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METROPOLITAN -POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Globe of this evening, after asserting that the
present Government has effected to the country a sav-
ing of 30,0001. a-year in the Exchequer department,
concludes with the following observations on the retir-
ing pension of Sir John Newport :—" The office of
Comptroller of the Exchequer is no sinecure, as the Act
of Parliament which created the office and defines its
duties will satisfy any one who reads it. This Act was
brought in by Sir Jas. Graham during Lord Grey's Ad-
minstration, and has simplified and economised the finan-

cial departments of Government to a very satisfac-
tory extent. These duties were performed by Sir
John Newport with punctuality and fidelity, as the
records of the office amply testify. It is competent
for any Member of Parliament to move for a re-
turn of the Venerable Baronet's attendance at his
office, t 1 hen the question will be set at rest. The infir-
mities attendant on a life which Providence has pro-
tracted to upwards of fourscore rendered retirement from
office not merely desirable to himself, but necessary to
the public service. Sir J. Newport's public life has closed.
The services he has rendered to his country are rewarded
with a retiring pension of one thousand pounds ! Let
this pension be contrasted with those the Tories were
wont to confer—with the reversions and remainders
they entailed on the country—let the men on whom
they conferred these immense advantages at the
country's expense, and the scrvices for which they
were granted, be placed in juxta-position with Sir
John Newport, and the pension for the remainder of
a life which, in the ordinary course of human existence,
must, we regret to know, be now drawing near its close
—and then let it be asked whether there is not as
great a lack of discretion as of decency in the Times
provoking a discussion which forces upon the public
the recollection of the way in which the Tories were
wont to distribute the public money ?
The Courier has no article of any political character
this evening.
The Standard remarks as follows upon the very just
censure of the party diatribe delivered a few days ago
by the Recorder of London, by one of our liberal Con-

temporaries :—" One of those chattering oracles who do
the dirty jobs of Whig-Radical Common Councilmen,
has, in his aldermanic capacity, it seems, taken the Re-
corder to task for the very proper and pertinent remarks
in which he indulged in an address to the jury of the
Central Criminal Court a few days ago. It
was correctly observed by the Recorder, that
nothing is so distressing or annoying to such
gentlemen as Mr. White, than that Judges should
act independently of their opinions.' To which
Mr. White modestly and decently retorted,
that the Judges were formerly slaves of the Court, and
now appear to be slaves of a faction." If there be any
class of public functionaries whose reputation for the
diligent and conscientious discharge of their duty is de-
servedly greater than another, it is the judicial bench.
This fact is so universally admitted, indeed, as to have
become proverbial ; and a wholesale libel upon its
honour and impartiality can, therefore, excite no stronger
feeling than contempt. It is fortunate for the country
that these eminent men are as entirely independent as
they arc of either the smiles of the Court or the favour of
its advisers. Were this important safeguard removed, the
boasted liberty of an Englishmanwould exist only in name.
The judicial bench has had a noble example set it in
the unflinching independence of its Chief, how
thoroughly an English Judge, acting from his own
settled conviction of right, can make himself in-
dependent even of that Parliament with the conse-
quences of whose displeasure the Morning Chronicle
has the surpassing folly to threaten the Recorder of
London. With such a leader, the Judges of the
land will never allow themselves to he bullied
into any course inconsistent with their duty, be the
penalty of their firmness what it may ; and so exalted
is the confidence which is placed by the people of
England in their vigilance, honour, and impartiality,
that any unconstitutional attempt on the part either of
Ministers or Parliament to degrade or insult them, be-
cause they cannot be converted to their uses, would be
indignantly resisted by the whole country.

CHILD-DROPPING.—On Thursday night, be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, as police
constable Shannahan, H 78, was going his rounds, his
attention was attracted to the house No. 1, White
Horse-court, by hearing the loud screaming of an in-
fant in the passage. On entering he found a fine
male child, about two months old, lying on the ground
in the passage. He alarmed the inmates of the house,
but none of them knew anything whatever of the
" young stranger," and it was evident that the infant
had been left there for the purpose of getting rid of it.
The constable had it first removed to the station-house,
and from there to Whitechapel Workhouse, where it
at present remains.

