f
tax-eater.
Wight,Quakers,
oa o-
say that it was sound policy not to consider that pitiful
island as belonging to this great empire," We may be
• well assured that, if we decline to fight for it, we shall be
encroached upon step by step, until we aro circumscribed
within the limits of this hare island. Ido not call out for
war, but I call out for preparations for it : I call for those
measures which are absolutely necessary to enable the
country to fit out armaments, and to defend its interests
and its honour.—Cobbett's Political Register.