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 THE NEW CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT ing. Curiously enough, though the. court room was all too small to hold the members of the Bar who desired to be present, the prisoners' dock remained quite deserted, no one, apparently, cared to be the first to occupy it. Outside the building the royal procession was again formed, and the return to Buck ingham Palace made by way of the crowded Strand. The Central Criminal Court exercises a wide jurisdiction, covering the city of Lon don, the whole of the counties of London and Middlesex, and a considerable portion of the counties of Essex, Surrey, and Kent, in all a population of well over six million people. The present magnificent building

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will tend to make justice more speedy and in that respect more just. As was well said by the Lord Chief Justice in his address to the King: "The chief characteristic to which I venture to call your attention is the fre quency of its sessions, to which in a large measure the satisfactory performance of its duties is due. No less than twelve times a year by statute its sessions are held, the result being that no accused person need remain untried for a period of more than a few weeks." In brevity, in dignity, and in stateliness it would be hard to imagine a better opening for so great a court. Boston, Mass., March, 1907.