The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

OAILY WEATHER TABLE.

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TUESDAY, SEPP. 21, 1853.
State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places et nine o'clock on Monday morning. The stations
ar3 arranged in order of latitude.
SOUTHAMPTON- -N. gentle breozo—cloudy.
FOLKESTONE-S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—N.W., calm—cloudless.
GREENlVlCEl—Gam—cloudless.
STROOD—N.W. calm—partially cloudy.
SWINDON—N.W. light breeze—cloudless.
CAMBRIDGE—S.VIr., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
YARNIount—W., gentle breeza—cloudless.
LANCASTER gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SNAP—S., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
The return from the following place indicates the slate
f the weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock
BIRMINGHAN—N., gentle breeze—overcast

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tfit4 DAT —Morning 31 min. after 3 I Evening 50 min.aft. 3
T)-MeP ROW —Morning 6 min. after 4 i Evening 21 min.aft. 4

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Ssr•r. 19.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterda.y.l
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
63—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.12.

WIND, S.W. - Fine weather.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1853.

Notwithstanding the stringent provisions of the
new act for the prevention of offences against
women and children—notwithstanding the sum-
mary jurisdiction thereby conferred on magistrates,
and the energetic determination with which the
law is put in force against the brutal offenders
by many of our magistrates, we regret to say that
these horrible outrages have apparently increased
in number and in atrocity, and that even six
months' imprisonment, although accompanied by
hard labour, appears to be insufficient to deter the
cowardly ruffians from indulging iu their favourite
recreation of habitually ill using their wives or
female companions, of venting at home the ill-
humour excited by a course of drunken profligacy
out of dome If we turn to the records of the
Police Courts, we find a black catalogue of crime,
all characterised by the same unfailing attributes,
committed, without cause or provocation, upon
miserable women, who have linked their fates
with those of their cowardly assailants, and who That part of Colonel JEBB'S Report which re-
frequently, with extraordinary devotion, would lates to Parkhurst (see The Sun, Sept. 9) is pecu-
excuse or mitigate the conduct of the prisoners, tinily gratifying. Changes have been introduced
forgetting the crimes in their unchanging and un- ef late years, having for their object first to give
altered love for the criminals. With few excep- greater encouragement to good conduct, and next
tions, we find the complainant, after narrating a to provide better for the industrial training of the
piteous and harrowing tale, urging something boys. These changes have been attended with
in extenuation—something that may be taken growing success. The instances of misconduct
into account by the pre/Acting magistrate when itive decreased by a larger ratio each year—in-
deciding on the punishment. "Heis a good bus- Iced, most of the offences are committed by the
band when sober," is frequently asserted by the boys of the first year's standing ; by the second
meek and long-suffering creature, and sometimes year they begin to understand that the strictness
she is prepared even to take a portion of the blame of the discipline is intended for their good, and
to herself, and, by " a pious fraud," to acknow- that their rewards and privileges increase with
ledge that she had given provocation—anythine good behaviour. Only four attempts to escape
she will confess to, to save the " father of her chil- were made last year, and these from open field
dren" from well-merited disgrace and punishment, work ; and the chaplain, who has been connected
to retain the means of support for herself and with many schools, testifies that in none has lie
children, which, in the majority of cases, are de- seen such uniform steadiness of conduct, and such
pendent on the prisoner at the bar. We cannot attention to the instructions of the masters, as in
feel surprised, then, at her forbearance, when the this juvenile prison school. Nor does he think
irritation of the moment has subsided ; for his that, even leaving out of consideration the former
imprisonment, generally speaking, breaks up her training of these boys in every species of vice, he
home, and consigns herself and children to the can ever expect to see a better moral state
tender mercies of the union workhouse. There exist, taking human nature as it is, than
is no doubt that the unmanly miscreants who amongst them. An evening school of one hour's
figure at the Police Courts fully understand their duration daily, is attended voluntarily as a re-
feelings, and are well aware of the consequences ward for good conduct by 108 scholars, and these
that must result from their own punishment. are permitted to write home and receive answers
