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of a current coin." Besides, this thirst for gain
was, it is well known, one of the most glaring
faults of the old system ; in so much so, that it
is not many years ago that a set of villains, with
a man by the name of Vaughan at their head,
were themselves prosecuted to conviction,
charged with having sworn away several lives,
for the purpose of obtaining what was, from that
circumstance, called " blood-money"—a fact
which soon after led to the repeal of the law
which granted rewards for the apprehension and
conviction of housebreakers, horse-stealers, and
some other kinds of felons. Compared to this,
to be sure, the money obtained for attendance at
trials, &c. may appear to be of a trifling amount;
but when it is considered that the sums paid in this
way in Middlesex alone are little short of 10,0001.
per annum, it cannot be doubted, we should ima-
gine, that there must be some pretty pickings, and
no want of temptation, arising out of a fund so ap-
propriated. It was the obvious policy, therefore
—indeed we might say, the first duty, of those
who set about reforming the police, to take from
it every source of profit that would give it an
interest in the abuse of justice. If the pay of
the new police be insufficient, 'as we believe it to
be, to remunerate their labour, and to secure
their integrity, let it be increased. Parsimony
in these matters is no saving to the public—an
inadequate salary is both a temptation and an
excuse for bribes—it is an inducement to cor-
ruption in office and violation of duty. Why
do we pay a police to prevent crime, and at the
same time give them an interest in getting up
false or trivial prosecutions? If they are to have
payment beyond their regular salary, why should
it come in such a shape as to be a sort of bounty
on the abuse of their office ? Where is the wis-
dom and consistency of putting temptation to do
wrong in the way of those who are to be the
guardians of public morals ? There can be no
greater practical absurdity than to give a preven-
tive police an obvious inducement to the creation
of crime..—Morning Herald.
'When the last increase in the salaries of the
Judges took place, as an argument in favour of
it, it was stated, that it would induce persons
of eminence at the bar to take situations which
had heretofore not been sufficiently tempting to
induce professional. men to abandon the emolu,
ments of large practice ; while, on the other
hand, it was contended, that the prize becoming
more valuable, would lead to the influence of
political connexion and private friendship having
more to do than they had heretofore in such ap-
pointments. The public naturally look, when
any vacancy occurs on the Bench, to the truth
or fallacy of one or both of these predictions ;
and, of course, their own observation will enable
them to guide their judgment. The general
opinion seldom errs.—lbid.
Our readers will remember that we gave, some
time ago, extracts from an extraordinary article
in the last number of the Foreign Quarterly
Review, entitled " Greek Diplomacy," with
such comments and observations as we considered
applicable to the subject. These articles have
since been copied into almost all the continental
papers, in one way or other, and we are re-
minded by this circumstance of a promise which
we held forth when we last touched upon the
subject, of vindicating the conduct of an officer
who, although he played his part as gallantly as
any English Admiral ever did in adding to the
naval glories of the British people, has been
treated with as great contempt and dislike as it
by his conduct he had cast a blot on the national
escutcheon. Sir Edward Codrington's great
fault was that of executing the only intelligible
orders which he ever received, according, not
only to their spirit, but also their very letter ;
and in not being able to comprehend those which
no one unversed in the art of divination could
possibly have comprehended. A British Ad-
miral, unless he be invested with diplomatic
powers, has only to execute the orders which are
transmitted to him to the best of his ability—
he has nothing to do with the tortuous policy
of Cabinets, or change of Administration, nor
to:presume that because such or such policy
would be wise, that he ought, therefore, to
pursue it without consulting his superiors ; and
such was Sir Edward's conduct throughout the
whole of the Greek affair. His orders were
few, and sometimes by no means of the most
intelligible description. At one time he had
to write home for instructions ; at another, to
send to the British Ambassador at Constan-
tinople ; while, during the interval which
elapsed between sending for, and receiving,
them, new events were taking place, new
schemes of policy being developed, and fresh
causes for interference daily occurring. What
was the British Admiral to do ? Was he to
do what he deemed to be most for the honour
of his country and the advantage of the Greek
cause, or to remain inactive, and calmly wit-
ness the humiliation of the one, and the ruin
of the other ? Here a fresh difficulty arose :
his hands were tied by the presence and necessary
co-operation of the French and Russians: he was
not, in faa, 4 free agent to follow out the po-
licy which he might have deemed most expe-
dient ; while, to add to the embarrassment of
the situation in which he was placed, letters
of reproaph were reaching him from the Go-
vernment here, for not taking those steps, and
executing those measures, which it conceived he
ought to have taken and executed, but for which
it had pot provided him with instructions. Such
was the situatioa in which Sir E. Codrington
was placed after the lamented death of Mr, cam,
ring, by the weakness of one Cabinet, and the
inile,cistve policy of its successor ; yet notwith-
standing ail tii,?,se disheartening circumstances,
Sir Edward contrived, during the pried that
he commanded the British squadron, not only to
win for his country one of the most gallant
actions of ini,-.4c;it times, but to accomplish the
very object which justified that 44tt10-,t,bp eva-
cuation of the Morea itself. Before laying be-
fore pur readers the extract in the article referred
to, relative co Csi,r Edward Codriugton, we can-
not help expressing our rep6t 0:4 any misun-
derstanding should have arisen between'the. Go-1
vernment and an Officer, who displayed, during
the wh.c,le Teriod that he held the command in
the Archipelago, euela consummate skill, pru-
dence, and firmness ; and still more, that an op-
iiprtunity should have been subsequently seized
of piuiiig him in one of the most doubtful and
embarrassing SituaiionE3 thq.t well have
been devised by his most rancorous enerhy:
The following is the extract from the article in
bhp Foreign Quarterly Review, to which we
liaVereferi•e4;---,
" We have _already mentionA the pc4-itg on
which the Allied Admirals demanded and obtained
instructions at the commencement of the mediation.
Another point remains, on which they ought pro-
baiily to have required advice, on which they had
no instructions, which 11,7A1 never entered into the
contemplation of their governments, not occurred to
the Ambassadors at the Porte—bin the neglect of
which was ultimately assigned as the cause of the
recal of the British Admiral, The point to which