The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1852-04-10

Law AND PoLIrIcs.-A paper in one
OF the late numbers of the Literary World
treating Of the Life and Writings Of the
celebrated Judge Story, has the following
sensible remarks on the affinities between
Law and olitics
"A lawyer, in the routine of his pro-
ieSsionai duties, consumes the energies Of
Lifetime in separate. distinct. successive
efforts, demanding, it is true, the seyerest
mental culture and discipline, and vet
leaving few permanent results. The
prominent men of the bar at any period,
whose services are sought after for their
tact, ability, industry, and success with
courts and juries, with showers of retain
ers, have prodigious reputation for a
time in their own offices, among their
own clients and clerks, among their friends
in general, and among portion Of the
community in which they move. Beyond
this, the world knows nothing OF them, and
the future entirely ignores them, even
around their own hearthstones. A few
old lawyers remember them after they are
dead and gone; the veteran criers of two
or three courts embalm the memories OF
their wit and pathos in series of confu-
sed and snuf1y mementoes, and the stu
dent, who ransacks the reports for au-
thoritie>, stops now and then to admire
and avail himself of an ingenious point
or apt analogy in some old case in which
their arguments have been pcrpetuated.
"The lawyer knows this very we'll
and it is the reason why, in the midst of
briefs, clients, and decisions in his favor,
he is not satisfied with being lawyer
he must be politician. Even the Oldest
and wisest OF the profession cannot with
stand nomination for the State Senate,
for Congress, or for Governor. Hence it
is that the discipline and labors of profess
sional life in this country are SO frequent
ly only the basis OF the career of distin-
guished men. Very few content them
selves with the limited distinction which
their profession affords, or confne their
to the channel of that profess
sion. They do not care to be Judges and
they cannot be commentators so they take
their chances Of fame in political life, and
abandon the law, not so much because it
does not pay as because it does not i'm
mortalize."
Mr.. Walsh writes TO the Journal of
Commerce from Paris, under date of jan
uary 90:
According to the constitution, the Sem
ate will be defnitively Of hundred and
fifty members! It is limited, for the first
year, to forty or fifty sells; four cardinals,
six marshals of France, and two admirals
are er ofcio members. In the present
number we have thirty-seven who be-
longcd to the defunct Legislative Assem-
bly,; thirty-four former peers of France
seventeen former ministers of State; three
admirals; six judges; and six members
Of the Institute.
LIE Verrier, the astronomer Dumas,
the first Of chemists; Baron Charles Du-
pin, the most useful o! chemists; Baron
Charles Dupin, the most usefu. of the sa-
wants for all public economy; NJ. Trop-
long, the eurodite chief justice of the
Court of Appeals; Count d'Argout and
the Marquis d'Audiffret, the prime fnan-
ciers; Drouyn de Lhuys: late minister of
foreign affairs and ambassador in London,
the ablest of the diplomatists, arc in the
roll Of the Senate. count eighteen prin-
cipal generals and three vice admirals, in
dependent of the er oficio personages.-
A third or more bear high titles of nobil-
ity-of which the legal restoration is now
lauded as a tribute to French history
through all the civilized ages.
Popular disturbances are at an end in
the provinces; no one conceives the pos
sibility of commotions in the capital at
leas, during this year. The new prefect
of police has just sent forth an address
promising the utmost vigilance and ener-
gy in his vocation. Nearly every minute
subdivision of the country has now trans
mitted adhesion, signed by municipalities
and the immense majority of the male pop
ulation.
Several of the leaders of the late So
cialist jacquerrie have embarked for the
United States. You will remark that six
ty or more of the French democratic ref
ugees in London--chiefy artists and ar
tisans-have the same destination, with
the aid of the British government. Lord
Granville's reply to the remonstrances of
the German Diet concerning the federation
of the proceedings of the revolutionary
foreign committees in London does not
prove satisfactory to the complainants in
any quarter.
TREATY OF COMMERCE WITH PERSIA.
after Mr.. Marsh, our Minister
at Constantinople, arrived at his post, the
Persian Ambassador at that Court, init
mated TO him that his master, the Schah,
was anxious TO make treaty Of amity
and commerce with the United States,
and that he (the ambassador) was ready
to enter into negotiations for that purpose
with any one duly empowered on oul
part. ....
Mr.. Marsh communicated this infof-