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London, England, 1839-09-28 00:00:00

House, Sir JAMES spoke of the honour
he had had to serve on tl a Commission on Public

Accounts, by which the measure was recommended,
and which induced his Majesty's Ministers to select I
Shim to bring it forward, although he " deeply felt his
own unworthiness." He said, too, that this " offen-
sive, ungenerous, Whig job " " had been contem-
plated, in its principles at least, by the predecessors
of the present Government, and recommended in
its details by the Commission to inquire into Public
Accounts, over which Sir HENRY PARNELL had
presided." But the proposed measure was not
then a novelty, for Mr. HUME said that " ten
years had then elapsed since the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER of that day had pledged him-
self to effect the alteration the present Bill was in-
tended to accomplish." We establish by this tes-
timony the facts that the Bill of 1834 was not the
conception of the moment, that it was not the off-
spring of the Whig Ministers,but the recommen-
dation of a Commission " which had given the
subject the most mature consideration," as Sir
JAMES GRAHAM said ; and instead of being con-
cocted by Lord MONTEAGLE, it was framed and
carried through the House of Commons by Sir

JAMES GRAHAM.
On March 14th: he gave an explanation of the
Bill, and thus spoke of it :

" It appeared to the Commission, and also to the Govern-
ment acting in conformity with the view of the Commission,
that it was expedient to introduce so extensive a change
into the whole frame of the Exchequer as to abolish abso-
lutely all the existing offices and the mode of conducting
the public business in that great department. The Bill,
therefore, would abolish the offices of Auditor of the Ex-
chequer, of the Clerk of the Pells, and of each of the four
Tellers of the Exchequer." " It was proposed to es-
tablish a Comptroller-General of the Exchequer, and
inasmuch as be was to exercise the duties now per-
formed by the Auditor of the Exchequer and the Clerk
of the Pells (not merely the latter, as the Times says),
and to see that all payments were sanctioned by Acts of that
House, it was of vast importance that be should be alto-
gether independent of the Executive Government, and
with this view it was proposed that he should bold his
office by letters patent under the Great Seal for life," &c.
" In conformity with the recommendation of the Com-
, mission, the Bill provided that there should be an As-
sistant Comptroller." The present establishment of the
Exchequer amounted to sixty-five individuals, the cost
being 41,9001. The effect of the change would be, speaking
in round numbers, that instead of 41,9001. the cost would
be 11,000/., thus saving effectually 30,900/. to the public;
and instead of sixty-five, only twenty-nine subordinate offi-

