Widnes Examiner. — 1882-10-14 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

STATEMENTS OF EYE-WITNESSES. married a sister of the late Sir Robert Peel, and obtained a A magisterial inquiry was held at Mullaghadruma, on Mastership in Chancery, value about £4,600 per annum, Wednesday, relative to the murder of the Hnddys, Lord which he continued to hold after succeeding to the tltle. Ardilaun's bailiffs. A guard of police was stationed His brother, who went into the Church, obtained the outside. Kerrigan, the approver, and his wife were the living of Beaksbourne (L 247 and Harbledown (£385 and principal witnesses. Their evidence has not been made a house), and subsequently of Bishopsbourne (£527 and a public, but a correspondent understands that it was to the house). effect that the elder Huddy was suddenly stunned by a It is worth while to glance at the Edens who are now in blew from a stone as he was serving his last ejeetment prothe Church; they will serve to show what " a feast of fat C,28,9, and was thee severely kicked. A woman who was things" the Church of the Poor provides for the cadets present advised him to pray for mercy on his soul, when one of aristocratic houses who go into her service. There is of the assassins stepped forward and 'fired four rounds from one who is Vicer of Ticehurst (820 and a house) ; another a revolver, killing Huddy on the spot. When young Huddy is Prebendary of York, also Vicar of Aberford (£361 and a saw his grandfather murdered he ran for his life, but was house) ; another is Vicar of Sedgefield (£l,BOO and a house) ; captured, seized by the neck and his head dashed against a another is Vicar of Wymondharn (£761 and a house). heap of stones. He was then shot in the same way as the Even at the present day we have not done with the Edens elder victim. A crowd of villagers wee standing by, but as pensioners. A Mr. Frederick Eden, who was in the Civil none intetfered. Two sacks were procured, the corpses Service, retired in 1867, his salary then being £866 per placed in them, and taken to Lough Mask. On the way annum, and his retiring pension is £317. The late Sir Wm. the assassins met a man who is now one of the Crown witEden, Bart., was also Custos lerevium of the Court of Corn- masses, and they made bias lend a hand in carrying their mon Pleas, and received for forty years in that capacity the dreadful burden. It is believed that the principal participasum of £786 183. Bd. annually—in all £31,457. He died in tors in the crime were two men who are now in gaol. 1873, but the annual £786 18s. Bd. is still paid to his son. Have we not already paid the Edens enough, and more than enough, for their brilliant Services? So long as the Eden baronetcy does not want an heir, is the British nation compelled to keep on paying them nearly 43800 per annum for doing nothing? My almost interminable list of Eden places and pensions is not quite exhaustive. I have come across two or three other Edens who, I am sure, held offices at some time or other, of whom I could not obtain particulars. I have, however, stated quite enough to show that they have uniformly acted up to the family motto, Si sit prudentia—" If there be but prudence." Thank Heaven, we live in an enlightened ceuntry, where the members of aristocratic houses serve the State purely from patriotism and public spirit. We have not among us place-men, adventurers, and office-seekers, even as those Americans ! We make our Parliament the close preserve of wealthy men, and carefully keep out those whose moderate means might tempt them to turn politics into a trade. What need of more Bunts, so long as we have plenty of Edens? . *This chapter was printed long before the recent Cabul Massacre occurred.  -.., ,AND,  ented I  A