New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-15

Persons 7oayiag foarR .tOr tie season, and Sum-
.qo,y fyorelers. can hare The DAILY TRIBUNE
,ceiled 10 them, postpaid, .1o, 81 pei month, the
oddrcss icing changed as often as des"ed'
Tho courts oro seldom long without curl
ans cpisode Yesterday in Brooklyn a negro
bnrplar steadily refused all legal AID, and
proved his sincerity when 1t was offered by
dcclarinp that he would "TaiheT take twenty
"vears in the peniteutiary" than avail himself
of if. He tried bis own case, and with some
cleverness too, and was rewarded with
sentence of ten years. Still the old proverb
about the man who makes himself bis own
client was hardly verified, for probably 10
lawyer could have helped his case.
Mr., Sauer. the virtuous and explosive Al
derman who bluIted out the other day
charge of corruption against one OF his TEL
lo,y-members, now declares his Willingness to
On befo,e the committee appointed 10 investi-
cate if and admit that he had no evidence
Ivbotcvcr upon which TO base it, but he in
sis+s that he viii not make an apology where
tbe original offence was committed-in the
full meeting of the Board. Maniness Is a
virtue esteemed TO some extent even among
blackruards, and if Mr. Sauer wishes TO retain
the regard of his babitual associates lie must
make his speech i'll the iull Board
The Superintendent of Public Works, Mr..
CLARK, has found it necessary to inquire
whether. in the opinion of the law officer
of fine State, he has any right to authorize
telegraph company to build line on the bernie
hank of the canal The AttOncy-G eneIal,
in replv. has politely but distinctly intmated
the belief that the Legislature alone has the
mower to make any such grant. Mr.. Schoon-
maker by way OF extra caution, might have
warned Mr.. Clark that he would have no
right to sell the Erie Canal or give away the
Hudson River. Mr.. Clark seems to be in
need of information, and this might not have
been amlss.
The most striking feature of the will
of the Prince Imperial was that which 1t
WAS most natural to expect to find there-a
strong pride in the name Of Napoleon and
real faith in it's cause. He urges his mother to
remember that so long there are Bona
'partes. the Imperial cause will have repre-
o." sentatiyes,n and that the line will not end
with him adjures her to defend the
memory of his great-uncle and his father, and
expresses the hope that the time may come
when the bodies Of the three NapOleons may
rest together in the tomb now tenantcd alone
by the founder of the family. All this is not
to be wondered at in the representative of u
race which, with all its great wlckedness,
has made the history of Europe during good
part OF the last century largely a record OF its
acts. The one practical feature OF the will is
its reference to Prince Victor, the eldest son
of Prince Jerome, as the Prince Imperials sue
n. he. oil L.
with the expectation that at the time it
became known Prince jerome would no
longer be living. But whether or not it
was intended as al exclusion of that
Prince from the succession, if it can be called
SO, it could have had no legal result. 1t
merely amounted 70 the expression of a per-
sonal wish, and that wish is now defeated by
the evident determination of Prince Jerome
not to abdicate his ownership of the shadowy
BonapaIte claim, The Princes will. therefore. ]