New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-24

II 1t is estimated that in Manchester there
are leo unfortunate females = that they sre led 10
annual expenditure Of $4,000; ami that $50 q
them die In horror and despair. yearly. In England il
i calculated that there 200 houses Of III fame and
10000 prostitutes and further, that not Less than
= 10000 are spent annually IN these places.
The LABOR MARKET IN AUsTRALIA.-The
Australian papers contsn very interesting document
Price Current OF Labor, published by Mr. Ficheti OF
the Victoria Registry Office Ot course the prices are
bona kde one because Mr. Fichett l. prepared b en-
gage servants q, the amount ne mentions Married
couples house servants FOR country hotels &C. can
have engagements at SIS TO go per snnum with ~
tons; shepherds, t3-; hufkeetsr-, $50 hullo
err $50 by the week 1 10. and on the roads from
% 70 81 farm servants $50 per annum, AMI 81 lOi
by the week; bush carpenter 90 per week cook. Tor
inns Il lO TO t2 per week general servants 10 per
snnum, all including rations Maid servants can have
cngagtments At ei 70 $50 hOusemads at S13 nurse
made SIS cook and lsundreses s24 ncuing rations
Ths the state Of the labor market after the arrival
OF several eugrant vessels, and, though may expo
rienoe temporary decline in the course OF the next
twelvemonihs, prices expected 20 "hoid and rse
is even expected a, no distant period
THE MIssEsoTA M,IyE Liquor Law De-
GLAZED VoID-A proceeding under the lth section OF
the Maine LIQUOR Law so called instituted before
Justice of the Peace whereby search warrant was
issued against Alexis Coutier OF -. Anthony, anu
quantity OF liquor IN his possession was seized ana or
dered y the Justice TO be destroyed and the defendant
fined s25 An appeal was made from that decision 10
sey County
motion thereupon made before Hon. II. 4. Hay
ner Chief Justice of the Teritory, 70 quash the pro
cecdngs on the ground that the law was unconstitu
tonal and invalid The case was argued with great
shily by the counsel both sides At the Court House
in this city, on the sd and 9th ut.
Judge Hayner announced his decision on SATURDAY
last In which he thoroughly reviewed and invest gated
every point involved in the case. The following Is a
bret abstract of the points decided:
l. That the legislative power being vested by the or
eanc act in the Legislative Assembly AMI Governor,
they he'd right authority 10 DELEGATE to any body
or per.ons-nOt even 10 the people Of the territory
2 That in the enactment in question, the Legislature
in effect attempted transfer this power to the people
3 That in 30 doing they acted beyond Their authority
and conferred no power upon the people, and conse
quently their acts were void
That the people OF the Territory could not in their
eminent dominion and exercise the power mss
much as the territories belong to the people OF the whole
Union and under the Constitution of the United states
the ultimate sovereignty granted to Congress could
be reserved would have be done by Congress and not
by the people Of the Territory who therefore derived
no right from this 20 pass this enactment and
therefore never became law and cannot be enforced
as such Minnesota Dem, OF Dec. l.