We Publish To Day The Law Recently Enacted For The Punishme...

We publish to day the law recent] y enacted for the punishment of Seduction and Adultery. lts provisions in regard to he former offence we suppose to be in advance of the legislation of most of the States. But it is right that the delibérate plotting seducer should be punished criminally, as well as the thief or housebreaker, or passer of counterfeit moncy. - There is awide difference between the casual, incidental excesses of individuals,and a delibérate plan to injure and destroy, matured with rcflection, pursued with perseverance, and consummated with exultalion. The one class of oiïences are the result of exuberant passions which may still consist with many excellent and noble traits of character, and affbrds prospect of an ultímate return to the restraints of virtue; but the character of the practiced seducer demonstrates a vice of the which permits little room for the iiope that it will be eradicated. Unless through the mouldinginfluenceof Christian faith, the heartseldom or never grows better, butalmostalwaysworse. A young liar is sure to be an oíd one; a young knave will be a greater and more accomplished knave as he advances in years;and the delibérate seducer will be confmned and strengtbened in his purpose of preying on the happiness of others by longcontinued practice. Henee it istliat he should be classed with the other enemies of society, and subjectedtothe same infamy and punishment which ave alloted to them. The law may, perhaps, be rarely executed; but the fact of its existence on the Statute book will have a strong tendency to give public sentimen a right direction on this subject, and thus in a doublé capacity, tend to deter the unprincipled from the commission of this crime.fcf The report of the Liberty diecussion at Adrián,. on our first page, will be founc] botl interesting and intractiïe. Such discussion show the state of public feeling on any topic more accurate'y than any other criterion. - They exhibit ihe causo discossed as it actual ly lies in the minds of the commun'uy. 1: tfiis respect, the liberal concessions made by the opposers of the Liberty party in favor o the propi iety of its principies and objects show a marked and favorable cliange in com munity towards them.QjWe have received from a valued frien( an article of seven pages, ehowing that th Constitution is on anti-slavery document. - The great pressuro of other malters at thi season of the year will absoluteJy preclude it publieation, ot least for the present.