The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-23 00:00:00

OUR INCURABLES AGAIN.

Our yeaterlay's notice of the Herbert A'Court job
burst like a Sebastopol shell in the camp of the British
aristocracy. The storming of the fortress of our home
adversaries will, we well know, require lonz-continued
and patient siege. We stick to our guns, of the public
press. Our notice of the twin job, viz., the provision
fur life of a brother-in7law, and a nomination substitute
for the close b,,r,iug.,11 of Wilton' has produced a props-
tore labour in the following deading article of the Globe
of last night :

" Hr. o: H. Wyndham A'Court, M.P. for Wilton, has
been appointed Special Commissioner of Income Tax. A.
vacancy occurred some months since in the office of Coln-.
missioner of Inland Revenue, by the death of Mr. Rush-
worth, which was not filled up; but from the increasing
business convected with the Income Tax department, it
became clear that some addition should be made to the art-
prior staff of the office. Insteati, however, of appointing
ileW commissioner of Inland Revenue, the Government
have only filled up a. Special Cornmissionership of Inourno
Tax, vacant for same time, the salary of which is bat half
that of the former office.- By this arrangement it is ex-
pected that the efficiency of the department will be made
equal to the increase of business, while the saving of COG&
a year to the public will be effected."

'Thus it appears that Air. A'Clurt is appointed, not to
an Irish Income Tax vacant place, but as a "Special
Commissioner" of .the Inland Revenue Board. We do
not comment on the legerdemain assettion of our mini--
terial contemporary, tLat there is a racing to the public
by this indefensible appointment. Nor do wo care to
account for the fact that the " vacancy occurred
some months since." Wo leave the Government to
explain the reason for the delay in filiing 'up so
" spcial " a vacancy. Nor is any "saving of GOO/.
to the public," in this opportune sacrifice to a retir-
ing section of the late Cabinet, explainable by us or
by the Globe. The best economy of the public ser-
vice is tie selection of tried and deserving public servants
for our administrative departments. e•The jobbing of
these oil:less, as the spoils of the aristocracy, has been the
bane of Great Britain and Ireland. True and snfficieutly
paid administrators constitute an economy far mole prac-
ticable than the pretended reduction in the number and
salaries of the public servants. We repeat, what claim
or right had a three-year old member of Parliament,
brother-in-law of Mr. Sidney Herbert, to any such re-
sponsible and well-paid office as Mr. A'Court has hap-
pily obtained ? How many meritorious clerks are there
in the public offices—broken-hearted for want of recog-
nition of 20 or 30 years' public service—far better quali-
fied for and deserving of this " special" cornmissiottership
of income tax I Nay, how many officers at home inva-
lided from the Crimea, and who have escaped its dan-
gers ? Does any reader doubt that the present objec-
tionable and scandalous appointment is a job—" a pre-
ference"—inh Mr.
of Herbert's
Wilton
irno
tten favourbor; e loart i vthe,atthtehemem fbeerre nf
ocre 'h'
his
pre-
ferment is not connected with the desirable nomination
of some substitute representative of that wretched provin-
cial constituency of Wilton! The Globe does not grapple
with our expose of -the system, The aristocracy, by per-
sistence in this system of patronage and bait of the House
of Commons, will soon overthrow itself, if our lords and
ladies, and the salons, cannot be convinced that they
are playing in such times a suicidal game. No house
was made last night, therefore no new writ could be
moved for Wilton. We trust, however, if to-day such
a motion is made by the Secretary of the Treasury, some
independent member will be on the the alert, and will,
previously to 'any order for the writ, exact an explana.
tion from Ministers of the precise circumstances Which
have occasioned the vacancy in the representation, and
(on 'whose responsibility the appointment has been made.