The New York herald., 1851-08-01

with criminal Jurisprudence; and the Judge bore
down quite hard upon the fraternity Of lawyers, OF
whom this city possesses an over-abundant supply,
always exceeding the demand by about one half
How they live, is q standing problem in common
law and equity, insoube by any known process of
iauocination. l once yentured to PROFOUND this
question to lawyer o. my acquaintance, and lac
answered me, without charging fee for the infor-
nation, that they live by suction. Judge Warden,
il his charge, said the most contemplate creature,
the most mlschievous, who required the most to be
guarded against, wass lawyer who interferes with
the defcnces that were to be made, tracing che
whole Jail TO get into every case pending between
the State and parties arraigned; and he indig.
nantly frowned dewn all such proceedings on his
part Fears for time were entertained that they
would arrest the court for contempt Of the bar;
but the excitement has passed away. We have
here what might be called an inclined plano OF
lawyers, fguratively speaking, morally aad men
we have some Of the noblest specimens of human
nature; but those in the lower arm OF the plane,
near the bottom, the least said OF many OF them,
either morally mentally, the better for the credit
Of our city The fees, too, are generally upon the
same sliding scale, and iusted to the al plio-
yf,n principle. few days ago, one Of our lawyers
actually received fee Of twenty-five cents for de-
Tending negro before the Mayor. Ho made
speech which was exactly worth the money it cost,
which cannot be said OF everything in the mar
ket.
Mr. Lumsden, one Of our citizens, a respectable
and ingenious mechanic, published yesterday chal-
lepge to the whole world, and the rest Of mankind,
offering to stake 1000 that certain articles Of
American manufacture, exhibited in this city in
loiS at the Ohio Mechanics Fair, are superior to
any that can be produced by the whole world, the
decisions to be made by twelve judges, six of whom
to be Americans, and six Europeans. This bold
challenge is made in consequence Of an insulting
article which appeared in the Lomton Times, the
organ Of the British manufac .urers in the Worlds
Fair, which you perhaps have published, speaking
in the contemptuous terms Of manuac sures
now on exhibition there. His chaange is made in
good faith, and the gen'leman's pecanary resPon
sbilty Is adequate to ary possible contingency.
Our postmaster says that the business ut his
Office has in reased at least fifty per cent since the
law, establishing the low rates Of postage, went into
for the wisdom Of Congress in thus bringing about
cheap corresp ondence to the II ilion. Public busi
is greatly facilitate d, education largely bene
fitted, and closer intimacy is thus effected, by
other important step in the onward progress Of this
great ieading nation.
The Hon. J. ]. Crittenden and Gen. Persifor +.
Smith, were in the city the past week, their way
to tteil homes, the former in kertucky, and the
latter in Illinois.
The humbug rappers, who have been here, laying
heavy tax upon our city for some month or two,
to the great joy Of all the weak-headed men and
gIannies, are about to remove the pounding appa-
ratus and set it in motion in Dayton, town about
sky miles in the interior il is said they took in
about eighty dollars day, and called up from the
Vastly deep large number Of spirits, "from whose
bourne no traveller returns" unless dollar is paid
in advance
Our good citizens are in ecstaces at this time, in
view Of the prospect which appears in the future,
very far distant, that they will be blessed with
public park The city council have at last made
a movement in that direction, and appointed
committee TO purchase grounds sufficiently large for
the purpose The fact is, the steps your city nave
taken to secure such magn6ce at public park, has
awakened our citizens from their slunber of years
OIL the subject.
There is great complaint throughout the city Of
the great scarcity of silver AS high u per cent
premium is paid for it to bank for city
change business. 1t has never been known to be
SO scarce as at present. From what cause it pro-
ceeds, the knowing ones have not yet announced.
There is screw loose somewhere in the balance Of
trade with somebody. ScgIrToE,