The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-13 00:00:00

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THARIDES 3s. 6d.; sent free p fors 4 tiV t ic ic lLEX. ROSS, 248 ,High tiolborn, London. Essay 41 , PLE REMOVER. All diseases of the skin , 8 / a t ; e improved by one dose of ,ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE -4 SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness 'olb n ,,'• 9 d.; by post for 40 et tmps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High London. A t E-X. ROSS' FACE POWDER, ls. ; sent for pic t - stamps ; Eye Colour, 38. Cd., or 54 stamps. Skin 1, 0 1 ), Inees a transcendent complexion, 48., or so stamps. 1 011 of Roses, 3s. Gd., or 51 stamps.—AVEX. ROSS. 218, '•..._lolborn, London. '`z , RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another ), k th ho 4 1 1 ,.n1e to Poor, ihn 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer friendless, young females were rejected trona Cf „ etTNDS and room, making a total of 3,087 who have Vent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few Ift i,iest recent cases: A. A . ' ~fled 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. ji• aged 13, homeless, both parents dead. /;,'' aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. aged 15, fallen, mother dead. A, li , aged 15, fallen, mother dead, , 4 1 8 , aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. AI: aged 14-, homeless, desertel by her parents. I T '' , aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A, aged 17, fatlen, both parents dead. k if., aged 18, fallen, father dead. R. aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, tt . ";, aged 17, fallen, both part nts dead. 4t. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. tottp',.rtew home the Committee wish to form would be for get? ledo children, from the age of to 15, will, , t` q 'ten astray from the path Gt virtue. "I" atrib utions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, 410.tliel Co 85, Queen -street, Cheapside ; or by Messrs _`" , Y and Co.. Lombard-btreet. 11°ME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N., Ikl , k aar or the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of tlc t ,',, and Destitute Boys, and those verging on crime, ''P resident—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., RP, N I) , VICE-PRESIDENTS. t, g en Cave, Esq., M.P. IPeto, Bart , M.P. ' , kta r ,R. Gurney, Esq. I Abel Smith, Esq., H.P. -ek Morley, Esq. I litp A , COMMITTEE. ki..ttex. Anderson. I Rev. H. M'Sorley. k r -,.• IL Burrows. I Mr. W. J. Maxwell. Ili: ~,". D. Chapman. I Mr. Alfred Short. air ' - c , „. P. G edge. I Mr. Robert Sinclair. N _ George Moore. I Mr. E. J. Tabrum. ' ) ,tek„‘' Prancis Lycett. I Mr. R. T. Turnbull. 5k 0n0",. 14 „.."—W. H. Willans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C. t, — " 4 7 Secretary—Mr. A. 0. tharles, 5.6, Suffolk-street, 'AN, Pall-Mall East, S.W l 'a—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard tavih le ii street, i.__ .C. _ e ti,k4 l „ lhorne was opened in APT.% Mt td designed to 0911,1 e little ones whose charact r ancircumstances v ss n,.'llY the:,, for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tendar fi l l ic h eoludes their admission to the Rtfuges. Such are those It.lieneglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are attest have been deserted by their natural protectors and k h re tit beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose '" Tea have at one time or other received parish relief, b y t`ter l i) are now friendless orph ans. Such are those whose P 414,11 are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who ) s tj l ittr e ir children in the same path. Such are thcte whose kllitiso c lations have already had their painful effect,and ti Illt n e ead them to a life of crime and misery. kh. e leesaity for an Institution for these little ones is evi- L ?el the police statistics ' which show that in London year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of thA to ye been apprehended for various offences, 70 of whom kr.,,,ovicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis qllJllt'ohY the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too rites Punish, though not too young to learn the beginnings ct`, th e On the other hand. there are numbers who, but lrnely help afforded by such an Institution, must ' s ot "se become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli 1, 41 14 tehe self-help be permanent burdens to the State. On t Nn„‘'etne for Little Boys has, therefore, been established toe h a % the little ones, to save them from the prison on the 7 11) lt 4 4;_alld the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour ip r he hem useful members of society. es of routine of the Ins:itution present' all the fea 111' c ar a home. a school, and a workshop. The little ones t4,,,lr bi d tor as children ; they have thir re ular meals, th„"table clothing, their hours of play d g amusement, singing class. They are treated as a s n cholars • every led iu 18 devoted to school work—reading, and w'ritin, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional te;; l i tl e(i Objects awl other subjects. But -they are also th 4, 04 the work. As they must all, and that at a very early ye hie, earn their living by the sweat of their brow, t e here at once taught habits of industry. So the a n t n t s er - - 10NOre upied with various industrial occupati bags t 6 br oom the /thtal paper bags for bankers, and white raper Nvifi e ellf, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any „ t b bny them Someg the coil for the . ma , mendinn , ezo. assist the master In th t e rt garde ß n; ; tlp„` , ceZ '„1 1 lanti n g, watering, weeding, an h d h o`i tikl.'neY are being made useful in the boll sc ru bbing l e ping, while the elder ones (lean all 'the bo t ots, ti,l4"`e• In this way it is sought to fit them for an active Zf IY',,e Lare now 50 little inmates from about four years of i4; 111, 11' There is room for nearly 10'. and the Committee 1 1 , henl fu llly see the Home filled at once ; they only wait e, he teessary subscriptions. Y e ettniroittee feel constrained to plead for those who ;411,eRta e Tia plead for themselves ; and, referring to the t % h es Of some who have been already admitted, itted, th . ey r IVlOeca;,‘ tight to make a widow and her family paupers to S f o s I, 8e one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs BijOi.,e streets and is beyond her control ? Is it ki he' r ut tallae she has so large a family. that you h will not 1 4 0 14 to ,Put one of ?hems a Home. but that tee must Ica e the house " lit doing the best can for the theo 14tIg to dead orhan to send him to the workft e ouse. Is it iit°thers as p we would they should do unto bo: l ltre,!l e ones have unnatural parents who turn ' a t t hh away, e atW t e t n o , 11, 0 4 of or force them by ill-treatment to " to s Z a hou d be found to care for them, to spe s a n k h a t k_in , Lily ? 4011 w e 'eul, to befriend them, to house and clot e h keep ki leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the ft, or else exclaiming "Am I my brother's h qt e ir de of admission to the House is twofold, tWeteii election of che subscribers. Eoys thus admitted gi,:ed free, boarded clothed, educated, and taught till Years ot age. V 1 11 4 4 , YieW lo secure the election of the most deserving ', 444 otttraitte have from the first discouraged canvass ,l4le.YOtie heY do not print any addresses of the subscriber . tio„/ inl„g,Dapers contain a description of each case, as care- IL' the k igated by the Committee, and with this informa oen,„ onbscribers are able to judge for themselves as to moat e ligible for free a w dmission. eqq,aYment of 55. a eek, made quarterly in advance. tlrtVlia!on.onrea Must be un d er 10 years of age at the time of it'lo c hg Th ose received on p a y men t are a d m itt e d a t any t• "as eg lon a aPproved by the committee, tto,„Oel lti of chitaren to be admitted free will take place as O ki t, ta the increase in the annual subscriptions will joY Ilome is fell; they will then be held periodi- Vre of a r i PPlleation for the admission of children may be '''4cute, and of the Honorary 13ecretary, N°. 22,692. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1865. NEW STORY BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 1 voL, 10s, 6d., CHRISTIAN'S MISTAKE. By the Author of "John Halifax." From the Times, Feb. 4.—" A more charming story to our taste has rarely been written. Even if tried by the standard of the Archbishop of York, we shrtu:d expect that even he would pron,unce Christian's Mistake' a novel without a fault." Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT TRIENNTAT, HANDEL FESTIVAL. MESSIAH - , Monday, June 26, 1865. SELEC PION, Wednesday, June 28, 1865. ISRAEL, Friday, June 30, 1865. REMEMBER ! WE WAIT SUPPER FOR YOU, atter the Pantomime, at EVANS'. Fail IlLt! - • Act ; third, Crown Solicitor to the Court of Bank ruptcy, Walter William Aldridge, Esq., who mar ried a niece of the Lord Chancellor, appointment created under the New Bankruptcy Act; fourth, Architect to the Court of Bankruptcy, Augustus B. Abrahams, brother-in-law to the Lord Chancellor, appointment found necessary under the New Bank ruptcy Act. In addition to these there was a sec retaryship of presentations, given to A. B. Abrahams, Esq., and a Mr. R. J. Abrahams was appointed second clerk in the Land Registry Office. There is another little job in my own immediate neigh bourhood, where the Lord Chancellor has been induced to appropriate an appointment for the benefit of his own son-in-law, the official assig neeship to the Exeter district. Now, I say that gentleman knew no more of the duties of the official assigneeship than I know of the duties of the Lord Chief Justice of England. His lordship has recently removed his son-in-law from that district to the London official assigneeship, at a salary of £BOO a year." Even this, however, does not appear to complete the list; for it has been asserted, and the assertion we believe has not been contradicted, that another son of the Chancellor, the Hon. W. Bethel', has been appointed to a place of £4OO a year, though he is still an undergraduate at Oxford. Under ordinary circumstances, it might be judicious so far to consult public prejudice as to wait until his sons had completed their education before he provided for them at the public expense. In these days it is usually supposed. that salaries are only paid in exchange for work done ; and it is an tecedently probable that a youth who is still an undergraduate at The University will not, either in point of leisure or of ability, be worth £4OO a year to the public service. But these considerations were overcome in the mind of the Lord Chancellor by the menacing aspect of the political horizon. " Trust not the morrow" is a maxim which should never be forgotten by public characters who have large families to provide for. After all, it is but a sacrifice of repuation in exchange for so much pub lic money ; and whether the bargain is a good or a bad one must depend in each case on the amount which there is to