The Times publishes a long letter disclosing a most unseemly
state of disputa- tion among the ministers of justice in the Bombay Presidency. The letter is addressed to the Chief Secretary to Government ; it is signed by the Clerk of the Crown, at the dictation of some superior, evidently the Chief Justice—by whom it was probably written. The Advocate-General is accused of abandoning crim- inal prosecutions where justice required a trial and the evidence would have in- sured conviction; and it is maintained that such a stretch of discretion is illegal. From the terms of the letter, it is to be gathered that there have been alter- cations in Court; and the Chief Justice even enters into a controversy with divers " newspaper pbs" as to matters of fact. The Clerk of the Crown, however, and another barrister who temporarily performed the duties of that person's office, appear also rauged against the Advocate-General. Such a charge can scarcely pass without inquiry; nor without some practical result, on one side or the other, according to the proof of its being baseless or well founded.
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