22 JANUARY 1870, Page 2

Is there any truth whatever in the atrocious story published

in the Globe of Monday ? It is stated that the captain of one of the Waterford steamers one day last week found himself short of fuel, and in order to reach the English coast in contract time burnt a hundred pigs alive. Bacon will burn, and so, we should presume, will pork ; and the burning of the poor beasts alive was therefore, if it occurred, a piece of needless cruelty inflicted to save trouble. The story is to us incredible, but the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should make it a subject of inquiry, and if it is true, of prosecution.