Previously to this they had been convicted of felony, and had suffered six months imprisonment at Bodmin; and it appears that two years before, they started alone from Bristol on this circuit of youthful depredation.
Having collected the foregoing instances of juvenile delinquency, and presented them to the public, I cannot refrain from adducing a few other cases which came under my own observation.
Whilst conducting the Spitalfields' Infant School, several instances of dishonesty in the children occurred.

On one occasion the mother herself came to complain of a little boy, not more than four years old, on the following grounds.

She stated, that being obliged to be out at work all day, as well as her husband, she was under the necessity of leaving the children by themselves.

She had three besides the little boy of whom she was complaining.

Having to pay her rent, she put eighteen-pence for that purpose in a cup at the top of a cupboard.