sacrifice. The Programme of arrangemen s, with the price of Tickets, and the block plan of Stalls, may now be had, on written or personal applicati m. at the Festival Ticket Offices, Crystal Palace, and Exeter Hall. It may also be had at the principal Music Warehouses in London and the Provinces ; and be sides numerous other places abroad, at the offices of the South- Eastern, and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Compa nies, at Paris, Brus els, Colagne, Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, Ghent, Antwerp, &o. The two Ticket Offices as above will be open from 10 a,m. till 4.0 p.m. To-morrow, for the issue of vouchers s' cur ing seats according to the numbered plans which will then be open to inspection. Written applications, whether direct or through agents, containing remittances, and arriving at either of the Ticket Offices on or before the fir t post on the 13th. will be attended to alternately with personal appliza- Hons. by order. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It ij Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Fink Label, and Cork branded "Kinahan'a LL Whisky." Crystal Palace and Exeter Hall, March 13th, 1885. NOTE.—Persons preferring seats in any particular block are recommended to apply for them as early as possible atter the opening of the Subscription Books on the 13th of March Even the Crystal Palace, with its vast space, has limits of accommodation which cannot be exe,eedea ; and the demand at each of the three previous Festivals for seats in particular blocks having been greatly in excess of any possible supply, the necessity for the foregoing intimation must be apparent. THE EXAMINER.—Mr. Edmunds held four ap pointments, two in the Commission of Patents, and two in the House of Lords. In the office of Patents he was charged with default, confessed himself debtor to the amount of nearly £B,OOO, which he paid, and resigned his appointments. A farther and larger sum is claimed by the Treasury, but disputed. by Mr. Edmunds. In these circumstances the Chan cellor had to consider the course to be taken with reference to the offices held by this gentlemen in the House of Lords. Mr. Edmunds asked the Chan cellor to suspend his action till he should have made his answer to the last claim of the Treasury, and partly upon this plea, partly upon another, and vaguer, for time, a short period of grace was granted. And on the very day when the Chancel lor, in conformity with the opinion of the .Govern ment, was about to communicate the whole affair to the House of Lords, Mr. Edmunds put in a petition for leave to retire with a pension, which petition the Chancellor himself presented. It then devolved on a committee to consider the claim to a pension, which they did without any knowledge of the charges against Mr. Edmunds beyond floating rumours. And so the pension was granted. The Chancellor justifies his inaction on the ground that he was not bound to " pursue" Mr. Edmunds into the Com mission, and thwart his application for a reward for eighteen years' servises. But as the Chancellor, by silently presenting the petition, had given it some silent sanction, we think the better course would have been to have acquainted the committee with the facts, and to have left the matter altOgether to its judgment. And the Chancellor gives a most extraordinary reason for not having done any thing which could prevent the grant of the pension, that it could be taken in satisfaction of any debt which may be be proved due to the Trea sury 1 In other and plain words, that the public or the Crown, no matter which word is used, should pay itself with its own money. According to this view, the only fault is that the pension was so small, for if it had been thousands instead of hundreds there would at once have been the wherewith to satisfy the Treasury claim to some £9,000. We have here given a mere rough outline of this affair, avoiding all minor details, for all that we have in view is to enable our readers to judge of the Chan cellor's part in it. Lord Westbury is not a popular man. He has no consideration for the self-love of the people with whom he comes in contact, and has a peculiar art of bringing home to them unmis takably a mortifying sense of their inferiorities. No one has a greater command of oil, of which he only makes one use, to give the utmost smoothness to his incisive weapons. His temper and his talents are of equal edge. At a safe distance his great abilities are seen and justly admired, but near they inspire more of apprehension than any other feeling. THE ‘‘LONDON REVIEW."—The Lord Chancellor has given the town what it always dearly loves— a great scandal for its clubs and dinner tables. If Cmsar's wife should not even be suspected, what shall be said of the keeper of the Queen's conscience, if it appears that he has abused his position to con done a gross offence against the public service, and use it as a means of promoting his relatives ? This is the scandal, and it was all the more readily be lieved, inasmuch as Lord Westbury has bestowed his patronage upon the members of his family to an extent which has been the subject of general remark. It is not, of course, to be supposed that a lawyer who attains the woolsack, or a clergyman who is made a bishop, will be entirely oblivious of the in terests of his sons and sons-in-law in disposing of the good things which fall within his gift. But to think of them to the exclusion of every one else, is placing other candidates, equally well, and perhaps better, qualified, at an unfair disadvantage. Lord Westbury