The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-03 00:00:00

policy, and the Impeachment Committee are busy
preparing their report. Throught all this clamour
the PRESIDENT keeps on his way, and one of his
latest acts has been the pardon of General LONG-
STREET, whose name will always be memorable as
associated with the brilliant, if unsuccessful, gal-
lantry that distinguished the Confederate armies.

The case of the Sheffield Unionists continues to
grow worse and worse. So far from BROADHEAD
being the only or even the principal offender, he
appears to be a " representative man." If any
social philosopher wished for practical illustrations
of the dangerous tendency of the false morality of
the unionists, he could not find more powerful or
striking evidence than the facts elicited before the
Commissioners. The men began by combining to
protect their own labour against undue pressure
on the part of the masters, and so far all
was well. Unfortunately the power so readily
obtained was soon put to other uses, and
a regular system of interference and terrorism has
been established, which it is idle any longer to deny
has greatly injured English trade, and has proved a
wearisome and disheartening burden to both masters
and men. Beginning with a fair and open combi-
nation for a reasonable and definite end, the
unionists of Sheffield have at last sunk to the lowest
depths of degradation—employing hired ruffians
to commit the most desperate crimes for the
sake of reward ! To make matters worse,
the men thus employed belong to their own
class and standing. They are file-cutlers, saw-
grinders, or belong to some other of those trades
which flaunt their banners in procession, and de-
claim the rights of labour. If this is the manner
in which the leading Unionists propose to elevate
and improve the condition of the working classes,
we congratulate them upon the originality of their
design! The evidence of ROBERT RENSHAW, who
confessed to the blowing up of WASTNIDGE'S
house, in Acorn-sti eet, which killed one woman and
injured another severely, produced some sensation
in the court. Accustomed as the audience are by
this time to painful and shocking revelations, there
was something startling in the deliberate details of
the act—the man going to the theatre and waiting
till the end of the piece, and then throwing in his
fatal charge at the window of a man he had never
seen—and also in the cool manner in which he con-
fessed to having done it for money. " What was
the reason," asked the Commissioner, " you were to
do this to WASTNIDGE ?" "To get the money of
course" was the answer. The reason which
prompted his employers was a simple one. WAST-
NIDGE was a non-unionist, who along with some
others had been employed by Mr. HooLE, a manu-
facturer, in consequence of the drunkenness and
neglect of work by their old hands, who all left
when the new men came. BROADIIEAD offered six
of the new comers It 0 each to leave, but they re-
fused, and were subsequently beaten and otherwise
maltreated. WASTNIDGE, as we know, suffered
still more. His wife is still partially blind and
lame from the explosion. A widow woman who

lodged with them was killed, and, as usual, the
real criminals were never discovered till now.
As a further proof of the morality of
these men, those who knew the whole truth about
the outrage allowed an innocent man to be tried,
and would have let him be condemned without
speaking. But, in fact, nothing that comes to
light can 'well surprise Iv. The truth has proved
far worse than the anticipations, but we hope the
Com►nissioners will not relax their efforts till they
have gained.all that eau possibly be known.