To the Bditor of the Norru-Curva Daty News.
Sm,—With all due deference to rebels, rioters and other personages of that engross description, today T'vak for a few fines cause with' which I aim sure you and your readers will sympathise,—I mean the prevention, so far as 1s possible, of gross and. flagrant cruelty to horses' in these settlements.
was welkin, this afternoon in the North Honan Road, Hongkew, when I noticed a trap in front'which despite the vigour of driver was, in point of speed, progress with great moderation. It was accompanied by an enthusiastic crowd. When Icame up with it saw and understood. The trap was populated by six full-grown natives, and in the shafts was a wretched beast apparently quite exhausted. It had, besides other sores, a deep, recent and bleeding wound on the near knee, and as it could not drag its load further, the six natives sat tight, the mafwv from the ground cheerily thrashed it with a bunch of old harness, and a mob of the not. very gilded youth of the neighbourhood laughed and Uanced for joy at the congenial cruelty, At this juncture, the pony and myself failing somehow to catch on to the point of the joke, I submitted sume observations to the muff by which (and otherwise) I succeeded in attracting his attention, and a suddenly depressed' bystander having remarked that foreign men did not permit," the miserable beast was unharnessed and respited for the rest of the afternoon. The particular offender in this case was, I found, the proprietor of an establishment close by, appropriately called the Gurden of Increasing Joys" (2¥RRl)) But no doubt to-morrow this unfortunate animal, and probably many others in Shanghai, will undergo similar torments, and for that reason I would ask if it is not possible that at least such cases as-this one might be stopped by instructions, or renewed instructions, to the Police.
Lam, etc., 17th September.
L. C, Hornrss,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.