o^^ r^ACT AGAINST FICTION. 



verdict returned utterhj at variance luith the 

 evidence. 



Some legal interference ought to be allowed 

 with juries thus constituted, for, in a borough, 

 if a gentleman brings a case before the tradesmen- 

 magistrates, among whom there is very often a 

 great jealousy, if the gentleman resident near 

 the town wlio comes before the County Court 

 happens to deal with a man not a magistrate; 

 and ihere is a tradesman of the same calling who 

 is a magistrate, the latter will set his flice against 

 the gentleman because he has not dealt with him. 



You may make what are called improvements 

 in the dwellings of the poor, but 3^ou cannot 

 make the poor think them improvements. 



You may teach boys at school to know that 

 theft is called a crime, but you cannot make them 

 refrain from stealing apples or other property. 



Theft and a tendency to all sorts of crimes 

 are, in a portion of the lower classes of the 

 population, born, and bred, and grown to maturity, 

 in their breasts, and not all the j^i'cachings of all 

 the parsons in the world, nor all tlie rods of 

 schoolmasters, will lead or scare them from it. 

 The highest and most honourable feelings of 



