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on a demurrer raised to the special plea whereby the defendant Saint proprietor of the China Mail justified the libel in respect to which the then Acting Attorney General M'Ball had filed information.
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It is beyond my transmitting the papers connected with the very unusual proceedings in this Case to offer thereon any comments of my own. I have done that which is essential to placing them in an intelligible and consecutive form before Your Lordships. The enclosed narrative of the proceedings whilst divided and docketed in sets according to the date and details of those proceedings is printed, and paged consecutively throughout, but requires to be understood with a careful perusal by professional readers.
I should therefore be only imperfectly repeating what is contained in that narrative, if I were to attempt an analysis of it here. I can only say, as I am bound to give an opinion thereon that entirely concurring personally with the concluding paragraph
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of the Attorney General in declaring that "as a member of the government, as a Member of the Bar, which I am, and as a Member of the Community which my position does not prevent my sympathizing with, I hope this judgment will be appealed against." I would further point out that not merely does the Chief Justice directly traverse the right of the Attorney General to file