The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-18 00:00:00

a carman in the employ of Mr. Samuel Collins, a market
gardener of East Dulwich, was brought up by James
Rutherford, an officer of the Royal Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals, charged with cruelly ;rot king a
horse in such a shocking state as to be totally unfit for use.
Rutherford said that about eleven o'clock that morning
he saw the defendant driving a team of horses in a van laden
with empty baskets along the Borough towards Dulwich.
One of the animals appeared in a very weak condition, and
on examining it he found on its back a wound fully a foot
square. There was also a wound on the hind fetlock about
an inch square. The animal was besides blind, and in such
a weak condition that it would be a charitable act to destroy

Mr. Burcham asked the prisoner what be had to say for
working a horse in such a bad state ? It seemed in a very
weak condition, and to be suffering severely.
The prisoner said that he knew the horse was in a bad
state when he took it from home that morning. The fore-
man also knew that the sores were there.

Mr. Burcham told him if such were the facts, bow could
he be so cruel a 3 to work the poor dumb animal in that
state ? He hardly ever knew a rorse case, and he felt half
inclined to send him to prison with hard labour.
The prisoner hoped his worship would not do that, as the
foreman sent him out.
Mr. Burcham told him that was no excuse for him. If
he consented to have the horse killed, he might alter his
opinion as to the imprisonment.
The defendant consented to have the horse slaughtered,
when Mr. Burcham fined the prisoner five shillings or seven
days, which leniency, he hoped, would act as a caution to
him and others for the future.
CAUTION TO S3IUGGLERS.—John Ovenden, a seaman
on board the Caledonia, Hamburg steam-ship, lying off
Horselydown, was brought up charged with having 91bs. of
foreign manufactured tobacco concealed in his berth, the
duty for which had not been paid.
Mr. George Hotten, a tide-waiter, said that he went on
board the Caledonia steam-ship on the previous day, when
he found concealed in the defendant's berth 91bs. of foreign
manufactured tobacco. It was liable to 9s. Gd. a pound duty
besides the value of the tobacco.

The defendant said he only bought it for his own use.
The magistrate inflicted a penalty of £4, and, in default
of payment, six weeks' imprisonment.

MURDERING A GOOSE.--A DANGEROUS LARK.—
Henry Young, a moulder, and Sarah Cloud, the wife of a
respectable mechanic, were brought before Mr. Burcham
charged with wilfully killing a goose, the property of Mr.
Kibblewhite, the landlord of the Hope Tavern, Gravel-lane,
and carrying away the same.
A journeyman bookbinder, whose name was net taken
down, said that he was in the taproom of the public-house
in question when he saw the prisoners there. About seven
in the evening the male prisoner went into the yard and re-
turned with a live goose, which he killed and handed to the
female, who put it under her shawl and left the house with
it. She returned shortly afterwards, when witness informed
the landlord's son, who called in a constable and gave them
into custody. Both prisoners were much under the in-
fluence of liquor.
Police-constable, 179 M, said he took the prisoners into
custody, arid from information it^ received he went to the
female's lodgings in York-street, IlleeliJilars-ro..d, where
he found the dead goose produced under the bed.
Alfred Kibblewhite, the son of the landlord, said that they
kept several geese in their back yard, and about seven
o'clock he missed one, and after that he received such in-
formation from the first witness as to induce him to send
for a constable and give the prisoners into custody. He
identified the goose produced as his property.
The prisoners, in defence, said they were both drunk,
and had no recollection of the goose. They supposed it was
a lark.

Mr. Burcliam told them it was a dangerous lark, and
very nearly approached a felony. He should order them
to pay ss. each, or go to prison five days, and he hoped it
would be a caution to them to keep sober for the future.

LAMBETH.—DISGRACEFUL CASE.--George Cawsey,
a fishmonger, Mary Cawsey, his wife, and Thomas Caw-
sey, his son, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Elliott, on
a charge of stealing a quantity of household goods and
£2l3s 6d. in cash, the propel ty of Thomas Stephenson.
From the testimony of the prosecutor it appeared that the
female prisoner had lived with him for two years as his
wife, and that on a day or two before, while absent from his
home, she, with the assistance of her husband and son, re-
moved nearly tke whole of his goods from his house, and
also carried away a purse containing £2 13s. 6d. in cash.
His goods he subsequently traced to the possession of the
prisoners, and he in consequence gave them into custody.
In his cross-examination by Mr. Solomon, who atteaded
for the defence, the prosecutor acknowledged that he was a
married man, and had a wife living, but where she was be
did not know, and denied that he knew the female prisoner
was a married woman until latterly, when he discovered
that her husband and family were in the habit of coining to
his house during his absence.
Mr. Solomon denounced the conduct of the prosecutor as
base and heartless, and said that, in the first place, he had
succeeded in taking away the unfortunate woman at the
bar from her husband and family, and now that she repented
her conduct and had the grace to return to her husband
and children, he persecuted her and gave her into custody
for merely taking away her own property, or, more properly
speaking, the property of her husband.
The mother of the male prisoner was called, and identified
part of the goods produced as belonging to her son, but the
others she was unable to speak to.
Mr. Elliott observed that the whole case exhibited the
grossest profligacy, and remanded the female prisoner to
another day. Her husband and son were discharged.
William Ford, a tall, gaunt, and wretched-looking
person, was committed for three months' hard labour, is
Wandsworth House of Correction, for indecent assaults on
two children under 10 years of age.

Front the LONDON GAZETTE of Yesterday.

CROWN-OFFICE, AUG. 13.

Member returned to serve in this present Parliament.
County of Devon (Southern Division)—Samuel Trehawke
Kekewich, of Peamore, in the county of Devon, Eq., In the
room of Sir John Yarde Buller, Bart., who has accepted the
office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Ilerapholme.