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MISCELLANEA. 
Cruelty to a Horse. 
Clerkenwell . — Jonathan Starling, aged 16, was charged with 
cruelty to a horse. 
Mr. John Stephenson, gentleman, residing in Camden-town, 
deposed that he saw the prisoner driving a horse and cart near the 
Brecknock Arms, and the animal was covered with sores, and the 
blood was literally running from its neck, and from that part under 
the collar; and the poor animal was evidently in the greatest 
torture. On questioning the prisoner, he said he had driven it 
from Enfield. His master told him if he was stopped with it, he 
(the prisoner) would not be punished, they would only take the 
horse. Witness gave him into custody, and the horse and cart 
were taken possession of, and were then at the back of the court. 
Mr. Tyrwhitt. — Pray who is your master! Prisoner. He is a 
higgler, living at the King’s Arms, Enfield. 
Mr. Tyrrwhit (indignantly). — Your conduct is detestable ; you 
are as bad as your master, and I will teach you that poor animals 
were sent here for man’s use, and not his abuse. It is persons of 
your class that grow up in crime of the worst description. You 
begin with cruelty to dumb animals, and then you become reckless 
as to committing acts of cruelty, and probably come to the gallows. 
As long as I sit here I am determined to check such acts of cruelty 
by inflicting the severest penalty of the law. None but cowardly 
fellows -would be guilty of such conduct ; they will ill-use a poor 
dumb creature, and run away like cowards if they themselves are 
attacked. On such a person as yourself I have no doubt that any 
thing I can say will have no effect. I hope it may ; and to con- 
vince you that you shall not be guilty of such horrid cruelty in 
future with impunity, I convict you in the penalty of 20s., or ten 
days’ imprisonment. 
The prisoner was committed to prison in default of payment, and 
the horse and cart were detained. The Times, Nov. 10 th. 
Effects of Salt in Food. 
From some experiments made at the Agricultural Institution at 
St. Germains, it appears that a sheep which increased in weight a 
kilogramme (about 2| lbs. Troy) and a half a month, increased 
double that amount in the same space of time when three grammes 
of salt (about the tenth of an ounce) were added each day to its 
food. — Morning Chronicle. 
