PETTY SESSIONS. PENRITH - TUESDAY, JUNE 16th (Before J. JAMESON, Esq., REV. J. HEYSHAM, W. PRITT, Esq., J. THOMPSON, Esq., and T. E. H. DOWSON, Esq.) CHARGE OF CRUELTY TO A HORSE. WILLIAM DINSDALE, rag gatherer, who did not appear, was charged with unlawfully torturing a horse by working it when suffering from two wounds on its back, and also from lameness. P.C. J. FRASER said between six and seven o’clock in the evening of Saturday, the 30th May, he saw defendant working a horse apparently suffering from disease; and on examining the animal in Foster Street, Penrith, he found two wounds upon its back, one of which was about the size of a shilling, from which there was a suppurating mass oozing. The other sore was raw and bleeding. There was a matting upon the animal’s back, apparently intended to ease its sufferings, and this covering was clotted with blood and matter. The horse could not walk, because of some injury to its hind quarters. It was shown that twelve months ago the defendant was convicted at Shap for unmercifully beating a horse, and was sent to prison for a month without the option of a fine. Fined £4 and costs, and in default of immediate payment, to be imprisoned for four months with hard labour. OFFENCE AGAINST THE HIGHWAY ACT. ISAAC SANDERSON, labourer, of Hutton End, was fined 5s. including costs, for allowing a cow to stray upon the highway. HORSE STRAYING. ROBERT WINTER, tinker, of Ruckcroft, was fined 1s. and costs for allowing a horse to stray upon the highway. DRUNKENNESS. JOHN KIRKBRIDE, was ordered to pay a penalty of 1s. and costs for being drunk in Stricklandgate on the 5th inst. – JOSEPH KIRKBRIDE, his son, was mulcted in a penalty of 5s. and costs for the same offence. A DANGEROUS DOG. EDWARD WHARTON, labourer, appeared to answer an information laid against him by the police for allowing a dangerous lurcher dog to go at large in the streets of Penrith, without being under proper control. P.C. ORD said when going down Rowcliffe-lane on the evening of the 5th inst., the dog sprang at him several times, and it was with the greatest difficulty he could get away from it. Defendant said the dog did not now belong to him. It was formerly his son’s, but he had sold it to a navvy who had taken it away. The case was adjourned. THE CHARGE OF DRUNKENESS AGAINST A FARMER. The case against MR. FORRESTER, of Ousby Hole, which was partly heard the week before, and which was reported in our columns last Saturday, and adjourned on account of defendant’s absence at Appleby Fair, was resumed to-day. After hearing the evidence, which was very conflicting, the case was dismissed. CHARGE OF FELONY. JOHN CHARLES PENK, a tramp, pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of linen from the Dog and Duck Inn, Burrowgate, the property of MRS. BILLOWS, on the previous day, and he was sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labour in the county gaol. ________________________ barb baker, ontario, canada.