We by 110 means advocate secrecy. The open Court is
essential. Most judges do all they can to stem the floods of irrelevant and sordid suggestion that are always ready to break forth. It is impossible, however, to attribute the highest degree of sobriety and responsibility to all our K.C.'s. A few of them seem to take a pleasure in staging the effects of which we complain. After all, they are fot hours at a time the principal figures on the stage, and we need not wonder at their being tempted to prolong the play. Ultimately, no doubt, everything depends upon public opinion, but even with public opinion as it is a good deal, could be done. In America• one or two newspapers which have imposed upon themselves a decent censorship have not met with commercial disaster, but enjoy con- siderable prosperity. We wonder if some of our popular _newspapers could be persuaded to try the experiment here. The London evening newspapers have a good field for experiment as there are now only three of them. Would it be possible for them to make an arrangement among themselves ? .
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