As the present system, by which the Police Force is publicly prohibited from taking any action in the matter, has now been nearly seven weeks on trial, it seems to me expedient to bring before Your Lordships somewhat more fully than I have yet done the actual position of the question and the prospects of success, which may reasonably be expected from the present experiment.
I have been somewhat assisted in this last by the appearance in the "Daily Press", one of the local morning journals, of the enclosed article on the very subject, and which comprises all that can be said from an anti-government point of view against the present system.
Enclosure No. 3, 2 March 1892
The arguments, whilst put with some ability, are also urged with an unrelenting acrimony, which may be accepted as a satisfactory guarantee that nothing against the existing system is omitted, whilst those, who understand the antecedents and animus of the journal in question would probably infer from its bitterness that the arrangements of the Executive are likely to succeed.
It is not, however, for the moment to be denied, that to an untutored English reader many of the points made by the writer...