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GAOL BIRDS AND THEIR CAGE.
The item of Prisons on the Estimates came in
for a good deal of discussion. Mr. West
Erskine would not have the inmates of the
Stockade tampered. He believed that their
bill of fare was on a higher scale than the carte
de jour in prisons in any other part of the
?world. Mr. Hare, however, indignantly pro
tested against this talk of pampering the pri
soners, and feeding them like fighting cocks —
or u gaol birds,' as Mr. Bray happil,- put it. In
fact, the ex-Governor of the old Stockade would
evidently rather see gaol bird* plump and in
good condition than pining like so many skele
ton crows in captivity. Under such a regime
it might truly be said of the Stockade —
Birds of a feather flock together,
And _ano.t it in all their bravery;
And the Knave's Retreat, where the ijaal birds
meet,
iluy fitly be called a Knavny.
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