Mr. Ferrand, a gentleman with a talent for saying things
other people leave unsaid, has given notice that he intends on Monday to ask the Attorney-General whether the Lord Chancellor called upon Mr. Wilde, Registrar of the Bankruptcy Court at Leeds, to resign his office ; whether he was then told that if he resigned he should have a pension ; whether he was so pensioned ; whether Mr. Welch was appointed to hold the oboe until the outlawry of Mr. Richard Bethel! was reversed ; and whether Mr. Richard Bethell's appoint- ment was made out. This charge has been repeated for the last enonth in all the Tory papers, and seems to require the blank denial which doubtless Sir Roundel! Palmer will be prepared to give. If not, Lord Westbury will have more reason than ever for believing, as he evidently does, with Carlyle, that "silence is golden."
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