The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Luse eight, in die Ho!Use Of,:tiers","torir Chide
calor Brougham radeemed one :ofethe. imp retest.
pledges which he had givers to theieteuntrystceirieroe
duce and support Reform: The 'meastwe wlileh wee.
the subject of his last nigbee'l3lll was Legal"
scarcely less important than Parliementary--4Le.
form, though surrounded with fewer• difficulties, and
exposed to less formidable :opposition. Never Wa
an evil more clearly pointed out, and never Wrestle,
practicability of a remedy more:forcibly demon-
strated, both from past experience, and from :the
existing institutions in a part of the .Linited:Kinda
dom. It scarcely required the .minute statements
and extensive knowledge of the Noble and Learned
Lord, to show the vexation, 'expanse and dela
the present system, in obliging suitors' to bring Their
agents and witnesses, often from great distances., to
the county town, to maintain them there during
the assizes, and to wait for a fedresi of wrongs
one "Ix months to another. The remedy which he
proposes has the .advantage of experience in its
favour, though the details of his Bill may demand,
and no doubt will experience, the most rigid, though
we hope not unfriendly exoteheatione-41--
An Evening Paine ropeeta i on W1)0,41404" goad
uuthority," that the Lord
,Clnsticellorbae' written to
the Archbishops and Biahopee thistle means to re-
sign all the church patronage; into their betide. Noeite
we certainly have no eurtiorey whatever, ttiar ht
!ommon sense for conteadictingehe report. Why..
Lord Brougham, a ChriStiath and a member of'_tlte
Church of England, sletudd .diepoliaess himself of the'
Ptotooello appertaining to his station in that eccle,
'magical esteblishneent to which he ,helortga, we
icannot conceive. pia Lordship'will fed much better
in dispose of then according to the suggestions
of his own exceneet utederetanding i'the 'poorer; to
men of piety and virtue. in the elected protessione--
,the richer, of wraith we briieve there are not many.
'to Persons to their Tiety and virtue, add learns
'Mg and kite wledge. While we are upon the sub.
'feet of the new Lord Chaneellore we will recur
11'1'44 'to a recent affair, in which his Lordship bore
ittvoltrw,tary part. We blame no one greatly ;
yet We li/tank that in good taste the attack on the
:subject ref the Yorkshire representation, if thought
neo****7 y shotild have been " left to that
I)litett%'.vhere only the defence could be heard." But
'whist a defence I We recollect that Mr. Charles
Alleles. el his Reminiscences, speaks of an attack
'Mao Lien the Lord Chencellor ThurloW, on his
acre ,talon to t be House of Peers ; end the writer, in
talon to the ,'.ndignant reply, speaki of the bird of
‘Jo. ,e grasping the bolts of his master, and so on.
41 re rebuke of the 'present Chancellor weed a dif-
tie' rent character, but its modest dignity, mixid. with
*I )(nettling of a Mild sarcasm, will not he for-
,ottere Si tic ontnia, the office of Chancellor will
e: not confer more honour on its possessor than be
will iropurt respectability tothe office.—Tines.
. .
A letter from our friend " Radical," in another
eoltenne will furnish something better than even food
for giNttra reflection to {the public. It bodies fettle
for a retrenehing frugal Government, not merely
sp„eeetree of criminal practice, to be ,religiously
avoided if that Government means to hold together,
or to face the country for the remainder of the pees
sent session, but materials whereon to exercise, from
tide very hour, the pruning knife of a wholesome
and indispensable economy. The uninitiated could
-hardly have believed, bud not the fact beee thus
brought befure them at a single view by the ;cal of
our iodusitious correspondent, the enormous excess
-to which lax principles of administration bad carried
she waste of the public • treasure. Wu find a table
of more than 86 persons—or (speaking, as we ought
to do, reverently of %midi great people) 86 per-
lonagter a-4njoyinge down to Ike year 1820, " sa-
;holes, erefits, pay, fees, and eroolurrients/' ii, /nest
Taws of a multifarious nature, and amounting in the
hands of eects personage, to 1,0001. a year and ups
verde, Some few, hOWeyee,Wa admit, deserve their
isaluriese because they erisnet sineuerlata, We talked
ex few- daya.age of tile !temerity of sweeping ewey
*erne dozens of " Boards," and well we slight.
