on which a local firm of Solicitors invites the Secretary of State's action.
The papers are mainly a question on Cawo d A 'I'do not know that Mine can be of min quse le marks any But as regards case - it seems that 1. The particular case the Chinese court had complained of delay in dealing with these extradition i consequence, 1 When this case Cases arose, f 231! of M. Marsh in a letter the 23th of Feb. 87 pressed upon the magistrate the need of greater expeditiousness: and in that letter he went on to expound the principles by which the magistrates were to guide themselves - though it was not called a direct order.
During the trial the acting attorney general thought the magistrate was going wrong & his opinion was communicated to Mi Wodehouse, who guided himself by it 88 The case ended in Mi Wodehouse, although he entirely disbelieved the evidence, committing the prisoners for trial because there was, as he understood or professed to understand, a prima facie case against them, and in the acting governor ordering the prisoner because there a prima facie case had been found against him. Fortunately Supreme Court stepped in to prevent whatever the merits of the case, the gross injustice in the procedure would have taken place. The acting Attorney general says this was due to Mi Wodehouse's perversity and to his not doing his duty as a magistrate. & He does seem to have