London, Thursday, October...
The Judges, it will be seen, have delayedl judgment on the Liemiurrers whicih have been argued the two last days in the Court of Khig's Bench, in tile cnse of' " Dtuncani v. Thwa;tes and others." This case, it is well known, in- volves the legality of repa,ting police proceculinigs, an(i in- (dced, all othier initiatory proccdliugs in civil or criminial cases. It is erroneous to call tihe publication of thesc pro- ceedings the publication of c .r-Isirt evidence; for so far as the case is gone into, the evidenice on bothi sides is publish- edl. WVe have, however, arguie( thiese points so often be- fore, that we havc little new to say on the subject: yet is that little strong. It is impossible to prevent the publicationi of the proceedings in qtuestion. 'I'hey must continti, or a revolution wvill he effeted in the administration of justice, of which, we believe, tlic Judges can have but a very in- perfect idea. Let them reflect for a moinent what our police-offices wvould become, if no notioe were taken of the preceedings there In how helpless and solitary a state wotdtli every inijuretl person find( him- self, if he had all the bur(leni throwvn upont him- self individually of making his casC kiownIl to tile public, so as to get tagethter evidetlce, to state the course st' procecdittgs whiell hc imeanit to atlopt to occa- sion the prodluction of aricles lost, anid of intplenilelts used in the perpetration of the wron'g. All this, att(l 2nuch more than we can sutn tip, is now perforiteti gra- tuitously by the jourinals, for the inljured mati, thirouighi the publication of the police reporls. If we werc to say that there is no evil mixe-d Ipl) with thc goo(d in tltese cases, we shouldl say that which is not tiuc of any lit,. man institution whatever: but we do assert, thiat tilc good is in so mnucil greater a proportion, tltat thtc prac- tice must continiue, wlhatever mnay be the decision of the Judges. No J.ry would or conldl find the cotttlttctor of a journal guilty of publishing a truc rcport of tihc procestd- ings in any Court. f'lhc above-moined eniitettt persons would, therefore, do wvell to accoinniodate thicir abstract reasonings to the cxpedieticy anI( sutbtantial justice of thc case. LOArDO,N, THURSD.A IF OCTOBRR 28, 1824.