Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-04

should have anything to do with its manage
 ment, was queer man.. A will of his va
 returned with the property of the plundere,
 Northampton bank. It does not differ ma
 terially from the will lately proved, but con
 tains this language relating to women, whel
 designating who shall have charge of the Ii
 brary: ttAt the time of threatened revolu tion, when it is impossible to conjecture wha 1 social changes will occur in the future, i may be well to attend to the call of pru dence, even at the expense of gallantry. therefore direct that the committs one the Ii brary and the treasurer, each and all of them | shall always be of the male sex.''
 The English Court of Chancery has evi dently not improved much since Dickens sc powerfully satfrized it. Annie Richardson, | domestic servant, had saved two hundred and forty pounds, to which her master, Sir George Balfour, added free gift of sixty pounds, lodging the whole with trustees, who were to pay her the interest. After a time, Annie wanted to go to New Zealand, and de- sired the possession of her capital The trustees had no objection, provided they ob- tained the leave of the Master of the Rolls. For that purpose a friendly suit was insti- tuted, and the leave obtained, but the costs amounted to two hundred and sixteen pounds Thus merely to ask the formal as sent of the Court of Chancery to change of this kind swallowed up more than two thirds Of the sum in question. Lord Coleridge, on hearing of the facts, which came incidentally before him few days ago, aptly said, s'It appears as if Chancery, to prevent any one from being hurt, sometimes takes care that nobody should get any good"
 The Boston Herald charges part of the trouble which has come upon California to the fanciful responsiveness" of the California mind The wealth possessed and the wealth ih prospect have been greatly exaggerated. When the bonanza men and others were get ting several millions year out of the mines their capitalized wealth was placed at from $60, ,000, 600 to SIS. 1000, ,oOO. "As a matter of fact" says the Herald, their income was the capital itself. The mines are virtually exhausted, and the stock they possessed, which at one time sold at more than S1Oo per
 
 than 12 per cent, sells to-day at only $1 per share. If San Francisco merchant is mak- ing $15, 900 per annum, report instantly credits him with an income of $1OO, GOO year, and so on through all the grades of bus mess life. People have lived there for years in fictitious existence, until of late, when the bursting of the bubble proved it's emptiness. The Californians are now awakening to the consciousness that their great mine and railroad owners are less benefit to their State than they had supposed. The former have put a large part of their property in portable eastern securities, and spend their income in buying political hon. ors, and in giving magnificent entertainments in Europe; while the latter levy heavy tax on nearly every pound of merchandise that is moved on the Pacific slope" Beside this. l the spirit of business enterprise has not been favorable to individual development Ev- erybody tries to establish a monopoly, ev- erything is controlled by rings, and the re- suit is immense individual profits which ] come ont of the public Big grain crops have saved the State, and even this source of ! wealth has not been made the most of be- I cause of the port charges which mako San 1 Francisco the most expensive port in the 1 country to the ship-owner. All this Is un- loubtedly true and it would be well for the | whole country if the Californians possessed I ! monopoly of the fancifully expansive mind