22 JULY 1955, Page 20

Ebe Opettator

JULY 24, 1830

PARISH APPRENTICES.—A very infamous case of maltreatment of a poor child was tried at Cambridge Assizes on Friday last week. The criminal—a woman—was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Is there no possibility of preventing these atrocities? Surely a very little investigation of the character of the parties wishing to engage an apprentice, would show their fitness or unfitness as masters. Might not there be a Society for the Prevention of cruelty to Christians got up? They arc not quite so valuable as horses and donktes, to be sure; but still they are worth looking after.