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HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A HORSE. 
tions, been tied up for eight days without the means of lying 
down,likewise without food except a little water, and, after five 
days, a mouthful of hay ; that he had previously beaten it until 
he was so wearied that he could no longer hold the stick. 
Love went into the stable, and saw the horse tied up and in 
a most lamentable condition, Mr. Taylor also said that he 
had on a previous occasion kept a horse for eleven days in a 
similar position without food ! When asked if his servants 
might not have supplied food, he replied c Certainly not, they 
know better than to disobey my orders/ thus clearly acknow¬ 
ledging that he was the author of the diabolical cruelty. 
Two veterinary surgeons of eminence deposed to the terrible 
sufferings the poor animal must have endured ; and, indeed, 
scientific evidence on such a subject was unnecessary, so 
evident must it be to every one. Yet the Bench allowed Mr. 
Taylor to escape without punishment, by dismissing the 
summons, because it was not supported by evidence to prove 
that he was guilty of the cruelty, although he himself had 
fully admitted it. Why, we may ask, did not Mr. Sleigh, 
who appeared for the prosecution, call the grooms and others, 
who could have proved the case ? Mr. Serjeant Ballantine 
demanded the name of the person who informed the society 
of the cruelty. It is well for him, perhaps, that his name 
was not given up. The learned serjeant called upon the 
Bench to dismiss the summons, and not cast a slur on the 
character of a gentleman of rank ! The Bench, consisting 
ofE. F. Busk, Esq., chairman ; J. Mayer, Esq. ; F. Newman, 
Esq., and Colonel Somerset, responded to his appeal; and 
Mr. Taylor is henceforth at liberty, at least in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Edmonton, to starve and torture horses, on the pre¬ 
tence of breaking them in, to his heart’s content. We have 
just been learning from Mr. Rarey the true art of subduing 
restiff horses, by the application of the law of kindness ; 
and yet here comes an instance, which astounds us, of total 
immunity from punishment of the perpetrator of most atro¬ 
cious cold-blooded cruelty towards a helpless animal.” 
Case. —At the Edmonton Petty Sessions, held at the 
Angel at Edmonton, on Thursday afternoon, Mr. John Donni- 
thorne Taylor, a gentleman of large landed property at South- 
gate, appeared in answer to a summons taken out against 
him by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals, charging him with having, on the 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 
7th, and 8th, of October, unlawfully and cruelly ill-treated, 
abused and tortured a certain horse, contrary to the statute, 
&c. The Bench was composed of E. T. Busk, Esq., chair¬ 
man ; J. Mayer, Esq.; F. Newman, Esq., and Colonel 
