celebrated Mr. A. Hudson whose cases he has been adjudicating after so strange a fashion- and that he has others of his own.
On the very eve of his chief's arrival here he is preparing a great embarrassment from which, as I submit Mr Davies ought to be relieved by His Excellency. I allude of course to the Standing Order he has adopted and recorded on the motion of Mr. Outram and other non-official justices, to which the impertinent Circular of a clerk of his, named Collins, which I yesterday made the matter of complaint to His Excellency, relates. It is obvious that things will not be much mended by his being permitted to subside into his former office of Assistant Police Magistrate.
If the Revisionists attribute, as they hint they wish to do, the failure of this remedial legislation of 1856 to its own demerits, or to any other cause than His Excellency's hesitation to remove the solitary obstacle, and to set an example before the eyes of paid and unpaid justices, sufficient to
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