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officers of justice, were asliamed of their appointed 

 duty, and the press of the day speak of the nio.'st 

 unmitigated rascals who were about to he hung 

 with deep interest and commiseration, and inform 

 their readers what an appetite the biped brute had 

 on the eve of death, how calmly he slept, and how 

 cordially he shook hands with the sheriffs and the 

 chaplain, after eating a very hearty breakfast. 



Why let such a biped brute have luxuries that 

 many other biped brutes would commit murder 

 for, if they were sure of getting them ? Why, if 

 you want to decrease the parochial expenditure, 

 do you permit thieves and vagabonds, who will 

 not do any honest labour, to enter and throng 

 the unions, and do as they did at the Brentford 

 Poor- Law Union, swill wine, spirits, porter, and 

 beer to such an amount that it made it difficult 

 for any looker-on to deem otherwise than that 

 the imion officers, nurses, and paupers all got in* 

 toxicated together ? 



Our prisons and our Poor Law Unions are mad(*. 

 so much more comfortable to their inhabitants 

 than tlie arches under the railway and similal' 

 dark dens can be, that the villains and villainesses 

 commit small crimes on purpose to escape honest 



