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Evening Star, Issue 3053, 30 November 1872, Page 2

Human Depkavity. — Von don't believe in bum murderers, and criminals, do you It is too dreadful to think of, that anybody should be brought into the world so heavily handicapped with wickedness that crime comes natural; but then it happens to be so. Every day you meet with men, who wear good clothes top, and yet who haven’t any belief in light, or any dislike of wmn.' ! On the contrary, they prefer wrong to right for choice, and do dirty actions for the pleasure they get out of scoundrel ism. They were born so. The taint of villainy is in their blood ; and they escape the hulks and the chain-gang by sheer good-luck. Read that Knglish story by the last mail—“ a terrible story of child-passion and its results.” Some children (at Coalport Bridge), in Shropshire (juarrelled while at play. One of them, four years old, threw a knife at another, and killed him. The elder brother, seven years old, then set to work to kill the baby murderer, “by striking him on the head with such violence that the life of the little sufferer is despaired of.” as the papers say. r i here’s an amiable family for you. The only pity seems to be that there wasn’t a bigger brother about to kill the young gentleman seven years old ; and that the entire domestic circle, including father and mother, didn’t murder one another, without standing on ceremony, so as to save the ham mau the trouble. Id v friends, if you’ve got any sympathies, don’t waste the same, on criminals and unconvicted scoundrels, as long as there’s any honest poverty about.— John Peer;/ • binglc in Melbourne Times. (For wniinualivn of News see fourth page.)