The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-01-11 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE TREASURY AND CROWN PROSECUTIONS.  A letter of Judge Denman's has been printed, which :thews that what his Lordship condemned at Durham wee the mode of preparing the prosecutions there, en.' that his mention of the Treasury referred only to suggestions which had been male to him, but till nut commit Lis Lordship to the acceptance of the truth of them. As regards his comments on 8.,: preparation of prosecutions, Mr Justice Den. awn now observes:—" In more than one cue at the lest Durham Assizes tile administration of justice wee seriously jeopardised by the imperfect manner in which the prosecution had been furnished with the weans of conducting the case. In one case, where a consultation was all but essential, none 1110 been held. In more than one where the want of plans involved the most serious risk of a total failure of justice, and the certainty of many hours—perhaps, on the whole, • day—of tweeted time, titers were no plans. When I expressed, as I was bound to do, my disapprobation of such • state of things, I watt told by counsel, and by the officer of the court, that the Treasury would not allow such expenses. I expressed my belief that, if it was supposed that tie Treasury bad laid down any rule which would apply to such cases as those before me, there must, in all probability, be mine serious misapprehension on the subject, but that I hail nothing to do with 'who wits to blame.' I certainly added that, if the Treasury, or the Queen herself, were to have laid down *rule which would prevent the proper means to prosecute from being taken in such •MO as that upon which I was then engaged, I should feel it my ditty to express my disapprobation of it." His lordship adds :—" I have no means of knowing to what or whether to any the notion is well-founded, that the rules laid down by the Treasury are such as to interfere with the proper prosecution of offenders in cases of vital Importance to the community; but lam bound to say that I found a very strong notion to that effect prevalent in the minds of • highly efficient Bar, and of n gentleman of long experience in the Crown Court, If the Treasury can take any steps to prevent the ins. pression I have referred to by altering the rules er placable to such cases, I think it may probably save many miscarriages of justice in ftture, and also prevent R great deal of waste of public money upon the unnecessary prolongation of the duration of public business."  A Manchester paper says :—A fatality appears to attend Warwick boronli quarter sessions, which recently attained such notoriety. The Corporation sought their abolition because of the repeated acquittal of prisoners in the face of conclusive evidence, and on Friday the Recorder sat to re-try a cose of robbery front the person, in which a jury at the Michaelmas sessions could not agree. The prosecutor, however, was absent, and the prisoner bad to be acquitted.—The Recorder characterised this as another miscarriage of justice, censured the police for Landing LS found on the piisoner to the prosecutor as his property, and peremptorily ordered the police to repay the prisoner the money.  Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Company have sent a donation of £lOO to ihe Council of the Charity Organisation Society.  The Italic of Rome announces that a boy of six years named Lancellotti, gave the other day a concert at the Dante rooms, and performed pieces on the piano with wonderful execution.  With a view to the prevention of suicides receiving house for the resuscitation of the apparently drowned is about to be established near Waterloo Bridge, London, by the Royal Humane Society. Dr. Baxter Langley, the Railway Serried Gmeite says, has met with a severe accident—dislocation of the left knee—which incapacitates him from active exertion.  The Institution of Civil Engineers has now been in existence 55 years, having been established on the 2nd of January, 1818. It was incorporated by Royal Charter on the 3rd of June,lB2B, and the numbers of the several classes constituting the corporation on the lit inst. were 10 honorary members, 759 members, and 1,151 associate's, with a class of students attached of 267, together 2,103. Ten year. ago there were on the books 20 honorary members, 413 members, 574 sasociates, and 10 graduates, together 1,017 of. all 'glades. The class of graduates was abolished in the year 1867, when the class of students was in*Muted.  MR.