n go down on his wrath, and rise on it again.
Mr. Avory thereupon asked whether he made no difference between
convicted and unconvicted prisoners. "None in this case," was his
lordship's brutal and supercilious answer; and then we were hurried back
to our cells.

My apartment was execrably dark. It was situated in an angle of the
building; there was a wall on the right and another in front, so that
only a little light fell on the right wall of my cell near the window.
After severely trying my eyes for two or three hours, I was obliged to
make an application for gas, which, after some hesitation, was granted.
But I found the remedy almost worse than the evil. Sitting all day at
the little lap-table, with my head about ten inches from the gas-light,
made me feel sick and dizzy. Mr. Ramsey, as I afterwards discovered, was
made quite ill by a similar nuisance, and the chief warder was obliged
to release him for a brief walk in the open air. I applied the next
morning for a fresh cell, and was duly accommodated. My new apartment
was very much lighter, but the change was in other respects a
disadvantage. The closet was fouler, and as the lid was a remarkably bad
fit, it emitted a more obtrusive smell. The copper basin also was filled
with dirty water, which would not flow away, as the waste-pipe was
stopped up. To remedy these defects they brought the engineer, who
strenuously exercised his intellect on the subject for three days; but
as he exercised nothing on the waste-pipe, I insisted on having the
copper basin baled out, and secured a bucket for my ablutions.

During my first day in Newgate, the officers occasionally dropped in for
a minute's chat with such an unusual prisoner. I found them for the
most part "good fellows," and singularly free from the bigotry of their
"betters." The morning papers also helped to wile away the time. I was
pleased to see that the _Daily News_ rebuked the scandalous severity
of the judge, and that the reports of our trial were reasonably fair,
although very inadequate. The _Daily Chronicle_ was under an embargo,
and could not be obtained for love or money; the reason being, I
believe, that many years ago it commented severely on some prison
scandal, and provoked the high and mighty Commissioners into laying
their august proscription upon it. All the weekly papers, or at least
the Radical ones I inquired for, were under a similar embargo, for what
reason I could never discover. Perhaps the