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seems to me like the oasis in the desert to the parched and 
weary traveller to speed him on his course rejoicing. 
A vote of thanks to the Lord Provost and Councillors was enthu- 
siastically passed, when the meeting terminated. 
COLEMAN PRIZE. 
On the receipt of the report of the Professors of the Royal Vete- 
rinary College, relative to the selected essays for the “ Coleman 
Prize,” the Governors, at their meeting on July 10th, proceeded to 
open the sealed envelopes bearing corresponding mottoes, when it 
was found that the silver medal had been won by Mr. II. G. Lepper ; 
bronze medal, Mr. John Kenney ; first certificate, Mr. R. C. Queripel ; 
second certificate, Samuel Lomas. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
BALLYMENA PETTY SESSIONS. 
Monday , 20 ih June . 
Magistrates present: — John Young, A. C. Montgomery, 
Thomas Casement, and Alexander Davison, Esqrs. 
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. DISHORNING. 
Messrs. James and George Graham, of Ballymena, appeared on 
the prosecution of the Constabulary, and were charged with having 
inflicted, or directed and authorised the infliction of torture upon 
certain cattle, their property, at Craigy warren, on the 24th of May 
last. Mr. O’Rorke conducted the case on behalf of the Belfast 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr. Caruth 
appeared for the defence. 
Mr. O'Rorke stated the case. On the 24th of May the defend- 
ants had sanctioned the infliction of horrible torture upon twenty- 
eight head of horned cattle — bullocks, heifers, and cows — their own 
property, at Craigywarren. The horns of these unfortunate brutes 
had been sawn off close to the skull ; and their roars under the in- 
fliction of such inhuman torture had been heard for miles over the 
country. Evidence would be produced to show that the inside of 
a horn is composed of nerves and blood-vessels in close connection 
with the brain, and of a character so sensitive that the removal of 
the horny covering was as painful to the brute as the stripping of 
a nail from the human finger. The horns had been sawn off as 
