Tho report of the House of Commons Committee on the
imprisonment of Mr. Gray by Mr. Justice Lawson for contempt of Court has been finally presented to the House since its return 'to the Committee to be amended for a technical defect. We find no fault with the report, for though the Attorney-General certainly failed to adduce any precedents to show that the offence which Mr. Gray committed is one for which the House of Commons has ever waived its privilege, and though we believe that the draft report proposed by Mr. Dillwyn exactly covered the legal position, yet the High Sheriff's offence in publicly attacking a jury for whose conduct he was himself responsible, without inquiry, was so grave, that Mr. Justice
Lawson was, in our opinion, well warranted in risking an in- vasion of the privileges of the House by committing him for contempt of Court.
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