Delaware Tribune

The shameful injustice of the present apportionment of the Legislature was never more glaringly displayed, than in the present attempt to arrange a system of State taxation. Wilmington city, with one-fourth the population of all Delaware, has but one member of the Legislature in thirty! The consequence is, that with no sufficient representation to guard her interests, with no sufficient voice in laying their taxes, the whole burden is about to be put upon her back.

The City Council has now, by the votes which were substantially unanimous, and not of a party character, disapproved both the political jobs affecting the city, now pending in the Legislature—the 'nine wards' bill, and the bill permitting persons to vote at city elections, without any payment of city tax. Both propositions are unnecessary, mischievous, and expensive. They are not called for, in the slightest degree by any public interest, and the Council has done well to unanimously protest against their adoption.

No Legislature in this State will ever again disgrace themselves and their Commonwealth by passing a lottery grant. But the introduction of a bill to do so, in the House, on Friday, was in itself an insult to the Legislature, and a shame upon every one of the parties connected with it. Here would have been the proper opportunity for some quick-blooded member to have moved 'to throw the proposition under the table.' Anything more respectful indicates too much complaisance with a measure, which needs but to be named to incur other condemnation.

We commiserate the unfortunate Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee at Dover. After having the two distinguished legal gentlemen to incubate for ten weeks on the tax question, at one hundred dollars apiece, per week, it is now found that the eggs selected were the wrong kind, and that the whole hatching will have to be killed. The operation has been a regular mare's nest, and a motley collection of specimens neither fish flesh nor fowl, is the unfortunate result. Mr. Dean had much better covered the nest himself. He would have got through sooner and could not possibly have had poorer success.