cers would he required."
Thus this " ungenerous and offensive Whig
job," instead of augmenting the expense of the
country, saved 32,0001. per annum. Instead of being
concocted.by Mr. RICE it was recommended by a
Commission. It is not surprising, therefore,
that such a measure should have passed through
both Houses of Parliament without any opposition,
though, as it made a havoc of the pabulum of
Toryism, if it had been possible to prevent such
an extinction of extravagance it would have been
opposed. This " ungenerous job" was thus spoken
of by Lord G. SOMERSET, as honest a Tory as
there is in the House of Commons :
" He was happy to find that his Majesty's Government
had at last brought before the House this very useful mea-
sure, on the recommendation of the Commissioners ap-
pointed to report upon the Exchequer. He regretted that
so much time had been allowed to elapse since the Com-
mission to which he had had the honour to belong
had ceased to act, and since the Commission which
had succeeded it had made its Report, without
any practical measure being introduced into the
House as the result of their anxious sad laborious in-.
vestigation." " He fully agreed with his Right Honour-
able Friend that nothing but a sweeping abolition of the
system at present adopted would be either useful or effi-
cient. He did not think his Right Honourable Friend
bad swept away one bit too much."
On March the 21st Mr. HERRIES, another
Tory, said " that to the general principle of the
Bill he was as ardent a friend as the Right Hon.
Baronet." Never was there a public measure more
generally, and more deservedly, approved of than
the alteration of the Exchequer in 1834, which
the Times has so unjustly described in the lan-
guage we have quoted.
The Times says that the office of Comptroller of
the Exchequer was made for Sir JOHN NEWPORT.
From the debates we learn that Lord AUCKLAND
was destined to fill it, and a clause was expressly
introduced into the Bill, though subsequently with-
drawn, to enable him to hold the office in conjunc-
tion with the office of Treasurer of Greenwich Hos
pital. That assertion of the Times, therefore, is a
pure fiction.
It further says, that Mr. ELLIS, an efficient offi-
cer, was turned out to make room for Sir JOIIN
NEWPORT. But the new Comptroller was to per-
form the duties both of Mr. Ews, the Clerk of the
Pells, and the Auditor, and his being a place o
great responsibility, he was to be paid higher
than the Clerk of the Pells, but lower than the Au-
ditor. The salary was fixed at 2,000/. a-year, on
the recommendation no doubt of the Coinmis•
sioners, and there was no particle of obligation on
the Ministers to appoint Mr. ELLIS to the new
office and higher salary in preference to one of.
their own friends. Not that the then Ministers
were the opponents of Mr. ELLIS, for he was
spoken of in the debate in the most respectful
manner, and Lord GODERICH was not in opposi-
tion. His appointment and his retiring, pension
were both discussed, and while Lord ALTHORP
contended that the Government had a right to make
a choice of its officers, free and unincumbered,
there was but one opinion that Mr. ELLIS was
entitled, from the nature of the office he had pre.
viously held and his length of services, to his full
salary as a retiring pension.
We conclude by asserting that it is utterly
false that the office of Comptroller was made
fnr Sir JOHN NEWPORT. It is utterly false
that Mr. ELLIS did the whole work for
1,4001. a-)ear, which the Comptroller does for
2,000/. It is utterly false that Mr. ELLIS was
turned out to make way for Sir JOHN NEW-
PORT, or any other person. And it is utterly
false that the arrangement made in 1834 burdened
the country with 3,4001. instead of 1,400/. The
plain truth is that the measure was a sweeping one
of reform ; that it put an end to a great number of
useless-offices, and saved the public a considerable
sum, though it involved a pension to Mr. ELLIS ;
and that, instead of being a Whig job, it was the
offspring of a Commission composed partly of Tories
and approved of by them. The object of the
Times in making the daring misrepresentation is
palpable, but the public will deserve to be deceived
to the end of time if it do not condemn the brazen,
wilful, repeated, and profligate lie.

We copy the following account of what is called
the " Revival of Kilsyth," from the Glasgow
Chronicle of Wednesday. The scene surpasses
any thing that ever occurred in England, even dur-
ing the days of JOHANNA SOUTHCOTE, and it is
lamentable to think that the chief actors should
belong to a class that was once so respectable—the
Clergy of the Church of Scotland. A great change
appears to have taken place in that body lately.
Some years ago a similar mania prevailed in
that quarter, raised,
,too, by a Clergyman. In
General Assembly last May, they rebelled against
the laws of the country, and numbers of them now
are exhibiting symptoms of insanity, certainly not
equalled in any madhouse in the kingdom. Why
are these disgraceful and mischievous proceedings
not taken up by the Presbyteries and Synods of the
Established Church ? Are we to infer that a uni-
versal mania has seized the teachers of religion in
that country ?
" Most extraordinary scenes have been enacted at Kilsyth
since Sunday morning last. It appears to have been un-
derstood among the Revivalists throughout the whole of
Scotland, that there was to be on Sunday '° a great mani-
festation of the power of the Lord" at Kilsyth, aril, in
consequence, there were assembled in the village on that
day people from the most distant quarters—from the far-
thest north to the English borders. Beds had been be..
spoken for weeks previous; we have heard of one party of
20 females from Greenock having engaged beds
to at least
a fortnight before. Bnt the accommodation be
forded in such a place as Kilsyth was quite inadequate for
the multitudes that poured in, and thus hundreds had to bi-
vouac in the open air, or travel to the neighbouring village
of Kirkintilloch. Every kind of conveyance from Glas-
gow was soon taken up, and fares were inordinately raised.
The greater number of the clergymen present belonged
to the Established Church ; but there were also Dissenters
of different nenominations—Baptists, Methodists, &c.
" The services began in the parish church at ten o'clock
in the morning, and in an open field soon after, where they
were persevered in till six o'clock on Monday morning.
They
3t‘thhtl‘ieesimmgucraiholllund, and cryin
na
dswerete rstarnesumed on Monday at ten, and were continued
tthhreough the whole day and ensuing night. A third time
mill-dam,
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forenoon, and
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nature exhihiteads not yet at a close.
prevailed, and scenes of a most de-
plorablei
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looking out of their eyes,"the
women fell
down insensible, and were taken which
Session House.
At another time the preacher, in speaking
ladder, as a type of the Saviour, called () of Jacob's
ahis hearers
to come to it, and to make use of it ; n •
ut finding the