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Price of Mwdsr.-We have been in the habit of thinking that under charge oi murder \ defendant not baable. At least it is ruled in this state, bv custom and by precedent, if mol by law. IL was the plea under which the mob were defended who conn eled the restor ,tion of Mcleod to custody after bail had been received and the first steps had been taken for his enlargement, thereupon. We re- collect no case in New York, or in New England, |, where murderer, charged such, has been permitted to go at large, with the privilege of raising among his friends the price efhis Railing murderer amounts precisely to what have stated; for the fri ends of almost any indicted individual would strip themselves of their all, rather than permit the family records to be sullied with tho blot of an execution.

 Young Srmmes, who murdered one of the Professors of the University of Virginia, has, we have stated, declined to appear for trial, and this friends are undoubtedly ready pay the S25 ,00O, which m this is virtually he received the price of the life of ofthe college faculty. The result has not at

 all surprised for from the moment he WAS eniarg- ed hail, we hsse expected precisely this event. Were he the son or brother of any one whose eye this paragraph may meet, the reader would do exactly the same thing. It is human nature But the ques- ton here rises, whether it s just that the possession of wealthy connexions should shield murderer from the legal consequences of his crime; or, in other words, shall the accident of property confer mpunty in crime upon portion of the community! Admit this principle, and government becomes meckery and republication a farce.

 Than such aristocracy of wealth as this, there

 is nothing worse in the arstocracy of birth. There is nothing indeed half bad; and the quicker the proper sentiment obtains upon the subject, the better | The whole bail system requires revision. If we dc not admit murderers to hail here, have such sys tem in reference to less than capital offences, that il is worth no mans while he ried where there is chauce for con,cion and where the penalty for the offence exceeds the punishment of bail forfeiture | The small rogues the only whom the meshe l of the law entange, larger cut their way out with silver knife, whenever they happen to become temporarily heli.--IN. Y. Tattier.