Since our paper (in a subsequent page) on the Bar
and Newspaper con- troversy was in type, the following report has appeared in the Law Times, which had hitherto strongly sided with the bar- " We have learned from an authentic source, sathoagli we have as yet received no official intimation of the fact, that a meeting of all or the greater portion of het Majesty's counsel was held on Wednesday evening, at the residence of the Attorney-General, to take into consideration the subject-matter of this contro- versy, with a view to an expression of an opinion as to the propriety or otherwise of circuit and other reporting by members of the bar, with a view to a settlement of the dispute one way or the other. " We are not permitted to state the particulars of the discussion that there took place, nor the names of the parties and the sentiments they expressed; although some of them, as re rted to us, sound passing strange after the tan- nage that had fallen from the same lips elsewhere. We can at present an- nounce only the result, which was a decided expression of opinion, that there was no objection to the practice of circuit and other reporting by members of the bar.
"Although this was only the expression of an opinion, and is not submitted as a regulation, still, proceeding from such an authority, it cannot but be deemed de cistve of the question that has been so hotly debated. The press has thus again proved its omnipotence, and achieved another triumph. There cannot be a doubt, when all the circumstances are considered, and previous speeches and votes re. membered, that to the summary course adopted in suppressing the names even of her Majesty's counsel, as well as of lesser men, in their reports, the newspapers are indebted for this victory."
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