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London, England, 1865-05-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 27.

Wa are told on the highest authority that the
model judge ought to be "a terror to evildoers and
" a praise to them that do well." The present Loan
CE•Ncsamos, however, thinks it right to reverse
this motto. Lord WIRT/IVRY is the terror of those
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who do their duty, and bestows not only praise

but pension upon those whom he thinkshe has
detected in doing wrong. In ferreting out
delinquents, calling for explanations, pronouncing
these explanations worthless, and threatening the
accused with oondigne punishment, Lord WESTBURY
is the incarnation of justice. But when be
has the supposed culprit on his knees,
and the sword uplifted to execute him,
suddenly the stampede of his countenance
is transformed into the blandest of smiles, the

sword drops from his grasp, and the trembling
culprit is desired to rise and ascend into the goodly
company of pensioners on the Consolidated Fund
—" with nothing to do but to pocket his gold."
As soon as Mr. LEONARD EDKIINDO was convicted
of having robbed the Treasury, and was on the eve

of being ignominiously dismissed, the LORD Ciliat-
e-11.mm found a way for him out of his distress,

and by his judicious management almost secured
him in a pension of 8001. a year. It is true the
Peers, finding that they had been deceived, re-
scinded the resolution granting the pension.
But still the Loan CHANCELLOR had done
what he could for the defaulter, and
perhaps still retains the opinion that he did
nothing of which he ought to be ashamed. There
iy indeed, something to be said in favour of any
man who acts on principle, and we are disposed to
think that in the case of Mr. EDMUNDS the Loan
CHANCELLOR acted deliberately, and on some fired
principle. Perhaps, in the language of the Bar, the
granting of a pension to the Clerk of Patents
ought to be regarded as "a leading case." For
the oorrespondenoe which has just been published
with reference to Mr. Witoz, the Registrar of the
Court of Bankruptcy at Leeds, shows that in his
case the same principle was adopted. Mr. WILDS
was charged with certain irregularities, and he was
told th►t unless he could answer those charges he
would be called upon to appear and show cause
why he should not be dismissed. It will

probably be thought by many that the irregulari-
ties of which Mr. WILDE was accused, though
serious enough, were not such u deserved dis-
missal from office and the loss of his livelihood.
Nor is it by any means obvious that if Mr. Wiziss
had appeared to answer the charges, the Loan
CHANCELLOR would have ventured to pass upon
him the extreme sentence of dismissal. But he
was threatened with dismissal, and told that if
he resigned at onoe he might obtain a pension.
Accordingly, the very same letter in which the
CHANCELLOR called upon Mr. WILDE to show
cause wby he should not be dismissed suggested
to him the means of obtaining a pension. And
the very man who declired that Mr. WILDE de-
served dismissal—to use the very words of the
CHANCELLOR'S order—" gave him leave to retire"
on • salary of 6001. • year. The ingenrity of
Lord WESTBURY amounts almost to genius.
Threaten • man in • good place with all the ter-
rors of dismissal and • penniless old age, but tell
him at the same time that if be will only resign
quietly he shall have a pension, and nothing more
shall be said of the irregularities and delinquencies
which have rendered him in the Cnuscr.zzoa's
eyes unfit to serve the public.
This mixture of severity and tenderness—of
threatening a man with punishment and then
rewarding him with • pension—may be nothing
more than the weakness of a tenderhearted man,
who shrinks from inflicting an injury, or from per-
forming " • disagreeable or painful duty." But is
it not • pity that these amiable qualities should be
reserved for cues in which, whilst the indulgence
of them tends to increase the Loan CHANCELLOR'S
patronage by promoting resignation, it also tends
to shelter the supposed criminal, by providing him
with a pension at the expense of the public t
It is impossible to deny the zeal of the Low
Causes:Lica in discovering charges of malversa-
tion against judicial officers, and his promptitude
in threstenieg them with dismissal. But the sin-
cerity of his zeal for the public service is strangely
inoonsistent with his zeal to procure pensions for
those who, according to his lordship, have failed in
their duty. There are, indeed, some judicial
ofil•us who might claim, and who certainly de-
serve, his patronage and protection. What body of
men are more meritorious than the county
court judges f And what has the Cnarscuzon
ire? done for them t Year after year some yew
juriadiciion is thrown urea these gentlemen, sod
some privilege is taken from thin)! Originally they