'Our correspondent's list is defective to our own
knowledge, by almost numberless particulars, but,
still pregnant enough with subject of contempt or
anger against the system which enabled hint to ere
large it to its actual diweesiome One curious com-
mentary opon the habitual ekes of our Government
iii efforded by the language of the,tablee themselves,
from which it appears that a vast proportion of the
Sal'..iriegf &Cc', ere colJeLsed to be exorbitant, and are
ee,ened to reductionresbut when ? After. the de-
cease of the existing occupants I Now let us look
at me heseelt only. of these nefarious jobs. lii
searching the iirt for some of our favourite " Boards,"
we lighted on those of Excise and Customs. The
members ee these two fermideble bodies wenn lees
than 22, including a Chair mum end Deputy Chair-
man to each. What, thee, do wit and oplime4e to
the names of the said meraberi V Why, the Chide.
men hitYo each 2,0001. per annum, " to be reduced"
hereafter to 1,8001.; the Deputy Chairman, 1,7001.,
" to he reduced" after the death of the preterit in-
cumbruncero, to 1,004 ; the other Commiesiouers,
1,4001. per unman, " to be reduced" to 1,200/.
What is the history of these ehaineful salaries
and these intolerable Breeds ? during the ware
the Commiialoners received, after deducting the
property-tax, 1,040 L a-piece. Since the peace,
after the property-tux wins taken and the
salaries thus virtually raised to near 1,2001.
per annum, • and the value of numey raised by
the general fall of prices, that, lords and gentle-
men came down upon the country for an increase,
the Commissioners of oat-sixth, or 16 per emit.;
this Chairmen for above 20 per cent.;' and the
DeputysChairman, we ate told, wee a newly-in-
vented rank, melting a compliment to its possetort
of the difference between 1,2001. per weep, end
1,7001. The question wit would put, toehe present
Ministry, who are pledged (and we believe noxious
to redeem the pledge) to retrenchment, ix, are not
those unjust and cruel impositions upon the pimple
of England to be got rid of at once, or dust we ire
humbugged by a promise to lighten' them on the
death of therm who never ought to have enjoyed
them for an hour ? Of this bafld of' gentlemen we
find, on inspection, that no lets than 14 are actually
metnbers of noble families, er their well-kociree
protegis and: coneexioni, So much for your bo
rauglimonger Constitution I. We do not much like
picking out mimes of individuals. as, Marks for
pubbe odium, but near • the top of the cata-
logue will be found a Noble Earl, Tellerof the
Exclierer (one who has not acted like Lord Cam-
den), erivieg from it an income of God knows.'
bow much, and beildes a clerk of the Crown, e si-
necure office in- Chancery of 1,1011/, per annumee-
Tetra is in his ryfigliboorliood a gentleman, a chief
Clerk of the Treeing, with 1,2001. ii-yeAr, who hes
three salaried offices besides. There is a Chief
:Pumice in Eyre,—(qu. " it ?") Abut his duties
are we know not any more thee he does, but be is
an old courtly Earl—what business has he with
2,250/. a year of the public money for doing no-
thing ? Tkere is a Buyout Clergyman who has is
"salary" of 1004 per annum, and 0 emoluments"
of 3,071/. So there its " a resident Secretary of
the Irioh office in Lieelon," a place which was long
ago condemned by 'the Cemmiftee of Inquiry as use,
less, with a 'whey of 1,100/. asyeur, and another
place and a pension of above 31s0/. more. There is
that Leviethale or elephate of tiueenriet#, Lord El-
lent Innotigh, with almost 10,0004 per annum. A
Clerk of the Council with ,01101, per liftmen here,
hoe, besides, soother einecura clerkship of 3,000/.
a-year ins jawing...re But we are fatigued with the
seers sight of these ahem mations. Let rite Ministry
"NAY an its eft:tether, for the public will watch its
'node of dealing with theme—Times.
A.paraphlet has been put into nor ha
nds, from
which we oubjoin a passage, riluArative of the miss
I'OIIIIIMS now pressing on the country hum the corn
14%, raid its consequences. It is eceretly necessary
se advert to the eolitpitti,ant effrontery with which
the esmetry getitletnati recommends to ttift tenants to
raise the labourer's wages, while he (the gentleman.