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We can understand the printer's trepidation. It is not to

be wondered at that his memory has become hazy, and that the explanation now published to the world is based on " so far as the printers of our October issue can remember." Will those who have been told, under the Archbishop's sanction as they thought, that murder is justifiable now be encouraged to turn to tho printer for absolution ? Who else is to grant it to them since nobody but the printer is to blame ? But is this pitiful explan- ation, satisfactory though it may seem to the editors, to be seriously accepted by the Government ? Do the Government think that if they were to proceed against anybody it would be fair to proceed against the printer ?