The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-26

lieves him to be influenced by party leaders
whom the prisoner has offended. Judges
Hackett and Bedford ridiculed the affidavit
which the prisoners counsel presented, but
they cannot afford to content them;
selves with general denial OF
it's allegations. In spite of the
disgustingfy offensive manner and tone of
the counsel who presented IL, which serve in
some degree to distract attention from the
serious charges against the Recorder, the afh-
davit leaves on the readers mind the impress
sion that il is probably true. The corruption
of the men and party with whom Recorder
Hackett is associated is so notorious that their
odium extends to all about them, and it is not
difficult to convince men that the Recorder is
a most improper person to sit in Judgment on
this prisoner. It is usual and very natural,
we suppose, for prisoners to think they stand
in danger of their lives from the Judge on the
bench, but in this instance there is reason
to think that the stale old legal joke thus
framed into an affidavit is no Joke at all.
Aside from these disgusting personal revela
tions, the trial on Monday revealed the bitter
ness of the war between the rival Dem ooratic
factions; and the ma ority of those who study
the reports will have less hesitation than
heretofore in crediting the old assertion that
Tammany kills as well as buys its enemies.
But this is not the only incident revealing
the rapid decentralization of the legal profess
quent instances in which judges have intimi-
dated lawyers and threatened them with
personal enmity in the event of their offend
ing 1t is only few months since that
prominent if not reputable lawyer proclaimed
in New York court the infamous doctrine
that counsel in defense of a criminals life are
justified in any effort to destroy the character
of an innocent witness-a doctrine from which
every honest lawyer, as every honest man,
will ind 10 OF LOTT
that most unjustifable Salvage suit
belonging to proceedings which ought
to be wholly inadmissible in any court since
they begin and develop in conspiracy-has
long occupied the attention of court, forced
defendants to heavy costs, and resulted in
judgment which cannot be enforced because
of the irresponsibility of the lawyer who in
stituted the proceedings. On Monday another
court was employed for some hours in hear
ing the applications of lady who was forced
to bring suit to get her papers out of the
hands of lawyer whom she had dismissed.
These are but few of many glaring in
stances which we might quote as revealing
the disgraceful condition of legal practice
here. The corruption of the courts is, of
course, the natural consequence of the cor
ruption of our local politics, and there can be
no thorough reformation of the bar until the
bench has been purified by the deposition of
these mere tools of Tammany. We do not
despair of the final reformation even of the
New York judiciary; but in the meantime the
legal fraternity owes it to itself and the public
to combine to maintain its own independence
and purity. When the bar has sunk so low
as to seek the favor of the bench and fear
its enmity, there is no security for honest
clients and lawyers in any of our courts.
THE ENGLISH INTERVENTION IN
FRANCE.
From the N y. World.
! The best commentary that can be made
| upon the rumored Intervention of England
to secure peace in France-in the present
state of our information as to that interven-
tion-comes to us in the statement
that a new French loan of fifty millions OF
dollars has been put upon the London market
| by one of the most respectable banking
houses of the British capital. The Govern
ment of the French republic is not very
likely to sign itself out of existence at the
moment when it is borrowing money to carry
on the great national conflict by virtue OF
which it exists. The reported terms OF
the settlement said to be pro.
posed by England are of such a nature
that if they were to be accepted by the bel
ligerents they could secure an immediate
termination of the international war between
France and Germany only at the expense OF
an ultimate civil war in the former country,
if not of an ultimate revolution in the latter
country also. The chief interest of These
rumors to the world at large-supposing them
not to prefgure, ,ehs it is more than doubtful
whether they do pretigure, any serious diplo
matte action-conssts in the evidence which
they afford of increasing difficulties in the
way of Prussian occupation of France. Had
the bombardment of Paris been presently
practicable, or had the republic organized fol
France no better means of self-defense thar
the empire bequeathed to her, we should have
heard nothing of English intervention al
Versailles and Berlin. All that these reports
now set forth as proper basis for peace
could have been attained by Prussia without
much practical trouble, Immediately upoI
the fall of Sedan, had Prussia then beer
willing, as she now seems to be- to listen tc
the voice either of moderation in her OWL
counsels or of foreign powers counselline
forbearance. The Regency of the Empress
which it is now averred that Prussia is anx
ious to restore, was then an existing fact
The city of Paris, now found to be so for
midable fortress. was then supposed tC
be at the mercy of the invaders. Whatever
may be the upshotssof the pending negotia
tions, it will hardly be thought, we suspect
by the great body of intelligent observers
throughout Christendom, that it was wortl
the while of Bismarck and King William t.
inflict two months of horribles devastation
and destruction upon the two foremost nations
of Europe for the purpose of restoring al
empire, overthrown by German valor, agains
the will of great capital made impregnabl
and great people called under arms by tn
downfall of that empire.
HOW TO BE POLITICIANS.
From the NelV Orleans Republican.
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