The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

THIS DA. oiled
The February adjourned session fo or the county conlsloro
this morning, at the Court House, Clerkenwell-green,
the Assistant-Judge and a bench of magistrates. ere'
The Learned AsstsrAsT-JuDGE, in charging the re
jury, said, in allusion to the means resorted to for tu.,;',01:.
formation of juvenile offenders, that he had visited , ty
hurst prison since the last sessions, and there he foulaucii,er
system quite unsuited to the end, in his opinion. The sled
pline did not trea': children as children and adopt the sJ 03
of rewards to childish capacities. At Parkhurst OOP., old
plenty of work and plenty of books, but no play, and t"iii,es
adage was but too .rue. that " All work and no pla)
Jack a bad boy." It was not enough to tell those WI be
dren they would by good behaviour in prison probah'Yoef
come respectable men in their old age, pop;
should, as the reward of good conduct, `
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some privileges which they could understat d as children, for
even a game of cricket might not be too great a ltcaitil: fur
stimulating them. At present a child of ten years 01 will
stealing a penny-worth, must be sent to the same 400'
and subject to the same discipline, as the hardened
40 or 50. But perhaps the greatest evil of the eltl3oo
system was throwing the responsibility of supporting eao
children upon the State. When the child was convicteu,is
father was released front all expense on his account; 1:1,t0014,
his (the Assistant Judge's) opinion, the child's parish '"ei3lsl
be made responsible for his support,; while the par °,,ro
authorities should have the seine poker to compel the ?'
to pay back the amount thui4apended as they had to foi
him pay for the support of his family under the ordinal 9
of desertion or otherwise.

A lir')
MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS D "00
Edward Crawshaw, a -,,entlemiln of military aPPesr-tor
residing in St. Alban'a-Place, appeared in answer to A 6/0
mons charging him with committing an assault upon
Adam Clarke, post-office-keeper, 132, Jermyn-street. waif
Complainant stated that, about three o'clock yelogo
afternoon, the defendant came into his shop for the Pn'r;110P
of posting three letters. Whilst the young lady in the osr
was giving him change, a dog ran into complainalle,6,2-010
lour, and began to worry a cat. He took up an umbreinco
drove the animal out of the room. The defendant then Dios
a cane which he had in his hand, and began to belabenral,
(the complainant) most unmercifully across the should
lie eventually got away, and ran into the parlour.
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The complainant would not press the case if defers 4e.
would make an apology in the public court, and give sso
reign to the distressed Irish.
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Defendant, in a contemptuous manner, said he shoul
make an apology to such a man. t
idr. BINGHAM said it was a case that ought to be sen
the Quarter Sessions, but as it would cause additional tro''
to complainant, he woulfine defenan 5/. a t
The defendant, as hews leavingd thet court, threatened bee
complainant, when Mr. Bingham called him back, lunin re.
sides the fine of Si. called upon him to enter into his °IA)
cognizances of 1001., and two sureties of 100/, each, to
the peace for six months.

THE QUEEN V. Du' The trial of this`iiisi
which is an indictment brought at the instance °,:r riatYll
Burdett Coutts against the defendant for alleged 13' "'ln.,'
and which has been several times alluded to. is
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si ecially for trial in the Court of Queen's Ben:b7
on Thursday next.

BIRTHS. Dirs. Goorbe
On Monday, the 22d inst., at Walsall, Staffordshire,
tl.
French, of a son. neSS S
On the 4th inst., at Osiek, in Austrian Galicia, the Dar° s
mond e Larlss, of a daughter. de s'elu
er'
On td he 10th inst., at Brussels, the lady of Chevalier ,
(nee Di amines Lisboa), et 'a daughter. illifil
On the 17th inst., in Upper Beymour-street, the lady of Dr•
Dunsford, 01 a son. laYt°ll'
On the 18th inst., at Walton-place, the wife of Elnili" C
eZ tl,
Esq., of a daughter. „.ouett,
Ou the 19th inst., at Camberwell, the lady of John 1,..
T. -4,
of .
of a son.
C .
Ogg-
On the 20th inst., at Hans-place, Chelsea, the lady ov,
Esq., of a son. ally ism "
On the 20th inst., at Parry-hill, Sydeuham, Dirs.
A v Of
of a son. the 15"
On the 20th inst., in Cork-street, Burlington-hardens.
of *
J. A. Hallett, Esq., of a daughter. thune,
Charles Be
On the 20th inst., at Chester-square, Mrs.
daughter.

MARRIED. net
Corb°
On the 16th inst., at Clifton Church, Robert Warr- Licutenan'r-
EQ(I , of Bordeaux, to Katherine. daughter of the late
Colon..lKersteman, of the 16th Foot.

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DIED. 00
eol's
On the 14th ult., at Goventment House, St Christopher's, —..ril
Thornton Cunningham, Esq., Lieutenant-Govenaor or the
/m.
IslOnands, aged 36.
the 17th Inst., at Eton, Sir John Geers Cotterell, aged !6....,
__ of
s On the 17th imt., the I,.ev. Edward South Thurlow,
orwieh, and Keefer or Hon
ht 1 - 'in .IPrl3'
On the 1!/th hist ,at g °ll-
e Ellen.. the wife of 13'W .
Banbury, Oxon,
Hsq., aged 28. .Carroty' Ci
Richard
On the 20th inst., ,u Conduit-street, tllO Ilcv.
itedland, near Bristol. aged 711 frebeia 17

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