The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
lAs dn. W'illiami La dale, of Brentford Butts, Middle-
s*, the master of an academy* 18, Duke•strest, Grosvenor-
emnre, was charged on a warrant with unlawfullLag
cruelly essealting. in his capacity as schoolmaster,
Din*, lig:ro
der 13 years, his pupil.
Mr. C of Bedfotd-w, solicitor, conducted the Cam-
plaint, end thindent was undefended.
do;shesicess tareeplideant, a slim, intelligent-looking youth,
dist he wee a pupil of Dr. Londe* from January
res, sal masa with Ina lather, who wee an Iphelaterer, at
8111, OsimArreat. There were about SO bevels no &in
lAA Amid. esdnetarday awning
strife) mom mon
the. Aponte men tbroadoes pno been pole
Anton at nob ether, ODD of ankh fare tbr de-
Indent le no bee Au gene As Elva to semi the desks
at dr ma, bet woo was And la his deA Al so no
11101floirponol GIL A bigger sad old. km who had a pm.
norm bead Is Ms neneoloe, was mode is Arne up no
=1 kept bask by way of paniehmat one hour after
school dam ID the mterim his leaving and
oneries his stogies, be also bought a pea-shooter, another
beg being with him at the time. Darius the afternoon he
used the same, shooting a pea from his mouth through the
tia tube at a schoolfellow on another form • and this was told
the decadent, who summoniog him forward with hie shoot,
took It immediately from him, sad with • cane inflicted 16
strokes upon his back and shoulders. (The cane, fa too
thick to bend was of the circumference of a man's thumb,
and wee exhibited in court, sad the boy's back stripped in the
court for the magistrate's inspection was blackened sad dia-
coloured Ina frightful manner, and ;cored *great raw wales
In all dtrectkes.)
The complainant, after his clothes were re-adjusted,
flushed by say
ing that there were many begs who witness*
the beating, the Dames of seven' of wren be bed appliel
the cam, but none were present.
The delesdant, who wait allowed a rest biome be nil be
was not well, forebere to cruse-examine the comptelsmat, but
antand Into a long defence, the substance of which AA thet
bo:dai Dot punish the boy who " shot him" In the inetnlngs
except by keeping him, but warned the boys egotist amp
anon. Pellets of raper had been thrown at him fintiClOS to
the plea, end he had cautioned them spin* this; had told
them ell that he should make a signal *ample of say beg 1
again Andre ta a near way. His colleague in the
school bed Wotan him that five or ix of these shoots had
bees tan et diErrast times from this "Model:mire=
man" (tbo, oonpleasur). whose incorrigibility se a
wee well noon. At 1 o'clock in the &Bemoan he had rely
deliberately Arad a pea at the French master, and the report
is, that be is a troublesome pupil generally ; he had been
stood on the form for not being up in his exercises, and de-
tained for contumacy. He was of opinion that he was the
assaulted one, and bed most room to complain. He had been
bimetal edocated at Eton, and there, if he bed timed to shoot
• pea ia a preceptor's face, his punishment would have been
env e.
Mr. Deaden maid the question before him wee one of con-
siderable Importance to British boys, 'British echoolimatere,
and British pins; it was to what extent may public
teachers of youth exercise corporal punishment, In this
country a meant quantum **eh correction was allowable,
and perhaps very properly so In some cases ; but English
lawanfred that it should be moderate. The learned doctor
had la hle definite* this charge tistlihri, that he As
dat Eton; so, tor..was he (liir.idee), and had emu
wreath= *Rimed, but in moderation only. Any master or
tu'or, them er stsurthem, seeing the marks and wales with*
young bay's ben, be woe quite sure, if he retained but one
epark of humanity. neat be perfecty horrified. To say that
such was to be permitted was monstrous; it was not correc-
tion but geese brutality, and, indicted en a little boy, most
cowardly. That the boy had done some wrong was true,
and he ought to hare been corrected, but with discretioe,
and not in the unjustifiable way he had been. He should
at once fins the rev. defendant 61., or send him for two
months to the Hoene of Correction in default.
The defendant, a powerfully built man, paid the fine and
left the end.

•••• ••••
SOUTHWARK.
Three miserablit-looking lads, named Samuel Rogers,
Owego Serlit, sad William Allem, were charged with break-
ing 'areal pane. of glen in Bermondsey workhouse. The
boys had applied for edmission, but, the male weed being full,
It wee refused. After bearing the care'
Mr. Burcham observed that he weesorry to find a
of 61,000 inhabitants with no place of shelter or itut
shelter for such poor °abate as' the priSolll/1 Si the bar,
who were without money in tail pockets to purchase food
or shelter. They did not like (and it was to their credit)
to steal, therefore they went end applied where they thought
Wey could procure that food and shelter, but they did not
Cad what they so much required. He ma sorry that such
a state of things existed in this country, which
boasted that there was no occasion why destitute per-
sona should commit crime, because the poor law provided for
such persons by maintaining them and sheltering thtm. But
It teemed to him at least in the present instance, that
such was an idle bout, and that there was no reality in it.
He via extremely sorry such a state of things was sllowed to
exist, and aa soon ea something we dcne in the direction of
humanity In that respect the better it would ho. People com-
plained of the commission of mime by boys, " the Arabs of
the street.," wandering *bent, sad laying their hands on
anything in their way. Such treatmeat as the present case
showed was calculated to drive poor outcasts to commit
crime, although againat their inclinations. But at the tame
time he must tell them (the prisoner') that they must not
take the law Into their own hands became they wets refuted
admittance into the place whirl ought to have provided food
end shelter for them. They mut not damage that house on
that account, and the law must be pat In force to Fewest
such conduct for the future. Elkton must pay 25., or three
days, and the other prisoners ita., or five days each. He
hoped at the expiration of their term of imprisonment they
would be received into some place of softly, to prevent them
committing • greater crime.
LAMBETH. . .

Thomas Allow, a persouOF Potable appearanee, bat
who refired to give any address or account of birceelf, was
charged with attempting to commit a felony at the Crystal
Palace.
Joseph Lear saki be was an alai/taut at the Crystal Pa-
lace, and bad charge of the Indian Cant. About half-pest
twelve &dock on twat day be law the pincer la a stooping
position over a cam which crabbed a number of valuable
erticks, sad obeerviag ibieseemone portionlarly,heperailved
At was epos,
.and be at once award Pakare of opening it,
but be denied at. Re (witness) being aware that the caw
was locked up sad bale a short time before examined it non
adaatsly, and foiled that the lock but been Locoed opts by
a snail vowed. which ley does to it, and he gave the pi
Kea late eastedy, having no doubt whatever that he was
the pereenwhe had forced the cue open.
ilermat Soddy 831', deposed that after looking the pi-
sonpaociat the cheep of the last witness, he examined the
ease at, sad bad that the lock had been kept open,
sad two bet hem it he band an ivory carvid elephant,
and aim shoat the sine dienmee an antique diver cap both
of width bad ban takes from the men.
Remanded.

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