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Crime in England.

--The prosecution of prisoners in the several counties of England and Wales, the last year, cost the Government six hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars, and no wonder, when a man was recently convicted at Wellington for stealing a half-penny, and a poor, hungry woman kept in jail for three weeks for picking up a raw turnip in a field to feed a starving and sick child.

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