The case of "DUNCAN V. TH...
The case of "DuNcA Y. THWA lTES," which was decidel in the King's Bench on Mf onday afternoon, is to be carried by the dlefendaut to the Hoase of Peers. We are glad that the proprietors of the Herald are going to make a stand, on the important priniciple invoIved in that doci- sion of the four Judges of the King's Bench. We shall see wlhether four learned persons, who from their isolated situation are necessarily far behind the spirit of the age, are the best judiges of a FACT, which from their seclu- sion never comes within the reach of their knowledge. They say that police reports are illegal, because they are injurioms. Wc allow the inference, but deny the fact; and not only do we deny the fact, but the Police Magistrates, who are tho3roughly coniversanit with the mat- ter-a Co:nmittee of, the House of Commorns, who heard numerous witnesses, and sifted the miatter to the bot- tomn;-all these persons, best acquainted with the sub.- ject, have gfven a clecided opinlioII that police-reporting is one of the most effcient auxiliaties of public justice. It is fit, thrrofore, that it should be decidedl by the highest trLbunul, whether those persons (wve do not wish to under- value theirlearning nor their integrity) who are by tlbe ear stitution made judges oiily of the laws of the coutntry, ar, the fittest to pronounce.a 4ecision ou a case which is one entirelyof fact, and of f;cts, as all must sce, peculiarly with- out the sphere and experience of secluded men dedicated to an abstract science.