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The Chancellor and the Edmunds' Scandal

THE " SATURDAY REVIEW. "—it is the un-
happy fate of our excellent Chancellor to be
a standing subject of calumnious reports. There
is no Minister with whose name rumour
has been more disagreeably busy. There is
scarcely any part of his public conduct upon which
she does not lay her uncleanly finger. It is not our
business to refute the tittle-tattle of which the clubs
and Westminster Hall are full. It is easy to see
that the Chancellor is the victim of virtues which
are ill-appreciated by an envious world. But his
reputation, however much he may expose it, can
never be a matter of indifference to his countrymen.
After all, he is the best imitation of a Pope we have
got among us ; and the judgments by which he
regulates the belief of the faithful in the Church of
England are composed in a style nearly as exciting
as the Encyclical which has recently issued from St.
Peter's Chair. We shall listen, therefore, with a salu-
tary scepticism to all reports prejudicial to his good
fame. Evidence in support of charges of misconduct
ought to be required to bear some proportion to the
dignity of the accused. It is said to be the law of
the Papal States, that charges of incontinence
against a Cardinal of the Cifurch shall not be lis-
tened to unless five witnesses of the fact can be pro-
duced. At least an equal amount of testimony ought
to be required before we believe any evil of
the high official who has been selected under' the
English law to explain the articles of their faith to
Churchmen, and especially to enlighten them as to
the future destiny of the profligate, the mendacious,
and the corrupt. The latest difficultyi in which the
guileless nature of the Lord Chancellor has involved
him threatens to be more embarrassing than any
with which he has hitherto had to deal. The prima
facie case is one which few persons would like to
find themselves called upon to confront ; but it rests
upon assumptions which, whatever their versimili-
tude may be, have not yet been established by proof.
There are some points which appear to be undis-
puted, and which have excited many uncomplimen-
tary observations ; but some material links are still
wanting to make up the story which the active
imagination of the public has woven out of the ad-
mitted facts. It is quite clear that Mr. Edmunds re-
signed, and it is also clear that his resignation gave to
the. Chancellor an opportunity, of which he availed
himself with startling rapidity, to promote his son—
or at least, to use the cautious language of the Attor-
ney-General, a person who stood towards him in the
relation of a son. The Attorney-General never
employs language without a meaning ; and, though
the laity may not be able to see at the first blush,
no doubt the time will come when they will appre-
ciate the soundness and importance of the distinction
which the first Law Officer of the Crown has drawn
between the Chancellor's son and the person who
stands to him in that relation. Anyhow, the gentle-
man who apparently unites these two sharply-discri-
minating characters did, by the resignation of Mr.
Edmunds, obtain an uncommonly good appointment.
The feeling of the public, upon learning this fact,
naturally was that Mr. Edmunds' tenderness of
conscience had been very serviceable to the Chan-
cellor's family interests. The next point which came
to light was that, to all appearance, there was no
need that Mr. Edmunds should have resigned at
all. His offence was in no way connected with his
position in the House of Lords. Nor does it ap-
pear, as far as the facts are at present known, to
have involved a criminality which would have made
him necessarily incapable of retaining any other
public office. It is clear that the Law Officers of the
Crown did not think that there was enough in the
story to support a criminal charge ; and it is pro-
bable that Mr. Edmunds rather erred by continuing
a vicious tradition than by originating any mal-
practice of his own. This is the result to which the
speeches of Lord Derby and the Chancellor lead.
But then, it is naturally asked, how came he to re-
sign ? What was it that terrified him into so un-
wise a step, which has thrown him upon the world,
absolutely without official salary, after so many
years of official service. The answer is plain
enough. He knew that the Chancellor was about
to communicate to the House of Lords the charges
