"shall render any person who in any criminal proceeding is charged with the commission of any indictable offence or any offence punishable on summary conviction, competent or compellable to give evidence for or against himself, or compellable to answer any question tending to criminate himself.
How by the Ordinance just passed the person charged is made competent, and the Ordinance by which he is so made competent in no way refers to the one I have cited. Of course, it may be argued that the exceptions introduced by Section 2 of Ordinance No. 37 of 1852 have reference only to the provisions of that Ordinance, and in one sense no doubt such argument would be correct; I consequently modified the expression in my letter, which had the effect that the two Ordinances directly conflicted with the other, to the milder expression that the two Ordinances were at variance with each other; that they are so at variance as to be almost impossible in practice to be worked together. I am clearly of opinion, and I think that so much of Section 2 as relates to this matter should have been repealed, we have a case in point in...
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