has done this ; and thus the scandal which on Tuesday he endeavoured to explain away has acquired force and probability. And we confess that, even with hisexplanation before us, we find find it diffi cult to resist the supposition that the prospect of put ting Mr. S Bethell, his son, into one good appoint ment, and Captain Cardew, his son-in-law, into another, had something to do with the resignation by Mr. Edmunds in the Patent Office and in the House of Lords. But, whether this is so or not, there are other points, to which we shall presently , draw attention, with regard to which there can be no doubt whatever, that the Lord Chancellor's con duct is open to the gravest inculpation. In review ing the case two considerations suggest themselves. Both turn upon the gravity of Mr. Edmunds' offence. Lord Westbury tells us that, when the Law Officers of the Crown were consulted, they were of opinion that there was no ground for crimi nal proceedings ; and that, even if such proceedings could have been instituted with success, " they would have been unfair and unjust, because the whole of the information attaching to Mr. Edmunds' defalca tions, or, at least, the principal part of it, had b een obtained from his confession." " It was, therefore," Lord Westbury says, " a matter of civil liability." " If," he adds, "it had turned out, or if .it should hereafter turn out, that Mr. Edmunds has paid the whole amount, it would have been wrong to deprive him of his pension." Nay, "if it should turn out that Mr. Edmunds is still a debtor, the pension is liable a t be t o deb taken, e n iv a e n d will confess e we aretaken, n a s t s o a n t s s f h a e c d t in o at these admissions. If Mr. Edmunds is entitled to his llia bility n respect pensn o why oee of two things follows--eith er Mr. is true, he is still entitled to it ; will says that, whether he has discharged or to the public or not, he is entitled to his pen hwyhiwchashe he cflaoirmceded to it ? res L ign dh theis Westburyf officeui would if the h a be e nv a e lle gat o w wrong o that t t to e deprivestill il h him fowes the public £9,1 00 be applied in payment of hi s dioeorbin, ; he says, t it Edmunds has not disqualified himself, by hi s con duct in the Patent - office, for holding his place s it in the House of Lords, or, if he has, he is not pen sion t t . ; that N ha aotv one entitled to a pension for his services in those places. Lord Westbury's statement to the House on Tuesday was, in one respect, exces sively uncandid. He gave it no means of judging what the nature of Mr Edmunds' defalcations in the Patent-office were. As far as we can gather the facts of the charge against this gentleman from his lordship's speech, it seems to us very doubtlul indeed whether Mr. Edmunds has been guilty of more than an irregularity, for which, though he is deserving of blame, a much lighter penalty than that which he has been forced by Lord Westbury to inflict upon himself would not have fully met the justice of the case. He was bound by the statute of 1833 to pay over all fees received by him, and make his account to the Exchequer. But the statute makes no provision touching the audit of his accounts. If the fact be, as Lord Derby says he has been in formed, that Mr. Edmunds, instead of handing over a sum of money which he had received on behalf of the Government, placed it in a deposit bank and received the interest upon it till it was called for— though such a proceeding was excessively improper, it was not of that gross character which would de mand that he should be removed from all the ap pointments he held. 6 ‘ TILE SrEczaToa,"---The Lord Chancellor's can- , , s O l 3O . QA3I. • 4 44 , „ • c , 7 1 . 4 . 7 4 1 0 116.', • ••??" • .446. 71 . 3 DIE • Pig a•oir • ' DROIT. D • 16.0 , „ e 4: '' ' l - 1 k lief ;101 0 ~„ r : 4 . • 714 ' L , A • 4, t t Vil 3 1111 I , a4.ed O% - _,e ~~~~ p- PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. dour approaches nearer to that white and sparkling lustre which we attribute to the saints than any other result of the bleaching power of the world's fuller's earth. When he has to narrate the history of transactions not altogether clean or edifying, there is a soft benignity and a stainlessness in his treatment which affect us like the compassion of nature burying the foul places of the earth in a spot less garment of driven snow. Lord Westbury's ex planation in the House of Lords on Tuesday of the unpleasant transactions in connection with the Patent-office, of which we gave a brief notice last week, was full of this tranquillising beauty. True, the feathered words, the flakes of compassionate candour, did not fall till a heavy cloud had rested for a whole day on the firmament of his own official purity. But this perhaps only enhances the lustre of the the effect. Till Duty's stern voice was heard the. Chancellor listened to the pleadings of pity. He could not bear to cut off a possible culprit from the way of repentance and tears. Yet when the voice of conscience became at last impera tive, the sentiment of Wordsworth's great " Ode to Duty" at once prevailed with that pure and single mind Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Norknow we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face, —nothing quite so fair, but the next thing to it is the bright selection of that serene smile on the up turned face of the earthly lawgiver who keeps the conscience of England. The Lord Chancellor's heart seems to have got the better for a time of his stern sense of duty. When he received an earnest request from Mr. Edmunds' solicitor