CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10] — Page 382

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The Branch in this respect will be notified at once in a more effective and more appropriate manner by legislation enforcing and improving the means affecting against their just interests, than by the adoption of personal measures against the Magistrates.

Nor do I believe that the interests of justice are likely to be advanced by the strong language of censure and threats being directed towards those functionaries in whom the execution of the law is vested.

4. The cancelment of the existing Commission and the issuance of a new one with the omission of certain names does appear an act which I should be far from approving, if it were founded only on a supposition that the magistrates misconceive the law, and consequently things before themselves...


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The Branch in this respect will be notified at once in a more effective and more appropriate manner by legislation enforcing and improving the means affecting against their just interests, than by the adoption of personal measures against the Magistrates. Nor do I believe that the interests of justice are likely to be advanced by the strong language of censure and threats being directed towards those functionaries in whom the execution of the law is vested. 4. The cancelment of the existing Commission and the issuance of a new one with the omission of certain names does appear an act which I should be far from approving, if it were founded only on a supposition that the magistrates misconceive the law, and consequently things before themselves... Page 380
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