Paragraph 2 of the "Commissioner's" letter says many things, but not much about Mr. Hodges.The columns of the "Times" recently showed that Mr. Hodges was able to compel an apology from Mr. Trotter. I leave it to him to deal with the"Commissioner."
As to the "Eagle" case, treated of in paragraph No. 3,a gentleman well versed in the law, who was in court during the hearing of the appeal, has assured me that the argument was purely technical; that the facts were very slightly gone into; and that, so far as he knows,no dissenting comment was made on the strictures of the Judge before whom the case first came. Moreover,in the judgment of the Master of the Rolls, fully recorded in the "Times" of February 14th, 1884, the following passages occur:—