to postpone that communication till Mr. Edmunds could hear from abroad. Why it would have been a consola tion to Mr. Edmunds to hear from abroad before the Lord Chancellor could be permitted to set his con science at rest does not very clearly appear, but it is said that the Lord Chancellor had again intimated to Mr. Edmunds that for the second time he might avoid a trial more or less public, by resignation,— perhaps he wished to give Mr. Edmunds time to take the advice of friends abroad whether such re signation would be desirable. This Lord Westbury does not deny, but he repudiates with great fervour the imputation of having tempted Mr. Edmunds with the hope of getting a pension as well as avoid ing the publicity of an inquiry ...by the House of Lords in case he should resign. No doubt Mr. Ed munds had a difficult calculation to make. On the one hand, it is pretty clear that his friends in the House of Lords were numerous. Lord Derby, for instance, does not scruple to palliate the rather alarming practice (hypothetically attri buted to Mr. Edmunds) of paying State money to a private deposit account and drawing the interest of that deposit account as your own. With powerful friends willing to draw (if necessary) strong moral distinctions in one's favour between the practice of holding a capital not one's own in one's own hands while actually drawing the income and spending it, and the practice of annexing capital and interest at once, what might there be to hope from an inquiry in the House of Lords ? On the other hand, a pension of £BOO a-year without inquiry might be in every way preferable—preferable to all parties—to Mr. Edmunds himself, and to the patron m whose gift was the successorship to Mr. Edmunds. And considering especially that this patron was the powerful and compassionate Lord Chancellor him self, what might there not be to hope from the policy of resignation which seemed to be expressly indi cated by the merciful Judge as the only condition of his silence? Might not the Lord Chancellor have conceived the benevolent idea of conferring the post on some deserving relative of his own ? And might it not be very gratifying to his feelings both as a Christian and as a father to be spared on the one hand the pain of a public censure of Mr. Edmunds, and on the other the uncertainties arising from the long delay of an investigation, and the possibility that the House of Lords might after all take the same high moral ground as to the broad difference between spending the capital and spending the in terest of public moneys as Lord Derby takes, and de cline to dismiss their Clerk for his little peccadillo in another department? These considerations—or some others equally weighty—determined Mr. Edmunds (after heladheara from abroad) to place his resig nation in the hands of the Clerk of the Parchments, accompanying it with a petition for a pension in consideration of faithful service. Lord Westbury's pity now triumphed. It was not in his nature, he 4. , mmitbcc. So—apparently without again consulting the Govern ment—he held back his revelations—presented Mr. Edmunds' petition himself, and made no commu nication to the committee appointed to consider the pension concerning his alleged misdeeds. Doubtless he had not promised Mr. Edmunds to favour his pension in case he resigned—but Mr. Edmunds had calculated rightly on the compassionate temper of that gentle heart. Ile resentment of the judge was satisfied by the resignation of the culprit ; the tenderness of the father was gratified by the new opening for the son. The committee appointed to consider the pension had heard generally of the unfavourable rumours, but these rumours were not officially before them, and Mr. Edmunds's friends in the House of Lords are many and earnest. What the Lord Chancellor did not feel it his duty to explain, the committee did not feel it their duty to ask. A pension of £BOO a year was granted without asking questions. What if it should turn out that Mr. Edmunds had appropriated money in the Patent Office did that diminish his merits as Clerk to the House of Lords ? Would not every reason able man feel it his duty to pension handsomely for faithful service the confidential servant who had punctually discharged all his duties as a house ser vant, but had been compelled to leave his place only for occasionally abstracting money from the count ing-house, and putting it in his own name to a separate account at the savings' bank, of course drawing the interest (pro tempore) for himself ? At all events the committee were not affected with-notice of the truth of the various rumours, and "did not wish to test it, so the pension was given. And in the mean time the Hon. Slingsby Bethell succeeded to Mr. Edmunds as Reading Clerk to the House of Lords. Thus it was arranged in a manner very soothing for all parties—when the story oozed out into the press, and that coarse stimulus furnished by public opinion was applied to the motives of all con cerned. However, we cannot regret a circumstance which has resulted in these second " confessions of a beautiful spirit." The delicate sense of respon sibility, the atmosphere of " soft compassion's feel ing soul," the lowliness—almost Augustinian—of that last sentence of the Lord Chancellor's, in which he urged upon their lordships an investigation into his own conduct—" I humbly beg to move your lordships that a Committee of this House be ap pointed," &c., almost force us to cry out " A saint, a saint is here 1" Then the self-sacrifice ! He only just touches upon his self-denial in not filling up that second Patent appointment of £6OO a year. What a lesson, in lowly self-abnegation it reads us 1 The spirit of Wordsworth's prayer, " Give unto m e , made e in thelowlywe,the spirit of self-s acr ifi ce, " seems realised great English lawgiver. In s h or t, w e can but be thankful for events, however unto ' ward, which have resulted in opening the gracious glimpse of " The image of a Chancellor's soul, — How bright, how solemn, how serene !" 