On Wednesday Mr. Justice Buckley decided the application to prosecute
Mr. Whitaker Wright in connection with the London and Globe Company. He directed the Official Receiver "to institute and conduct against Whitaker Wright a criminal prosecution" for offences under certain sections of the Larceny Act and of the Companies Act, and to order the costs to be paid out of the assets of the Company as far as sums will be required in aid of the money subscribed by the persons supporting the application. The decision is, we think, to be welcomed, but it must not be supposed that it in any way, direct or indirect, conveys any censure on the Attorney- General for not instituting proceedings through the Public Prosecutor. The question decided by the Judge was a different one from that decided by the Attorney-General, as the Judge was careful to point out. The Attorney-General's judgment may have been at fault, but the notion of his desiring to shelter any one by his action or inaction is so preposterously absurd as not to require contradiction. On Wednesday a warrant was applied for and granted, but was not executed, as Mr. Whitaker Wright is in Egypt.
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