21 MAY 1870, Page 2

We publish elsewhere an account of the drift of the

reform M. Emile 011ivier hopes to introduce into French criminal procedure which will be found of interest. While agreeing, however, with the writer in his dislike of the "inquisitorial method" and of pri- vate interrogations, we wish to guard ourselves against endorsing his apparent view as to the superiority of the English method. It is very much better for everything except the discovery of truth, which is at least one of the ends of a judicial inquiry.