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After all, he is the best imitation of a Pope we have got among us ; and the judgments by which he regulates the belief of the faithful in the Church of England are composed in a style nearly as exciting as the Encyclical which has recently issued from St. Peter's Chair.. We shall listen, therefore, with a salu tary scepticism to all reports prejudicial to his good fame. Evidence in support of charges of misconduct ought to be required to bear some proportion to the dignity of the accused. It is said to be the law of the Papal States, that charges of incontinence against a Cardinal of the Church shall not be lis tened to Unless five witnesses of the fact can be pro duced. At least an equal amount of testimony ought to be required before we believe any evil of the high official who has been selected under' the English law -to explain the articles of their faith to Churchmen, and especially to enlighten them as to the future destiny of the profligate, the mendacious, and the corrupt. The latest difficulty in which the guileless nature of the Lord Chancellor has involved him threatens to be more embarrassing than any with which he has hitherto had to deal. The prima facie case is one which few persons would like to find themselves called upon to confront ; but it rests upon assumptions which, whatever their versimili tude may be, have not yet been established by proof. There are some points which appear to be undis puted, and which have excited many uncomplimen tary observations ; but some material links are still wanting to make up the story which the active imagination of the public has woven out of the ad mitted facts. It is quite clear that Mr. Edmunds re signed, and it is also clear that his resignation gave to the Chancellor an opportunity, of which he availed himself with startling rapidity, to promote his son— or at least, to use the cautious language of the Attor ney-General, a person who stood towards him in the relation of a son. The Attorney-General never employs language without a meaning ; and, though the laity may not be able to see at the first blush, no doubt the time will come when they will appre ciate the soundness and importance of the distinction which the first Law Officer of the Crown has drawn between the Chancellor's son and the person who stands to him in that relation. Anyhow, the gentle man who apparently unites these two sharply-discri minating characters did, by the resignation of Mr. Edmunds, obtain anuncommonly good appointment. The feeling of the public, upon learning this fact, naturally was that Mr. Edmunds' tenderness of conscience had been very serviceable to the Chan cellor's family interests. The next point which came to light was that, to all appearance, there was no need that Mr. Edmunds should have resigned at all. His offence was in no way connected with his position in the House of Lords. Nor does it ap pear, as far as the facts are at present known, to have involved a criminality which would have made him necessarily incapable of retaining any other public office. It is clear that the Law Officers of the Crown did not think that there was enough in the story to support a criminal charge ; and it is pro bable that Mr. Edmunds rather erred by continuing a vicious tradition than by originating any mal practice of his own. This is the result to which the speeches of Lord Derby and the Chancellor lead. aluu --- men, it is naturally - asKea, how came he to re sign ? What was it that terrified him into so un wise a step, which has thrown him upon the world, absolutely without official salary, after so many years of official service. The answer is plain enough. He knew that the Chancellor was about to communicate to the House of Lords the charges that had been made against him, and the position in which he stood. Now here we get into the region of conjecture. One reason, and one reason only, could have determined Mr. Edmunds to resign his office under the House of Lords without waiting to see whether the house was really inclined to turn him out or not ; and that reason must have been a hope that, by resigning, he would obtain his pen sion, from which he might be barred if he waited till the cause of his dismissal was made known. But here comes the difficulty. Mr. Edmunds had been in formed that, if he continued to retain his office, the Chancellor would lay the charges against him before the House. Reasoning by ordinary analogy, he would have inferred that the Chancellor would equally feel himself bound to lay the charges before the com mittee appointed to decide upon the question of giving him a pension. How came Mr. Edmunds to foresee that the Chancellor would not do this ? It is quite evident he must have foreseen it, or his re signation would have been without motive. The Chancellor declares that he never told Mr. Ed munds of his intentions in this respect, or incited him to resign by any promise that he would, in that event, abstain. from disclosures that would imperil his pension. Lord Westbury is far too cautious a man to indulge in written promises ; and " tell" is a coarse