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Our journal of this day cotntains ajitdgmcit of the Codirt of King's Bench, wherein the publication of police reports is reprehended as illegal ; and a proceeding at Bow-street, from which it appears that the publication of a previous proceeding at that office has led to thle (letection of a rob- bery, and (to say nothing of thc probability of conviction) the conscqucnt recovery of the stolen goods. -We may set onie against the othei-practical utility againist theoretic wrong. It is am1 sing to hear lawyers talk of the Pfejudice excited bv what they arc pljased to call exparte.statcments, They must have a strange idea of the great iniferiority of all other understandings, when comnpared with their own; fror thev certainly thiiik themselyes above the prcjudice of which they complain, and yet su,ppose juries inwapable of dis- tinguishing betweeni theed'eidence adduced in Court, and the reports which they may have reattou, of it. ,What a differciicc bct cen a jury an's skull aiUd that of a juris. conasult. 'lhe former1 wesuppose, accordiiig tgll SPURZ- imEi.M philosophy, mus t.,ant all the kobs&of, time, place, distinctvenessa, &c.: *they1atter must lie: vcr.y. perfect in all-those particulars. We h-ad hpped tbat the cbomplaints of tho ill effects.of police reporqsw ould have beei confined tothw,grimfnals. To thbos'eunbappy persons they.have served, and may-hereafteraserve,As a topio i-i.t1xeir,(efence.