If I took any other course, outside my opinion--if I had one upon this subject--I should be interfering with the making and with the administration of the law, and transferring it from Parliament to the Executive and to a Minister of the Crown.

I am quite sure my hon.

friend would not like that course.

It has been said, "Oh, but you can deal with sentences." (Hear, hear.) Sentences must be dealt with not upon the assumption that the law was wrong, and that the jury and judge were wrong, but upon special circumstances applicable to the particular case which would justify a Minister in recommending to the Crown a remission of sentence.

What are the circumstances?
Nobody--I do not care whether legal persons or belonging to the classes mentioned in this question--who has not seen the publication can judge of the matter.