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ment at home have determined that the vacan-say much for mich ofher; but, according to them, The evenings previous to publi- but that the appointment of Colonial Secretary ey caused by his promotion shall not be filled,
be joined to that of Auditor General. This bisa accordingis been doney but to then as tonishment of every body, Mr Shelley, the Au- ditor-General did not receive this joint ap pointment, the temporary bestowal of which was unfortunately left with Sir John Davis. After upwards of two years and a half a service, Mr Shelley is thus thrown out of employment, for no other reason that we can perceive, than the Governor's desire to reward a person who pinisters to his vanity-a person who can put forth no claim to the office, and who is unfit for its duties. Had promotion followed in its natural channel, no man could have complain- er, and no one would hits been thrown out
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The Mad indulges himself with two columns and a half of editorial mystifications upon the lala atrocious case of punishing thirteen innocent men upon the evidence of the murderers of five of their comrades. He does not attempt to exculpate the Chief Magistrate; his object is more to make the most of an unintentional error
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committed by us in first referring to the matter, and unwittingly repeated in a subsequent paper, So soon as our attention was directed to the mistake, we corrected it. and acknowledged we were wrong though it appears we were only partially wrong, as four of the thirteen vic- thas of Magisterial incapacity were flogged; a fant which wo could not ascertain on the most minute enquiry. Serjeant Collins, and other Assistents, who must have known the truth, denying that the men had been logged at all, though they allowed that they had been pentenced. Our Contemporary rings the chan ges upon the blunder, but he is welcome to make the most of it--our having been led into error cannot clear the Magistrate, nor in the shehtest degree effect the merits of the case.
to 800 Major Caine return to the bench, it is true, though really after all, as a Chief Magis
trate, he was not worse that his successory
That Mr Shelley has been hardly dealt with is beyond a doubt, but justice may yet be dond by his receiving the appointment from home He is now nearly the last of the party who came out with Sir John Davis (the others have rosigned or been promoted) and it seems extremely hard that he should be dismissed to make way for a person who has no claims upon the colony, but who clings to it with the tenacity of a barnacle to a ship's bottom, and with the same effect. The Gentleman in ques tion is an excellent Soldier, and it would be a great relief were he recalled to his proper sor- Fice of arms. In his own profession may all success attend bim; and we would heartily re- joice to hear that he were made a Colonel and C. B. provided his promotion led to a resignation of his appointment in the civil estab- lishment of Hongkong.
DISCLOSURES OF THE ANDOVER INQUIRY.
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the government on the occasion of the proseration
His
in their authority a cold-blooded martinet, eager Rectory, Maidstone, from the effects of the meli their Secretary has boon an officious obtrusiva kusy of Thistlewood and his associates, expired at h body-n sneaking fellow, always trying to under-past five o'clock on Monday evening, a Pr
to sacrifice the comforts, the feeling, the physical choly accident, the particulars of which laga weltare of the pabr, to his own coretical etchers ready been recorded in this paper. He brea malay, the cumspect and precise Chadwick Wetherell, barrister, Mr Pench, his clork, &c., &e, of mathematical exactness. In this part of the chance. his last in the presence of his nephew, Alz Nation cartainly has the best of it. He asserts, for instance, being for some time previous, indeul we might add
Lord John Russell dallowed a draft of an order from the moment of the accident, quito unconscio because Chadwick had wa that it would not be of all that was passing around.
On Tesday lagal Bir Frankland Lewis, an Ex Commissioner, morning the melancholy news was conveyer ! rotendly denied the assertion: a rough minute record. Lady Wetherelt, the Hon. Mrs Warneford, ing the fact is produced-it is in Sir Frankland's mother, Archdeacon Wetherell, the Rev, W. We own handwriting! His excessive astonishment at therell, the brothers of the deceased, Mr Richard seeing the record attests at once the sincerity of his Spooner, M. P. who is married to a sister of the dental and fe laxity of his memory. The old deceased, and to the family mansion, 34 Berkeley Bazonet's reckless assertions, his extravagant and square, Lads Wetherall, it will be recollected, alainarous demands to be allowed to pour forth all proceeded to the bedside of her now departed hus his condour, hit thmazement at his own written ro- band on Tuesday wook, but returned to town on locatoroy expressions" were duly reported the tri- medion geattenon in attendance upon the right the following day, agreably to she request of the einlity of thongla, the levity of uurance, the diere honourable and learned baronet.
