The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

FREQUENCY OF CONVICTIONS FOR WANTON. CRUELTY.—
John Green, a cabdriver, was summoned by the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at the
Marlborough-street Police-court, for wantonly flogging a
horse. Sir Henry Hoare, Bart., deposed that on the
afternoon of the 9th inst., while in Albemarle-street, his
attention was called to the defendant, who was
driving a four-wheeled cab, by seeing him violently
lashing the horse, which was going at a moderate
pace, there being !ilo fare in the cab, and the
horse having done nothing to justify such treatment.
Young, an officer of the society, said the defendant ad-
mitted hitting the horse two or three times. The de-
fendant said that he only hit the horse two or three times,
and smacked his whip a few times. Sir H. Hoare said
he felt bound to state that defendant was very civil when
he spoke to him. The magistrate said the treatment of
horses by some men was very bad, and he never could
understand what delight men felt in tormenting horses.
The defendant will have to pay 205., or 14 days.
The above offence appears to be very prevalent, about
half a dozen cases of a similar kind had in the past fort-
night been prosecuted by the society to conviction at the
instance of Sir Henry Hoare.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Margaret Buckley, aged 22, a
strong, noisy woman, was brought before Mr. Lushington,
at the Thames Police-court, charged with savagely assault-
ng and wounding William Fowler, a labourer. The par-
ities were in a public-house in Shadwell, yesterday after-
noon, and a good deal of beer drinking was going on. The
complainant had been treating several friends, and at last
he said he would be twopence to any other person's two-
pence for another pot of beer. The prisoner then began
to abuse him because he would not pay for beer for her,
and without any provocation took up a quart pewter pot,
with which she struck him a murderous blow on the head
with it, inflicting a severe wound, from which blood
flowed freely for some time. Mr. Lushington said
the prisoner was in danger of being sent to the
Central Criminal Court on a charge affecting her
life, while she used such ;dangerous weapons. She
was a turbulent and savage woman, and had com-
mitted a very brutal and unprovoked assault. He
sentenced her to two months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF MARINE STORE DEALERS.
—John Young was charged, at the above Court, with
stealing an iron air grating, the property of Mr. Thomas
George Pearson. The prosecutor is laying down new
gullies and gratings in the neighbourhood of Limehouse,
and has a great deal of property necessarily exposed there.
A police constable named Thomas Norman, a detective of
the K division, saw the prisoner call at several marine
store dealers' shops, and learned that he had been offering
an air grating for sale at the price of old iron. He could
not get a purchaser for it. Norman arrested him, and
obtained from him the name of the place where the air
grating was deposited. It was worth 555., and at the
old iron price it would not have obtained as many pence.
It was identified by Mr. George Harvey, time-keeper
to the prosecutor. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

THIS MORNING'S NEWS.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
BUSINESS IN LIVERPOOL.
The increasing downward tendency in the cotton mar-
ket is causing, and if it be not arrested numbers of firms
will be ruined. Two more failures were reported on the
Stock Exchange yesterday, though the general tone of
business was better.