The Clerk read, as follows: A LEGAL Duvlprr A very curious illustration of the manner in which the law ismadeto bendto technicalities has just occurred in the city of NewYork. upon ii. motion to quashanindictment for the forgery of a certain customhouse bondrexecutedun fraud of the internalrevenue act. The proceedingswere under an act of Conurcss passedin the year 1825 which provides that if an O in a placeunderthojurisdictio nensoofshthaoll becommitt U.S., as n customhouse.dock yard, &c. for which no punishment is provided in the laws of the U.S., the punishment shall be under the State law for of fonse sof the sumoi rrade. the SCOTUS has decided that this act meansthat the punishment is to be the somens by the State law in force when the net of Congresswas passedin 18. The NewYork court also decidesthat the offenso must be committed in a DIMO in which the U.S. held jurisdiction at the timewhen the actwns passedin 1525. Now. it happens that the NewYork customhouse, where this or cry was committed, is not in the sameplace occupic by the NcwYork cus tom house in 182.It also happens that the State law againstforgery existingin 1823hasbeenrepealed. The NewYork court thereforeholds that an indictment cannot besusttined, becauso the act of 1825mm not extend its provisions to a forgery committedin any other laco than the old customhouse;and even if it coult.thero is noState law punishing forizery now in existencewhich was in force in the yenrlSLS: consetiuontly the party who committed the forgcry goes. c ear. Thus the triumph of technicality ov or Justice, We mayprofit by this decisionhero in Phil udrlphia. There is no LU.S. establishment hero in the some placewhich was occupied in 1825 by the same national jurisdictiop exccptthe navy yard, (or a portion of it and thoIJU]. S. arsenal nenr Gray 8 Furry. Tccustomhouse, post officc. Mint. wereall in different situations from those which they occupynow. Furthermore, the Pennsylvania act against forgery in 1825 is not the act in forceiii 13. Our whole criminal codewasreviseda few years ago, and all our criminal laws are compar ativel new. We are. therefore, in no hctter conditiontion theyare in NewYork as regards protection against oifense s punishable under the terms of the apt of congressof 1825 Luckily, congress is in session and t 1iSilcfect can becured by t opauago of a propernot. It will be judicious to atteu toit without deln. otherwisewe shall be without protection against the designsof rogues."