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London, England, 1831-12-24 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. and J. Na.sii,sen: and jun. Chalk, Kent, coach-makers—C.
Chawner and W. H. Bond, Lichfield, surgeons—W. and T.
Jones, Langadog, Carmarthenshire, horse-dealers—T. Thorman
and E. Brodribb, Upper Thames-street, wholesale tea-dealers -
E. and H. Salter, Colchester, hosiers—C. M. Ullithorne and Co.,
Red Lion-square, attorneys--J. and S. Steane, Oxford, corn-
merchants—J. and W. Wyllie, Guildford, grocers—H. and H.
Barnett, sen. and jun. Bream's-buildings, Chancery-lane, copper-
plate-printers—T. Bullock and 1. Newton, jun. Knaresborough,
Yorkshire, surgeons-I'. Valentine and Co., Great Queen-street,
Lincoln's Inn-fields, linen-drapers—W. Dench and E. Douglas,
Hope-street, Whitechapel, dealers in marine stores—J. Baker
and G. Oliver, Covent-garden Market, fruit-salesmen—W. Haigh
and J. Charles, Bucklersbury, calico-printers—H. Cazenove and
Co., Broad-street-buildings, merchants—T. Pruden and J.
Sowerby, High-street, Shadwell—lL and W. G. Carr, Berwick-
upon.Tweed, apothecaries—J. Dawson and R. Comber, Duke-
street, Old Artillery-ground, coal-merchants—lt. Harvey and
Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields, attorneys.

The windows of the mansion of the Marquis
of BUCKINGHAM in Pall-mall are coveting with deal-
boards, in the same manner as those of the houses of the
Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. BARING in Piccadilly.—
Morning Advertiser.
THE CONFOUNDED BISHOPS.--Mother
Church has been lately thrown so much into confusion that
her heads and her naves ate now no longer to be diatin••
guished.—Figaro in London.

STATISTICS OF GREECE.—In the year
1830, Greece was divided into thirteen departments—
namely, seve❑ is the Morea and the islands belonging to it
in the Archipelago, and six on the Greek continent to the
north of the Isthmus of Corinth. The population of the
continental departments amounts to 350,000, that of the
islands to 200,000 inhabitir.ts. Thus the whole popula-
tion is 550,000 inhabitants, The revenues from Jan. 1,
1828, to April 1, 1829, amounted to 25,608,464
(1,536,5081.), and the I xpenses to 25,646,464 Turkish
pi pities (1,538,7281.)—Munich Gazette.

THE PENSION LIST:

There has been just printed, by order of the
House of Commons, " An account of all Pensions
on the Civil List of England and Ireland, and on '
the hereditary revenue of Scotland, on the 22d of
November, 1830, arranged according to the order of
the respective grants; stating the names of the
persons holding the °Mee of Virst Lord of the Trea-
sury, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, respectively,
at the period of each grant.'3
The following facts are taken from this document :
—Of the first five names oh the list the exact date
of the grant is not ascertained: but they are all,
however, previous to 1784 ; it is curious that four
of these pensioners, Lawrence and Augustus H.
Bradshaw, Dame Augusta Ann Cockburn (555/. a
year), and Vrances Richmond Paul, are still living :
thus, calculating from the date mentioned, they have
received in forty-seven years since passed a gross
amount of 45,898/. 14s. Gd.
The next name on the list is that of Lady Mary
Dorchester, who, since 1704, has been in the annual
receipt of I la. 19s. Gd., and has consequently,
without considering compound interest, received
7,770/. 6s. 6d. of the public money, for services of
which we dare say there is no public record.
Of the pensioners created by Lord North thirteen
only survive, of whom nine are females, and one a
clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Jeans (annually
178/. 175.)
Of Earl Shelburne's and of the late Duke of
Portland's of vt'es (for both are females) only one
each remains on the list.

Then comes Mr. Pitt's formidable array of pen-
sioners, making, during his first administration, from
1785 to March, 1801, sixty-five names, to whom
the annual amount paid is not less than 10,672/.
2s. 4d., let us then calculate the amount at half the
number of years since the commencement, a fair
average of the whole, and we find that among " the
blessings" left us by the first administration of the
"heaven-born Minister," the nation has had to pay
his pensioners a sum of 245,458!. 13s. Bd.! 1 T.
The first woman in his list is Theodore Rose !
We would wish to know whether this lady be any
connection of the boroughmongering family which
has held the franchise of Christchurch ; because, if
so, we find the motive at once. Among the other
names we find those of Elizabeth Holdsworth in the
receipt of 233/. sa. since June, 1789 ; Dame Mar-
garet Jemima Perrot, 481. 155.; Sir Charles Hamil-
ton, Bart. 142/. since 1790; John Wiltis, we sup-
pose the insanity doctor, who attended George the
Third, 546/. annually since 1791 ; Mingaret Ne-
pean, 501!. 16s. 6d. ; