25 DECEMBER 1869, Page 2

As the restoration of the names of Messrs. Schneider and

Fen- wick—the rich Liberals unseated for bribery at Lancaster—to the commission of the peace was, we believe, first noticed and condemned in our own columns, we are happy to state that in

deference either to the protests of the Press, or more probably to the more powerful protests of some leading minister's conscience, that great mistake has been corrected by a second removal of their names from that Commission. It will be simply useless for Parliament to legislate against bribery, and for the Press to con- demn it as disgraceful, if the leading men of both parties do not combine to enforce that opinion by those official actions which speak far more powerfully than any words.