word to express the mode of communica tion by which the Chancellor's benignant intentions might be conveyed to Mr. Edmunds's doubting mind. But was no hint given by any one ? Was no understanding encouraged ? These are questions the committee appointed on Thursday will have to re solve. If no such intimation was given tacitly or openly the tale is one of the most extraordinary that was ever told. That the Lord Chancellor should have decided that it was his duty to thrust the accusations (as yet unanswered) upon the House of Lords when no question concerning Mr Edmunds had been raised there, and yet that it was not his duty, when Mr. Edmunds had resigned, to lay them before the com mittee appointed to decide upon his pension, is in explicable enough. But that Mr. Edmunds should have foreseen that the Chancellor would take this inexplicable course, and should have staked his whole official means of support upon the accuracy of that forecast, is ten times more inexplicable. The public seem inclined to draw the light which is to clear up this mystery from the fact that the Chan cellor's inscrutable reticence, and Mr. Edmunds's mysterious foreknowledge of it, have contributed to instal Mr. Slingsby Bethel in a delightful post. If Mr. Edmunds had not foreseen the Chancellor's reticence, and had consequently not resigned, a fat appointment would have been wanting to the com fortable sum total which the Bethel family are en joying out of the proceeds of the taxes. There are hard unsympathising men who have designated these proceedings as jobs ; but they do not under stand the tender scrupulousness of the Lord Chan cellor's mind. He has always been a deeply reli gious man. He has felt an impulse, which he could not control, to preach. Christianity to Christian Young Men'g Associations. He has, as ho himself has told us, offered con stant prayers to Heaven for the success of the Reform movement ; and he has carefully avoided throwing any doubts upon the efficacy of those prayers by resorting to the merely human instru mentality of bringing in a Reform Bill. In the same spirit, he has observed the Scriptural command to provide for those of his own household. The fortu nate resignations of Mr. Edmunds have enabled him to provide, not only for a son in the House of Lords, but also for a son-in-law in the Patent-office. If for no other reason, Mr. Edmunds deserves a pen sion for having contributed so largely to the depas turage of so excellent a family. But this appears by no means to exhaust the list of the Lord Chan cellor's achievements in the performance of this imperative and difficult duty. He feels deeply that time is short, and that, if he does not improve every occasion, the opportunity may pass from him for ever. The following speech, reported to have been made by Mr: Tidmas, at Ipswich, gives an idea of his laudable activity in this respect :—" It might be said of the Bankruptcy Act that it has been a gigantic system of out-door relief to Lord Westbury's relations. I hold in my hand a list of some of the appointments which the noble lord has made under that bill. First, a registrarship to the Hon. Slingsby Bethel, son of the Lord Chancellor, to the Court of Bank ruptcy at Exeter, and afterwards at London; second, a registrarship of deeds to the Hon. R. Bethel, son i Of the Lord Chancellor, under the NOW Dalikruptcy E - ‘Acrt! - AMERIC • p+7 4.7 (RE UTER'S TELE QRAMS.) ARRIVAL OF THE\Elfiititi The Royal Mail steamship Eutbrpa ariveg a Queenstown at 10.15 p.m. yesterday, with 41 pas sengers and $13,160 in specie. She landed 126 sacks of mails and three passengers, and proceeded at 10.30 p.m. All well. (Via Crookhaven.) NEW YORK, March 2 (Morning). Deserters state that the last of Hardee's army crossed the Santie on the 25th ult. at Charlotte, and the last of Hood's army of 12,000 strong paced through Augusta on the 19th to join Beaurcgard. Georgetown has been evacuated, and is now in possession of the Federals. The steamer Arago received off Charleston on the 26th, news of the burning of Columbia, and of the Federal occupation of Augusta. The Charleston correspondent of the Herald, on the 26th, announces that official news has been received that Sherman had burnt Columbia in retali ation for his troops being fired upon from the houses. The Herald correspondent at Hilton Head, on the 26th, does not confirm the capture of Augusta. Charlotte papers denounce the shelling of Colum bia by Sherman without warning, and before the women and children had left the town. Several citi zens were shot down after the occupation. Charlotte despatches of the 25th report that no alarm was felt there. The direction in which Sherman is moving is not stated, but he is supposed to be making a flank movement. The weather and the condition of the roads interfere with military movements. Sheraton's head-quarters are at Columbia. The Herald thinks that the Southern despatches show that Sherman, after sending Beauregard, Hardee, and Bragg upon a false scent to the north, ward, has moved to the east to form a junction with Scofield from Wilmington. The Richmond Examiner inveighs against the idea that the evacuation of Richmond would not damage the Confederacy, and declares that it would result in the loss of all respect for the authority of the Confederate Government, the disintegration of the army, and the abandonment of the scheme of the Southern Confederacy. The Enquirer says that the enemy have lately thrown their forces across the lines of easy congres sional retreat, since when the members of Congress have left Richmond, one by one, until