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THURSDAY, MAROR 31, 1831.…

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THE Cole!.e;ter magistrates have no rea- son to boast of the impartiality with which they administer the law, if we may judge of what took place at the petty sessions there on Tuesday. Lieutenant Francis Morgan Brown, an officer of the 3rd Hussars, was summoned for cruelty to a cat. Tie facts were not disputed. This wearer of the Queen's uniform did not consider it beneath his dignity as an officer and a gentleman to set his terrier upon the representative of the feline race, and th-j dog so mauled and worried the poor brute that she died in great agony ten minutes afterwards." Francis Morgan Brown's excuse was that the cat had twice entered his house unbidden. He simply, he said, "urged the dog to kill it because it might linger on in pain." The majority of the justices quite appreciated the lieutenant's humane motives, and dismissed the case. The next case upon which they had to adjudicate was one in which a labouring iad was uharged with striking a horse with a piece of iron piping, and he excused his wanton act by alleging that the aniinai would not go over" when directed to do so. To mark their sense of his utterly vicious behaviour, the bench sent him to prison for a month with hard labour, without offering him the option of a fine. Pussey suffered, in all probability, much greater pain than did the noble animal," but then the offender in one case was a simple bump- kin, while the other was the holder of a com- mission in Her Majesty's service. There are many, however, who will be unable to distinguish, to the extent the magistrates did, between the offence of the uniformed defen- dant and that of the other, who, we dare say, considers himself well-dressed in fustian or corduroy.

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