that had been made against him, and the position
in which he stood. Now here we get into the region
of conjecture. One reason, and one reason only,
could have determined Mr. Edmunds to resign his
office under the House of Lords without waiting to
see whether the house was really inclined to turn
him out or not ; and that reason must have been
a hope that, by resigning, he would obtain his pen-
sion, from which he might be barred if he waited till
the cause of his dismissal was made known. But
here comes the difficulty. Mr. Edmunds had been in-
formed that, if he continued to retain his office, the
Chancellor would lay the charges against him before
the House. Reasoning by ordinary analogy, he would
have inferred that the Chancellor would equally feel
himself bound to lay the charges before the com-
mittee appointed to decide upon the question of
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his pension. Lord Westbury is far
too cautious a
man to indulge in written promises ; and " tell" is
a coarse word to express the mode of communica-
tion by which the Chancellor's benignant intentions
might be conveyed to Mr. Edmunds's doubting
mind. But was no hint given by any one ? Was no
understanding encouraged ? These are questions the
committee appointed on Thursday will have to re-
tth respect, or incited
re-
solve. If no such intimation was given tacitly or
openly the tale is one of the most extraordinary that
was ever told. That the Lord Chancellor should have
decided that it was his duty to thrust the accusations
(as yet unanswered) upon the House of Lords when
no question concerning Mr Edmunds had been raised
there, and yet that it was not his duty, when Mr.
Edmunds had resigned, to lay them before the com-
mittee appointed to decide upon his pension, is in-
explicable enough. But that Mr. Edmunds should
have foreseen that the Chancellor would take this
inexplicable course, and should have staked his
whole official means of support upon the accuracy
of that forecast, is ten times more inexplicable. The
public seem inclined to draw the light which is to
clear up this mystery from the fact that the Chan-
cellor's inscrutable reticence, and Mr. Edmunds's
mysterious foreknowledge of it, have contributed
to instal Mr. Slingsby Bethel in a delightful post.
If Mr. Edmunds had not foreseen the Chancellor's
reticence, and had consequently not resigned, a fat
appointment would have been wanting to the com-
fortable sum total which the Bethell family are en-
joying out of the proceeds of the taxes. There are
hard unsympathising men who have designated
these proceedings as jobs ; but they do not under-
stand the tender scrupulousness of the Lord Chan-
cellor's mind. He has always been a deeply reli-
gious man. He has felt an impulse, which
he could not control, to preach Christianity
to Christian Young Men's Associations. He
has, as he himself has told us, offered con-
stant prayers to Heaven for the success of the
Reform movement ; and he has carefully avoided
throwing any doubts upon the efficacy of those
prayers by resorting to the merely human instru-
mentality of bringing in a Reform Bill. In the same
spirit, he has observed the Scriptural command to
provide for those of his own household. The fortu-
nate resignations of Mr. Edmunds have enabled him
to provide, not only for a son in the House of Lords,
but also for a son-in-law in the Patent-office. If
for no other reason, Mr. Edmunds deserves a pen-
sion for having contributed so largely to the depas-
turage of so excellent a . fami y 1 But this appears
by no means to exhaust the list of the Lord Chan-
cellor's achievements in the performance of this
imperative and difficult duty. 'He feels deeply that
time is short, and that, if he does not improve every
occasion, the opportunity may pass from him for
ever. The 7 following speech, reported to have been
made by Mr. Tidmas, at Ipswich,
gives an idea of
his laudable activity in this respect :—" It might
be said of the Bankruptcy Act that it has been
a gigantic system of out-door relief to
Lord Westbury's relations. I hold\ in my
hand a list of some of the appointments
which the noble lord has made under that bill.
First, a registrarship to the Hon. Slingsby Bethell,
son of the Lord Chancellor, to the Court of Bank-
ruptcy at Exeter, and afterwards at London ; second,
a registrarship of deeds to the Hon. R. Bethell, son
of the Lord Chancellor, under the New Bankruptcy

