National Opinion

THAT INJUNCTION.—The much talked of injunction, to stop the commissioners and selectmen of this town from making subscriptions in aid of the Rutland railroad, on behalf of the town, has been decided. The injunction asked for has been refused. On the hearing before Judge Peck upon the application for the injunction, Judge Poland who is one of the commission, and who acted as counsel for the defendants, expressly waived all objections of a dilatory and technical character, to the allowance of the injunction, and expressly asked that the decision be made upon the broad ground of the validity of the law of the extra session, which was claimed by the plaintiffs to be unconstitutional. He said he desired this, as the company and the town did not wish to have their enterprise or securities embarrassed by any outlying constitutional bugbear. The decision may therefore be regarded as a final end of the whole question, so far as the validity of the law is concerned. We have never supposed that there was any serious question that could be made as to the validity of the law, and we regard this early decision of the question as peculiarly fortunate for the success of the road, as it effectually silences the principal ground of the clamor that has been raised on the subject.—Caledonia.