CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12] — Page 48

36.

Equity

and Admiralty Jurisdictions

of the Supreme Court,

And that the

only effect of the measure was to

extend to the Common Law side the

same practice.

Resolution II, in proposing that the Legislative Council shall be opened to the public, of course receives my cordial support. I presume that it has not escaped the Governor's recollection, although Mr. Lodger appears to have forgotten it, that, after several times mentioning the subject in Council but without effect; (His Excellency being indisposed to agree to any change whilst the proposal of a "constitution for this Colony" was under Mr. Labouchere's consideration) - I at length felt myself compelled by a sense of duty to tender my resignation: of a seat in a Council where an honourable confidence was imposed upon all the members not to divulge what passed there to the excluded public - yet a confidence which was periodically violated either by the Chief Justice or Mr. Edger to the prejudice of their colleagues, no less than of His Excellency, all of whom were constantly libelled by the

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