The Sun. — 1869-03-11 (London, England)

EDIII ARDS.  (From the Anglo-American Timm.) ,r 3 • The Lord Chancellor has dismissed Mr. Esr'npe Wa'kius Edwards from his post as Official Assigroof B inkruptcy. White fePthliating any desire to crow over a man in misfortune, we see no c-'use ~ regret this result of the Overend-Gurney estunil/.0 don before the Lord Mayor. Although Ave de e, to separate this gentleman entire'y from a c°l)L3bio tion with the promotion or direction of 13u'oe Companies, of which we have no knowledge, yet bo subject is suggestive of such concerns. These attend to the charges brought against the'Pr°'-ei,° ters and directors of failed companies are stru ' with the invariable plausibility of their defere to though this is easy of explanation. Men train the specious lying only are successful in gulling efh I public with the prospectuses of Bubble EnterPrlS of and they can talk as smoothly in justificatie3 an their course, as when they created so delusive lq impression of the value of their shares as to oceurrj. the position of benefactors distributing f3gil jed Our enterprising citizen—whose philanthropic 11),,,f de,ires the protection of small fry by bAtle-nosed whaleS, and can combine this P- io thropy with oil iu abundance and dividne33o, proportion—would, after appropriating all the silo scriptions and buying on credit a few ill-fi°l; whalers to cruise after the bottle-noses ta'". 7 the glibly in the face of those he left to Pal f°rtbeir unsaleable ships as he did when he made oa mouths 'water with the picture he drew of the „oet things in store. Before, he was a benefactor, he is a martyr, and the grandeur of-his condese'red sion and the liberality with which he storia gifts are only equalled by his subdued sufferiag' able qtret resignation, and forgiveness of his itt3P-sc,,by and unreasonable enemies, for he can act both '.„d laye, ratters equally well. Hisiforte consists in P upon two strong human feelings—the desire oc ero ilestrheiyialive and sympathy with misfortune; the one he to to to an immoral profit, the other he "sed9bol e3cape the consequences. When the resignecort unhappy face and" the tearful eye is raise.' i 3 0011 those who perhaps lost nothing by him s3s roc! the victim before them. The ruin and misery 5P by over the land with a hard, unrelenting cruelty log the lamb-like rascal are invisible. The dr°"-tile9 victims have been pressed to the bottom, whet.° i the lie with a millstone around their necks. beYoo,lld power of returning evil for evil. Indeed it „Wthe9s be hopeless to expect any conviction again'" to be people but for one damning fact--a fact net t,acl hi,lden or ignored—to which the mind wandleer after the favourable impression produced h3't "0(15 planations of the accused —turning to the Owns' e ber in scores piled on each other of money lost--ter, it ? The Gurneys were saints, but the 10ei, atsst trusted them lost three millions. Mr. Edviawbcrii' an eirnest, intelligent, ❑hard-working ma"' ,c)Af his Lest to save that and other firms ; but 3 -ttiVA,%the three million 6 which fell on the ue_,/,`l,,rc-tir shareholders was traced directly and inair;ii hi:n. Mr. Wilkinson was the lamb which felt are) the jaws of the wolf, being actually in"1"0-1.01a4' in a hateful convictii.cell. Well might the Citys nates express their indignation of the gT.r°; Oa! fringement of English practice, which u3t.etoc' dealt with one who had broken a great Pia doer)! Discount Company, ruined families by 0%0414 swamped money in millions, and led to ne"-o,eot!r suicides and premature deaths. Why this man, whose personal expenses were far gries;os akea' those of the Prime Minister of England, b" 9/11 tually punished as if he were an "Ar ofees•r had stolen an apple from a stall ! The Pr;thtbel, "chaff" which these gentlemen indulged in w;00 ric' victims before their own troubles began iis fill S to be wholly lost to the world, and woe',, case; amusing volume if faithfully told. In 3r/b-y tb gentleman who had been totally ruined •4 iu companies called on a secretary to prove heirel bility to meet further demands. The seas 0003 who had 'feathered his own nest, and care oressed for the creditors as for the shareholders, e amisra the old hackneyd conventional sympathy' ha 53.. that he should not risk further sums in S"-worii "; ous concerns, and noticing the dejected, elleroti.o pearance of the victim, recommend 4 3 gtbtls irjo diet, particularly rich good wine. IwthNer;:hatS bttlee.o,3 spoke to a man who scarcely knew for bread—whose every prospect in life,be pers°,o blighted by the lies of such schemers as `"„t ore ,j 4" who tendered to him this advice. It did - vfr-0 to the secretary that what his visitor Said totl/a, literally true, so accustomed had he bee°l3l.c. 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