"Truth is stranger than fiction" : true account of the proceedings leading to, and a full & authentic report of, the searching inquiry, by Her Majesty's Commissioners, into the horrible system of discipline practised at the Borough Gaol of Birmingham
edited by Joseph Allday, Churchwarden, one of the deputation that presented to Lord Palmerston the memorial adopted at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham, and who appeared, during the thirteen days' inquiry, on behalf of the memorialists