The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAI

which " it was open to your lordship to have made
'the fullest statement you might have thought proper
in your affidavit sworn in the MIN?
to the Loed Lieutenancy and flepideleedslei at Me
Magistracy in the county of Galway, lie lard kip, ed.
dently struck by atonement our Commissariat in the
Crimea, replies that it is not in his department.
Marquis of CLANRICARDR, however, is not a man to
be easily baffled in a good ones. He is resolved that
guilt—if guilt there be—shall meet with its
deserts, and that the exposure of the son-
dale of the one of " HANDCOCII v. DELACOUR"
shall not be a mere brogan Ahem. If he
cannot get Justin ih one department, he will go
to that to which he has besa referred—say, to the
foot of the Viceregal threw itself: and it must be
admitted by all candid persons who will attentively
read this case of" HANDCOCR 1/. Diurcoua," and the
tarrespondenos which we this day publish, that, if the
Marquis of CI.ANRICABDE still holds the positios
Of Lord-Lieutenant and Superintendent of the
Magistracy of the county of Galway, it is
not by any act of his that he has retained
these honourable offices. Having failed in his
application to the LORD Caexcia.ma, he addressed
a letter on the 3rd of March last to the LORD
LIEUTENANT of IRELAND, and transmitted at the
same time 'a oopy of an affidavit, which be states
he had filed in the bin Court of Chancery, in
compliance with a suggestion in the LORD Crux-
oaLLoa's letter. Io this, however, we apprehend the
noble Marquis has slightly mistaken the purport of
the LORD CHANCELLOR'S observation. That learned
judge wrote of the past, not of the present or future.
His words are : "It was open to your Ind-
ship to have made the fullest stalemeese"—
meaning thereby, that on the discussion of
that affidavit, and any ensuing one that
might be filed, by means of the comments of counsel
on either aids, that investigatin would practically
have taken place which the Marquis of CLANRIC.ARDS
now so much desired. The noble lord, however, seam
to have considered that it was better late than DOWN f
but from the specimen we have had of the late AllOl-
- mode of analysing and commenting
upon affidavits, we should be inclined to say it woe
better late than early. Be this, however, as it may,
the Marquis of CLANRICAIDE WRY doomed to expe-

rience delay in the pursuit of justice, and
to run some risk of missing his object. The Earl
of ST. GERMANS was jest then vacating the office
of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and it was, there-
fore, necessary to refer the case to the amiable Earl
of CARLISLE, who, all the world knows, would find
it impossible to inaugurate his reign by a dismissal.
Iris amiability on this occasion, however, is not with-
out some flavour. On the 18th of March he acknow-
ledges the receipt of letters, and a a copy of an
affidavit recently filed in the Court of Chancery,
which your lordship conceive, to cot:taus a full state-
ment of your share of certain transactions connected
with the case of HANDCOCK T. DELacoua,' lately
heard in that court." And he goes on to say that he
finds that the charges against his lordship are not for
irregularity is his capacity of Lord-Lieutenant or
Magistrate, and that no judicial decision has been pro-
nouncedoondemnatory of his lordship. If the former
were the case,his Excellency would investigate ; if the
latter, he would take such steps as the circumstances

called for, and which no doubt would be very awful.
But he is advised—and this is something im-
portant, if not new—that it is not within the au-
thority of the Executive Government to make
inquiries into questions of the nature referred to in
Lord CLANILICARDE'S statement—that is, to use his

lordship's own words, charges of " conspiracy,
fraud, and perjury;" and therefore Lord CAILLISLL
" must decline to take any steps or express any
opinion in the matter."

Thus have the efforts of Lord CLANRICARDE to
have the magistracy of Galway purified been de-
feated by the same impediments that obstructed Mr.
STAFFORD ia his endeavours to have the hospital at
Scutari cleansed—namely, technical difficulties and
departmental routine. The LORD CHANCELLOR
would give no opinion because it was not within his
province, but rested altogether with the LORD LIEU-
TtNANT ; and the LORD LIEUTENANT would give no
opinion because the LORD CHANCELLOR had pro-
nounced no decision. Many a man, however, has
succeeded in having himself deprived of his commis-
sion without striving for it so long and so sedulously
as the Marquis of CLANRICARDE ; and he and Mr.
STAFFORD must both console themselves with the
reflection that
'Tis sot in mortals to oommend success ;
Bat we'll do more, Bempronius—we'll deserve it.
—Daily News.