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London, England, 1860-07-21 00:00:00

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of assertion in the debates,

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not sufficient for Royal
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.sesolutiena, sad learned legal bodies to hold dis-
cussions and adopt a string of conclusions. The
whole subject must be discussed, and exhibited,
and ventilated on every possible occasion, until
not a single Chairman of Quarter Sessions shall
have an excuse for his ignorance.
Again, there is a growing disinclination, we
fear, both in and out of the House, to heavy
work, and a Bill of upwardsof five hundred clauses
would daunt monk even at the commencement

of a session. This length resulted simply
from over-elaboration or ornamentation, so to
speak, of the details : it was an attempt to defer
to that jealousy of the Executive which has always
existed in the legislative body, and which has en.
deavoured to deprive judges of all discretionary
power, by defining the limit' of their action in
every conceivable case. For the future it may be
assumed that a code will be more popular, and
that if the principles of the law be fully and
clearly enuneiated in any forthcoming Bill,
the practice may be safely left to the
regulation of the judges of the new conrt. It Is,
or ought to be, a sound maxim for the legislature
as well as the executive that " de minimis non
" curet lex ;" the time of the House is too
precious to be wasted on minute details.
The Arroaitiry-GawiaiL appears to be sensible
of the practical errors of his BBL So far as they
have contributed to the loss of the Bill they are to
be lamented ; but they were not such as to deterio-
rate the character of one of the best measures
introduoed into Parliament these many years, or
to diminish the regret which is felt for its loss.

.Sis Gigolos ColurawaLL LZWIS stated last night,
in answer to Mr. BL UM, that the Government
had resolved to renew the patent of the Qua's%
printer so far as relates to the printing of the
Bible. This decision is, we believe, what every-
body expected of the HOME SECRLTARY. Sir
Gsoaor Lewis repeated the argument which has
been always in the mouths of the defenders
of monopolies and exclusive privileges : the
public was as well served now, he said,
as it would be if the printing of the Bible were
free to all. If former generations had so argued
we should have had stagnation in branches of pro-
ductive enterprise which now astonish us by their
magnitude and rapid progress. We trust, how-
ever, Sir Gamins Lawur and the Quails's printer
notwithstanding, that our free printers and pub-
lishers will give us good, convenient, and attrac-
tive editions of the common or " authorised "
version of the Bible. That version is the
common property of Englishmen. We say
nothing about that extraordinary composi-
tion, the dedication to King Jam's, which is
prefixed to Bibles printed cum prWilegio, beesuse
the opinion of the reverent has already rejected it
as unfit to accompany the sacred volume ; but the
ordinary translation is undoubtedly common pro-
perty, and is just as much the authorised version
when printed by a private publisher, as when
issued from a privileged press. An authorised
edition is another matter. Those who want autho-
rised editions will always know *here to find
them.