ALDERMANIC REASONING.

The following sentence was dropped at Guildhall, and picked up by us, as being a great deal too good to be lost:-

“Alderman Finnis. You are an old offender, and although your conduct deserves a heavy punishment, I shall not send you for three months, as you would be too comfortable in prison. I shall therefore send you to prison for twenty-one days.”

Why, then, let us ask, should this old offender have the opportunity of being “comfortable” even for twenty-one days? If prison is such a comfortable place, the great punishment would consist in a criminal not being allowed to go there. It should be held out as a reward rather than as a punishment. None but the good and deserving should be allowed to enter it, and occasionally the wicked and lawless should be taken round the wards to see how very happy and comfortable the former were in them.

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A Question for Burke.- Is the “locus stands” of a cabman any guide to his Rank?

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