7 JULY 1877, Page 2

Richard and Ann Sudlow, whose frightful cruelty to two pauper

children boarded out with them by the Nantwich Guar- dians we referred to last week, were convicted on Tuesday, before the Cheshire Quarter-Sessions. Richard Sudlow was sen-. tented to an imprisonment of nine months, and Ann Sudlow to one of fifteen months. The sentences were too mild for the malignant and atrocious cruelty systematically pursued by these wretches. But the true lesson of the case doubtless is, as a cor- respondent elsewhere points out, that we ought to have female inspectors to look after these boarded-out children, and especially to secure greater pains being taken to select for them really happy and comfortable homes.