The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-09 00:00:00

THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER.

Yesterday a personage, whose habiliments indicated the
alarming inroads which the " tooth of time" can make upon
toggery, walked into Marlborough-street Police-office, and
begged to be indulged " wid a private discoorse" on a matter
of great importance, if " his Wertchip's" leisure permitted.
A Tipperary brogue at once made it evident that the speaker
was a production of the " land of blarney."
Mr. Conant having intimated his readiness to listen to any
matter of public business,
" Thin, yer Wertchip," continued the applicant, " I want
to spake about the incrase of juvenile crime, and to show her
Majesty's Government the best way to do away wid it. It's
meself that's a schoolmaster these twinty years, second flure
back in Monmouth-strate, and it's meself that organised two
schools in county Tipperary, by which manes I'm able to dis-
coorse on anny subject of larnin, barring what I don't know.
Now, though I do all I can to stop the progress of crime in
me own school—an' may be I don't lay it on whin I catch the
spalpeens staling me red herrings—yet, you'll hardly belave it,
the fathers take away all me scholars and sind them to the Na-
tional, where they larns what I'd never think of tackling 'em.
There were two of my boys that I found used to rob their
father, a man of great respectability—had the handling of a
deal of money, as mitch sometimes as five shilling a day, and
whin I tould the ould gentleman the young rapparees were
born to the gallows, be dad, he tuk em away; and whinever I
go out for a walk they calls out, Och, Paddy, don't be afther
going down 'Monmouth-street, or the Jews will want to weigh
you up as ould rags."

At the conclusion of the conversation, Mr. CON ANT said
We'll think upon the matter.
Schoolmaster—Good morning, and thank ye for your at-
tention. I'll only just mintion that me school opens in a day
or two, at fourpence a week, and no objection to take out the
prices in taties.

The schoolmaster made a profound bow and walked away.

The Commissioners continued their investigation
yesterday into the sanity of Mr. Taylor. Sir William
Horne, for the alleged lunatic, entered into a lengthened
statement, in the course of which he attributed the tempo-
rary excitement of Mr. Taylor to ill-treatment on the part
of his sons, and said he would call upon upwards of a dozen
medical gentlemen to speak to, his sanity. Some non-medical
witnesses were examined, who spoke to this effect, and the
Court adjourned.

In the course of a case which came before the Insol-
vent Court yesterday, Mr. Cooke said it should be publicly
known that the Court would not accept persons as bail who
had mixed up with the insolvents in the disposition of their
property. Mr. Commissioner Harris expressed his entire
concurrence in the plan adopted by his Learned Colleague.
EXCESSIVE CRUELTY TO THE POOR.—A cor-
respondent of the Oxford Chronicle, who incidentally says
the weekly wages of labourers at Burford do not exceed
75., makes the following statement the truth of which we
trust is capable of contradiction Among the cruelties
exercised on the inmates of the Witney Union is the silent
system. It appears that husband, wife, and children are
separated, and never see each other except at meal times,
and then they are not allowed to speak to each other, on
pain of being tied up—viz, by having one leg tied up, and
being obliged to rest on the other for half an hour ! How
will the poor unfortunate wretches be served next ?"