The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-16 00:00:00

THE NE FIT JERVIS JOB.

Chief Justice Jervis, who has become somewhat noto-
rious for perpetrating divers family jobs since his eleva-
tion to the judicial bench, is now, we understand, endea-
vouring to accomplish another job of the most selfish
and flagrant character. Five years have scarcely elapsed
since Sir John Jervis, by some species of legerdemain,
bad himself foisted into the seat then occupie by Chief
Justice Wilde, who desired to become Lord Chancellor,
for the purpose of holding the Great Seal a short period,
afterwards resigning such appointment, and retiring on
the pension of five thousand pounds a year for life !
Accordingly, Lord Truro acquitted in a certain way the
duties of Lord Chancellor for a few months, and now
enjoys the above extravagant pension.
Sir John Jervis bas already provided for certain mem-
bers of his own family, by appointing them to situations
which hitherto were appendages to the Chief Justice-
ship of the Common Pleas, but lately were made by
clever manceuvring permanent offices for life to the re-
spective holders ! Now we have been informed that
this chief justice is endeavouring to retire from the posi-
tion which he holds, but not without the pension annexed
thereto. Yes, this pension which is to be enjoyed in
idleness—this pension of several thousands a year is the
great temptation for striving to get a better and more
efficient person into the high judicial office. Undoubt-
edly Sir Alexander Cockburn would have no particular
objection to resign his Attorney-Generalship—which is
held during the now precarious tenure of the present
Ministry—in order to become a substitute for Sir John
Jervis, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
But, will the public—will the taxpayers of England—
encourage and sanction such a flagitious and discredit-
able transaction ? Will those who maintain and pro-
mulgate the principles of administrative reform support
the retirement of so young a judge as Sir John Jervis
Nuth the comfortable if not extravagant pension' for
scarcely five years' tenure of office ? It there be in Par-
liament any members who are honest and sincere in cur-
tailing lavish expenditure of money, ought they not
fearlessly and zealously to denounce this most iniquitous
contemplated job ? Why should the people of England
be required to pay an exorbitant pension to a person
now holding an office of seven thousand pounds a year,
especially when the holder thereof has been scarcely five
years discharging its duties, and which pension of seve-
ral thousands annually Sir John Jervis may receive for
twenty years to come ?
This new Jervis job is indeed too monstrous—too un-
blushing, even for the present Premier to concede and
ratify. Would not the question of impeachment against
Ministers naturally arise, if a pension were now granted
to Chief Justice Jervis, who is so young in point of age
for this office, and who has for scarcely five years dis-
charged the duties thereof ? Is it not shameless and
disgraceful for any Cabinet Minister to contemplate and
entertain this slyly-concocted but iniquitous manceuvre
—morning Chronicle.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our despatches in advance of
the Overland Mail. The dates are Bombay, June
10, and Calcutta, June 4.
The following is from the summary of the Bom-
bay Times, Juue 10 :
" This is the season at which no intelligence from
India is to be looked for, and though scarcely a
drop of rain has yet reached us, a fortnight of the
rainy season is just as much held to be past so far
as the suspension of military movements out of
doors and slackening of business within, is con-
cerned, as if we had had our half-inch of fall daily
since the end of May.—There have been sundry
gang robberies with loss of life in the Nizam's
country, but that is a matter of weekly occurrence
all the year round, and there has been no occa-.
sion for sending an expedition anywhere into the
field.—The severe castigation the borderers on our
Peshawur frontier have received, combined
with the advance of the hot weather, have
secured us tranquillity for the present even in this
turbulent quarter.—Several cases of robbery have
occurred in Scinde, chiefly remarkable as indica-
tive of the desperate character and reckless daring
of some of the plunderers in these parts. On the
21st of April information was received of a robbery
committed on the north-eastern border, when a
small party of the Shikarpoor mounted police were
sent out in quest of the plunderers. Two of them
were captured ; on being confronted with the in-
former, they confessed, and were ordered to be
placed in the stocks. Two of their relations being
present, and hearing the order given, seized the
swords of the police, for a moment laid aside,
wounded them most severely, and basin.- mastered
the post, mounted their four horses, and rode off
to their own village, where they were immediately
pursued by a party of 20 mounted police. On
arriving at the village, the horsemen found that the
robbers, after destroying their wives and families,
had attacked a party of seven sent out in quest
of them by the Nawab of Bahwulpoor, killing
one, and wounding two mortally and four severely.
By this time three of them were cut to pieces, a
fourth fell into the hands of the police alive, after
being disabled from resistance by his wounds—the
only one left to tell the tale of their ferocity. At
Kurrachee a gang of 32 Patan burglars had enlisted
themselves in the Bth Regiment of Native Infantry,
with a view of being enabled to carry on their ope-
rations without detection. A number of petty
robberies having been committed in the neighbour-
hood under circumstances which brought them
under suspicion, they were carefully watched and
two of them caught in the fact ; but they made
such desperate resistance that it was impossible to
capture them until both they and the police had
suffered most severely at each other's hands. The
whole of the gang have since been traced and appre-
hended. They are sure to give information on each
other, when it is almost certain that every one of
them will be found to be implicated in a burglary.
The highest praise on this occasion is due to Capt.
Marston of the police, by whose means the whole
thing was brought to light, and who headed the
party, maintained for a time a personal conflict
with one of the robbers, had his teeth knocked out,
and was otherwise severely handled.

We rejoice to hear that the health of the Gover-
nor-General is improving.
_ _

Lord Elphinstone is in the Deccan, and Sir W.
Gomm at Simla. The Hon. Walter Elliott, mem-
ber of Council at Madras, has been compelled by
the state of his health to proceed on furlough to
England.
Ensign W. H. Harington, 42d Regiment, N. 1.,
died at.Tubulpore on the 17th May.
There is little or nothing doing in our markets,
the season havinc, been closed. Tonnage is scarce,
and exchange on England has advanced.