The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-28 00:00:00

T II AMES .

WANTON CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—Martia Young, aged
25, a carman, of 40, Carolina-street, Thttcliff, was brought
before Mr. Partridge, charged with cruelly beating a horse.
Mr. Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, attended for the prosecution.
It appeared from tho evidence of Stephen Emmerton, a
police-constable, No. 483 K, that there was some confusion
and delay among tho horses and carts, and other vehicles,
in Ratcliff, near the water side, yesterday afternoon. A
horse and van belonging to the Midland Counties Railway
Company were near a gateway, and caused a partial block.
The prisoner, who was in charge of another horse and
cart, wantonly, and without necessity or provocation, made
a savage onslaught oh the Midland Counties Railway Com-
pany's horse and beat it over the head and nose with the
butt-end of his whip. Emmerton interposed, and took the
prisoner into custody.
Mr. Partridge—Did he strike the horse very hard ?
Witness—As hard as he was able.

Mr. Partridge asked the prisoner what he had to say in
his defence, and he muttered a few words to the effect that
he was very sorry ; on which the magistrate said he had
no right to touch the horse at all, and that it was under
the care of another man.. it was a most impolitic, unwise
thing to strike a horse upon the head and nose, and was
also very cruel. ll° fined the prisoner 405., and in default
of payment one month's imprisonment.
ANOTHER CASE.—Stephen Rowell, aged 35, a tradesman
of No. 2, Eliza-terrace, Tredegar-road, Bow, surrendered
beforeMr.Partridge to answer a charge of cruelly torturing
a horse by working the same in poor condition.
Mr. Love also attended in this case on behalf of the
Royal Society.

This case was originally before Mr. Paget last week,
and it was then proved by Police-constable Nicholas, 30
H, that the defendant was working a horse in a cart.
There were several raw wounds on the animal, and it was
suffering dreadfully. The horse could scarcely draw the
cart to which it was yoked, and was in an exceedingly poor
condition. The prisoner said he had swapped another
horse for the one the magistrate had looked at in the sta-
tion-house yard, and had been cheated in the exchange.
Mr. Paget said the horse was in a shocking condition, it
was torture to work it in the state it was in, and it was
only fit for the knacker's yard. It was no excuse that the
prisoner had been cheated into the purchase of an unsound
horse full of wounds that he was to work it and torture
it. He would remand the prisoner on his own recognis-
ance, and it would depend on what was done in the interim
whether he should inflict a„fine or not.

Nicholas, the constable, now statedthat the horse had
been killed.

The prisoner said he had b2en a very groat loser by tho
horse.

Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had acted properly in
causing the horse to be killed. It was monstrous to work
the horse in the state it was represented to be. He should
now discharge the prisoner,

MARKETS.---This clay.

MARK LANh.

Fresh-up to our market to-day the arrivals of English
wheatwemil
and moderate, and in but middling condition.
For both red nd white parcels the trade was very quiet
at the prices current on Monday.
was passing
no change took
Passing in foreign wheat, the
show of
ofwhich
was
good. w a
place in the quotations.
Floating cargoes of grain supported the late improve-
ment, but the demand for them was less active.
little business
Grinding and distilling barley met with but little atten-
tion, and prices were barely supported. Fine malting
parcels, however, were firm in value.
Malt was in moderate request, at late rates.
The oat trade was in a sluggish state, at abbut Monday's
currencies.
Both beans and peas moved off slowly, but at full prices.
Flour was quiet, on former terms.
ouzo ARRIVALS TILIS WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 800 1,280 1,780 70 1,960
Irish — 470
Foreign 17,870 1,790 12,060 20,410 sks.
brls.