As a pohtician gard of other's opinion--betray the condition of a man accustomed to hold himself accountable for than Sir Charles Wetherell, and though his
and a public mas perhaps no one was better known his totions. No doubt, he had acquired that feeling treme opinions for many years past found but late from practical experience.
sympathy throughout the country, all admired the Descending to the region of Assistant-Commis honesty and candour which he displayed, parties. aloners, the ugly signs are almost worse. Thore is larly upon resigning the Attorney-Generalship some desire to dismiss old Mr Day-the Commis- when the Catholic Emancipation Bill was brought sioners now aver, because he was not efficient: but forward by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert they cannot effect the removal without provaricating. Peel in 1829; and we need hardly state that in They allege all sorts of reasons but the true one. doing he made a heavy sacrifice, as otherwise he Perhaps they were ashamed of the cruelty of abso would have long since been called upon to fill per sistant Commissioner, Colonel Wade, makes admis- Wetherell was born in the year 1771, being the lutely dismissing an old servant. But another As-haps the highest office of his profession. Sir Charles sions which lead one strongly to suspect that Mr Day third son of the Rev. Nathan Wetherall, B. II., was dismissed to provide a vacancy for the Colonel. M. Ay of University College, Oxford, and Denn al Sir Edmund Head is promoted to be Commissioner; Hereford At a very early age the deceased erined existing irregularities; the irregularities tolerated by Mr Gulson succeeds to his district, and detects Jong- a strong desire for the legal profession, and in 1790 he entered the Inner Temple as a student, having Assistent-Commuistioner Head are reported to Com previously completed his education at Oxford. to missioner Head; who receives them in such a way 1794 be was called to the bar by the honourable as to discourage Mr Gulson from performing his society of the laser Templo, and of that insitation duties. This Sir Edmund dentes; and to prove the he was the loading bencher for many years. friendship subsisting between him and Mr Gulson, progress as an advocate, principally in the Chan Nature and Fate decidedly have their moments of he tolls an idle story about that functionary's calling cery Courts, was pretty rapid in the course of joking. Nature moulded the visage of a late comic an old woman a bipod," at which both gentlemen time he received a silk gown, and in 1823 was ap actor in such fashion that his mere aspect was a laughed heartily, a charming trait of conversational stroke of humour; and in the Andover inquiry, amenity in the model department! Mr Jenkin Jones, knighted by his late Majesty George IV. In 1821 pointed Solicitor General, boing on the occasion Fate has been playing the part of a Bowlagins, a discharged assistant in the department, who plead ho succeded to the Attorney Generalship, an office converting everything into the grotesque, making ed guilty at an assize trial of negotiating the sale of which he resigned on the formation of the Canning sport of grave officials, and bringing the highest au- a public office, retaliates charges against Mr George mmistry in 1827, but the formation of the Welling. thorities into ridicule. The solemn investigation Lewis of gross unfairness in entrapping the subor 300 government in 1823 once more witnessed him closed with a perfect bonne bouche of facetium sness: dinate into criminating himself, and grossly violating the King's principal law officer. turper atrum desinit în piacen-it ended in "a the law thus vindicated w
In 1829, the government of which he was a member determined any bottle of fish"-that most ridiculous of all The chief upholder of political economy in the upon conceding to the claims of the Roman Catho things, frustrated affair of honour." The in some way or other brought disgrace upon avery any to sacrifice the Commissioners, in order to save
case has daily press, the Morning Chronicle, is as eager as lics course which met with the marked dis- body concerned. The state of the Andover Work. the law. It says that these disclosures throw no
proval of Sir Charles, and, resolving not to sacrifice house, and the loani squabbles about it, were a mass new light on the merits of the law which remain
