gentle hint to the rest of the newspapers, that there were a number of other editors whom he meant to put through a similar course of sprouts. While we do not care to quarrel with the verdict of the jury, and certainly do not wish to be understood as advocating the license of the Press to assail unjustly the character of any individual in the community, we must say to the Recorder and the parties to the trial, that we hardly think they will find any other case in which they will be permitted to put an editor through with quite such railroad speed, though we admit that if justice were as promptly administered in all cases, the Court of Sessions would stand much higher in public estimation. Of the real merits of Branch’s case we have no means of judging. That he believed the truth of the charges he made we have not the slightest doubt. If there was any falsehood in the matter, he was the dupe of it and not the perpetrator, and we sincerely regret that the prosecutors saw fit to avail themselves of legal technicalities to shut out what his witnesses had to say. It is quite as unfortunate for them as it is for Branch. While their suppression consigns him to prison it leaves the prosecution open to invidious comments, all of which might have been silenced by dragging the slanderers (if such they are) into the light of day and refuting these calumnies. That, however, is their business, not ours. In the meantime poor Branch has been consigned to the tender mercies of the Ten Governors—one of whom, at least, has publicly announced his determination to “put him through the _roughest course of training_ any man ever got on the Island.” We were surprised to hear that the Governor in question had made this _heartless_ speech. We supposed him to be a _Christian_ and a _man_, but we cannot reconcile the idea of striking a fallen and powerless brother as either an evidence of _Christianity or manhood_, and we trust the Governor will yet see the impropriety of attempting to put his threat into execution. We see by this morning’s _Express_, that Branch was on Friday seen in the quarry with his hands all a mass of blisters, working away under a broiling sun. This looks as though the Governors intend to give him the full benefit of his sentence. The _Herald_ takes the occasion of Branch’s conviction to read us a lecture on the enormity of scurrility and libel. No other print in the country is so well qualified for the task. Bennett evidently thinks New Yorkers have short memories, not to recollect the obscene and licentious character of the _Herald_ in its earlier days. He has used Branch as often as any other paper in New York to abuse people towards whom he had incurred a hostility, but now he is down, Bennett kicks him with the rest. We perceive that George Wilkes has commenced a libel suit against Bennett for what he said of _Porter’s Spirit_. [We have taken the liberty of _italicizing_ a portion of the above article—_Ed. Alligator._]