is vested in the government and its innumerable representatives scattered throughout the country in the shape of Governors and Chief Police Inspectors, this power being exercisable whenever any paper happens publish anything which the official. ce siders calculated to disturb the public peace." No mor explanation need further be assigned, nor even need the obnoxious article be singled out. The present Bill aimed at the abolition of these two vexatious features. In Committee, the Bill was amended, a clause providing for suspension, though for a specified and comparatively short term, being added. When debated by the Huse, however, this additional clause was struck out, and in that form—a form needless to say encouraging and gratifying to the Press workers whu wereanxiously watching proceedings—it was sent up to the Peers. There, the'debate has just been concluded, and on the whole it is very interesting reading. Opinions were divided in Committee, the Chairman,
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