principle for interest, he resigned, and never again of masty corruption. The inquiry into it by order of just where they were a year ago In some degree first returned 10 parliament for the now disfranciaal held office under government. The deceased was the Commissioners dragged out more obscenities;
that true, but not altogether. The gentlemen who borough of Boroughbridge; he also representest the examination itself reflected discredit on the offi- are all thus criminated are not to be regarded eurot Oxford for a considerable period, but latterly be cer who mismanaged it, and on the Commissiers as bad men or silly men. Quite the reverse they declined biking any part wathever in the proceel- who misdirected it and appointment of an im may be taken to be, all of them, considerably above proper successor to the dismissed master was a lu- the averago in point of intellect and of some, res-
ings of the legislature, as he never could reconcile dicrous recurrence to the mischief; while the dispecting whom we heard in private we know
himself to the machinery of the Reform.Bill, which, missal of Mr Assistant-Cor missioner Parker by the that they are esteemed for a high degree of personal
measures deemed by bim inroads on the not immaculate Commissioners was a sacrifice to
worth There seems to
constitution, he emphatically but unsuccessfally appenas public opinion, that very little served its
oppose. Since his retirement from parliament, actar in the law, when be something fatal to chur
Sir Charles devoted himself to his professional It is alleged that we published four versions purpose. The House of Commons took the matter
into its own hands; appointed a Select Committee whirlpool of discord and misrulo. And such we
duties his practice being confined to the Equity of the story (adding a fifth in the precis of the to fartire; and the result is, that the Commission at news of the month) and that all these versions Somerset House is exposed in a state of utter disor
believe to be the fact: the Commissioners and their
Courte A part, however, from Westminster Hall differed from each other. We need scarcely ganization, the effect of internal disorder. The offi- quantity; and their main task, that of carrying out
assistants had too much work to do in point of ments, viz. those of Recorder of Bristol, standing and Lincoln's Inn, he held three lucrative appoint say that the statement is untrue. On our re- cials do not oscape the general defilement; and the the state, was in its nature imprateable The dry legal adviser to his Majesty the King of Hanover. counsel to the University of Oxford, and leading tom from Macao, we were requested by a very Committee of inquiry became infected with the austerity of the law was repugnant to the more hu. In his addresses to the House of Commons while Juror to attend the inquest, then sitting, as it prevalent spirit, at once malignant and absurd. It was one of importance. Upon the result of is a remarkable characteristic of the whole case, that particular measure, or its completeness for the pro
mone feelings; while the imperative necessity of the member, Sir Charles was generally very satiriral, that inquest being known, and after reading all persons engaged appear to be actuated by a desire per pupose of a poor-law, had never been salisfact
and sometimes personal in his remarks; in cease the evidence, we stated the case faithfully and to injure and disgrace each other. The same directorily made out as a matter of argument. The peo conflicts with honourable members. Indeed, in
quence he
e he was involveil on many occasions in truly in our issue of the 4th November. That personal malevolezce that was seen in bitter confet edition of the story cannot be controverted, the
at the Andover Workhouse, is also detected within
tricity, more particularly so in his manner of dress, various ways the deceased showed tokens of eenen- only error being as to the number of men who the office at Somerset House, and again among the were actually flogged. On the 7th we pub. judicial Committee Paltry motives never mingled
seen adjusted in an orderly manner. which his oldest friends seldom remember to have lished the inquest, almost without comment, but
more largely with great questions of humanity
Wetherell did not enter the married state until far Sir Charles giving Mr Hillier the benefit of the version put Everybody seemed anxious to hunt everybody else
advanced in life. He had completed his 60th year forth by the Mail, which we kindly republish.
