The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-09 00:00:00

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TB BLUE BOOK.
This morning the minutes of the evidence
by the Committee of Peers In the Edmunds case, tomeller
with the proosedings of the committee, and a copious
appeedix, wore lasued in a large bins heck of 563 pages.
Mr. Dimes& was =mined Wave the ocumittos
Iva cooasioos The other matures examined ware
Ms John Geosnwood, Q.C. (twice); Mr. B. Gipps, and
Mr. Charles Hooper, Mr. T. Banos Sir John Rom'Uy, Mr.
Jame Lames (four times), Mr. Wm. Brougham (three
times), Lord Redestale, Uri Graaville, Sir J. G. Leiser*,
the Lord Clumellor, Mr. Hisao:sash, Q.O. ; the Obancedlor
of the Exohaqser, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. 0, Arbuth-
not, Mr. J. F. Miller (twice), Mr. A. Montgomery, and the
Attorsayawassel.
The Lord Chaecellor's evideoce, which was given chiefly
In the form of a statement, with here and there • question,
Ells 28 peps of the report. It is • narrative of the cue
men the commenceinut of any proceeding relative to Mr.
Minns& The following =Met from his evkisoos will
show the view which the Lord Chancellor took of the pro.
peaty of allewing Mr. Edmilode to receive hi pension :
" Lori of Derby—Your lordship dated that in consequence
of his giving in his resignation you had determined that yon
would throw no obstacle in the way of Me obtaining a pen-
sion ; and, in point of fact, you did throw no obstacle in the
way of his obtaining a pension I—Yes ; I did nothing
I actively.
" But his resignation was, I will not say forced epee him,
but he was induced the more to tender the resignation by
the deMistion, upon you• part, that if ha did not tender it
the papers would be forthwith presented to the house'—No
doubt of it.
" After his resignation was tesdered, do I understand
that is was so loeger your intentioe to lay those papers
before the Hoome?-oortainly set.
"It was not your intention to do so y—Cortainly sot.
"They would sot hays bees laid before the house if
public attention had not been drawn to the subject out of
doors, which led to the explanation which your lordship
made a fortnight afterwards!—Rightly or wrongly, they
would set I beg the committee for • moment to under-
stood that from the teem* to the end I have aided
upon this principle, that I would do nothing against Mr.
Edmonds but what pnblio duty required. I asked Lord
Oranworth and Lord Riapdowa whether my duty re-
quired his discharge if the alleged facia were tree ; they I
said, ' Yea.' Thu I directed the inquiry to go ors. Wiese
I fogad that the House of Lords was the tribunal. I asked
the cable*, Is It my duty to Wag it before the Horse of
Lords? not whether I was justified is doing it, but is it my
bounds' duty to do it? They said' Yes ;' but that wee
only in order that the Hoare of Lords might no
lodger have that officer, mad when that ollicoor retired
I then determined for myself, rightly or wongly, (I take au
the responsibility of it,) that I would not interfere actively
to prevent him hawing the passion.
" Lord Taunton—Did your lordship connive that your
duty to the House of Lords stopped there, and that yon
were sot called upon to do anything with mud to the
question of graatiog a peados to Mr. Edmunds ?
Indeed I did. Very probably I was wrong; but I will tall
you why I did it. I thought by the Timm/ having re-
Mired that large sum of money, it was sow redound to a
question of pecuniary demand against Mr. Edam:oda, erupt
that I omidered that • man with such a stiou upon his
ohanresr was not fit to be an officer of oar house. I did
not interfere with his hawk's a porton, for the reason that
I stated le the House of Lord. ; seemly, that if he has paid
everything to the Treasury, I wish him to have the pul-
-1 Me. If he has sot paid everythiag to the Treasury, the
pantos will be suspended, and there will be no misapplies.
tion of public money.*

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BOROUGH
FRANCHISE BILL.

