NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday, September 1, 1852.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 739, 1 September 1852, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday, September 1, 1852.

We publish in our present number a report of Mr. Justice Stephen's judgment in the case of Mess. Eobinson and M'Kenzie. Although it extends to a considerable length we have been obliged to v content ourselves, from want of space, with an imperfect outline of the elaborate and conclusive legal arguments and authorities adduced by his Honor against the objections raised by the defendants 1 Counsel. This defect will, however, we understand, be shortly remedied by the pub-, lication, in an extended and authentic .shape, of his Honor's judgment. We have refrained from expressing our opinion at any length on this case, lest it might be said, however unfairly, that we were influenced by personal motives; a sense of justice, howev<er, compels us to observe that throughout this case his Honor appears to have been actuated by a sense of public duty, and from a desire to uphold the dignity of the Court in which he presides. No attempts have been made by the defendants' Counsel to argue the case on its merits ; they have urged technical objections which were shown to be without any weight or authority. If, however, this event shall have the effect of banishing, for the future, from the discussion of public questions, these gross and scurrilous personalities, the community at large will greatly benefit by the change.