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Act ; third, Crown Solicitor to the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Walter William Aldridge Esq., who mar-
ried a niece of the Lord Chancellor, appointment
created under the New Bankruptcy Act; fourth,
Architect to the Court of Bankruptcy, Augustus B.
Abrahams, brother-in-law to the Lord Chancellor,
appointment found necessary under the New Bank-
ruptcy Act. In addition to these there was a sec-
retaryship of presentations, given toll. B. Abrahams,
Esq., and a Mr. R. J. Abrahams was appointed
second clerk in the Land Registry Office. There
is another little job in my own immediate neigh-
bourhood, where the Lord Chancellor has been
induced to appropriate an appointment for the
benefit of his own son-in-law, the official assig-
neeship to the Exeter district. Now, I say that
gentleman knew no more of the duties of the
official assigneeship than I know of the duties
of the Lord Chief Justice of England. His
lordship has recently removed his son-in-law from
that district to the London official assigneeship, at
a salary of £BOO a year." Even this, however, does
not appear to complete the list; for it has been
asserted, and the assertion we believe has not been
contradicted, that another son of the Chancellor,
the Hon. W. Bethell, has been appointed to a place
of £4OO a year, though he is still an undergraduate
at Oxford. Under ordinary circumstances, it might
be judicious so far to consult public prejudice as to
wait until his sons had completed their education
before he provided for them at the public expense.
In these days it is usually supposed that salaries are
only paid in exchange for work done ; and it is an-
tecedently probable that a youth who is still an
undergraduate at the University will not, either in
point of leisure or of ability, be worth £4oo—a year
to the public service. But these considerations
were overcome in the mind of the Lord Chancellor
by the menacing aspect of the political horizon.
" Trust not the morrow" is a maxim which should
never be forgotten by public characters who have
large families to provide for. After all, it is but a
sacrifice of repuation in exchange for so much pub-
lic money ; and whether the bargain is a good or a
bad one must depend in each case on the amount
which there is to sacrifice.
TuE EXAMINER. -Mr. Edmunds held four ap-
pointments, two in the Commission of Patents; and
two in the House of Lords. In the office of Patents
he was charged with default, confessed himself
debtor to the amount of nearly £B,OOO, which he
paid, and resigned his appointments. A farther and
larger sum is claimed by the Treasury, but disputed
by Mr. Edmunds. In these circumstances the Chan-
cellor had to consider the course to be taken with
reference to the offices held by this gentlemen in the
House of Lords. Mr. Edmunds asked the Chan-
cellor to suspend his action till he should have made
his answer to the last claim of the Treasury, and
partly upon this plea, partly upon another, and
vaguer, for time, a short period of grace was
granted. And on the very day when the Chancel-
lor, in conformity with the opinion of the Govern-
ment, was about to communicate the whole affair to
the House of Lords, Mr. Edmunds put in a petition
for leave to retire with a pension, which petition
the Chancellor himself presented. It then devolved
on a committee to consider the claim to a pension,
which they did without any knowledge of the charges
against Mr. Edmunds beyond floating rumours.
And so the pension was granted. The Chancellor
justifies his inaction on the ground that he was not
bound to "pursue" Mr. Edmunds into the Com-
mission, and thwart his application for a reward for
eighteen years' servises. But as the Chancellor, by
silently presenting the petition, had given it some
silent sanction, we think the better course would
have been to have acquainted the committee with
the facts, and to have left the matter altogether to
its judgment. And the Chancellor gives a most
extraordinary reason for not having done any-
thing which could prevent the grant of the pension,
that it could be taken in satisfaction of any debt
which may be be proved due to the Trea-
sury ! In other and plain words, that the public or
the Crown, no matter which word is used, should
pay itself with its own money. According to this
view, the only fault is that the pension was so small,
for if it had been thousands instead of hundreds
there would at once have been the wherewith to
satisfy the Treasury claim to some £9,000. We hay

were given a mere rough outline of this affair,
avoiding all minor details, for all that we have in
view is to enable our readers to judge of the Chan-
cellor's part in it. Lord Westbury is not a popular
man. He has no consideration for the self-love of
the people with whom he comes in contact, and has
a peculiar art of bringing home to them unmis-
takably a mortifying sense of their inferiorities. No
one has a greater command of oil, of which he only
makes one use, to give the utmost smoothness to
his incisive weapons. His temper and his talents
are of (qua? edge. At a safe distance his great
abilities are seen and justly but near they
inspire more of apprehension than any other feeling.
