The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-24


soon afterwards he was found offering the butter
for sale; but not finding customer he carried it
home the father Instantly started to make inquiries
respecting 1t, but the police-constable had gained
information of the robbery, and during the parents
absence, took the child into custodv''
The prosecutor then, according to the report, al
legged that the child had often entered his shop I'M
perceived, and that his shop and garden had been
frequently pilfered-he could not say by the little
prisoner. He also mentioned a rumour that il had
been in Portsmouth gao, which '.the father, an
honestooking British tar, Indignantly repudiated"
The Essex Justices appear to have lookad at the
halfpound of butter, and the infant and the whole
case, through highly-magnifying spectaccs
The Magistrates appeared to have greatdificul-
ty in dealing with the case and cleared the Court
for consultation. Upon the re-admisson of the
public, the Chairman said the Magistrates felt bound
to make an example of the boy, and ordered him to
and to be well whippedp'
They probably argued that cat-like theft de-
served the punishment of the cat. On hearing his
sentence
''The poor child was seized with understandable
terror, and wringing his hands, and CRYING most
bitterly, he besought the Bench not to send him to
gaol; but he was removed from the Court by the
Police" ..;.u.-
1t would be leaving one gcntleman's name in
very unmerited association, five omitted to add
that
During the poor child's entreaties, Mr. Havens
(who was anxious to prevent the child being sent
stand this no longer rushed from the Court
This is what man does who has feelings-he
gives way to them. On this occasion Mr.. Ravens
become demonstrative; his colleagues, were of
course ashamed OF him. But now-to reason coolly
here we have been exhausting the vocabulary of
eXecraton in abuse of the Austrian government for
whipping women: what will Austria say of us when
Austria comes to learn that there are Magistrates
IN England capable of so vigorously enforcing the
letter of the law as to send baby to gaol to be
dashed by the hangman? '-
In another part of the Exeter Telegraph there is
much too exciting account of the sympathy evinn-
ced by the Brghtlingsea sailors with the respecta-
BILE coast-guardsman, father of the little man who
had been consi gned by their worships of Essex to
the whip and felon's cell. Those violent men, ON
the Monday evening that followed the child's in
adorned it with halfa-pound of butter, paraded ii
through the streets, attended with rough music,
and followed by nearly all the people in the town;
and hnaily burnt 1t on the Green, amid't the yells
and execrations of the large body of SPECTATORS
Lynch law IN more serious shape was then inflict
ed, by some of the more enthusiastic avengers on
poor MIR. Baxter, who was understood to have per-
sisted In his resolve to prosecute little French not
wlthstandlng that the criminals father ''oered to
shut up the boy in No l, Tower for fortnight
and feed him with bread and water, or visit him
with any reasonable punishment which Mr. Baxter
might suggest" The mob broke merciful Mr..
Bakers windows, and
LAS further proof of the feeling of the parish,
it is said that not of the tradesmen will accept
the work of repairing the broken windows"
Really, this is an unpleasanty practical way OF
evlnclng what serene gentlemen ofpure, iflimted
ordinarily, with stereotyped sheer, denominate
vlrtuous indignation" 1t is satisfactory to know
that popular excess went no farther. The mob
paid out the object of their luminosity. The Home
Office may consider to what~extent it will suffer
the Great Unpaid of Essex to remain the Great I'm
paid.
On behalf of the County Bench in this case
should they be deemed wanting in the milk of hui
man kindness, we may however, venture to remark
that tits too much to expect Magistrates of Essex
to act more wisely than creatures who have never
sucked any milk but that of the COW.