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 to A. 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.
THE 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 1
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 1 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 have
here 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 equal edge.. At a safe distance his great
abilities are seen and justly admired, 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
made a 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. And we confess that,
even with his'explanation 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." Ve confess we are astonished at
these admissions. If Mr. Edmunds is entitled to his
pension, why was he forced to resign the office in
respect of which he claimed it ? Lord Westbury.
pumo
whether hore
not,has
hedis ischeaortetdledhtois
his plefull na:
sion ; that it would have been wrong to deprive him
bsailyitsyto that,h e
of it ; that, even if the allegation that he still owes
the public £9,100 is true, he is still entitled to it ;
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 seenis to us very doubtlul indeed
whether Mr. Edmunds has been
irregularity,baeenmufocrhefeodlriglhvbhityerchL,rootrhodoaul
Wtgyhethshtebainurys dtehsatetorvinwinhfigiiocohtf
guilty of more than
hablame,ne ha
s
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.
" TEE I'EgTATOB,".--111Q 1.401*C1 challColloo3 Call"

Stern Lawgiver! yet thou Bost wear
The Godhead's most benignant grace ;
Norknow we anything so fair
As is the smile upon thy face,
—nothing quite so fair, but the next thing to it is
the bright selection of that serene smile on the up-
turned face of the earthly lawgiver who keeps the
conscience of England. The Lord Chancellor's
heart seems to have got the better for a time of his
stern sense of duty. When he received an earnest
request from Mr. Edmunds' solicitor to postpone
that communication till Mr. Edmunds could hear
from abroad. Why it would have been a consola-
tion to Mr. Edmunds to hear from abroad before the
Lord Chancellor could be permitted to set his con-
science at rest does not very clearly appear, but it is
said that the Lord Chancellor had again intimated
to Mr. Edmunds that for the second time he might
avoid a trial more or less public, by resignation,—
perhaps he wished to give Mr:Edmunds time to
take the advice of friends abroad whether such re-
signation would be desirable. This Lord Westbury
does not deny, but he repudiates with great fervour
the imputation of having tempted Mr. Edmunds
with the hope of getting a pension as well as avoid-
ing the publicity of an inquiry by the House of
Lords in case he should resign. No doubt Mr. Ed-
munds had a difficult calculation to make. On the
one hand, it is pretty clear that his friends in the
House of Lords were numerous. Lord Derby, for
instance, does not scruple to palliate the
rather larming practice (hypothetically attri-
buted to Mr. Edmunds) of paying State money
to a private deposit account and drawing the
interest of that deposit account as your own. With
powerful friends willing to draw (if necessary)
strong moral distinctions in one's favour between the
practice of holding a capital not one's own in one's
own hands while actually drawing the income and
spending it, and the practice of annexing capital and
interest at once, what might there be to hope from
an inquiry in the House of Lords ? On the other
hand, a pension of £BOO a-year without inquiry
might be in every way preferable—preferable to all
parties—to Mr. Edmunds himself, and to the patron
in whose gift was the.successorship to Mr. Edmunds.
And considering especially that this patron was the
powerful and compassionate Lord Chancellor him-
self, what might there not be to hope from the policy
of resignation which seemed to be expressly indi-
cated by the merciful Judge as the only condition
of his silence? Might not the Lord Chancellor have
conceived the benevolent idea of conferring the post
on some deserving relative of his own ? And might
it not be very gratifying to his feelings both as a
Christian and as a father to be spared on the one
hand the pain of a public censure of Mr. Edmunds,
and on the other the uncertainties arising from the
long delay of an investigation, and the possibility
that the House of Lords might after all take the
same high moral ground as to the broad difference
between spending the capital and spending the in-
terest of public moneys as Lord Derby takes, and de-
cline to dismiss their Clerk for his little peocadillo in
another department? These considerations—or some
others equally weighty—determined Mr. Edmunds
(after he had heard from abroad) to place his resig-
nation in the hands of the Clerk of the Parchments,
accompanying it with a petition for a pension in
consideration of faithful service. Lord Westbury's
pity now triumphed. It was not in his nature, he
hinted, to " pursue" Mr. Edmunds to the committee.
So--apparently without again consulting the Govern-
ment—he held back his revelations—presented Mr.
Edmunds' petition himself, and made no commu-
nication to the committee appointed to consider the
pension concerning his alleged misdeeds. Doubtless
he had not promised Mr. Edmunds to favour his
pension in case he resigned—but Mr. Edmunds had
calculated rightly on the compassionate temper of
that gentle heart. 'The resentment of the judge
was satisfied by the resignation of the culprit ; the
tenderness of the father was gratified by the new
opening for the son. The committee appointed to
consider the pension had heard generally of the
unfavourable rumours, but these rumours were not
officially before them, and Mr. Edmunds's friends
in the House of rds are many and earnest.
What the Lord Chancellor did not feel it his duty
to explain, the committee did not feel it their duty
to ask. A pension of £BOO a year was granted
without asking questions. What if it should turn out
that Mr. Edmunds had appropriated money in the
Patent Office--did that diminish his merits as Clerk
to the House of Lords ? Would not every reason-
able man feel it his duty to pension handsomely for
faithful service the confidential servant whp had
punctually discharged all his duties as a house ser-
vant, but had been compelled to leave his place only
for occasionally abstracting money from the count-
ing-house, and putting it in his own name to a
separate account at the savings' bank, of course
drawing the interest (pro tempore) for himself ? At
all events the committee were not affected with notice
of the truth of the various rumours, and did not wish
to test it, so the pension was given. And in the mean-
time the Hon. Slingsby Bethell succeeded to Mr.
Edmunds as Reading Clerk to the House of Lords.
Thus it was arranged in a manner very soothing for
all parties—when the story oozed out into the press,
and that coarse stimulus furnished by public
opinion was applied to the motives of all con-
cerned: However, we cannot regret a circumstance
which has resulted in these second confessions
of a beautiful spirit." The delicate sense of respon-
sibility, the atmosphere of " soft compassion's feel-
ing soul," the lowliness—almost Augustinian—of
that last sentence of the Lord Chancellor's, in which
he urged upon their lordships an investigation into
his own conduct--" I humbly beg to move your
lordships that a Committee of this House be ap-
pointed," &c.'7 almost force us to cry out " A saint,
a saint is here !" Then the self-sacrifice ! He only
just touches upon his self-denial in not filling up
that second Patent appointment of £6OO a year.
What a lesson in lowly self-abnegation it reads us !
The spirit of Wordsworth's prayer, " Give unto me,
made lowly wise, the spirit of self-sacrifice," seems
realised in the great English lawgiver. In short,
we can but be thankful for events, however unto-
ward, which have resulted in opening the gracious
glimpse of

