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Show MOCKERIES OF JUSTICE. Gross Inequalities trad Severe Funishmenb In the Courts of London. For yeare Mr. Labouchere has been denouncing in his paper the gross inequalities 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 justico which have occurred within tho last week or two appear to have at length , moved the lord chanoellor to somo Eort of action. A leading criminal judge sentenced a man to 14 years' penal serv Itude, while in an adjoining court another an-other man got only three years for crimes that are practically identical. At Bristol a workle&s 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 n full day's allowance, wiiich gavo a mor sel of food to each member of his family. fami-ly. For this terrible crimo the pooi vretch was bentenced to 12 months' imprisonment im-prisonment at hard labor. These particular partic-ular cases qnickoned the lord chancellor's chancel-lor's interest in tho general subject, and now it is announced that ho is about to rnppoint a commission of judges, leading solicitors and bamstora engaged in criminal crim-inal law to investigate and roport what alteration in the laws or procedure is desirable- London Letter. |