only the skeleton of the legislature remains, which is rapidly diminishing to a number of members insufficient to form a quorum. If the President is firm and does not imitate the congressional example he will be esteemed as the founder of a new people and his name will be written with Washington, Tell, and Alfred. Should he, however, abandon his post, his torical instances can b e found to illustrate his disgrace. The Sentinel says, in view of the opening of the campaign by two armies destined to wrestle for Richmond as the prize, it would be proper to put the capital into fighting trim, and recommends the departure of useless non-combatants and consumers. Grant has marched his troops out of Hatcher's Run, it is supposed to make another effort bo gain the south aide of the railroad. The condition of the roads, however, has caused the temporary abandon ment of the movement. The Petersburg Express of the 25th believes that an important battle will be fought within two or three days. It is reported that Sheridan has sent an expedi tion to ascertain if preparations are making for Lee to fall back upon upon Lynchburg. Forrest has assumed the command of the cavalry. in Mississippi, east of Louisiana and west of Ten nessee, and threatens to exterminate all Confederate stragglers, robbers, and deserters. President Lincoln, in replying to the committee informing him of his re-election, acknowledged with gratitude that the people continued to have confi dence in him, and he accepted the trust with its yet onerous and perplexing duties and responsibilities. President Lincoln has approved the Fortifications Bill, the appropriations for which have been reduced to half their original amount. The Senate has passed the Loan Bill. _ The House of Repreacntatives have passed a bill, to become valid on April 1, increasing the duties on liquors and spun silk, and imposing a duty of sc. per lb. on raw cotton, 20c. on crude petroleum, 15c. on coal oils, 15c. per lb. on tobacco stems, 50c. per cwt. on railroad iron, increasing the tonnage duty to 30c., and repealing the act forbidding the expor tion of guano from the islands discovered by the Americans. A privateer steamer, mounting six guns, was re ported off the western . extremity of Cuba on the 9th The steamers Moravian, Edinburgh, New York, and Pennsylvania have arrived out. NEW YORK, March 2, Evening. Gen. Johnstone has issued an order, dated Char lotte, Feb. 25, assuming the command of the army of Tennessee, and of all troops in the department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. He says he takes command with strong hope, because he will be assisted in council on the field by the talents and skill of the general he succeeds. The New York Daily News estimates Johnstone's army at 90,000 men. The Richmond Inquirer says--" The air is filled with alarming rumours. Every fear has found voice, every ear is opened to its tale." _ _ Measures of precaution are considered to presage disaster. At a mass meetingof thepeople resolutions were passed declaring their unalterable purpose to achieve independence► The message of the Gowstor of Georgia opposes the arming of the slaves. They do not wish to enter the army. They are now restrained by fear. If they leave the enemy will make them t gilt:. They will desert by thousands. The governor denounces violently the military and civil policy of Davis, which, if persisted in, must terminate in reconstruction with or without subju gation. The New Jersey Legislature has rejected the con stitutional amendment. The House of Representatives has passed the $600,000,000 Loan Bill. The main features have not been altered. It empowers the Secretary of the Treasury at his option to make a further issue of six per cent. gold bonds, in lieu of seven-thirties. The house has also passed a resolution by 80 to 64 votes, declaring that hereafter trial by court-martial shall be confined to persons in the naval and military service, or rebel spies in all the States and territories where United States courts are open. The Senate has adopted the amendment increas ing the duty on tobacco, snuff, cigars, and cheroots. It has also passed the House bill taxing sales * per cent. The sales of 7.30 bonds since February Ist amount to 78,000,000 dole., leaving 111,000,000 dolls. unsold. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, March 2, Evening. Money easy—Gold, 198. Exchange on London, 2144 ;on Paris, 2 59f 2 62f. Stock dull—New York Centrals, 112 k ; Illinois, 1174 ; Erie, 71* ; Five-Twenty Bonds, 110 f. Cotton quiet. Mid dling Upland, 84. Breadstuffs declining. Provi sions heavy. Coffee steady. Sugar quiet. Mo lasses dull. Petroleum dull—Crude, 42} ; Re fined, 68. MEXICO. NEW YORK, March 2. Advices received here from Mexico via Havan ndi, state that the garrison of Oagaca, numbering . 7,000 men, surrendered unconditionally to General Bazaine on the 9th ult. Diaz attempted to escape, but was arrested and shot. The French troops have annihilated the guerillas, commanded by Romera and Roga. It is reported that no quarter was given. Romera was shot. According to a despatch from San Francisco Ma zatlan was in a disturbed condition. Guerilla encounters were frequent. A report had reached New Orleans from Bfata moras that Maximilian had forbidden die 'Eagle of clearances tb American porte, Ltnd that the Amer-- Chu cousin expelled frOlA ESTABLISHED 1837. tRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. t'lPoW ered by special Act of Parliament 4 Vict., cap. 9. 1, Princes—street, Bank, London. 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