~ The image of a Chancellor's soul,—
How bright, how solemn, how serene r

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ALENAI AND CONWAY BRIDGES.—A Parliamentary
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advances for building the Itenai-bridge, and purchasing the
rights of ferry, amounts to £231,498. The interest on the
debt amounted in April, 1864, to X 432,902, towards which
£41,421 had been received for tolls, and £106,768 for ad-
ditional postage received on Irish letters. Adding the cost
of maintenance, the total due to the Exchequer a year ago
was £539,065. In respect of the Conway-bridge there was
£68,720 duo to the Exchequer a year ago, but the tolls taken
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The governor denounces violently the military
and civil policy of Davis, which, if persisted in, must
terminate in reconstruction with or
without s übju-
gation.
The New Jersey Legislature has rejected the con-
stitutional amendment.
• The House of Representatives has passed the
$600,000,000 Loan Bill. The main features have not
been altered.. It empowers the Secretary of the
Treasury at his option to make a further issue of six
per cent, gold bonds, in lieu of seven-thirties. The
house has also passed a resolution by 80 to 64 votes,
declaring that hereafter trial by court-martial shall
be confined to persons in the naval and military
service, or rebel spies in all the States and territories
where United States courts are open.
The Senate has adopted the amendment increas-
ing the duty on tobacco, snuff, cigars, and cheroots.
It has also passed the House bill taxipg sales i
per cent.

The sales of 7.30 bonds since February Ist
amount to 78,000,000 dols., leaving 111,000,000 dots.
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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, March 2, Evening.
Money easy—Gold, 198. Exchange on London,
2141 ;on Paris, 2 591- 2 62k. Stock dull—New
York Centrals, 1121 ; Illinois, 1171 ; Erie, 71* ;
Five-Twenty Bonds, 110*. Cotton quiet. Mid-
dling Upland, 84. Breadstuffs declining. Provi-
sions heavy. Coffee steady. Sugar quiet. Mo-
fined, 68lasse§ dull. Petroleum dull—Crude, 42* ; Re-
.

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MEXICO.

Advices received NEW YORK, March 2.
here from Mexico via Havan-
nah, state that the
garrison of Oagaca, numbering
7,000 men, surrendered unconditionally to General
Bazaine on the 9th ult. Diaz attempted to escapee
but was arrested and shot. The French troops
have annihilated the guerillas, commanded by
Romera and Roga. It is reported that no quarter
was given. Romera was shot.

According to a despatch from San Francisco Ma-
zatlan was in a disturbed condition. Guerilla
encounters were frequent.

A report had reached New Orleans from Mata-
moros that Maximilian had forbidden the issue of
clearances to American ports, and that £he Ameri-
can mail 'Ad boo expelled frog DiAtiVaaorae.