Nuhou, Volume I, Number 4, 7 March 1873 — Our Poliee Magistrate. [ARTICLE]

Our Poliee Magistrate.

We have kcpt,out of liis clutchcs so far, whieh howoYor, rnay be owing to a well skiiuied weather eye, ae mueli as to any eminent practice of virtue on our part, aud we have no aptitude for poliee | reports, as wo delight not in the ialla of our fellowman, and never want to epeak of anything that might cāst a blur upon a pure \vomanV eheek, therefore w r e havc kept out of the \vay of the gossip of poliee news; )>ut we hav,e noticed lately inany strietu¥e upon the magistrate, and this inspires our preseht words. lle is accused of an unfiiir discrimination in the exercise of the judicial function. Now this is a serious charge, but when ,we consider that the worthy genfcleman is a ripe scholar, a lawyer of culture and long practice, in his position, of independent means, and we know thoroughly genjal and hospitable by nature, and having the intelligence, and every inducement to act fairly by his felldw man, wē caunot give crcdence to statemcn ts, evideu tly inspired by 111ere personal opposition,