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Show THE LAW IN ST. HELENA. (From the London Chronicle.) St. Helena Is a curiosity among oqr coloniP6, Inasmuch as its governor in ' I alpo chief justice, althoueh he may f never have opened a law hook The II retiring ruler, Sir Henry Gallwey, la If a soldier, and In reviewing his nine ' : f years' administration the little local I'M paper mentions that ho presided at jr! thlrty-thrco Cdurts ot Quarter Ses- . ' l! sions, but at twenty-one of them there ' 5? was no business excopt presentation I S51 of white gloves. The absence of ser- t- SJ lous crime is derlared to be both er- 1 markahle and gratifying In view of tho r Q, "struggle for existence and the fact i Z that since the withdrawal or the gar- Kj rlson St. Helena has been In a stato ', Vl of bankruptcy." ' 5 |