THE "LONDON REVIEW."—The Lord Chancellor
has given the town what it always dearly loves—
a great scandal for its clubs and dinner tables. If
Caesar's wife should not even be suspected, what
shall be said of the keeper of the Queen's conscience,
if it appears that he has abused his position to con-
done a gross offence against the public service, and
use it as a means of promoting his relatives ? This
is the scandal, and it was all the more readily be-
lieved, inasmuch as Lord Westbury has bestowed
his patronage upon the members of his family to an
extent which has been the subject of general remark.
It is not, of course, to be supposed that a lawyer
who attains the woolsack, or a clergyman who is
madma bishop, will be entirely oblivious of the in-
terests of his sons and sons-in-law in disposing of
the good things which fall within his gift. But to
think of
.them to the exclusion of every one else, is
placing other candidates, equally well, and perhaps
better, qualified, at an unfair disadvantage. Lord
Westbury has done this ; and thus the scandal which
on -Tuesday he endeavoured to explain away has
acquired force and probability. Andwe confess that,
even with hisexplanation before us, we find find it diffi-
cult to resist the supposition that the prospect of put-
ting Mr. S Bethell, his son, into one good appoint-
ment, and Captain Cardew, his son-in-law, into
another, had something to do with the resignation
by Mr. Edmunds in the Patent Office and in the
House of Lords. But, whether this is so or not,
there are other points, to which we shall presently
draw attention, with regard to which there can be
no doubt whatever, that the Lord Chancellor's con-
duct is open to the gravest inculpation. In review-
ing the case two considerations suggest themselves.
Both turn upon the gravity of Mr. Edmunds'
offence. Lord Westbury tells us that, when the
Law Officers of the Crown were consulted, they
were of opinion that there was no ground for crimi-
nal proceedings ; and that, even if such proceedings
could have been instituted with success, " they would
have been unfair and unjust, because the whole of
the information attaching to Mr. Edmunds' defalca-
tions, or, at least, the principal part of it, had.been
obtained from his confession. "It was, therefore,"
Lord Westbury says, " a matter of civil liability."
"If," he adds, "it had turned out, or if it should
hereafter turn out, that Mr. Edmunds has paid the
whole amount, it would have been wrong to deprive
him of his pension." Nay, "if it should turn out
that Mr. Edmunds is still a debtor, the pension is
liable to be taken, and will be taken, in satisfaction
of that debt." We confess we are astonished at
these admissions. If Mr. Edmunds is entitled to his
pension, why was he forced to resign the office in
sraesypsetchtato!
wwhheitchherhhe
ecla
lia-
bility to the public or not, he is entitled to his pen-
gL.edordhisWfetru
of it ; that, even if the allegation that he still owes
hashn eddiscithar
the public £9,100 is true, he is still entitled to it;
pen-
sion ; that it would have been wrong to deprive. him
for, -he says, it will be applied in payment of his
debt. Now, one of two things follows—either Mr.
Edmunds has not disqualified himself, by his con-
duct in the Patent-office, for holding his places
in the House of Lords, or, if he has, he is not
entitled to a pension for his services in
those places. Lord Westbury's statement to
the House on Tuesday was, in one respect, exces-
sively uncandid. He gave it no means of judging
what the nature of Mr Edmunds' defalcations in the
Patent-office were. As far as we can gather the
facts of the charge against this gentleman from his
lordship's speech, it seems to us very doubtlul indeed
whether Mr. Edmunds has been guilty of more than
an irregularity, for which, though he is deserving of
blame, a much lighter penalty than that which
he has been forced by Lord Westbury to inflict
upon himself would not have fully met the justice
of the case. He was bound by the statute of 1833
to pay over all fees received by him, and make his
account to the Exchequer. But the statute makes
no provision touching the audit of his accounts. If
the fact be, as Lord Derby says he has been in-
formed, that Mr. Edmunds, instead of handing over
a sum of money which he had received on behalf of
the Government, placed it in a deposit bank and
received the interest upon it till it was called for—
though such a proceeding was excessively improper,
it was not of that gross character which would de-
mand that he should be removed from all the ap-
pointments he held.
"THE SrEct&Toß."—The Lord Chancellor's can-