New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-24

eious Information w fluid Ia Ths Timss) tho Yankees
will DO only too glad 70 facilitate her return TO the
Union BY taking up her outstanding liabilitiesass
mild reduction. perhaps-but certainly doing H. ltn
pay. depend upon IT," And DOW. this blowi Obi Mr.
Sumner how magniacently has The whirligig Of
Time brought Ito revenges" as it generally does IL we
only wait long enough Even the sbcors Of the South
share in the punishment Tor her Endorsement Of the
dead and gore ruffianism OF Preston Brooks. Ths
upshot Is that Mr.. Babesr of the Stock Exchangcha
disguised. all injured melancholy msn-too misera'
bic. In fact to be indignant; and the Confederacy Is
getting cold shouldeged In every direction. The subs
quent news OF the taking If Wilmington (Which
reached us yesterday, produced quite panic %
Change There it, we know nothing so successful as
success in this world and john Boil hates and despses
failure a. much as Brother Jonathan.
Blockade. running. too. ia as gentleman said to NE
in capitals "sl U. F.. sir" the captains hitherto en-.
gagged in 1t are returning to the navy and active
wee elsewhere while many orders for tho building Of
vessels have boon countermsnded. 1T was good
business while it lasted the Same person sdded -
good many fortunes have boon made at it," which is
believe equally true Of the slave trade You may hpd
ample confederation OF all this in the newspiperA
And now to other topics promscuous aud exclusively
British We talk most abou. the Edmund,s scandal, OF
IL has got into Parliament well the newspapers
and Pures Tie general integrity Of Government
officials here and OF the administrators Of the law, has
became 30 much matter If universal confidence that
It may possibly have bred dishonesty. overmuch con-
fdence is an. to do. Mr.. Edmunds Is member Of tho
Carlton Club aud Tory. while lhe persons chiefly i'm
plcated in the scandal which his conduct has given
rise are staunch liberal and one Of the celebrities
among the wings. Nothing has az yet been proven.
except against Edmunds but circums;snces are sus-
picious.
For upward of thirty years this person has heidi
variety of lucrative and easy offices under Government
What especial claim be possessed on the puohc mVor
is hard say except that he was patronized by Lord
Broughsm However as the offices he hl.cd werc VIZ
tuay of the necure ORDER it probable that he was
equal to tho main responsibility that Of drawing hS
salary-as well any body else would have been Among
other posts he held that Of Clerk to the Patent once
and in that capacity oontrived to divert the tr1ing
sum OF eli 900 odd from the state revenues into his
own itching palm. How he did 1t, whether by direct
stealing b. appropriating the interest funds which
lie had no right to handle is not yet made known 10 an
inqusitive public. An We can say is. that he Lao
the money" He confirmed his culpsbilty by rengning
his Offices and by paying into the Treasury the sum OF
about ia.0o' Which he admits due nom him 70
TO ,he balance For reasons which not at all obvious
the Government while acknowledging his crninaiity
resolved not to prosecute him for the oense and what
il s more extraordinary the House Of Lords whose
Reading Clerk he had been generously voted him.
retiring pension of $500 year on mis- resignation
That res gnation was succeeded by the nomination Of
Slingsby Bethell 30 tie vacant clerkshP and the
appointment Of Lord wcstburys sonin.law to another
Of the pests vacated by the delinquent official Now
8, these proceedings involve the answering Of three
awkward questions: The first Is How such system OF
pecus,ion could be carried on for years in public
Office without discovery II such fraud were CON.
uit,ed in one department why not similar swindies In
o,hers,-of which there are ruInors Secondly Whose
interest Was /. 10 hush up bottle down and put aside
the scandali Clearly the LORD Chaneellors He, in
the person OF his family. the chief gamer BY
Ednunds's resignation He confesses that he knew
all tho facts OF the yet he held his
tongue when the question Of the retiring pension
came before the House OF Lords and thereby oonnive
at the reyarding who had laid himself open to .
criminal prosecution. II s an obvious and inevitable
inference that Edunpds must have resigned his csrs
stin in the understanding that he would De rewarde4
20, 4, and IL /, hard TO how such understanding
A..M ha, been entered into without gross disregard
- nr,,;c AMY thirdly and colatersly but not ess
importau IL is openly stated .ha Edmards has had 10
nav considerable portion OF his salary yearly to te
venerable Henry Lord Brougham. or to 10 some mem
Der OF his family az "a confederation (as SCOTS
usurer has it) for the patronage bestowed upon him
Here then be truths, more damaging or disastrous
disclosure for the fame Of Henry could hardly be
imagined and becomes quite essential to the fame OF
both Lord Chancelors the ex" and the present one.
that they should purge themselves Of TIE accusations
against them. So We wait to see what the COMMITTEES
" Inquiry will bring forth.
There la, been great "lock.out" es it is called in
the iron % black country" tina, agreeable midland
district which is. ordinarily. kind Of manufacturing
pandemopum where thousands OF tall chimneys load
the air with volumes Of smoke by day and by right MI
the murAy SKY with tongues Of flame where the roar
OF blast furnaces and the thump Of gigantic hammers
upon massive anyils sound all sides and the streets
are every now and then filed with crowds Of swa and
grmy people-men women and ehildrcn--comins or
going upon the ceaseess labor Of their immense black
smtheries." l quote from TAs Ts<srsph
| Now great blast furnaces, which night and day
Summer and Winter. work days and Snndsys. are al
ways kept glaring and glowine-all these are silent
and cold No smoke rolls from the tail stalks the air
oil the black country is unnaturay clear; and for the
first time IN long series Of years. the horizon is 10 be
seen under the cold blue sky where 1t gimmercd
through red and hay wreaihs Of factory fume. The
work people instead Of hurrying 10 and from their
obor In Gathering gangs are ounging about the street
corners are gathering discuss the terrible fortheon'
ing campaign Of Labor against Capital or to hes' ther
dele gates and other 'unionisss deliver stirring 40
dresses This is as We write. the all over Nor'n
StaEordshirc and extending also TO the south o' ns