A GOOD SWALLOW—not .Anzerican.--Mrs.
Wetherell, of Castle Howard, had a fine cletch of
chickens, fifteen in number, which she fed one day lately,
as usual ; and in about half an hour after she observed a
duck, of the Muscovy breed, in the act of swallowing
one of them. The duck was killed immediately, and,
astonishing to relate, four whole chickens were found in
its throat and two in its crop.—Halifax Guardian.--
[The powers of this biped appears to exceed those of the
Irishwoman, who recently swallowed a watch she had
stolen. In her case, too, the watch re-appeared as a
witness against her.
RAPID RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—The rate
of travelling on the London and Birmingham and
Grand Junction Railway lines, we understand, has re-
cently exhibited a very considerable acceleration. On
Tuesday last, the London morning mail train to Liverpool
and this town completed its journey from station to
station, we believe, under nine hours. From Bir-
mingham to Stafford, 29 miles, the ground was gone
over in 55 minutes ; to Warrington, 774 miles, in two
hours and 43 minutes ; and the journey from Birming-
ham to Manchester, 971 miles, was performed, not-
withstanding a stoppage of ten minutes at Warrington,
and a short stoppage also at Park Side, in three hours
and 46 minutes.—Manchester Guardian.
BIRMINGHAM RIOTS, SATURDAY.—BRM-
ford, the man who was taken into custody on Friday, as
being the principal in the attack upon the Public Office
on the night of the riots, was this morning brought
before Dr. D. Davies, Mr. Beilby, and Mr. Meredith.
Mr. G. Redfern, the prison-keeper, stated that the pri-
soner had been out of the way since the riots, and was
accidentally mat with yesterday. The evidence against
him was not in attendance, he therefore requested that
he be remanded until Monday, which was accordingly
done. The prisoner has rather a respectable appear-
ance, and is about 35 years of age ; a tailor by trade.
13URSLEM.—PRESENTATION TO T. B. ROSE,
ESQ.(STIPENDIARY M AGISTRATE).—Enoch Wood,Esq.,
and three of his sons, were present at the ordinary sit-
ting of T. B. Rose, Esq., at Buralem, on Tuesday last,
and after the worthy Magistrate had disposed, amongst
a variety of business, of two cases of felony, Mr. E.
Wood rose from his seat, and addressing Mr. Rose,
said, " Sir, I hold in my hand a Figure of Justice,
executed in jaspar, by myself ; it was my intention
to have placed it under the first stone, which is to
be laid to-morrow, of the new Viaduct about to
be erected, to carry the railway over the valley at
Congleton ; but I have, during a long life, thought
that the presence of a stipendiary magistrate, in the
Staffordshire Potteries, so essential to the well-being of
the neighbourhood, and as well from what I have seen
reported of your magisterial conduct hitherto, as from
the high gratification I feel to-day, from having wit-
nessed the highly just and able manner in whic you
perform the important duties committed to your charge.
I beg your acceptance of the Model of Justice I have
before alluded to, as it might remain 1,000 years under
the Viaduct without observation ; and I consider it the
mast appropriate testimony I can offer to you and your
family, of my feelings, which, as the Father of the Pot-
teries, I hope I may presume to express, and that they
will be acceptable." Mr. Rose was evidently deeply
moved by this address ; and said, " Sir, the combination
of surprise and gratification with which your flattering
and undeserved observation have ovewhelmed me,
prevent me giving due expression to my feelings
on the present occasion, I will only say, that I trust
I am fully sensible of the importance of the
duties I have undertaken, and I hope that,
under providence, I shall have mental energy and
bodily health to perform them. The highly flattering
testimony with which you have been pleased to honour
me will, indeed, be a source of the greatest encourage-
ment to me in my labours. I assure you that I shall
ever value your present as the most acceptable one of
my life, the more so as it is the personal performance of
the " Father of this flourishing manufacturing District,"
to which I hope to be of service in a humble way, and I
shall band it down to my children as the most valuable
bequest I can make to them. The figure is white, on
a blue tablet.—Stafordshire Examiner.