"only undergoes incarceration for offence but is liable for all the costs of the prosecution"; and that under the operation of such a rule Mr. Tarrant had been, by the action of the Government, "transferred to the debtors' Jail for costs in the libel case, for he had already suffered six months' imprisonment in the Common Jail!"
These statements are, from first to last, incorrect. The practice here is precisely similar to that at home, and the facts of the case are simply these. Colonel Caine, as a private individual, at his own expense, and upon his own responsibility, by counsel having no connection whatsoever with the Government, moved the Supreme Court against Mr. Tarrant for a rule to show cause why criminal information should not issue against him for libel. Mr. Tarrant appeared in person and consented to the rule being made absolute at once.
Owing to a technical form, a criminal information must be issued in the name of the Crown, the status of which, along with an infinity of others, is here held by one individual—the Registrar of the Supreme Court. This Officer