GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION OF THE PRESS
... | We abridge from the Tra lee Mercury a report of a case tried before the assistant-barrister, in . which an unfortunate vender of ballads was the tI defendant, and the Irish Government the prose- P cutor. We hitherto believed that strong sense and S prudence characterised nearly all the proceedings b, ti of the government at home; but that opinion we g are reluctantly pampelled to abandon. A ...