WORKS OF SUPEREROGATION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4356, 1 August 1871, Page 3

WORKS OF SUPEREROGATION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I happened to be in the Police Court oil Saturday morning during a short portion of the time occupied by the trial of the cms the Police v. Trimble. The defendant was brought up for having supplied liquor on, Sunday, wherewithal to lubricate the thirsty throats of human beings not inmates of th« house and not actual travellers. The case broke down most egregiously, although it seemed from the evidence that a detective officer was the first to enter the private door of the house, and was followed helter-skelter by others of the so-called " Armed Constabulary," who seem to have tumbled upstairs in such a hurry, and to have lost so much breath in the operation, as not to haTe b«en able to discriminate between ale and toast-and-water. It was given in evidence that one of the invaders had tasted of the liquor. Why, then, was he not brought forward to give his testimony ? Why was not, also, the detective officer brought forward to swear to the administration of the physic ? Just simply, I fancy, became nothing of the kind had been administered, and the police would not dare to swear to tha spirituous nature of what they had hardly seen, and what they most certainly had not tasted. But, sir, what I write to you most particularly about is this: When tf ae Resident Magistrate, then sitting as a Justice on the bench of the Police Court, found the evidence quite insufficient to convict the defendant of wrong-doing, he proceeded to dis. charge him in tho usual way. Well, I should have thought that quite sufficient. The case was not proved, and the defendant was there. fore innocent. Not so according to the worthy Magistrate. Oh, no ! the opportunity was too good to be lost ; and he therefore "improved the occasion," aud pitched into the unfortunate public right and left, without mercy, particularly distinguishing the defendant Trimble as being one whom the police ought to keep a sharp look-out after, aa utterly unworthy to hold a publican's license ! And this, after he himself had acquitted him of wrong-doing. This is surely a strange kind of justice. It would really seem that there must be some unknown reason whicn prompts these outbursts of feeling. I trust, however, that these few remarks will not be without effect. -—I am, &c, Hyper-dikaios.

An American traveller was relating that Ire saw, in th 6 course of his travels in Japan, a # church a thousand feet long. A friend. checked him as he was going on, and tho traveler added, " and two feeb broad.'* Everybody laughed at this absurdity, when the story teller flew into a passion, and exclaimed : " It's my friend's fault:*tf it hadn't been for him, I'd have made the church square." One fine day in spring Sir Walter Scott strolled forth with Lady Scott, to enjoy » walk round Abbotsford. In their w*nder. ings they passed a field, where a number of ewes were enduring VaoV a0 frolics of their lambs "Ah!" exclaimed Sir Walter, "'tis no wonder that poets, from the earlieafc ages have made the lamb the emblem of inno' nence." " They are, indeed, delightful animals, * returned her ladyship ; " esp*. cially with mint sauce." *

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