CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Evening Star, Issue 4144, 8 June 1876, Page 4

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

To the Editor. ' Sir,— l would feel obliged if you would kindly insert those . . few ; lines concerning cruelty to animals. Last Saturday afternoon, about ,one o’clock, ! was passing upStafford street, at the upper end of which is the steepest part of the hill. 1 saw one of those J expresses* the driver of which was lashing. ’ his hdfse most'hiraeliy, ; trying with all his ingenuity, to the most vital , parts of the auinial. ' X aaw him'again about half an hoiir/tdterwarda.itearing down the" upper end of still flogging the poor beast down thomill. The horse aatmed to be doing its utmost. Being: on the outskirts of the town I expect he thought he would not be noticed. I hqpehe will see these few lines a&d take warning in time, Would yon kmdly inform, me if there is any society in the City for‘-the prevention -of cruelty to animals, for, I have seep on many occasions the VVhij> unmercifully used.—l am,.&c./ ii . ? .{There, is. no society here as our correspondent names, 'but-if he communicates with the police the offender in this case would doabtlhtl Bo dealt with by the Bench.-—ld, ‘E.S.’]