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Show MOCKERIES OF JUSTICE. ftross Inequalities and Scvero Ptmlilimenti In tbo Courts of London. For years Mr. Labouchere has been denouncing in his paper tho gross ine-"qualities ine-"qualities in the punishments meted out by different judges and magistrates for practically identical offenses, and the daily press constantly emphasize his denunciations de-nunciations by their reports of cases. Two monstrous mockeries of justice which have occurred within tho last week or two appear to have at length moved the lord chancellor to some sort sf action. A loading criminal judge tentenced a man to 14 years' penal serr Itude, while in an adjoining court another an-other man got only three years for crimes that aro practically identical. At Bristol a workless laborer with a starving wife and children altered a parochial pa-rochial relief ticket so that instead of a half day's charity ration he obtained a full day's allowance, which gave a mor-lel mor-lel of food to each member of his family. fami-ly. For this terriblu crime the poor wretoh was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment im-prisonment at hard labor. These particular partic-ular cases quickened the lord chancellor's chancel-lor's interest in tho general subjeol, and now it is announced that ho is about to appoint a oommissioa of judges, leading solicitors and barristers engaged in criminal crim-inal law to investigate and report what alteration in tho laws or procedure Is fiasirable. London Letter. |