The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-06 00:00:00

tot his reiterated appointment of a son, known,
he admitted, for fifties years, to be of bed
tracker, to socoessive posts of the most confiden-
t nature, rose up in judgment against him. It
a vain to plead that be had sacrificed some eccle-
stiesl patronage when the House could not
t know that every lucrative office in his courts
d been given, regardless of merit, to a son,
other-in•law, or a bosom friend's brother. Within
)derste and decent limits the system might,

of its being so common, have yet

little longer escaped reproof or serious
iticiam. But Lord WICSTBI: kV exceeded
me customary limits, and when to that
'fiance of public opinion he added the overt set
granting pensions as a condition of instant
signation, and of filling up the offices thus pro-

ored, in one instance with it son, in another with
man who had bribed his son, it became impossible

or any independent voice to be lifted to excuse his
rms. He falls, not because in two oases be had
omitted an indiscretion, bat because on the
thole he had used his patronage for purposes of

may advancement instead of for the benefit of
public. This is the moral, not of the vote, but
every speech by which that vote was enforced.
We cannot but think that this great lesson will
tbe without its fruits. By so eminent an ex•
ople the principle is inculcated that the gift of
iblie offioes is a public trust. It is true that pub-
opinion has hitherto winked at many betrayals
that trust. It has seen without remark the
why of the judicial ermine defaced by family
mites ; it has recognised that great political
nonsges might bestow the offices in their power
their relatives, their friends, or their footmen,
bile spurning patient merit ; it has allowed to
et without more than remonstrance the granting,
a right reverend father, rich livings to his carnal
&sr than to his spiritual WWI. But it is soma
iog to have aroused public opinion, by excess of
ON, to the sense that these things are wrong.
hit Lord Wurrsvar has fallen for cannot
natter be practised by a smeller man with-

d• fear mai trembling. ft is proved, by a
nrcely exampled punishment on the greatest of
abject% to be vicious in principle. It can-
ot comfortably be indulged hereafter by men
is eminent. The precedent stands recorded
pint them, and it will no longer be possible fee

lam to say that they knew not that it was aoooonted
in offence. Gradually we may hope a sounder
Public sentiment will fortify their new-found virtue.
[II these matters we make progress only from age
10 age. Now-a-days no judge is bribed. No
;:hancellor now sells the appointments in his gift
r._ _

money paid into his Land. No public moron t
v makes market of his official knowledge
the Stock Exchange. Yet once in oar
tory these vices were common enough, and
re scarce reprobated by public opinion. But in
tein scandalous instances public opinion was at
Oh aroused, and condign punishment of cowl-
ms offenders marked its new-wakened moral
as. So BACON became a warning, never again
64 against the corruption of judges. Bo
Chanotdor MACCLINIFIRLD WU made all

WA that the sale of the offiess in his court could
*huger be tolerated by the advancing moral
sose of the times, and never since then hu the
glace been repeated. And so let us hope it will
▪ now with the system of appointing relations
Puronal friends to offices for which worthier
Mr rosy be found. It is a fault, we may grant,
111•Pinwous than those for which Lord Wier-
Min's equally illustrious predecessors suffered a
warier punishment. In the age which availed
Must their offence., his offence wu thong% "NA
trains! at all. But the age we now live in' rose
hink it criminal, sad has stamped indelibly in the
Wads of history its opinion of such Foam.
/*it this hour they are discreditable, soon they
1111 grow disgraceful, then they will cuss to be
"Misted. Lord Wurstrsv's fell is the begin-
%of the sad of the system of family patronage
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