The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-12


adds that he appointed Mr.. WEIGH
rom his recollection Of his application and testi-
nonals without further solicitation from any one;
and the committee are satisfied that no imputauoh
,an fairly be made against the Lord Chancellor
with regard to this appointment. Accepting the
verdict without hesitation, we can only express
our sincere commiseration for Mr.. WEIGH. He
had lent-or shall we say given five hundred
return. and he had been tempted to employ cor
rupt influence. which was powerlcss as to the
result. Mr.. WEIGH himself, however. does not
seem to have thought that his money had been
spent in vain. He continued to advance further
sums to Mr.. Bethel during the last autumn, and,
indeed, down to February of this year; and we
may be allowed to connect these late payments,
to five hundred and fifty pounds with
the negotiations for transferring him to London,
which the committee detail.
After the events of May and June Mr.. Bethel
sought the continent, but returned later In the
year, hoping to make some arrangement with bis
creditors and to get resh appointment. Inc
olsrkship in the House of Lords vacated by Mr.
Edmunds, and when that was bestowed ON Mr..
Slingsby Bethel Mr.. Miller asked the Lord Chan
celor to give the elder brother the registrarship
vacated by the younger. and in his zeal for the
family drew up the order appointing him to it.
The Lord Chancellor refused to make this order,
and II was then suggested that Mr.. Bethel might
be appointed to country once, whercupon the
IL II Mr. Bethel could obtain release from all his
creditors. This was on the I'D OF last February,
and the hope held out by the LORD Chanceior
was followed up with remarkable proLputude.
The same afternoon Mr.. WEIGH accIu i ~
London, was introduced by Mr.. Bethel TO Mr.:
Skirrow, friend Of the Lord Cnanceior ana
trustee Of Mr. Bethell's marriage settlement, ana
il was understood that Mr. Bethel was 70 ~ "
Leeds in place of Mr.. WEIGH, transferred 70 Lon-
don. The next day Mr. Bethel went to Leeos,
and every one in the Bankruptcy Court there nesrd
OF the arrangement. and at the same time jealous
Mr.. Miller drew up two orders Of app0intmehtI,
one of Mr.. WEIGH to the London Registrarsnp' anu
the other of Mr.. Bethel to Leeds. But the pS s
laid schemes sometimes fail. On Sunday, sne
26th, the Lord Chancellor having received further
information, made up his mind not to aprons ms
son to any office; and on the following DAY M.
Miller, warned of the resolution, mentioned tne
subject to the Chancellor, but kept the appoint.
ments in his pocket. Mr.. WEIGH remained at
Leeds, having for q time at least secured valua.
BILE appointment in exchange for his money, ana
Mr.. Bethel vanished from history until ne reap
psared on Ascot Heath, there to be recognized by
sherif's officer.
We have endeavored to trace such parts Of
these remarkable transactions as are beyond dis
pute but around them is an infinite coil OF contra
dctory statements. The important witnesses ex-
amined by the committee were only some half
dozen, and no two of them agreed together Every
one was cOntradcted by everybody else. Mr..
Miller, for example-and we take him not because
we think him better or worse than the Others.is
Henry Wilde, by Mr.. Charles Wilde, by Mr..
Skirrow, and by himself; and when his books
were examined as confederation Of his state.
ment, they were found full OF alterations and
%ar sn asSbem nss s1 Hsory g'G %sobs
BILE that Mr.. Miller should be always accurate
when he is contradicted by every one with
whom he comes into contact; but this remark ap-
plies with almost equal force to the Lord Chancel-
Tor, to Mr.. Bethel and to Mr.. WEIGH Take the
facts, however, as they are stated. and what
revelation do they make The Lord Chancellor
bestows his patronage on those who are most ut
for it, Just as the Duke of York gave away COM
missions in the army, and behind his back is
Mary Ann Clark, in the shape of his son, re-
oeiying q consideration for the gifts. Mr.. WEIGH
is barrister of considerable standing, and ooes
not scruple to bride his way to q seml.judi.
cial post. His predecessor in Is charged
with misconduct, and retires with pension upon
the suggestion of the Chief Registrar, acting
as the Secretary in Bankruptcy of the Lord Chan
cellor. The pension is given upon the production
of the certificate which the Lord Chancellor says
allowed the pension. The Chief Registrar, who
says that he called the attention of the Chancellor
to the certificate, so far presumed on his kn0wl'
edcc of the good nature of his chief as to draw up
tn &c appointments to registrarsnips without
authority from him. 1t is most unfortunate for
Lord Westbury that his subordinates should have
been so offcious and that his son should have mis-
led him, but it is at the same time extraordinary
that he did not detect their maneuvres. When
the Duke of Y0rk's good nature was deceived he
was excused on the score Of his stupidity and mex
perience; Lord Westbury has shown US that great
acuteness and knowledge of the world may not
avail to preserve man from similar error.
American Art and Artists.
[From the London Times, June 70.
Mr. +. Il. Church, the most original and daring
of American landscape painters, is already known
in this country by his great pictures OF Niagara,
the Heart of the Andes and the Iceberg. exhibited
here within the last few years.
Three of his latest and most remarkable pictures
are now to be seen at McLean's gallery, in the
Haymarket with some other works Of art from the
United States, of intrinsic merit, besides the in.
terest they possess as illustrations OF American
fine art American field sports, and the bearings Of
the late civil war on American life. There is
something in the scale and style OF Mr.. Church's
works Characteristic Of his country. He seeks the
most colossal subjects, and he paints them on
proportionate scale. Instead Of contenting him.
SELF like most of our landscape painters, with the
representation Of homely nature in landscapes
land travelling expedition, and starts in quest Of
icebergs to the seas Of Labrador, or to Quito and
0uayaquil for the study OF the mountain giants Of
the Andes. Then, after months spent In close study
Of these monster phenomens Of frcst ana ice' nr;
Church returns to his studio in New York, and
eomposes from his local sketches pictures which
are topoQraphical records by virtue Of the truth.
fulness Of their detail and their careful general
adaptation to the local features OF the suDJect
but which are not portraits Of any one particular
scene. -
On this principle he painted "the Heart Of the
Andes" and his Iceberg" in which the results
of his study in the Labrador seas, or on the rivers
and table lands Of Ecuador, were used for com
position, all the lines and features Of which were
determined by the will OF the artist, but in con
scientious subsection to the facts Of Polar ant
tropical nature.
We conceive this way Of working to be founded
ADJ I,o rt,ro1 stolo
than any others to result in works which will ado
to our knowledge Of nature, while they employ Il
the utmost the artists resources OF invention and
arrangement.
OF Mr.. Church's new pictures, one represents
the magnificent phenomena Of the Northern Lights
as seen in the icy seas about the Pole. The ma
tersls for this have been furnished partly by Mr.
Church's own Labrador voyagings, partly by thu
sketches of DR.. Hayes, the latest American Polal
explorer, himself q pupil Of Mr.. Church's, will
skill enough as sketcher to record what he seel
faithfully In matter Of fact way.
The scene is the northernmost point reached By
IN 1tfla achoanar ia nm thu