The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-23 00:00:00

MORE DIRECT ORS' MORA LIY Y

Surprise would be excited had a charge of burglary
been made and particulars detailed—were the accuser
on being required to prove the case to declare it to
be all a mistake—that the circumstances had been
explained, the highly honourable gentleman hav-
ing only misled him by a playful way of entering
the house through the window at midnight ? Let
the reader then picure the gushing counsel em-.
bracing on each side, the noble-hearted accuser
lavishly praised for his quick and generous manner
of appreciating the real intentions of the accuse:l,
and withdrawing at once all imputations, while the
supposed burglar was complimented on the honesty
of his character, the suspicious case, but) the better
showing what an industrious, sober, and worthy
man he was. If the ju age interrapte 1 these price :d-
-ings by asking for an explanation, and it was alleged.
that the accused htd with crowbar fore his
way through the win low, thtt he hi 1 picke 1 up
some silver spoons, au 1 decamp el with a.ceneider-
able amount of plate, but on hearing that a clue
had been gained which would leil to his capture, 1
theoption had been given to the prosecutor, who
elected to get his plate blck r Wier then to punish
the delinanent. Were all parties permittel this t 3
leave the court society would t Ike alarm, fee'img
that a premium he I been offere 1 to robhery; for
the robber, if such co:npromises were permitted, in
success gets clear off with his plunder, while in
failure he has but to return it. Yet a c tse, not
widely differing in appearance, actually occur-
red in the Lord M tyor's court last week. If
Mr. Benjamin henry Meore's allegation was
true, Mr. Richard Stuart Lane, Mr. Horace Ed-
ward Chapman, and Mr. Frederick John Helbert
Helbert, should not, as they did, have left the
court, bat if untrue, then Mr. Benjamin Henry
Moore ought not. What he affirmed against
the others, all persons of consideration and position
in the City of London, was that by the issue of a
false prospectus they hal induced himself and
others to form a Joint-Stock Company for the
purchase of their trading business of Lane, Hinkey,
and Co., which, though represented by them as a
flourishing concern, making large profits, was, in
truth, hopelessly ins elvent, an I 303:1 proved to be
so, as the company suspended a few months after
it was formed. Though his own deposition was read,
as well as that of the colonial manager of the coin-
pany, who asserted that he was intimately ac-
quainted with the house, and the fact of
the failure, yet, as an arrangement prior to the
hearing of the case had been agreed to, Mr. Moore,
through his solicitor, withdrew his accusations,
stating that he had uo vindictive feeling, and as he
was persuaded th it the accounts did not show the
discrepancy he imagined between the facts and the
prospectus, he also withdrew any imputation that
might have been thrown upon the defendants.
Whereupon, the solicitor for Mr. Lane, thanked his
brother solicitor for the frank manner in which he
had relieved and exculpated Mr. Lane from any
dishonourable motive. Then the counsel for the
other gentlemen also thanked the solicitor for his
frankness, though the hon. gentlemen he represented
rather courted investigation, an-1 while hinting at
other parties pulling wires behind the scenes [wicked
men] he allowed the matter to drop, as the defend-
ants had been completely exonerated even from any
suspicion. All this was delightful, and would
probably have continued so had not the harmony
been interrupted by the Lord Mayor, who insisted
on the information laid before him by Mr. Moore
being read. The Counsel interposing, asked if it
was right to damage the defendants by reading in
Court what had been found to be fallacious. "By
whom?"—inquired the Lord Mayor. "By those
who had made the charge," replied the counsel.
A. quiet little question, later in the day, came from
his lordship. " Pray, Mr. Moore," he said, " have
you received or been promised any considera-
tion for withdrawing the charge ?" After some
fencing Mr. Moore a Imitted that an arrange-
ment had been come to by which he was to receive
back the money he had invested in the company,
