New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-19

h, faras nm tbe Serosntnesit not manifest that US
primary duty must be al discharged in proportion 70 ~
multiplicity Of affairs it busics Itself with ~.
manifest that It's time and energies must De nttc'cu
away in schemes, and inquiries, and Amendments. ia
proposals and debates and divisions. 20 the utter nss
Iect OF its essential Officer And does not gisucc
over the debates make II manifest that TINS IL inc Iact
end that while Parliament and public are aliko occu-
pied with these chimcrcl projects, these misehievoSs
inteYierenees these ltopan hopes the one thng neeo
! ful is left almost und0ne =,
See here then. the proximate Of all onr legal
We drop the substance in our Efforts 10
catch shadows. While Icsides and cubs, and ts',
ems are filed with talk about cornaw questions. ana
church questions and education questions and sanitary
questons--all Of them raised BY over egslatonItne
stce question gets scarcely any attentions and We
daily submit 10 be oppressed cheated robDed ms IN
stintion which should succour the man who has fallen
among thieves turns him over TO solicitors bNrsters
ard legion Of Law oicers; drains his purse ior wins
briefs aidavts, supunas fees OF all Kinds ana
ipnnmerabe involves him In the ntricacics OF common
cosr,s chancery courts, suits c0uptersuiV, and ~
poas: and often ruins where IL should aid. Mepwhhe,
meetings are called and leading articles written ana
votes asked and societies formed ana agtaohs carreo
on not 10 Iectfy these gigantic evils, but party 70
abolish our ancestors misclevOUs meddlgs, ana part
" to establish mcddfn's OF our OWL Is not obvious
that this fatal neglect ~ result oil this ms ihe os
ousnes, suppote that external and internal protection
had been the sole recognized functions OF me
IL il conceivable that our administration o' Jus'ne
yund have been IS corrupt ~ nowf IAN any O,e W.
leye that had parliamentary elections bech DnDtuh"y
,optesed on uesi0ns OF legal reform oCr ldicM sys
TEN would stu have been what Dir Johh tommy c'n's
it--"a technical s,stem invented ior the .rea" VI
cos's"i Doc Any suppose that. II the eht'.H uc
Tense Of person and property bad been TIE constant suo
ject-matier oi hustues pledges, we Should YET De MY
laid by Chaneory Court when hss now of" i ih
two hundred millions vi property IN rs .lnic"os--"Icn
Keeps suits pending hy years. nnti a.i TAO Mius orc
gone in fccs-which swallows in costs Two millions an
nuaiIyf Dare any one ASSERT that haa eens'usn'ies
been always canyassed on principles oI I""'reioim
versus Lyconsertatsn. Ecclesiastical 90 .rts woliu
have continued ZOE centuries fatenng on ihe gds OF
widows and orphans The questions are next 70 nsshru
The essay on " Representative Government may
be regarded as an extension Of the argument on
over legi Station. There is searching and elabo'
rate exposure II the impecctioDs and evils OF the
representative system, which are shown 20 be 50
numerous and oeepseatcd that the reader begins ~
suspect its inter condemnation by tho unsPanng
critic But there follows sin moro scaihing ex-
posuro OF the InoDarchical system. Tie hhai con-
clusion is that If government il 10 become the
oyerseer of the people needing with AL thclr al
fans and regulating an their doings, me dosPo'c
form il best suited the purpose but II 1t Is TO be
confined 10 is legitimate Office, the protection Of
rights ard the administration Of justice, The repre-
sentative rn is superior TO al others, s'kc in It's
origin It's theory aad lis rcsalts. ITO the qnes-
ton, What is Representative Government good
Tor our reply is IL is good, especially good god
above all others for doing the thing which gov
eminent should do. II s had, especially bad, bad
above all Others for doing tho things government
should not do
Ofthe remaining cssays on the Morals ofTrade,''
" Railway Morals and Railway Policy" State
Tamperings with Money and Banks and Reform
the Dangers and the Safeguards" We have no
space to speak. Though apparently occupied with
questions of English policy the principles elucida-
ted are Of the bToadcsi applicability, and will wen
repay The student Of American politics for 1 critical
,eTusal.
THg WESTMINSTER REVIEW. ooroBER. Leonard.
Scott CO.
Tho second Article in this number is a brisk,
crspy, and braeng description Of the delights and
peril, oS Alpine travel. tour among the noun
;sius Is regarded By the writer the grand panacea
FOX the physical ills OF liie-thc Alps perennial
source Of strength to the body and inspiration 10
the soul-their potent charm will fade away only
when the ocean and tho armament are stale, gai,
and Improbable Alpine climbing viii be reck-
oned the folly OF boys only when the sap is wither
ing up in men, and the fbcrs Of their nature are
growing coarse. No athletic sport can compare
with the sest Of the a,iac; on untrodden pass,
og the rapture OF eonluering some new hight OF
the nountin. No fox-chsse warns the blood like
the whir down the slope Of snow, and no turfgiycs
out such merry ring as the crunchng ofslacicrec.
"NOt, OF course, that mere tension Of muscle OF
sudoriication of the skin has in il such virtue.
Nero exercise at FRAMEWORK would hardly avail.
The mind must be unbent while tho sinews are
being frightened. 4 new sphere must no sought,
new atmosphere must DO breathed. And OF all
these grounds the APPS offer Us the mos, new and
strange, the most exhlarating, the most instructive
tho mort ennobiine. 1t is not bodily rest alone
which is needed by the jaded of letters, law, or
science. lie requires most his spirit 20 be refreshed
-bathod in now life--not simply relaxed. lie
needs TO lay aside memory, iorethought contriv-
ancc, and mcthod~-to shake his shoulders free from
the yoke of hatit-to step down from the ,rcaJmill
Of convention on 10 the fresh sod Of his mother
earth. The dull mechanic round Of life crates so
hardly Oh the flee spirit that u live it must escape
sometimes from Its cage, and soar up exulting to
tho gates Of Heaven. We live for the most part in
very iron mask of forms. Our daily ways are a, |
bottom 50 joyless, so trite, compulsory that We
mnst be free and simple sometimes or We break.
Our present world is world of remarkable cvaa-
ton, and Of very superior virtue but it il not very
natural and not yery happy. We need yet some
snaiches Of tho hio OF youth--io be for q season
only simply happy and simply healthy. We need
to draw sometimes great drafts of simplicity and
beauty. We need sometimes that poetry should
be not droned Into our cars, but flashed into our
senses. And man, with all his knowledge and his
pride, needs s1mct meg to luoy pufhiuD and