The Sun. — 1861-08-19 (London, England)

HORRIBLE CRUELTY BY A SCHOOLMASTER.—At the Tunstall Police-court, a few days ago, -William Bainbridge, an elderly man of respectable appearance, and the master of the Wesleyan day school, at Chesterton, was charged with committing a very serious and cowardly assault on a little boy, under seven years of age, named Wm. Dutton, by boating him unmercifully with a cane. The appearance of the child's shoulders and back bore ample evidence of the severe treatment he had received from the defendant, being covered with livid bruises, as though the injuries had been inflicted with a poker instead of a cane. The child attended the school of which defendant was master, and on Monday morning went as usual, but when he came home at noon his back and shoulders were covered with great wheals and bruises, which showed even more then than when exhibited in court. Defendant, with an effrontery which was rather astonishing under the circumstances, said he had " personally no indictment against the child," and that he had corrected him as ho had done at the request of his mother. (This the mother emphatically-denied.) The defendant also stated that he had been a schoolmaster since the year 1819, and for 30 years had been a schoolmaster at Cheeddleton, coming to Chesterton only in February last. Mr. Rose said this was one of the worst cases he had ever aealt with. The defendant had as nearly murdered the child as he dared, and if he (Mr. Rose) were sitting alone, he should certainly have sent him to six months' hard labour. As, however, his brother magistrates were of opinion that a lighter punishment would meet the case, he should commit him to prison with hard labour for two months.—Bientinghain Post.  OLD IZAAC WALToN's theory that fishermen are generally harmless, honest men, applies to these times as well as to his own days. I have mixed often with them at fishing inns, and my experience has been that a fast man would be much out of his element in their society. The evenin,7, talk runs mostly ox gorge hooks, paternosters, hair lines, gut lines, and the like. Many a fish is killed over again, pending the enjoyment of solemn pipes, and occasionally in winti,r time a rubber at long whist for penny points, "with snuffed candles, a well swept hearth, and the rigour of the game" (as Charles Lamb says), varies the evening's amusement. Then there are good old stories of wonderful fish which have been caught in days gone by, and we never think of doubting the assertion of steadygoing, old-fashioned frequenters of the house, " that fifty years ago the water was the finest in England ," nor do wo question the weight—quoted from memory—of a pike which was taken in the Waterloo year by the narrator of the incident, who deplores the removal of an old weir where he landed his prizes—Once a Week,  _ C L t., k N 11.4 V S.  PARIS, Aua. 19.  The Moniteur of this morning publishes the text of the convention between France and England for regulating the immigration of Indian labourers.  NAPLES, Auo. 18.  News has been received here that a band of brigands were surprised by some French troops in a house on the Pontifical frontier.  One brigand was killed, and five taken prisoners The rest fled into Italian territory.  NAPLES, Auct. 17.  News from the province of Avellino states that the Reactionists had been everywhere beaten or were in flight. Twenty-nine priests and three monks have been arrested at Castellamare.  At Sorrento, Riano, and Amalfi several reactionary preachers have been arrested, among whom is the Vicar-General of Sorrento.