The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-14 00:00:00

CRUELTY BY TWO MONKS.

Two monks, of the Doctrine Chretienne, named.
Doyat and Mercier, alias Brother Heraclius and
Brother Niliatus, were on Saturday convicted of
having inflicted divers cruel and illegal punish-
ments upon schoolboys committed to their care at
the conventual establishment of Issy, in the suburbs
of Paris. They hung lads up by the legs, threw
them in the air, their heads bumped against the
ceiling, tied them up in various strange and pain-
ful attitudes, and mane them stoop down and kiss
dirty seats in the common latrines. The defen-
dants excused themselves by saying they were in-
experienced in tuition, and that the obstinacy of
the boys made them lose their temper. They
were sentenced respectively,Doyat to four months
imprisonment, and Mercier to one month. An-
other monk, Brother Novatus, included in the
indictment, was acquitted on the ground that
although the corporal punishment he had in-
flicted on a boy was to be regretted, it was not
sufficiently established that he had exceeded "that
degree of correction which schoolmasters are em-
powered to inflict by implied paternal delega-
tion."

1 THE THEATRES IN PASSION WEEK.—The restric-
tion having been removed by the Lord Chamberlain,
theatrical performances will take place threigh Passion
Week (Good Friday excepted). The thezitres which will be
open to the public, as all other places of amusement have
hitherto been during the same period, are the Princess%
Adelphi, Lyceum, Olympic, Strand, Sadler's Wells, city
of London, Britannia, Astley's, Surrey, Marylebone, Stan •
dard, the Grecian, &c. The Haymarket Theatve will be
closed, " but," says the advertisement, " for no other reason,
than the necessity for cleansing and repairing the house
previous to the opening of the National Exhibition." The"
Royal Italian Opera will also be open, "Il Trovatore
will be given on Tuesday, and; "La Favorite" on Thure,'
day.
Orders have been received at Lorient to hasten
the completion of the iron-cased frigates Hermoine, of 40
guns, and Surveillante, of 38. The iron .cased frigate
Solferino, of 52 guns, will, it is said, be shortly launched.
As soon as the Solferino is off the stocks an iron-cased'
frigate carrying an equal number of guns, and to bo called
the Prince Imperial, is to be commenced, together with
two floating batteries, the Orgueilleuse and Arrogant°, of
14 guns each.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—The important
measure for effecting a final amalgamation of the Eastern.
Counties, Norfolk, .Eastern Union, East Suffolk, East
Anglian, Northern and Eastern, and Newmarket Comps'
nies has passed the ordeal of the House of Commons' com-
mittee, with one exception—viz., the terms on which the
original stock of the Eastern Union should be fused in the
amalgamated undertaking. The question has been referred
to some gentler; en to be appointed by the Board of Trade,
whose report is to be delivered by the 30th inst. to the
committee on this bill.
FEARFUL ACCIDENT.--MALTON, Saturday Night •
—To-day, after the Palmsun e3ttle fair, the usual show of
entire horses was held in the market, which was densely
crowded, probably 2,000 persons L'eing present. A large
number of entire horses of all classes were out, when a cry"
of " A horse loose 1" caused a genera) p. anic, several persons
being knocked down and injured in endcavouring to escape
from a danger which few could see, but w.hich several dupe
from
heavy blows made generally Main enough-
Various reports are in circulation, but the :most reliable
accounts state that a heavy cart horse, Noble Prince, Was
very unmanageable, and, getting near a blood hove°, Car
boo, kicked the groom on the head. The man fell as if
dead, and away sprang his horse among the crowd, but was
quickly recaptured by his owner, Mr. David Wray, of
Scarborough. The scene of horses kicking, rearing, and
plunging, and men flying and rolling one over another
baffles description. Several persons were down, and mores
or less injured, but the most serious cases are those struck
by the horses, two of which are expected to terminate
fatally. They are—Mr. John Ilods frac-
ture of the skull and other injuries, life despaired of ; Mr.
on, Hovingham, n
John Ruston, jun., Alalton, ditto; Mr. John Richmond,
cattle dealer, Bishop Wilton, fearfully cut about the head
and face; and Jim, the groom of Cariboo, similarly in
jured. The two latter
may recover. Mr. Ruston
the rest lie at inns in„the town. Scr
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