The New York herald., 1846-01-18

happy hearth-stones for the exile But we yet hope
that Paredes will be equal TO the emergency of
voluton, and that Mexico may ever remain inde-
pendent, uatll she chooses TO unite her fortunes with
ours, by mutual concession and consent. 1t is hint
ed that the English government have advanced a
loan 10 Gen. Paredes, support him in the present
embryo revolution, OF fifteen million OF dollars; but
we have strong doubts OF his being corrupted by
British gold. Our latest news confirms the views of
our correspondent upon Mexican affairs; as il will be
seen by the extracts which we give In another CO.
lumn that Gen. Peredes' star is in the ascendant:
and we hope for once that Mexico may have a
bloodless revolution, and correction OF the many
abuses that has crept into that igovsrned country
and we hope,to that with Paredes, our differences
may be as amicably settled as with the present ad-
minlsration.
The news received yesterday produced some
sensation In this city. It was, of course, a
good deal exaggerated The next intelligence will
be looked tor with great anxiety, and we may ex-
pect later accounts every hour by the way of Havana,
as the English mail steamer for Vera Cruz ar
rived there as the Zephyr, at Charleston, was eav
ing on the 9th inst
Administration OF Justics-The Bar and
the Press.
II has become the fashion, Of late, with certain
gentlemen Of the bar to indulge themselves in vio-
lent and indiscriminate attacks upon the press in
general, and upon the press OF New York in partic
ular. Now, il these attacks were directed to some
tangible wrong. some specific act, reprehensible or
blameworthy in itself, would be the last to de-
fend the act or to seek to screen the actor. 1t II
to be remarked, however, that these attacks are
directed against the vitality, the very existence and
the lfe OF the press-against that, without which it
would cease to be useful, or to have any claims
upon the support and countenance OF society.
These attacks, supported by the bench az we'll a
made by the bar, are directed against the principle
OF publicity. These gentlemen would have all the
transactions in which they are concerned kept Sc
cret they would have all the facts of criminal ju-
risprudence concealed from public notice, until
they and the courts had pronounced upon them, and
when no one has any further interest in knowing
them. They have, therefore, gratuitously assumed
the position that the publication of criminal intel-
gence Is Itself wrong If it take place before the
nilnal has been tried Dealers, they by profess
zion IN argument we have never heard one of them
adduce single argument in support of such an alb
Surd proposition. 1t requires only to be propounded,
to reute ITSELF Must not every juryman, before he
retires to consider upon his verdict be made fully
acquainted with the facts and full history of the
case In other words, must not the whole case be
hrst PH6hshed before he Is competent to give YER
dict upon 1t Therefore, if the principle be true on
which those gentlemen found their charges against
the press, then jury competent 80 long AZ it re
mains ignorant but when it retires to make up
its verdict fully charged with the history Of the case
and the appeals OF COUNSEL it is at that moment emf
nently incompetent. This is the inevitable conclu-
sion which flows from the premises. The time of
acquiring the knowledge makes no alteration in
the argument-he time Of publication does not af.
feet the merits OF the question, whether that pub-
cation be made to the jury the spot by witnesses
at the bar, or whether it be made to all the world, a
month before by publication in the papers The re-
suit Is the same, and that result is knowledge
Now the bar--or rather certain camorous and con-
ceited individuals who think that they themselves
are the barhave been guilty of the supreme folly OF
asserting and acting upon the principle that know
ledge renders a man unfit to be juryman And
yet,whe they utter this principle they themselves,
pretend to hunt up, to collect and to communicate
Chat IL to pubsh,) all the knowledge Of the case
before them which they possibly can ACQUIRE
Never, perhaps, did any set OF men exhibit such
folly as our criminal courts exhibited when they
sent forth their officers into the streets to hunt up
Ignorant men-o seize upon the passers by. bv their
collars to drag them into court; and if it was found
that they had read a newspaper, to dismiss them
out Of the sanctuary Of darkness and foly because
they were not quite Ignorant enough to participate
in it's mysteries.
We think the time will come when such piece
OF history will hardly be credited. II puts one in
mind OF the satire of Diogenes. He went about
the streets OF Athens with lighted candle, TO look
tor an honest man-our judges send the Sheriff out
IN the streets of New York, to look for fools
Truly II Is precisely with such that the soi disanf
bar would wish to have to deal and hence their
Indignation, and bursts Of thunder against the press
because It holds up the torch Of light to cast raw
OF truth upon their dark sanctuary, and prevents
them from becoming. what they seek to be, dark
chamber OF inqulsltlon "a court, shrouded in mys
terry snd gnorance-a terror to society by its yerv
obscurity, and curse, instead Of a benefit to the
community.
II they could succeed in their outcry-lf thew
could silence, put down and intimidate the press.
our criminal courts would become secret inouisi-
flons, lar more dangerous than the Spanish nQuis-
tion ever was; they would become markets Of
crime, where the dealers In infamy would be able,
without fear to buy and SELL to oppress, extort and
raise money from both the guilty and the innocent
where respectable depravity would purchase license
and lmpunity for crime, and he who had most money
to lavish would be most secure, while he who had
none would be inevitably ruined! 1t il the press
which is the sound, wholesome, and healthy con-
servator OF the public security, and Of the public
morals Il holds up the glass OF truth and publicity,
II puts infamy to the blush, and deeds OF darkness
seek in vain to hide themselves frcm its light which
/ they hate and dread
Yes! 1t il the press which is now the only con-
servative element in the administration of Justice
The barwe would rather the criminal bar IL sunk
and degraded by a set OF greedy harpies, who have