20 APRIL 1867, Page 21

The Law of Libe4 as Affecting the Newspaper Press, with

Proposed Amendments. (E. Marlborough and Co.)—The principal contents of this pamphlet are accounts of several libel cases, many of them turning on fair reports of public meetings. We do not see that any practical reform of the law is suggested, though no doubt some grave defects in the present system are pointed out, in the pamphlet. Yet these defects are not to be cured by hasty and partial legislation, and it is hardly to be expected that the House of Parliament will be content to relieve news- papers of their disabilities unless some new safeguards are substituted.