New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-05

have seen three big-wigs shaking their heads over
such q Gaze Burton in the Serious Family wouia
have seemed tame and prossic. But the maHda"H'
was not called up; some said that IT had oeen
abandoned, others that it bad done its work ahd
was now nothing but rod in terroren over tue
heads Of Mr.. Simeon Draper aud his associates;
but the real reason lies before in the shape OF
Judge Russell's letter. which it must have taken
him and his counsel-Attorney. General Cushing
was absent during great part Of yesterdays 'e'-
sion Of the Oyer and Terminer-some hours 10 con-
cOct.
II seems that this poor self-ereated defendant IS
dissatisfied with the young man who appeared Tor
him last week, and finds it impossible to find suita'
lie counsel to argue his side Of the case. Hels VII
ling to pay such person, when found, hoeraly
but to the credit Of the bar be ii said, no man Is
willing to take charge Of sham case and advance
bogus arguments for the sake Of being beaten by
Mr. Charles OConOr. Such ia the innuendo OF our
ingenious letter-writer; but can it be true las
Judge Russell inquired among his old friends VINO
still haunt the Egyptian Tombs, and have neither
become City Judges nor insttutors of suits against
themselves This resource has apparently not
been suggested to the Judge, and in this dire
extremity be BOW applies to the Commissioners
concluding his pretty billedouI with this fearful
menace:
eff however shall be obliged 10 proceed in the
case without this aid, if any attempt should De
made BY you your counsel TO interfere with or delay
the m0Hddmus in my case, | ciU make this letter
pVthc."
Rrt ,,b;Ia Iudoa Pussnu uss manning fhis adj.
mirable piece of epistOlary composition, and his
aides de-eamp were twisting its sentences into the
play full shape in which they appear, while Mayor
Wood and his counsel were sleeping upon their
laurels, the enemy sowed tares. The defendants In
the action of quo uarrdnto served their answer on
Saturday. coupled with al intimatiOn that they
were willing to allow judgment to be taken in their
own favor at Special Term. that the case might be
at once carried up on appeal Mr.. OConor and
Judge Edmonds could not but accede, after their
vehement protestations against delay, and judg-
ment WIS accordingly entered before Judge Clerke,
one clause whereof mulcts Fernando Wood in the
sum Of 500 costs mot to come out of that OOO0)
while another reads as follows:
"And il is further ordered and adjudged that the
said defendants have duo warrant of law 10 hold use
and enjoy their respective offices OF Police Commits
sioners for the Metropolitan Police District of the
State Of New York with all the powers and authority
pertaining thereto and do now lawfully hold the same
and are entitled to hold and enjoy them, and have not
in any usurped the same or any part thereof
II is true that this Judgment is in one sense pro
lorna, it having been entered by agreement and
without hearing; but in another sense it is VITAL
for it stands until reversed. The new Board of
Police Commissioners have, therefore, full power
to 90 on with their duties under the act of the
Legislature, which has been dead letter for nearly
fortnight. We trust that they will at once make
such appointments az will show that they know
how to organize the police Of this great metropolis
as it should be done.