They,th therefore, calculate on the lengths to which every three months, a privilege greatly valued.
aseyinmaeyasproceed with impunity ; but sometimes, There is one statement made by the Chaplain
which at present we shall not which deserves the serious attention of all con-
further allude,esto they suffer their vile malevolent corned in the education of the working classes,
passions to get the better of their judgment, and and perhaps of all classes. We give it entire :
inflict injuries of the
occasion
sent mostauthorised
serious description "The Chaplain expresses his opinion that lessen-
that may
more formidable than lay the time spent in intellectual instruction, and
n
a police magistrate is to pronounce applying more to industrial occupations, has
It is unhappily not necessary to
very go
far back worked well, and that, according to his experience,
to adduce instances that maybe referred to as fitting in
industrial employment aught to form a part of the
illustrations of the crime of its disgusting '
details
and the trivial and inadequate groundsroutine of every school intended for the working
on whichclasses." We certainly do not undervalue the
it is perpetrated. Two cases were reported Saturday, in our really religious instruction given in our schools
emouurßt,_
cases of assaultsl'egoarded as for the poor, but we are confident that the zeal
fair types of the ordinaryu wives, expended upon securing sectarian instruction in
The first was heard at the Southwark Police-
almost all of them, might have been employed
prisoner, DIVID
before MR. COMB& The
PUY, described as a man of Herculean frame with the happiest results in industrial education.
, was Joint
on ELLEN, his occupation of the body and mind, desirable
for the health of adults, indeed for that of every
accused of an aggravated assault
wife. The unfoi tanate complainant was found person, is
by the police insensible immediatelyafter the re-
, learned, too
, ls necessary for children. What is
better learned
if acquired amidst
before the Ma- the urit ' is
• volting outrage. When she came sin which life is to be occupied than
melancholy if it be
gis ' trate to detail the particulars of her a mere isolated
section of life, hardly
ill as scarcely to be connected with
story, she was so weak and the rest • and what is of
ry was the the last impooaane_
able to give her evidence. Her sto c the '•
children recognise the
in " the habit power of earning an
usual one—the husband had been honest livelihood somewhere
•
of ill-using her," a deplorable fact, of which her and somehow. In schools in manufacturing dis-
own tracts this is peculiarly
proceedings afforded the most powerful con- ~ important, since most
1,- and operatives there learn but some
firmation. He came home at 7?,0011 druna, minute portion in
the poor creature, dreading his wrath, concealed the whole process of some manufacture,
and are
herself under the bed to avoid his violence. He perfectly at sea when through any cause that ma-
did not perceive her at the moment, and there- ntlfacture, or their own particular part of
needs their services. Boys trained it, e--
e
•
fore contented himself with stripping the mantel- longer amed as at
shelf of its ornaments to provide the means of Parkhurst to do every part of the work of a farm,
carrying on his degrading debauch. The wife could emirate successfully if they could do
saw the articles, so dear to the female heart, car- nothing else ; and lads who had learned black-
ried away in silence she dared not interfere. Sad smiths' work, carpentering, bricklaying, (1-;c., could
in the "wide wide world."
"
experience had convinced her of the hoptraining possesses a
u
elessness hardly be quite at a loss
of attempting to arre:4 the scoundrel in his mad For or criminal youth such .
increases their chances
career. She saw the property g,--. without veutur- double value ; it not only
ins to utter a syllable —too happy • but should they
if they remain at home,
, in escaping the .' of success .
who know
personal violence to which she would be exposed'relatives (if they have any
or their
if detected in her concealment, the scene of their
Alas what a them) prefer their removal from
frightful picture of the state in which 'training
industrial in • the
she had old temptations, their
lived, the terror reigning supreme, that could •school may b . literally a little fortune
prison
banish! every other idea from her despair' - The
N .14,W -mg mind- , to them in our labour-craving colonies.
_.., Two or three.imes the ruffian returned, but on ' averacte number of the boys has been 563, and
each occasion., she sought the friendly refuge, and their carman 'amounted to 2 0081. Is. 3d.,
r earnings have
succeeded in escaping observation. At length the a small sum per head, of course, compared with
:crisis arrived'; at seven o'clock he came, home that of the adults in Portland ; ' but the differences
a. oody and stalky--bile means of carrying on
his in the case are too obvious- to need mention.
",:e, ,e - drunken debauch being probably wanting. The The
resultis that the net cost of each boy is
ineryiatett miscreant Aretched upon the bed under 'llB/. 83. ld. ; for this sum, however, we have