We have received a letter from Mr. Newton Crosland, com-
plaining that by publishing an article on "The Eltham Tragedy Reviewed" the day after he was bound over to appear and answer a charge of libel arising out of that pamphlet, we have " prejudged a subject which is at present sub judice." Mr. Crosland is certainly the last person who is entitled to make such a complaint, for the tone of our article was decidedly adverse to any fresh criminal prosecution. But the question on which we wrote was the rejec- tion of the bill against the publisher, and that was already closed and decided. Our article was written, printed, and published before we knew anything about the result of the prelimi- nary proceedings against Mr. Crosland himself, and whatever might have been the result of those or any other proceedings, we do not think that the line taken in our article could affect them in the smallest degree. It did not seem to us advisable then, and it is still less advisable now, to enter into the details of Mr. Croslaud'a pamphlet. It is natural that he should dissent from our conclu- sion about its fairness and its accuracy, but we must leave that to impartial readers of both the pamphlet and the article.
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