The Obserrer is quite indignant at the vulgar prejudice, th
the same punishment for the same offence should be inflicted c the poor and the rich ; and blames Miss FINDLAY, Mr. DowNE, and Mrs. JonNsoN, for not perceiving the propriety of treatit. the Misses TURTONS' case with a due regard for the rank of tl. parties. It seems that, some time ago, a lady of respectability w;. detected stealing at the Soho Bazaar; and on the case being rt ported to Mr. TROTTER, he compelled the lady's husband to pay line of 1001. to the Middlesex Hospital. " No offence of the sam description," says the Observer, " has since been perpetrated t, the Bazaar." The dread of losing 1001. has operated as an effec tual preventive in the case of the respectable thieves that frequm the Bazaar. Of course, prevention being the object of the late and a fine in the case of a wealthy criminal being so effectual . preventive, it would be absurd as well as vindictive to visit the d, linquencies of the great in 'any other way. For the poor, wl, have no money, the tread-mill, a whipping, and now and then hanging, are the only punishments that are applicable.
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