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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10.

LAST evening the House of Lords re-
scinded the resolution granting Mr. LRONARD
EDMUNDS a pension ; nor, indeed, could they
have done otherwise. The very utmost which
even Mr. EDMUNDS and his friends, Lori
WYNJORD and the Marquis of BATH, claimed
was some delay. It was not pretended that if the
charge against Mr. EDMUNDS of defalcation and of
misappropriating public money to his own use had
been established, the delinquent would continue to
receive the pension which bad been granted to
him. But Mr. EDMI7NDS seemed to think that
before the pension was withdrawn an opportunity
ought to be allowed him of being heard at the bar
of the House, or of having the charge against him
investigated before a committee of the House. It
is not surprising that Mr. EDMUNDS himself
should have failed to discern the absurdity
of the course proposed ; but it is sur-
prising that such noblemen as Lords WYN-
?ORD and BATH could be deceived by
so transparent • fallacy. It is admitted on all
sides that the House of Lords in granting Mr.
EDMUNDS a pension granted it in the dart.
Before rewarding even an old servant for his ser-
vices, the character of the servant should be
thoroughly understood. What manner of man
Mr. EDMUNDS was nobody in the House seems to
have known except the LORD CHANCELLOR, but
that eminent person considered it no part of his
duty to communicate his special knowledge either
to his colleagues, to the members of the Committee
who recommended the pension, or to the House of
Peers. In short, Mr. EDMUNDS had obtained his
pension by the LORD Cit&wcautos having hood-
winked the House of Lords. As soon, therefore,
as the Peers found they had been hoodwinked
they could only undo that which they had been
induced to do upon imperfect information.
If the House had left Mr. EDMUNDS in possession
of his pension, impartial observers would have
rightly assumed that the pension had been granted
upon sufficient grounds. But the House rightly
thought that since they never had an opportunity
of considering the claims of Mr. EDMUNDS, they
ought not to be bound by what they had done in
ignorance ; and, as we have already said, the
resolution granting the pension was rescinded.
In this matter there was hardly any difference
of opinion. But the resolutions proposed by Lord
REDESDALE excited more discussion. Lord REIM-
DALE was grievously dissatisfied with the Report
of the Select Committee on the EDMUNDS 011811.
The censure which that Report contained was of
the mildest description. All they did sou to
express " their regret that the Committee which
" recommended Mr. EDMUNDS' pension did not
" consider it to be their duty to act upon
" their general knowledge or impression, so far as
" to interpose some delay before the question was
" finally disposed of in favour of • pension.'
Lord REDESDALE thinks it highly indecorous that
one committee of the House of Lords should ven-
ture to censure another committee of the same
House. This is no doubt • somewhat anomalous,
and certainly an unusual proceeding. But it must
be remembered that the Select Committee had no
option, for they bad been distinctly commissioned
by the House to discuss the proceedings of Lord
BIDLSDALIefi Committee, and to state their opin4on
upon them. On the other hand, it is quite true
that Lord REDESDALE, finding no member of the
Government present when the grant of Mr. EDMUNDS'
pension came to be discussed, proposed an adjourn-
ment. But his opinion was overruled, and the
pension was approved of without further investi-
gation. It must also be observed that Lord
REDESDALE and his acting colleague had no official
information as to the defalcations in the Patent-
office. That information ought to have been fur-

niched by the members of the Government, and it
was by their neglect or their connivance that
Lord REDESDALE'S Committee and the House of
Lords were misled.
No one attempted to defend the conduct I
of the Ciwiczt.Loa. He knew the whole cir-
cumstances of the cue from the first to the
last. He had himself directed an inquiry to be
made into the conduct of Mr. EDMUNDS. He knew
that that person had been charged in the strongest
terms with having misappropriated public money to
his own use—with having passed false accounts to
the Treasury, and with having embezzled large sums
of money. He knew that Mr. EDMUNDS had been
called upon to answer these charges in • judicial in-
quiry. He knew that instead of meeting these charges
Mr. EDMUNDS had preferred to surrender his
offices, and to pay all that was due to the Treasury.
He knew, moreover, that, after these payment.
were allowed, and only a fortnight before his resig-
nation,Mr. EDMUNDS still stood Charged with being
a public defaulter to a very considerable amount.
No reasonable man can doubt that these circum-
stances
ought to have been made known to the
House, for • upon them depended the question
whether Or not Mr. EDMUNDS deserved a pinsion.
Nevertheless, although all these fads were fully
known to the CHANCILLOE, he deliberately, and on
his own responsibility, determined not to lay
*hem before the House of Peers vb.= be per
rented Mr. EDMUNDS' petition for • pension, or
before the Committee appointed to consider
that petition. It is impossible to deny
that such conduct deserves! the gravest regroba-

tion, or that the CssisoziLos has bilk dr
instrument by which the Houma of Peers Olhistess
" placed in a situation of great embessamsaslit mad
"difficulty." It is perhaps scarcely necessary 10
repeat those things which have been stated before.
It would have been some °ostentation if the
CHANG ULM' could have offered some explanation
of his singular conduct. But unfortunately no expla-
nation was even attempted. And perhaps the most
humiliating spectacle ever witnessed in Parliament
was that of the LORD II ROI CHRNCILLOR Of ENGLAND
compelled to sit in silence under the rebuke of his
political friends and of his political enemies. The
most consummate advocate of his time had not a
syllable to utter even in his own defence. At the
same time it is difficult to acquit the rest of the
Government of all blame in this matter. Lord
Gasztvu.r.a and every member of the Cabinet
knew that certain grave charges had been made
against Mr. EDMUNDS before his petition for a
pension was presented—indeed, they had directed
the CHANCALLOR to lay the papers connected with
the subject on the table—they heard the CHAN-
ORLLOR present Mr. EDMUNDS' petition without a
single observation ; they musthave known, or at least
they ought to have known, that this was not right.
nibs CRANCRLLOR, by neglect or by moral blindness,
had felled to make the necessary statement, that
statement might have been supplied, and ought to
have been suppliedbylhiscolleagues. That statement
never was supplied, and it still remains a mystery
how so judicious and high-minded a man as the
Loan PRISSIDINT COUld have been guilty of so fatal
an omission. Is it too uncharitable to suppose
that others, like the Cusacsuon, were unwilling
to peens hard upon a ruined man, and that, had it
not been for the vigilance of the press, Mr. En-
31VRDS might now be enjoying that pension,
which he has at length been compelled most
reluctantly to relinquish t

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