New-York daily tribune., 1856-04-26

fatal tyranny OF hip money sgs'hst ',o - :J ~ g.,
sc oI UaTr-i,r; Sbich in defiance O justice aad hu-
-,sr,ty mt SIDNEY and Russ sell 10 the block "honpf
i.t.pi,, norctd the laws OF CONFORMITY ths' our W..
tan tatbers pcrsi-tenty refused TO obey 'anu
ward with Jt e- on the bench, crnlS'Deu '"e
ET-,sh Iis.o-y with massacre ana trurcer-eVeh VIA
~ 4 - inpoc. Mt women. Aye, Sir, aud was 8
rf;cel tyl u NJ IN our country surroundeu oi ID
tba fo,rns of aw which hung witches at Satu-WniGn
affirmed tie coastitutiouallty OF the stamp Ao', Nn
= oTr,oni-h.d Jurors and the people to 0oey-And
80 ,ov in our dav has lent its sanction u the uh-
ut;erable atlociiy Ct the Fugitive Save DIN
IsasifFcrent STYLE OF oratory, but always tr"eto
hi. HIGH principles. Mr.. Sumner gives a viz de-
scrip, on of tie death and burial Of ths eminent
phianrhrcpist, Granville Sharp;
Ip works and conempations like these WAS the NE
If our phiau;Aropst prolonged 10 generous Oh ~
ehr.r.i hv the esteem Of the good informed oy 'u'
and e., waited y enthusiastic faith when s~ays
.av the vorlc as the footstOo OF Goo; anu wheh al
l.,, IN 1873 bending under the burden OF seventy
seven Winters lie gently sank away II wa. ieI' tHa'
man had died in whom the greatness oi yoohnts'
Amorg tie moGIrers al bis grave stood Imam WI;
hrcrr and O, er the earthly remains OF this cnl!d OF
lovly beginnings now dropped the team o'
royal duke Tie portals of that great tempe OF hcnor
where are trps ured Englauds glones swung open Al
the nsme Of Englard'- earliest Aboltiosist s'mple
tablet & m the chisel OF Ch8ntry, representing ~
African slave bis knees in suppicaiIon ana also tGe
lien ard the lamb lying down togetherS WIN sutsOe
Minister Abbey, iu close compsnonship with those
s,ore - which bear the names of Chaucer, Spcnser,
Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Goldsmith, Gray As
tie Nurses then,s Ives did not dsdan TO watch over tho
Grave Of one who had dore well on earth, 20 do the
poets of England now keep watch over the monument
If Granville Sharp. Nor is his place IN that goody
coupsry without even poetical title The poet IA
SIM creator; and be who was inspired to create
t-efmeu out Of slaves poet OF the lottest style
But not in the sacred Abbey only phisnshro-
mist coumenora,ed The City of London the center
of tbo4e slave hunting merchants over whom his great
triumph was wOp, now CRATE fully claimed part oi hs
glory. The marble bust OF Eng ana earnest hoo
toiist was installed at Gudhs, the home of metro
politan Justice pomp and Csptaty, IN the precise
srot where once had stood the bust OF Nelson. Eng
spC's greatest Admiral, and beneath was carved
simple tiihue Of more per, nnial worm man d. Inc
trophies of Trafalgar: Granville Sharp 10 whom
England owes the glorious verdict OF her highest court
of law, that the slave who sets hs foot on british
ground becomes that instant free.
Wewill close this notice with q little matter OF
pbloloey. In bis lecture illustrative OF the LIE
of Granville Sharpe, Mr.. Sumner observes, in ret
erence to the Latin phrase fat Justitia rsot cGlan
Let Justice be done though the sky falls, EN-
poyed by Lord Mansfield in giving Judgment in
the famous case of Somerset Though OF classl-
cal stamp, il cannot be traced to any classical
origin. and it las even been asserted that Is was
freshly ined by Lord Mansfield on this occasion,
worth, of such commanding truth in such COM
msndipg phrases But it is of other date and from
al other mint, though it is not too much to say
that it took its currency and authority from him.
If the phrase referred to had ever previously
been used by any body in terms, to Dir. Summers
knowledge, we are inclined to tn NIX that, with his
usual precision in such matters, he would have
Given us chapter and verse. We do not believe
that the phrase as a whole can be traced beyond
Lord Mansfield 1t may be going little too far
to say that be freshly coined " it, nevertheless
we fully believe that, under the laws of copyright,
be is entitled to claim as author; and the sources
from which, according TO our ideas of the matter,
be drew it, ard the use to which he applied 1t,
were at once characteristic of him a learned
black letter lawyer an elegant classical scholar,
and keen Wit
Fat ,pstitia the first clause, appears to be drawn
fr, u the old CO mInon law formaities. son petit
ton to the King" says Jacobs IN his Law De
tionsry (Voce Fat JusttiG). "to bring writ OF
error in Parsmebt he writes on the top OF the
petition Fiat justitid and then the writ of error is
seem not less evidently to be derived from cassi-
cal source. Quid 81 nane eGlsm ruat! What II
the Ky should presently fail is an expression which
Terence puts into the mouth of one OF his characters
tormtntor and it was evidently Proverbial e1-
in his comedy of lieautOntiu OrOumenos the self
preston in use among the Romans to hit oH that
class of tmid prognosticators Of caamity-like or
Union. savers, fr instance-who were constantly
expecting that the sky would fall. And was 1t not
great piece of wit in Lord Mansfield to put this
rHat calum into juItaposition with Fiat Ja'tIs'a,
as It, while emphatically expressing bis determine
ton TO do justice, to indicate also bis contempt for
the man who imagined that evil could come from
the doing of It
fXPPRI NFNTAL RESEARCHES ON THE FOOD Or
ANNALS AND THE FATfENlhG OF CATTLE
~, ~. he food OF y a. n e.