New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-22

fallible taste in wine and off judgment beyond ap
pes in billiards and at whist that be is tho best pos
able person TO manage 80 complicated q machine
as railway. Though. OF course, these virtues
and accomplishments are not incompatible with the
most perfect fitness for the business. But these
observers say that whenever there is attempt
or the part Of the smaller shareholders toward
revolution the tOcsin ia sounded aud from all the
clubs the friends Of the ncumbents rush to the
rescue Of their pets and their rights of pasurage
in these commons have thus grown into kind of
prescription. have no personal means Of know
ing whether these inquirers have hit on the real
cause of the evil, or whether they have merely
laid hold Of the readiest explanation that came TO
hand for the very unpleasant fact Of stOppsge of
dividends. But this is the way they talk.
This question of the prices of railway travelling
is one OF no small Importance to this city The
railways have virtually made the circle Of country
within radius of twenty miles the mere suburbs
of the city. Indeed, they have put the whole
State en- rapport with the metropolis. Their tend
ency has been to draw of the business men of the
city into the country for twenty miles round for
their domicilation, who go up to business every
day by rail; so that, though the population OF
Boston proper is something under two hundred
thousand if the men who get their bread daily
there and their families and servants be rcckoned
ID. who would have had 10 live in the town had il
not been for the railways, it would be nearly If not
quite double that number. This state of things has
been produced in great measure by the policy of
the railways to encourage the removal OF this class
of persons by the inducement of season tickets at
moderate rates. Within year the prices of these
tickets have been raised from % TO 100 per cent,
which must have the effect OF diminishing the nOw
Of population from the city, in future, if not OF
rolling the tide backward upon il Immediately. Ii
is TO be hoped that the justc Tnep, which will ex-
actly adjust the claims of public accommodation
r L. 1.,%
II is quite as essential TO the interests of the one
as OF the other that this nice problem should be
accurately solved.
There was rather an odd attempt in the Board
of Oyerseers of Harvard College last week to
make it look as if Judge Lorings rejection as Law
Professor was not on account of bis part in the
kidnapping of Burns but because OF the lnc0m-
patibility Of the Proessorship and his of Judge of
Probate Mr.. Bradford. who voted against
Judge Lorng, wished to put himself reetns IN euria
as to this matter, and made this explanation. As
bali dozen days in month were any obstacle to
the discharge of his duties as Professor And when
Judge Story was Judge Of the Supreme Court at
Washington, and yet had time enough for his Chair
To be sure there was slight difference in the
men. 1t is true that there general feeling
of disgust at the sort of favoritism which had
always made Judge LOring support part of the
reed of the Wings before Mr. Webster knocked
them on the head. His appointment to the Lee
tureship. which was to be the entering wedge for
the Professorshp, was regarded as sayOring
strongly of job for the purpose of providing at
the public expense for one not capable of providing
for himself The Bar did not look with an eye of
favor on the appointment of man to such post
who if he were not absolutely Incompetent was
VIGOROUSLY less competent than five hundred other
lawyers in the State, at the least. And when his
judicial character and the legal type of his mind
had been tested in Burns's case, it certainly did
not improve his standing with the respectable part
of the profession. This element undoubtedly en-
tered into the decision of the Board. But had
Judge Loring not sent Burns back he would most
infallibly have been Law Professor at Cambridge
at this moment. And this is unquestonably one
of the proyidential overrulings to be dscerned in
the history of that ylany. No, no we cannot
afford to spare the set off Of that rejection against
the adhering disgrace OF that hdeOus business.
II is bad enough, and too bad, after that ID al
lowed, as il must be and is
The Opera Company have had another very good
week; 80 good that the impresario intends staying
yet another, instead of intercalating one for you
before opening at Philadelphia on the 18th. have
no doubt that be will find his account in it.