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Show MOCKERIES OF JU3flC. Gross Inequalities and Severe Punishments In the Courts of London. For years Mr. Labouchere has been denouncing in his paper the gross inequalities ine-qualities in tho 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 cased. Two monstrous mockeries of justice which have occurred within the last week or two appear to have at length moved the lord chancellor to some sort of action. A leading criminal judge sentenced a man to 14 years' penal servitude, serv-itude, while in an adjoining court another an-other man got only three years for crimes that are practically identical. At Bristol a workless laborer with a Btarving 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, wiiich gave a morsel mor-sel of food to each member of his family. fami-ly. For this terrible crime the, poor wretch was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment im-prisonment at hard labor. These particular partic-ular cases quickened the lord chancellor's chancel-lor's intorest in tho general subject, and row it is announced that ho is about to appoint a commission of judges, leading solicitors and barristers engaged in criminal crim-inal law to investigate and report what alteration in the laws or procedure is desirable. London Letterfc |