The exhibition was one of the most
when he espoused the daughter of the late Sir Alex- ed in full. On the 18th, understanding that the painful ever witnessed; and it will prove one of the
Nor was that the sole original fault. The ele this lady, now did several years, he had one child, ander Coke, of Stadeley Priory, Oxfordshire. By men were still in prison, we again draw public mast deplorable, if it have not proportionately salu attention to the affair. As it happened, our
tary results.
ments of an enfeebling discord were sown in the which expired four months after birth. He mar labour was unnecessary, they being that day motive and crooked purpose to the substantial
When you pierce through this atmosphere of bad very construction of the Commission. Mr Chadried a second time, about eight years since Miss brought before the Honourable Chief Jusalities of the affair, the view is not more satisfactory minary inquiry, whose abilities and zeal were choir Mrs Warneford, of Warneford Place, Wiltshire. wick, who took a most important share in the preliWarneford, the daughter of Colonel and the Elon. tice and discharged. On the 21st we reported A huge pedantic bubble of official purism has burst, fully suffered by the other Commissioners to procure. This lady, by whom the decensed had no family, is the proceedings before the Supreme Court, and The purists of political econemy were suffered to him a large portion of the labour, ought to have about 40 years of ago, and is heiress to a large corrected some misstatements put forth by the estabish a model department; and they had it all had a Commissionership. He had fairly earned it China Mail in his elaborate article of the 19th. their own way: the bureau was a pattern of official But he was an unknown" man that is, bis abil property. At the sins of the melancholy accur These are the four editions of the story allud- virtue; not a newspaper was to be suffered in the ties had not till then been discovered, and he had
rence Sir Charles, it appears, was returning from ed to by our respectable contemporary. He place, lest it should tempt the clerks to idlenes; the no family influence to back him; and the aristocr months back. It is generally understood that he an inspection of an estate which he purchased some might have added that we gave another-we gentlemen of the Poor-law Departinent were not antic feeling which so prevails among official people has died vary went by, if, indeed, not enormously had the generosity to publish in the bi-weekly, other men-their virtue was to be a living reproach excluded him. Still he was not a may to be shel- as also in the monthly paper, the defence made to the lax habits of public officers in general Ap- ved and so, by way of compromise, he was made kept his offices for many years back in Store mild. Though a member of the luner Temple, he for Mr Hillier by the Mail. This does not
pearances were kept up for a long time, The Secretary, with an understanding that the Secretary ings, Linonin's Inn. About four months ago hu look like a desire to pervert facts, or send forth into the rooms of the Commissioners, and the triple he turned out to be. But from the first the Comby the Earl of Abergavenny, in Berkeley square.
Andover Committee, however, has now renetrated
was to be a person of substantive importance. Such purchased the splendid mansion formerly occupied to the world statements which will not bear Joseph Surface is exposed the man who does missioners were afraid that their Secretary was to The mortal remains of the deceased will, it is un- Mr Hilber may be assured that his position everything that is formally denounced is sure to be be viceroy over them, and there was all the fealou- derstood, be interred in the Bencher's vault, Tem-
some one of the Commissioners themselves. T By that might have been offered are guilty of irregularities carried to such extent as proved an impraticable" purist; and, as if for the wise-Chronicle.
expected. Mr Chadwick ple, unless his representatives should resolve alber- to marit the terms of illegality and corruption. Their sake of hwarting him, the Commissioners proved utter disregard of correct rule has reddered them the anything but purists anything but impraticable to opprobrium of executive offices. The
the working of divers objectionable influences. Had that was to be so perfect turns out a great
been from the first commissioner, And to this sparious tribunal hay
bat
disorganization would the country been delivered up for
vented he wou The more corpur eile for their specious exper
have as
the worse
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We are neither in a condition, nor in the humour, to enter into an junprofitable contro- Korsey; but as the Mail asserts that we have done Mr Hillier injustice in reporting the affair, we feel called upon to show that this is a mere idle assertion.
crutiny,
will not be bettered by the partisan pen of a Jesuitical winter. In this affair the truth can. not be hid and his best apology is, that he erred in judgment.
We cannot flatter ourselves with the belief, that the head of the Colonial Office is acting upon our suggestion, in reducing the expenses of the cind establishment of the colony to meet the revenue but we may claim to have thrown out such a suggestión some twelve montinavo
departments pas
to destruction.
TEL.
we see that all ose busi ness it is to admuster that law fall into the same
ple bave never yet been convinced either at it must or ought to be; and the dogmatic assurances or calculation of its promoters thd not reconcile the
objecture to its harsh aspect. Throughout the pro- greas of their administration, the Commissioners and there assistants have had to pay the penalty of imperfect execution in the carly stages of inquiry and
proportion.
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