New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-08

reader will find an abstract of the charge OF Judge
Russell to the Grand Jury for the July Term OF
the Court of General Sessions The Judge evil
IDENTITY feels uneasy under the burden of his mis-
representations in the charge to the Jury at the
May Term, and labors hard to clear his Court of
blame in the matter of the increase of crime His
proposition is that the city was never 80 orderly
and crime never 80 much repressed or so speedily
punished as now; and he kindly adds that il this be
not the truth, then his Court knows of the vllany,
winks at it, and does not perform its duty to the
community. Let the riots, robberies, murders,
and countless assaults, with the reports OF which
the ample columns of the city press have fairly
teemed for two months, be the fitting answer to this
Boosting
Of course the Judge must dip largely into the
Police question, over which be has no pos
sble control, aud in which he has been
the obsequious tool of Fernando Wood.
After going over the history of the Police
Laws since l544, the learned Russell boldly ex-
cuses his master from the imputation Of wrong by
SAYING that the New Commissioners should have
been subservient to the Mayor and kept quiet until
his Honor had gone through with all the legal aud
illegal dcdges that he might be pleased to indulge
in. If everything had been subjected to the Mayor,
argues the astute RUSSELL there would have been
no trouble. OF the decision Of the Court If APP
peals the accomplished jurist Of the Sessions evil
IDENTIFY thinks very small beer but gracousy con-
descer De to obey it. leaving in blssful d,ubt of
the COPS, quence should he take the opposite
course; for all which let the people be duly thank
q, 81. U.fth .a
learned Judge, upon Constitutional law, Is worth
quoting for the benefit of the Blackstoues and
Kents of a future age. He says: "No public
"offcer ought 10 be expected to execute law
(which ne believes Ia be unconstitutional" 10 be
sure. the old fogies whose Commentaries have
been text books for half century, taught exactly
the rtverse Of this; but they never had the advan
tage of the opinions Of his Honor the Mayor; and
the statutes which declare their obsolete doctrines
to be- the law of the State were positively adopted
without asking the consent of Mr.. Wood. This
reasoning Of the profound Russell is concluded by
the triumphant inquiry "Why should the old
"Commi. soners yield to the new Commissioners
"any more than the new to them" The Court
of Appeals has answered, because it is the
law. Alter luls tHOTt dt rtl cACupdtiou diu
apology for his master, the experienced Judge
turns to sbysters and TOmbs sharks, whose prac-
tees, he says, are atrocious, aud ought to be
broken up by the Grand Jury. Of this business
we cheerfuly admit the Judges perfect kaowl.
edge; aud whatever may be thought of kick
ing down the ladder by which one rises, We hope
his recommendation will be fully carried out.
Without fully sharing his estimate Of the immense
power and Importance of the Court over which he
presides We hasten to agree with him in his clos
ing desire that the Grand Jury aud the Court may
unite in the maintenance of the laws and the pres
ervation Of public order.