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

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 5.

Ir will be remembered that en the 7th of March
last a Select Committee of Peers was appointed to
inquire into the circumstances connected with the
resignation by Mr. EDMUNDS of the office of Clerk
of the Patents, and with his resignation of the
office of Reading Clerk in the House of Lords, and
also into all circumstances connected with the grant
of a retiring pension to him by the Rouse of Lords.
The Committee have now published their report,
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and it must be confessed -that it is impossible to
read its contents without a sense of humiliation.
That Mr. EDMUNDS has been guilty of defalca-
tions in his accounts, and of misappropriating

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public money to his own private use, is established
not only by the investigations of Mears. Gana-
WOOD and HINDIILICH, but by the verdict of the

Committee which has just concluded its labours.
The question which now absorbs public attention
is the manner in which this public defaulter has
been dealt with by those whose duty it was to con-
trol him.

Last June, whilst Mesas. GRISNWOOD and
HINDYLILCH were still pursuing their inquiries into
the Patent-office, Mr. EDMUNDS proposed to resign
his appointment upon receiving a pension. At
this time it must have been clear to Mr. EDMUNDS
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that very serious charges would probably be made
against him by the gentlemen who had been ap-
pointed to examine into his accounts, and he no
doubt hoped to escape with • comfortable provi-
sion out of the pecuniary difficulties in which he
had become involved. Mr. GREENWOOD, however,
frustrated his design by explaining to the Casts-
CELLOS the real state of the cue, and Mr. ED-
MUNDS, instead of retiring with a pension, was
summoned befoie Lord Wrartivay and two of the
vice-Cnancrawas to show cause why he should
not be removed from his office of Clerk of Patents.
It might seem that now at least the charges against
Mr. EDMUNDS would be publicly discussed, and
publicly established or publicly refuted. Nothing
of the sort. Mr. EDMUNDS was permitted to
resign his office, and was them allowed " to with-
draw himself from the impending judicial in-
" quiry." And this permission was granted by
the Loan CHANCELLOR himself, with the concur-
rence of the Maw=s of the Rou.s and the ATIOR-
REY-GENERAL. It is difficult, indeed, to under-
stand the grounds upon which such a step could
have been taken, but it is impossible not to con-
cur in the opinion expressed by the Committee,
that the inquiry into the grave charges against
Mr. EDMUNDS ought to have proceeded, and that
if the charges were proved, as it appears they must
have been, "he should at once have been die-
" missed ; leaving it open to future coital-
" deration whether ulterior proceedings ought
" not to have been taken against him."
Is it not the duty of the Lout) Csittcmxon to
bring • public defaulter such as Mr. EDMUNDS to
justice, instead of lending his countenance to the
criminal by screening him from its consequences t
But at the moment of his resignation of the
Clerkship of Patents Mr. EDMUNDS was Reading
Clerk in the House of Lords. The CHANCELLOR,
therefore, determined to take the opinion of Lords
CRANWORTH and KINGSDOWN whether it was con-
sistent with his duty to the House of Lords to allow
Mr. EDMUNDS to remain an officer of that House.
Both these noblemen declared that if the charges
brought against Mr. EDMUNDS by Messrs. Gazes-
WOOD and lIINDMARCH were correct be ought to
lose his place. At this time the CHLlscuLoa
supposed that the power of dismissal was with
himself, but upon finding that it was with the
House of Lords he told Lords CILANWORTH and
KneasDowN that he should relieve them from the
painful duty he had asked them to undertake.
The proper course for the Loan Citascamma
is obvious. He ought to have laid the whole
case before the House of Lords, so that it might
have been investigated before a select committee.
And, indeed, this was the very course which the
CHANCELLOR was desired to pursue by the Cabinet.
Upon being consulted they declared that the cue
ought to be brought before the House. And
accordingly the CHANCELLOR informed Mr. ED.
ILUNDS that he should move for • select commit-
tee to take the subject into consideration. This
was on the 21st of December, 1864, and between
that and the 4th of February nothing further took
place. On the latter day, however, Mr.
LEMAN, the adviser of Mr. EDMUNDS,
called upon the Csawczuse, and, accord-
ing to Mr. Lemsx, the Citetwortmon dis-
tinctly said, "If the resignation takes place
"between this and Friday, 1 will throw no oh-
" steel° in the way of the pension." As in the
case of the Clerkship of Patents, so in the case of
the Clerkship in the House of Lords. Mr. ED-
MUNDS was naturally most anxious about securing
a pension. He had failed in the one case, and it