New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-16

Land. Everybody recOuects the last one-the SUBJ
scriptions, the public meetings, the ship-loads Of
provisions that were sent out, and the shploads of
emjgrants that were sent back in return. An ion.
pudent Edinburgh reviewer once defined an Irish.
man TO be 20 kix.foOt machine for turning pOra-
"toes into human nature" So, perhaps, it was
no more than reasonable, after the -four and Indian
meal we sent over had been worked up into human
nature that it should be returned to us in it's manu-.
featured state. But this is aide from the purpose
Of this present writing, which is to call the asten-
ton of the humane to the new blight which
threatens "the first flower of the sea"-we allude
to the distress which impends over that Inflated
island from the short crop of iamyers, which has
thrown gloom over it the present season. We
by the late Dublin papers that at the last term
of the Court of Queens Bench there. only four
applicants were called to the BAR This scarcity
must be the more alarming from its being entirely
unlocked for. That potatoes might rot and that
corn crops might fail, everybody knew; but that
lawyers should ever cease from of the earth, who
ever could have dreamed
As We were justly called upon to contribute of
our abundance Of breadstufs to the furnishing Irish
because Of that very plenty, 80 it seems to US that
we ought to administer to this new calamity out Of
our superuity in the particular as to which this dis
tretsiDg dearth prevails in ireland. We think that
ship.load Of shysters, of these practitioners that
haunt the Tombs like vampires, or hover about the
Police Courts lie carrion fowl, might be exported
to ireland greatly to our advantage, and, we should
hope, to that of cur bene6ciaries. We think we
might throw in Police Judge or two with )ut acy
vital injury to civic moral or material interests,
if our Irish pensioners should like to try new va
riety Of that necessary of life. Should any one
question our ability to raise sufficient supply in
this city to lead chip larger than the largest size,
doubt which We must regard as an unwarrantab!e
reflection on the extent Of resources an appeal
to our sister cities could not fail of response that
would sink the Adriatic herself with the swarming
weight Of their contributions. SIave.catchpg
Judges and Commissioners We might have for the
asking and they ,uld be interesting to the curious
amorg our Irish clients as an article of consump.
ton with which they were entirely unacquanted.
An invoice Of Iugiahams, Ksnes, Mortons, Cur.
tses and LCriDgs, properly labeled, and the mode
of uiipg them set down in carefully prepared re-
cepts, coull not fail to astonsb if not to delight
the natives of that Emerald Island, which has never
seen reptile since the days of st. Patrick.
And not Ireland only is threatened with this ap-
psling restitution, but even England trembles be-
foIe the possibility o: like calamity. At the last
time for the calling Of Few bsrrsters at Westmin-
whereas hundred more than that vas an ordinary
batch in the good times gone by. The Inns of
Court too, which used to be thronged to over.
flowing are half deserted. The very seed from
which lawyers are grown is thus failing and falling
stort, 50 that the baryests of the future are
biehted before their planting Many circum-
stances are alleged to account for th distressing
state Of things. Among Others, the openieg of
new fields If activity to educated and enterprisipg
nen By the new directions which have been given
to industry Of late years. That many persons una,
have been diverted from the profession Of the Law
By the opportunities oft red to industry and skill BY
railways aid other joint-stock specula'ions We
may readily believe after The sharp but successful
practice If Sadleir Robson and Redpath. But the
fatal origin Of all this VIE is to be chiefly looked for
in the estsblihuent Of the County Courts by
which Justice is degraded ron luxury to neces-
ssry, by beng made chesp, and is brought to the
doors Of the lay vulgar without the necessity of the
mediation If attorney or barrisier. What tue
car ker IS to the scre, the tantworm to the we,a-
lrg hccks that grsze the frost to flowers, the ~,
10 he po'stocs The smut 70 the coru, the weesl ~
the wies,, such is the cbespeniag Vi Justice to