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Show MOCKERIES OF JUSTICE. Gross Inequalities and Severe Punishment In the Courts of London. For years 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 Justice which have occurred within the last week or two appear to have at length moved the lord ohanoellor to some sort sf action. A leading criminal judge sentenced a man to 14 years' penal serv ttude, while in an adjoining court another an-other man got only three years for crimes that are practically identical. At Bristol a workles laborer with 0 starving wife and children altered a pa roohial relief ticket so that instead of a half day's charity ration he obtained a full day's allowance, which gave a morsel mor-sel of food to each member of his family. fami-ly. For this terriblo crime the poor wretoh was sentenced to 12 monthB' imprisonment im-prisonment at hard labor. These particular partic-ular cases quiokened the lord chancel-lor'B chancel-lor'B interest in the general subjeol, nnd now it is announced that he is about to appoint a commission of judges, leading solicitors and barristers engaged in criminal crim-inal law to investigate and report whaJ alteration in tho laws or prooeduro it fissirable. London Letter. |