30 DECEMBER 1865, Page 2

We wish judges would remember that their business is to

do justice, and not only to make respectable life more comfortable. One Peasman, driver of a Victoria omnibus, being slightly drunk, drove too fast, ran his omnibus against another, and knocked a passenger off the roof. The passenger was seriously injured, though not killed, but the Assistant-Judge, Mr. Bodkin, inflicted on Peasman, who was totally guiltless of malice, fifteen months' imprisonment with hard labour. If Peasman had walked up to West in the street, kicked him down, trodden on him, and half killed him, he would have had one month, but because he did the same amount of injury unintentionally he has fifteen months' hard labour. And then we expect roughs to respect the law.