To the Editor of the Srs,—Your correspondent " Shangh seems to percent Council' and. Royal Proclam joni; which is really but a distinction in one point both are precisely liar, and that is the' main point at issue, that they shall be in consonance with the faws, Both are liable to question if they exceed in one case the delegated pomers, or in the other, the lana of the land; and the judge who hears an action founded on one or other is bound to take this important feature into consideration. For instance, the Acton which the Bylaws relating to Railways is founded, delegates certain powers toa Secretary of State, for the regulation of traffic and the well-being of the public and the railways, Suppose, however, that in furtherance of this object there had been such a clause as the following inserted: And for the better carrying out of these bylaws, once in every year, every officer appointed by any Railway Company shall attend, at a certain place to be fixed by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs, and shall there register his name, occupation and address, together with such other particulars as the said Secretary of State shall direct, atid for every such registration said officer shall pay into Her Majesty's Treasury a corresponding with his tocinl or business position, to wit every Director of any such Railway per annum the sum of fifty pounds sterling coin of the realm; every traffic manager, engineer, superintendent or stationmaster per annum the sum of twenty-five pounds every engine-driver, stoker guard &c., the sum of five pounds, and every porter, pointsman or other poor devil not in the above category the sum of five shillings annually. "And every such officer failing, &e. "Now such a thing would not be at-
-tempted in England because every man would at once see the utter illegality, not to say ridiculousness, of the attempt to sible taxation. Yet the illegality and Fiditwist a bylaw into aa engine for irresponculeus nature of the transaction are not greater than those here. The worst thing that can happen toa Court is to have any doubt cast on its constitution; yet th really what is being done with regard to Her Majesty's Supreme Court in China and Japan, by the attempt to enforce pei ties which are in the first place useless the next opposed to all the spirit of British government, and in the third of ab least questionable legality.
Youra truly, A Barrisn Sussect.
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