and thus the affair droppe I—so far as his lordship's
court is concerned. But what about the public?—
what about these gentle.nen themeelves, accuser
ani accused? Are we thus to regard these circum-
stances? Mr. Lanehaving come forward as the Con-
servative candid ate for a South of Eaglael constitu-
ency, besides being the promoter of the Merchants'
Company and vendor of the business on which it was
founded, has the a lditioual qualification of being
a director of the Credit Foncier of E ngland, and
thus hiving fully proved his competency to frame
laws for the commerce of this country, he can with
confidence offer himself as a fit and proper person.
No better proof could be furnished than this scene
of thepresent tone of English commercial morality. In
Liverpool the gentleman appointed to investigate and
report on the affairs of a great bank that had failed
puts this question to the shareholders—" If I pub-
lish this plain, unvarnished tale, I will break up a
preserve of rascality in this co:n'nercial centre ;
but, in doing so, you will suffer severely. If I
garble the statement the rascality may blossom into
fruit which you may gather, and thereby avert loss.
Which shall Ido ? For the honour of England, we
are happy to say that the shareholders were not
unanimous in accepting the compromise with dis-
honesty, an 1 Mr. James Finley, of Burton-on-
Trent, ought to meet with a hearty support
in the effort he is making to unravel the mys-
teries of the R oyal Bank of Liverpool—et task
more disagreeable, than people who have not
trodden such paths, can imagine. Could we step
back from the present with such exposures a.
decade into the past, we would everywhere see
mouths assuming the shape of an " 0," and hair
standing on end. Now they excite no surpriseAtil
but a faint emotion of indignetioa, and no sig.)
could be worse for the national fat-ire; indeed we
believe it would be better to see crimes of violence,
burglaries, and highway robberies make vigorous
head against the powers of suppression. The fore-
runner of national decay has ever been this in-
sidious corruption. It is not that liars, thieves,
and accomplished swindlers permeate society, but
that when they stand confessed they excite lit-
tle horror an 1 disgust. On the contrary, as
a general rule they propose themselves now as
candidates for Parliament ; but in saying this we
must be ualersto ol only in general terns, for we
know nothing of the case in question beyond its
extraordinary termination. The lealing pipers,
with the honourable exception of the Pall Mall
Gazette, are almost silent on the subject, probably
dreading the effect abroad of a forcible exposure
and denunciation of the pitiless frauds which have
brought such suffering and disgrace upon England.
Indeed a lawyer can throw in on the occasion to
which we have referred. a little pleasant " chaff" to
raise a laugh in the Lord Mayor's Court. Grim
irony, in truth, on these circumstances. The Mer-
chants' Company, he stated, had averaged during
six years £116,000 per annum of profits ; on the
paid-up capital the vendors had, we believe, gua-
ranteed the shareholders 10 per cent. for three
years; yet, notwithstanding this flourishing business
and this valuable guarantee, the company com-
menced in October, 1865, and failed in November,
1866. "It had," said Mr. Valiance, " paid dividends
before it failed, and stood through the panic of 1866."
"There is a general recollection," observed Mr.
Lewis, " that everybody failed on that memorable
had
been except lawyers." It in-
deed
for England if the money
squandered
wo'lbe
well
ulbeen England's total loss. Infinitely more disas-
trous is the loss of that keen sense of honour—
that public feeling which stamps those who have
broken. through the code of morals, that safeguard
of man in his dealings with his fel'ows, upon which
even gamblers pride themselves, and rigorously
bring into operation against those who violate their
code. It was with such a flippant remark and with
the laugh that followed that this shameful scene
closed— a scene, more calculated, to make honest
men blush, and weep for the degradation of their
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THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE AS A CAM-

