The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-12 00:00:00

LAW AXD POLICE.

Tiro Docs Hour.—Mr. James Avitt, the manager of
the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs at Holloway, was
summoned at Clerkenwell for allowing a nuisance to exist
on his premises. The complainant, who lived next door to
the Home, complained of the smell arising from the
carcases of slaughtered dogs, and from the preparing of
the food. He had heard that three tons of dead dogs
were removed in a week, and he had known 200 dogs
there at a time. Other witnesses were called who declared
that they had suffered in health from the noise. The
r2agistrate doubted how far the howling of dogs
was contemplated by the Act of Parliament. Mr. Harris,
for the defendant, contended that the place was clean and
well kept, and complained that the witnesses for the prose-
cution were all of a low order. If the barking of dogs
was a nuisance, then the cackling of a goose or
the crying of a baby would be a nuisance. A
veterinary surgeon, who had inspected the Home
by order of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, said he had found it clean, with no smell. There
were about sixty-dogs, but no slaughter-houses. The vete-
rinary surgeon to the police gave similar evidence, and
created some amusement by declaring that the
neighbouring grounds were in a much worse state.
He looked over the gardens of the houses that surround
the area in which the dogs are kept, and found them in a
very filthy and dirty state. The smell arose from the yards
of those houses. The home was the cleanest place of the
kind he had ever seen. In one of the yards there were fowls,
ducks, fleas, and other nuisances. Mr. Pavitt, in his
evidence stated that the greatestnumber of dogs he had had
alive was 140. It was possible he had removed as
much as three tons of dead dogs a week. On one day
he killed as many as 500. The straw on which the dog
slept was turned over every day and the stones washed
The Hon. Captain Bying, who was one of the Council, said
he visited the Home about once a week, and had never
heard complaints from the better class of residents. The
magistrate thought there was no evidence of a nuisance
and dismissed the summons with costs.
PUBLIC MORTUARIES.—At Worship-street Dr. Tripe, the
medical officer for Hackney, applied for a magistrate's
order. By the Public Health Act, it is incumbent on the
friends of a deceased person to have the body removed
to the parish mortuary within the space of 48 hours if
death has resulted from an infectious disease, and the
room occupied by the body is occupied by living persons. Two
infringements of the Act had occurred in tho parish, and
the orders were granted.
CRUELTY TO CATTLE.—A Welsh drover was charged at
Gloucester with cruelty to a flock of sheep. He had sent
240 sheep by rail from Hereford to Gloucester. In one
truck, lift. by 7ft., there were no less than seventy-four
sheep packed, and some were trampled under foot by the
others. All were in an elhausted state ; ono was dead,
and several appeared to be dying, but were revived by
having water thrown on them. The dead sheep was a
mass of Linises, and died frem suffocation. The owner
was fined £5 and £9 expenses, and the drover was fined
2s. 6d.

The Bishop of Lichfield is better, and hopes to leave
Whitb3 for Derbyshire this week.

THF. BENNETT PfIOSECUTION.—An arrangement
has been made for the argument on the admission of the
articles of prosecution to be heard on the 28th inst., and
for the argument on the merits en the 10th of November.
These days are therefore now fixed.

An auctioneer was selling a lot of land for agri-
cultural purposes. " Gentlemen," said he, " this is the
most delightful land. It is the easiest land to cultivate in
the country—it is so light, so very light. Mr. Parker here
will corroborate my statement ; he owns the next patch,
and will tell you how easy it is worked. "Yes, gentle-
men," said Mr. Parker, " it is very easy to work it, but
it's a great deal easier to gather the crops."—American
Paper.

NEW IDEA IN TELEGRAPHY. —Dr. L. IT. Everitt,
of Louisiana, gave an experiment recently at the Fulton
Ferry-house, Broollyn, on a new style of telegraph appa-
ratus, professing to transmit sound through wire and to
dispense with electricity. The doctor discards the old
theory of sound being caused by the vibration of air, and
holds that it can bo transmitted in particles like sparks of
lightning. When the doctor fully establishes his principle
it will cause a wonderful revolution in the cost of tele-
graphic despatches.

