27 OCTOBER 1877, Page 13

A COURT OF REVIEW IN CRIMINAL CASES.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTA.TOR."1

SIR,—Will you permit me to suggest, as an addition to your demand for a Court of Review of capital sentences, that such a Court should consist of a Committee of the Privy Council, con- stituted ad hoc, like the Judicial Committee ? This, I imagine, 'would cause much less interference with existing machinery than any other expedient,—a consideration of great importance in all reforms. It would leave the power of reviewing sentences still, as now, formally a matter of prerogative.—I am, Sir, &c.,