The result of the discussion (the rinses says)
has undoubtedly been to strengthen the resistance which
wUlbemsde to the democratic tendencies of any future reform
bill. The question is at an end as far as the preset paella-
meet is cemented ; but there is nothing in the de.
sloe of last night against well-considered changes io
the representetion, mush as shall admit to a vote
numbers of men who are now excluded. "The
progress of education and of political knowledge has
been such during the lest 30 years that a much larger
proportion of the people is capable of wisely using the fres-
elan ; but even the uneefranchked feel that at protest
there are more theoretical anomalies than practical wrongs.
The immobility if the working class is a tribute to the ex-
cellent legislation of parliament as now constituted. The
practical good seen of the people tolls them that reform is
not a question to be angry and noisy about. We shall be
glad to see a imams passed without commotion, sad la a
liberal but moderate spirit; ler the improvement of our
;teetotal ,stem; out in the meaotiate the country has no
reason to be dissatisfied with the Rouse of Commons as it
la."
flir George Grey's defence of the policy panned by her
Majesty's government in rasped to the question of reform
ought to be considered satisfactory, the Post thinks, even
by those who desire most to see the franchise extendel.
The only duty devolving upon the government arose oat of
• manned desire on the part of the nation to see the
existing system modified, and so soon as it was shown that
such desire did not exist, the executive were no longer
celled upon to initiate measures about whose adoption the
country had, to use the mildest expression, become indif-
ferent.
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The Herald declares the policy announced by Sir G.
Grey of still tampering with the question, and leaving it
open for the hustings, to be dishonest, mischievotis, and
based ou no other than the psincipls of struggling to retain
Oleo, and bargaining for it with the delusion of its sup-
porters by a plane-loving faction.
The extension of the franeb;ts, in the opinion of the
Advertiser. will now poems an importance in the maim
elections which it has not done for the last twenty yews,
and the result will be • much larger swamies to the maga
of real reformen in parliament than under other circum-
stances there would have been any ground to expect
There must have been many apostates from liberal prin-
ciples to have given the foes of reform so large • ajority.
..The division list, when published today, will be subjected
in all parts of the country to a searching scrutiny; and it
will then be for the constituencies to deal with renegades
is each* manner as they deserve to be dealt with."

It is stated in two or three of the morning papers that
the Bev. Dr. Manning has bees appointed by the Pope the
Roman catholic Archbishop of Westminster, in the place of
the late Cardinal `Miasma. The bull for the appointment
wee received in London yesterday. It is said that is ma-
im this appointment the Pope has altogether peened over
the nominations of the Roman catholic chapter of Went-
' mintier. That body named Dr. Clifford, Bishop of Clifton ;
Dr. Grant, Bishop of Southern* and Dr. Er:ilea'. late
coadjutor srobbishop to Cardinal Wiseman.
M. Alexandre DUMB is expected to arrive in
Loudon towards the sod of sett week. Dining his brief
stay he will give three "Ooefesesess." The sable* will be,
"The Campaign of Italy and Garibaldi," " Stadia, of our
doatempontries—Friends and Enemies," sad " latrodne-
tioa to my Dramatis Dimearee."
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL
SECEMAN.—We are ant disposed to blame the view taken
ceder the circumstances by the Federal Government. As
to the gem rat right of the supreme power in a State to re-
scind an armistice, if it cm be so celled, of this kind, no
doubt whatever ma be eetettaimel. The power to rosclade
it is not, and maid not be. implied hi any military coin.
maission, Rod the agreement here bears on the face ot it
acksowiedgment that it was stsented without any .pedal
authority. Modern history f =idles anaemia indiums
he which conventions falls( more nearly within the mope
of a general's authority than this base hese disallowed by
the flowiroiso. Sash was the one of the treaty signed by
Sir Sidney Smite for the evsematice of Rapt by the
French army ; sod eves the famous OeseenUm cl
Cintra, it will be remembered. was formally eon.
downed by the Bing. In short, e only question is not
me of law, bat of polity. It is th
not Whether Presideat
Johnson had a right to set aside Elberosan's Isms al pea,
adieu, bat whether low the sake ol checking farther simian
d blood, it might nab have been an set of wise elesaseey to
adopt them. Bystanders may naturally Iselin* to this al.
tomato* bet it was bardly to be expected that a Pioatdoot
ssi whoradooola to regard Ocnifoolandwo la maw as Wattoos
ratify a esehalation whisk mingle.= them is the
position el gaol ottlawa. W. am wet Mika* bps, how.
ever, that Mr. Jeleason will treat the canny, one at hie
wren with rester Wane dm he offsets. Now that
Les has sarreadsted, Mobile bay fallen. and General Jobs.
Men has confeseed Marsh exhaaslei, the Northam monks
tykes Mahler be Is am alert to be semegnaeleeens,- sad
we do .at Whet that they will sally their victory with
deeds of amity.—Figets.
HILT HoRTETIT HOSPITAL, CALTDOILLW-ROAD.
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el idea 996 woes new etas