DEFOE IN THE PILLORY. It was a fine
summer day, the markets were full of flowers and fruits ;
and Defoe, on arriving en the scene of his punishment,
saw that the pillory was decorated with roses, lilies, and ever-
green leaves, and heard the shouts of sympathy—not of
triumph—that made him •the hero, and not the victim of
a popular outburst. Woe would have betided the coward
Who at that moment had hurled cabbage or rotten egg
at the head of the vindicator of public opinion, or
thrown anything but flowers at his feet. His friends—
for by this time his brave " Hymn to the Pillory;" and his
dauntless bearing in the evil day that had come upon him,
had brought round many of the waverers of his own side. and
converted the lukewarm and indifferent into active zealots
in his cause—drank bumpers to his health and happiness,
expressed their desire to see the judge and jury and
all his persecutors in the pillory after him ; and when his
half hour had elapsed, presented him with refreshments, and
jostled round for the honour of shaking his hand. Similar
demonstrations of public favour occurred on the second
day, when he was exposed in another pillory opposite the
conduit in Cheapside—and on the third, when he under-
went the same penance on the Westminster side of Temple
Bar ; and all the time the " Hymn to the Pillory " sold
rapitlly among the multitude, and put many welcome
guineas into the pocket of the author.—Blackwood's Maaa
tine for October 13G9.

TILE PROPHET AND TILE TIDES.—We ought all
to have known better than to be frightened, or even
curious, about the threatened high tides.. If we had only
consulted our " Zadkiel," we should have been aware that
nothing of the kind was coining at present. The wizard
is almost insultingly jubilant over the failure of the
scientific prophecy, and tells us, in a pithy little
advertisement, why we ought to have been certain
that no such matter was on the celestial cards.
" Dangerous high tides were not at all predicted
by Zadkiel; and they came not" Clearly, there
is more to be learned from the silence of "Zadldel '
than from the forecastings of lesser men. His silence is
indeed golden, while the speech of others is less than
silver—is brass. Why did we omit to buy the Prophetic
Almanack for 1869, and learn what was sot to happen ? at
us amend our error, and, by purchasing the issue for 1870,
be replete with negative information. " Zadkic...l' is, perhaps.
more useful for what he deem% fores co than for what he does
However, he gives us gratis a piece of general information
with regard to " dangerous high tides " which may be
useful for the future. " Thorn never occur without the
moon be in the declination cf Venus." Now the moon the
other clay was not declining Venue, and so we were saved
from floods. Whenever sholis disposed to any such decli-
nation, " Zadkiel" will let usOinew in duo time, and until
then we need not trouble ourselves with approhomions of
a second Deluge. In the mearlwhile, the astrologer may
fairly plume himself on havinirnmele a hit in the depart-
ment of nonlirophoey, Ho ha 4 taken to the n-gativo
,19Fp4itif tl a hripessa akt it is likely to proyo_po. :0
lueeesital itiskertanbrithe

311SCELLA AEU US NEWS.

TIIE EAST CILESIIIRE ELECTION.

Although the Conservative candidate has triumphed
over Sir Edward Watkin by more than a thousand
majority, the Liberals are in no way disconcerted at
their defeat. After the close of the poll, the chair-
man of Sir Edward's committee addressed a
large crowd at Stockport, in which he asserted that
their opponents had not only polled lunatics, but
several dead men. He advised the Liberal party to
form registration associations throughout the country;
these, he thought, would have a beneficial effect uyon
the Liberal cause. The defeated candidate rejoiced
that though he was second on the poll, his party had
achieved a victory ; they had commenced a struggle
which he believed would ultimately result in
the Liberals possessing their fair share of the repre-
sentation of Cheshire. On the other had, Mr. Brooks
looked upon the verdict as sheaving that the men of
Cheshire did not approve of the " wicked theft" Mr.
Gladstone had committed. Of the six polling districts
Sir Edward had a majority in two—Dukhifield and
Hyde.