The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-10 00:00:00

THAMES.

SINGULAR CASE TIIE IDLE APPRENTICE. - Alfred
M`Kennedy Carty, an Irish lad about 19 years of age, was
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with unlawfully ab-
senting himself from the service of his masters, Messrs.
Gluokstein and Abrahams, tobacconists and cigar makers,
of No. 37, High-street, Whitechapel.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, stated the case for the pro-
secution. The prisoner was an apprentice to the com-
plainants, and was bound by regular indentures and with-
out premium, on the 13th of January, 1863, for seven years.
The prisoner was a lazy, insolent fellow, who had put his
respectable employers at defiance. The prisoner was sen-
tenced to one month's imprisonment and hard labour for
absenting himself from his employers' factory in August
last year, and since then had been summoned for a
similar offence and admonished. The prisoner had ab-
sented himself for 114 k days in the present year, or more
than two-thirds of the whole time. Other apprentices,
with this bad example before them, had acted in a very in-
subordinate manner, and absented themselves and spoiled
their work, to the great loss and inconvenience of their
employers. The prisoner had been learnt a good trade
without a premium, and, now he was becoming useful, acted
in this strange manner. He submitted that the prisoner
ought to be punished to the utmost extent of the law as an
example and warning to other apprentices in the service of
the prosecutors.

Mr. Lawrence Abrahams, a partner in tho house of
Gluckstein and Co., confirmed the statement of his solici-
tor, and said that four other apprentices had lately run
away and gone to Holland.
The prisoner in defence said that he would not absent
himself any more. He was very sorry for what he had
done. He had been in the practice of getting up late, and
as ho lived a long way off ho could not reach the cigar
factory in time.

Mr. Abrahams—He lives at Newport-market. We allow
tho apprentices until 9 o'clock in the morning to be in the
workshops. His brother, who is a journeyman in our ser-
vice, comes in at half-past 8.
Mr. Paget—How far is High-street, Whitechapel, from
Newport-market ?
Mr. Abrahams—About three miles.

Mr. Charles Young--Half a mile less. There is no
excuse for this lad not coming to his work 114} days in
seven months.

The prisoner said he would take lodgings nearer to
Whitechapel next week.

Mr. Paget said the prisoner was an idle apprentice, and
was perfectly aware he "was doing a very dishonest thing
towards his employers. The prisoner had learnt a good
business, and when! he became useful and profitable to his
masters he absented himself. It was as bad to do this as
to steal money from his employers, who appeared to have
acted very kindly and considerately towards him, allowing
him until nine o'clock to reach the factory. He should
have thought the apprentices at this season of the year
would begin work at six. He sentenced the prisoner to be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one month.
Mr. C. Young—The prisoner will have to work out the
two months expended in prison and the othor days he has
absented himself on the expiration of his apprenticeship.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND
UPON THORLEY'S CONDIMENT.—" By its use the
sheep improved in the most extraordinary degree, so much
so, that after they had taken it three or four weeks, I really
hardly knew them again."---T. BEALE BROWNE, Esq.
"On my horse the effect was marvellous; with cows, pigs,
and dogs, the same result."—Mr. H. CoTToN. i 4 I can un-
hesitatingly say that Lord Camoys has been satisfied with
it, both in respect to young animals and those arriving at
maturity."—Mr. BARKER. "My horses improved upon it
so much that I was quite surprised."—Mr. CANTRELL.
" I am satisfied that, apart from every other cause, the re-
covery of my sheep and lambs was due to the use of this
condiment. Other condiments had not the effect Thorley's
had. I have tried the food of other makers, and it failed
completely."--41AJoit MUNN.

A LADY ELECTIONEERING.--The Conservatives
of North Wilts will surely succeed in returning two
members at the next election despite the "compact" which
has handed over one of the seats to the Marquis of Ailes-
bury. In Lady Jenkinson, the wife of their defeated can-
didate, they seem to have a veritable Joan of Arc, whose ap-
pearance at the bead of their forces will assuredly put their
enemies to flight. This lady attended a banquet given the
other day at Devizes to Sir George Jenkinson, and when her
health had been drunk she rose herself and made a speech,
in the course of which she said she felt that it was most
unusual for a lady to address a meeting of that kind, but
it was also unusual for ladies to be invited to dinners given
in honour of their husbands. She must admit that it was
owing entirely to her husband's merits that she was pre-
sent. As she had found him true, so would all of them.
The day before yesterday was the 20th anniversary of her
wedding day, and he bad always followed the same uni-
form truthful course. She hoped that all the married ladies
present would find, on the 20th anniversary of their
wedding day that they had a husband who never, to their
knowledge, swerved from the truth, however unpopular
that truth was to make him—however much, in a worldly
point of view, it was to his disadvantage, he would never
swerve from it. From the time when she was three years
old she lived among Conservatives in a Catholic country
(Ireland), where party spirit ran very high. She had al-
ways heard that the Conservatives were the truest people
in the world, and she always found it so. She thanked
them for their kind reception.