In the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, sentences were Na t i
on the prisoners convicted at the Sessions concluded the day hero,. Sixteen were ordered to be transported for life; six for fourteen years; one for ten years ; and forty for seven years. The remainder of the culprits were sentenced to imprisonment for various terms, The " most depraved community in the world" is receiving constant Rem sions to its stock of depravity, under a system which every man of sense and humanity, who knows any thing about it, regards a horrible.
At the Guildhall, on Monday, Sir Peter Laurie and Alderman Wis. chester refused permission to the Overseer of St. Luke's parish to apprentice a girl to a tailoress, because she had not been taught to write in the workhouse : she had only learned to read. This colloquy a reported- " The parish officer said that the loss of so excellent a place as he had falai for her would be really a misfortune for the girl. The parish were not insoas ble of the utility of instructing pauper children; a salary of 40/. a yearwn paid to a schoolmaster ; but though reading was necessary to all, writing did not appear to be required so much for girls as for boys. There were may lasses of this girl's age who could not write. Her mistress intended to send he to a Sunday-school ; and he hoped the pledge of so respectable a person, that the child should be instructed in writing in due time, would induce the Magia. crates to allow the binding."
Alderman Winchester said he would not- " If the promise were not fulfilled, the parties would not be withiu his control. The child need not leave this good place. She might go upon liking fur tat months more, and 'le taught to write in the interim. A person who could not write was incapable of managing her own affairs."
At the Queen Square Office, on Monday, Mrs. Margaret Land& was charged with throwing a heavy paper parcel into the Queen's em riage, as it was passing through the gates of the Palace. The Queer, the Dutchess of Kent, and Colonel Cavendish, were in the carriage. The defendant is wife of a Lieutenant Landels, dismissed from the Twenty-second Regiment of Foot in 1834, for assaulting the Paymaster of his regiment. He received 1,2001. as a compensation for the loss of his commission, but was now in great distress, with a large family; ad having failed in gaining any relief at the Horse Guards, Mrs. Landeli had taken an opportunity of making the Queen herself acquainted with their case. Upon a promise not to offend again, the Magistrate die. missed Mrs. Landels.
The Magistrates at Kensington Petty Sessions, on Saturday, decided that the Hippodrome on Notting-hill was not a public race-course; and fined the proprietor, Mr. Whyte, 10/. for allowing beer and wine to be sold on the ground, he not being duly licensed. Mr. Whyte sill carry the question to a higher court.
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