The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-10 00:00:00

PRI( 1 7D.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC J

NALS.

A Parliamentary Paper has been ('rated, which,
we must say, appears to us by no n- , ns creditable
to the financial administration of this ountry, as it
0
has been hitherto conducted. The ts, liment is no
other than an account of the salaries ail emoluments
bf the several " Receivers-General - of Taxes"
throughout England. The salary er ed by these
gentlemen is, without going into fractit ,as follows:

2of them hive v £1,200 annum.
25
17
5
I
making altogether above 28,000/. a
salaries. Then there is is an extra dr

a- of fixed

public for " allowances," principally (
travelling expences at 2s. per 'rile, a,
per diem besides, while absent from

upon the
account of
one guinea
me; under
lon, \l'est-
ien► 1,836/.
2001. each;

which head the two Receivers for L(

minster, and Middlesex, have between

a year, over and above their salaries of

and the other Receivers are in t

of perquisites from 2201. per a
wards—making, in the aggregate,

possession
urn down-
; My 5,600/.
k the greater
exF2nditure
lore judicious
antry. There
e a salary and
e each county
!awn for leav-
ck upon their
'ore imposed.
are on record
ceivers- Gene-
even to

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a year. Now we are quite sure that m•
portion, if ant the whole of the above la
0f33,0001. or 34,0001. a year might, by I.
_ _ _

arrang_ement, be saved to the people of this
is no reason why a public officer with so I;

such heavy allowances, should he quarteryi
throughout the realm ; and there is as little
ing such officers without a more effectual c

possible delinquency than. has been her,
We believe that divers instances of defau

ag iinst gentlemen bearing the title of "
ral," and of claims, on the behalf of the
this thy unsatisfied.— Times.

The efforts now making by Lord eutenants of
counties, and other titled and untitled pporters and
expectants of Government, to keep 5 ,;n the ex-
pression of public feeling relative ti the universal
distress of the country, account for to partial re-
monstrances which have been hithert, forwarded to
Parliament and Ministers upon a sul et which, in
a greater or less degree, affects the terests of all
classes of the community. Such in; once will, for
a time, prevent the voice of public iffering from
I
reaching the Throne and the Leg• tore through
the constitutional organs of comply and remons-
trance ; but, like artificial mounds raised directly
against the current of some stro' arid increased
stream, it is probable they will old) .well and aug-
ment the force of the current that i, to sweep over
them with a louder and fiercer rush t, waters than it
would ever have poured aleng its uno itructed course.
Nothing can be more impolitic than ; A times of great
public excitement, to express, eia by open terror
or secret influence, the expression popular feeling
through the legitimate channels : opinion. The
bitterness of feeling that cankers a :the heart is far
more dangerous than that which ( 1 my explodes in
the most unrestrained freedom r language. We
believe that the great mass of t 2. people of this
country, notwithstanding the d ogard and con-
tumely with which their distress: rave been treated
by some of those who wield, and , all who worship
power, have too high a sense of re value of obe-
dience to the laws, and too fixe f a veneration for
the institutions of society, to r 5w themselves to
be led by rash and violent cow ' Is into any illegal
or intemperate vindication of tf. . r rights. Civiliza-
tion has happily too far advan I d in England, to
leave any great portion of ti r people tinder the
delusion that the barbarous .ppeal to force is
to be preferred to the had tual power of opi-
nion; but, while we depre.:: e any but legiti-
mate efforts on the part of ,;, to people to obtain
redress, we no less strongly e.; demo that apathy of
the higher classes towards th. 3 sufferings which is
calculated to throw them into ti ! arras of treacherous or
intemperate advisers. Do the ' ables and Gentlemen of
England suppose they can abs • on the people in their
hour of need, and not lose their awn constitutional power
and influence in the State?—or do they believe, like the
Editor of the Premier's " Lear' g Journal," that distress
will vanish with the springing " a of the " snow-drop, the
crocus, and the primrose ? " Alas ! dee people are not
like Esdras, or those gentle b igs, the Peris, that they
can feed on flowers ! Nay, a .ough they resemble bees
in their industry—that is, wl . r they can obtain employ-
ment—yet they unfortunately : ,nnot imitate the "opera-
tives of the honey-comb," by d ving their sustenance from
the aromatic essences of the ga ' en. The fact is, that so far
is the distress from going out \ - 1 the " coming in" of the
"spring flowers," it is likely t,, be greatly increased by the
approach of the time for in ' 'ng up the spring gales of
rent. The Duke of Wellingt found out, the other day,
that new farm-houses and otl buildings were rising up
in every village, and that tt ~ proved beyond all doubt
the advancing prosperity of ti agricultural classes. 'We
read in the " Arabian Nights' Entertainments" of a der-
vise, who, by rubbing a cert magical ointment on the
eyes of any man, could make h : t see mines of gold in the
bowels of the earth. Nothing , short of such a wonderful
and mystical salve, applied by ' he Premier to the eyes of
the farmers, can enable them to ! .±e the signs of advancing
prosperity which be sees! T 1 ; , cannot build new farm-
houses who are paying their ret out of their capital ; avid
who, leaving rent out of the qt : ;tint], are ground to; he
earth by poor-rates and taxes.- ; :Warning Herald.

An interesting discussion took place last night,
on the resolution moved by \lr. Robert Gordon, as
an amendment to the mot. ! is for receiving the Re-
port of the Committee of upply, that it was the
opinion of the House that gulations, affecting the
holding of civil offices b officers of the army or
navy on half-pay ought to .! extended to officers on
full-pay. After Sir Hen ' Hardinge had been
heard, Sir Francis Burd t and Mr. C. Fergusson
seemed to throw cold v ter on the motion. On
this Lord Althorp obser 4. I, that it was painful,
perhaps, for Members to nforce economy when it
affected individuals, but 2. Jere was a necessity for
them, being trustees for the public, not to allow
their feelings to get the I tter of their duty to the
public.—(Hear, hear.)— ae statement made by
his Hon. Friend (Mr. Go ' :on) had not been an-
swered in the slightest degree by the Right
Hon. Gentleman. It si lied to him a partial
system to deprive the I ver ranks of officers of
their half-pay, if they ac. pted civil situations, and
to allow the higher ranks retain their full pay with
official situations. Such , system ought not to be
continued." His Lords' then passed a deserved
censure on Sir Francis an Mr. C. Fergusson. The
Hon. Baronet, and the 1 n. Member for Kirkcud-
bright seemed to think ti t the half-pay was to be
continued at the same an let as ever it had been ;
and if that were the way , which they pressed eco-
nomy on the Governmen —(Cheers)—they might
be sure that the Governn it would steadily attend
to their recommendatiot —(Hear, hear.)"—How
can we be astonished t ,t Ministers should occa-
sionally shrink from the c •rcise of a painful du'y,
when they are not even t !ouraged to undertake it ?
Economy cannot be enfol d but at expense of indi-
viduals, for it would be strange economy indeed
which relieved the State without being felt as in-
convenient by any body. Lord Howick, too, has
expressed his regret th the Hon. Member fot
Westminster, and the 1 In. Member for Kirltrud-
bright should encourage e Government in its ex-
travagance. The Gover nent was ready enough to
attend to recommenda ns similar to those. t
never can be too oft repeated, that the ex-
penditure of a Gover tent ought to be limited
us much as possible to the strictly neces-
sary in expenditure. It is not the business
of Government to mak individuals happy ; but tt,
prevent them from being lade unhappy by encroach-
ments either from without . within. The generosity of a