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London, England, 1865-03-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 13.

The statements which have been publicly made
concerning Lord BROUGHAM and his brother, the
heir to his peerage, have aggravated what is oiled
the Patent-office scandal in a degree which it would
be difficult to express. We are too well accus-
tomed to mee our public men give the good things

of office to their-friends andrelsAiotteto be sur-

prised when Lord Chancellor Witarsuay provides
for three sons, & son-in-law, a nephew, and a
brother-in-law, at the public charge. There mey
even be some whowill not be sorry to see this practi-

cal protest against the foreign and decidedly demo-
cratic novelty of competitive examination, and who
will think the British constitution all the firmer for
so many new personal supports. The peculation)
of Mr. EDMUNDS are very shameful, but the dis-
credit is as limited as his personal importance.
But this charge against Lord Baouariam is truly
afflicting. It is many years since his great re-
putation, from being claimed as the property of
party, became a national possession. To see the
name of one who had acquired so much distinction

in his lifetime, and whose achievements we had
hoped would descend to posterity as one of the
glories of our age, sullied or even temporarily
obscured, is • public misfortune. We are justly
jealous of the honour of our public men. We are
properly shocked when we read of the enormous
fortunes so rapidly made by the ministers and aer-
vents of Louis NAPOLEON—Of the prodigious SE-
cumulations of a MoRNY, or the nice little nestegg
of a Moounenn--or of the gains made by pro-
fessional politicians by " lobbying " at Washing-
ton, and we bless ourselves because corruption, at
all events, is impossible in this country. And the
proof that it is impossible to any important extent
is found in the fact that a discovery like this does
shock, and not merely grieve us. The senti-
ment of the public on this subject, as we
collect it, is twofold. There is first • universal
feeling, so profound and natural that it scarcely
comes to the surface of consciousness, that come
what may, the truth must be ascertained and made
as public as the scandal. And there is, next, a
disposition to suspend a final judgment on the
charges, until the parties inculpated have had ample
opportunity of disproving them. Less than this
would not be consistent with the manliness and
generosity of the British character ; less than this
would be injustice to ourselves. Hitherto there
has been no undue haste shown in bringing Accusa-
tions against Lord Barri:Torus. It was not
until the stories about the circumstances
of the original appointment of Mr. LEONARD ED-
MUNINI had been retailed in every club, and
were acquiring that kind of semi-publicity which
combines the greatest damage to character with the
smallest compensation in the means of correction
which it places in the hands of the person reflected
on, that any notice was taken of them by the more
responsible portion of the press, every journalist
seeming willing to leave to his neighbour the ungra-
cious task of publishing what was felt to be little
less than a national shame. These stories were told
by the friends of Mr. EDMUNDS, and formed part
of that gentleman's case. The nature of Lord
BROUGHAM'S early connexion with the EDMUNDS
family was well known, and it was sufficiently
notorious that Mr. LEONARD EDMUNDS and
the Ex-Chancellor had not lost sight
of each other, the Poet-office Directory
giving the same address in Grafton-street
for both. Now that the statement has been made
that three-fourths of the salary of the Clerkship of
Patents has been paid over by Mr. EDMUNDS for
the purposes of Lord BROUGHAM, inquiry will be di-
rected to discover the grounds of that payment. It is
not enough to know that Mr. EDMUNDS paid over
300(. a year under the direction of Mr. Baonouur,
and that it was applied thus and thus. It is pos-
sible that he might have hall to do that if, instead
of owing his appointment to Lord BROUGHAM,
he had been indebted for it to a member of the
political party to which he belongs. Ward these
prospective payments the " consideration " for the
sake of which the appointment sou made t The
Committee of the House of Lords to which the
whole inquiry is referred, and which happily will
enter upon the investigation with the utmost free-