New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-16

cannot he sustained, heirg ordered to do so
apparently 10y the captains of the precincts.
They also say the police permit notorious
resorts in the Bowcry which are not licensed to
remain open. The police in defence say that
the owners of these places have been arrested
time and again by them, but that the Dis rlct-
Attorney will not try them. An explanation
from Mr.. McKeons sub0rdinates throwing tho
blame on somebody else is now in order.
One of the members of the state Board oil
Charities described to the Board of Apportlon-
ment Yesterday the condition OF the city IN
sane asylums as a disgrace to civilization. 1T
appears that from what was said that where
there ought to be the best of care and skill
employed in the treatment of the helpless in-
mates of these asylums the reverse is the
case. 1t may be difficult to place the blame Tor
this state of affairs Just where it belongs; but
if an increased approximation will remedy 1t,
the inmates of the asylums shonld not be
made to suffer for lack of it. AT the same time
Controller Campbell is right in demanding
more explicit information before proceeding
further III the matter. If the lunatics had
votes we are certain that the public would
Charities and Correction in regard to this point,
and that the inmates of the asylum wouid not
be without friends III the Board OF Aldermen.
The report of the recent examinations into
the workings of the New-YOrk Post Ofhce,
which is published elsewhere in this issue of
THE TRIBUNE, on the whole Will be satisfac-
tory to the public, however little it may have
l.
pleased the Department at Washington. III Is
found that appointments are made lmpartlally
after due examination and without regard to
political Influence and it is admitted that the
service is, nearer perfection than anywhere
else in the country. The principal changes
recommended are reductions i'll the salaries OF
some of the head men, on the ground that
they DO not have responsibilities so great as
some officials in the Department at Wash
ingtOn who receive less pay. Mr.. Pear
son, it is declared, relieves them of much
responsibility because he looks so carefully
after the details of his Office work. Perhaps IL
the Postmaster-General was equally dill
gent, his subordnates might be proportion
ately relieved, and then their salaries could
come down too.
Justice is no longer paralyzed in Ireland.
Four months almost to day after the bar
barous slaught of the Joyce family III
County Galway three Of the mIrderers have
been banged, and five of their accompce',
having confessed their guilt and begged for
mercy, have had their death sentences COM
muted TO imprisonment for life. The fact that
30 barbarous a crime should have been fol-
lowed by such summary punishment is con-
vincmg proof of the efficiency of the last COer-
cion act. The declaration of one Of the con-
demned criminals in his last moments that he
was innocent may make a painful impression
in Ireland, where The mass Of the population |
remains sulen and suspicious, although the
social revolution has spent its force The |
of five death sentences would nat |
urally have encouraged a guilty man to reiter-
lte his professions of innocence in the despe
rate hope that by importantly and vehemence be
ight escape his doom. Condemned murderers of
ow intelligence frequently persist in SINH
ar prOtestatiOns even when their guilt is es-
ablished with absolute certainty.