PAIGN PAPER.

SECOND NOTICE.
(From the Anglo-American 2 'bus.)
Hurrah !—a half million ! " IVe now Print
300,000 copies of the three editions of the Tribune,"
and three e litions make but one journal, though
each is separate and distinctive. We read with awe
what we last week printed, about the Weekly Tribune,
and we regard with awe the columns and columns
which now tell us what the Daily edition is, and the
Semi-Weekly. Presently we may begin to peep out
of our hole to see if the monster is still near before
we recover breath and return to our gambols.
When the coast is clear, and we are no longer under
the shadow of the half million, we begin to wonder
what tc Greeley g tins by this display °f
his huge proportions. The Tribune is very big,
—it lies an immense circulation ; it is, in Radie.a
estimation, an excellent carni,aign paper—we "'I
to Mr. Greeley, and ackn mledge his success as 3
j mrealist. Next issue out comes the intelligence that
the Tribune has an immense circulation, an .I is the
best campaiga paper published. Again we bow t 9
Mr. Greeley, and acknowledge his nniuestioned
success in the Tribune. We rest on the Sabbath---
but the first thing we see on Monday morning is
the assurance that the Tribune has an immense eir-
cu'ation, is printed on good white paper, and if tke
issue was piled up in a column it would make
something bigger than the Nelson 'Monument ill
Trafalgar-square. Again we waft our congratu-
lations across the ocean to Mr. Greeley, at al
same time delicately hinting that we now know all
about the campaign paper, and would like t°
know more of the campaign itself. But hack
comes the response—the three in one are to gco
up at once to half a million, for nothing the world
has ever seen will equal the Tribune, which is the
best and cheapest Weekly, Semi-weekly, and Volll
paper, spreading before the eyes, &c., &c. Then--;
moved beyond endurance—we exclaim, Hold
Enough!! If the readers of the Tribune do nn4t-
now know all this, it is in vain for you, Horace, t?
attempt to enlighten them. Surely these are net
the articles which bring in the thousands of new
subscribers weekly ? Although we cannot supPese
they would be published with this wearying e.
monotony if they did not produce some result. Th
Tribune was very severely handled for a lode
entitled " lloratio Seymour as a Liar," but the
only effect of the comments has been to bring
forth the sequel in the issue of Sept. 30, "A 1)91
without Shame." Mr. Greeley must be aware that
his responsibility is in proportion to his circulation;
which is so large as to give him a vast power fir),"
good or evil in the United States, and he is too °,O
a journalist and too able a literary man not 'to k°o
of
that he can strike as effectively without the use °
epithets which are as inapplicable when applied of
men like Horatio Seymour as would be the gift "
a few cents in charity to himself, the leading 131'.°:
prietor of the Tribune he takes so much delightl
describing. There may be some point in sendig 5
battered spoon to Butler or a pocket-handkereril'
to Seymour, but as to calling a gentleman of lnigth
character a liar because his figures do not tally
those of the Tribune is to combine a want of for%
and object with a most injurious example, Whic,
the small fry, following at the Tribune's heels 0
not slow to copy. We have shown the gribfl6 it
that when it comes to subtract 15 from 3' be
brings out a curious result, but we do not assert t
plper to be " A Liar without Shame " becanse.oo
thus errs. Campaign tactics doubtless authorlir
the publication of such paragraphs as ,4 Frank 13160
on the War Path," as it is only paying Derneiersto
off in their own coin, and nobody is expected 01
believe it. The original report, too, comes fAl9Ot
the Cincinnati Commercial, and the scene is laid
Galion, Ohio, Sept. 26 :—" The hall was s°o
crowded. Frank, after whiffing away at his 40,
for 10 or 15 minutes, arose and addressed his Demo,
cratic brethren for the full space of an hour. xl3
cratic
speech was very tame, eliciting but little. ,10
plause. The Democrats were much disappoint
him. Upon taking his seat it was as quiet be
at a funeral. Not one cheer. He looked as I' up.
had been on
.a big drunk and was still keeping ituis,
All through the audience you could hear it WP
00
pered, he is too full of whisky.' He is On °„a
of his drunks !' After he sat down there were lo'r,
calls for II ibbell, but Hubbell would not come f°l,
ward, and the meeting finally adjourned. Fr.,1„10.
was escorted down to the Atlantic and Greatl"iit,
tern depet, and took the 2.30 train cast. Grew
by this time had to be helped int) the coach. Se'for
ral Democrats who saw him, say they c zn't vote his
such a man, and his coming here and m tkin
speech has made at least 30 Republican votes.' 0
While thus commenting on the Tribune, I'9o
compaign paper, we are fully alive to its meritsi4o
.t
ti difficult to appreciate the work performed 11
journal, and the able and skilful manner iu tot
it has been transacted. Not only has a paper a"t
the size of the London 7 inzes or Telegraph to be boo
up daily, with its volume of news but a few h° of
old, but it has to be supplied in the proportion to
at least three copies for one of the former and Air
for one of the latter. In London the labour of 'hro
tribution is taken from the offices of leading PaYOOl
by newsagents, while the Tribune is forwarded Ir i,
the chief office to thousands of individual subser
hers, and in parcels to clubs all over the Arneric3,:o
continent. To get through so gigantic a husigh' a
requires as much ingenuity as to get up sue is
business requires ability and industry. Therew
nothing like it in London, for though Lloyd's IYee.on,
malt
News and so:ne such papers publish half a
this is done but weekly, while the Tribune is date
semi-weekly, and weekly. It is no wonder that
paper is lost in admiration of itself, and that
tbe
party acknowledges that it has ably performed ill,
work of the campaign. When that is over it Wed
we presume, settle down, with greatly finer bops
strength, to its ordinary business, when we "-51
that it will become less Radical and more nation
—less demonstrative and more moderate, and 'ronle
take the place which seems opening to it 0.1
great American journal, such as the 7 inzes has oe,
copied for so long a period in England.

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Births.
lIANBURY —On the 20th inst., at Belmont Hodge' of -
Barnet. the wife of Charles A. Banbury, }in"
daughter. .d
Win—On the 20th inst., at Woodeote, the wife of 5"
Wise, Esq., M.P., of a son.

Marriages. Gary's,
IORGA —PL A.YSTED —On the 17th inst., at St.
Stoke Newington, Lieut.-Colonel W. D. Morgan' tie,gal Staff Corps, to Emily Rosa, eldest daughter ;Lot,
late George Playsted, Esq., of Wick House NAr3"'"
Sussex. 014
NEWALL —DEsBuRY—On the 19th inst., at Kensingtlory,
,;,Church, Lieut.-Colonel Newall, of tha Royal Art'
to Maria Margaret Dosbury, of -IA Norlaud-squ to,

Deaths. viqr
B RAGGr' —Oa the 20th inst., at 1, Porchester-gardens, "'"
water, John Bagg, Esq. bir°'F
DOUGLAS —0 a thrl leitli inst., at Stonebyras, Lanaricil o.
General Sir ThOMIS Monteath Loughs,li•C'vq _ .

Stonebyres and Rosehall.
4,1641)16*.
PANE—On tho 20th inst., at Richmond House, b''"
don, the Lady Adino nine. ell
KNOX —On the 20th inst., at London. the Hon. 14-,-rsiAPI
Knox. —o.i.

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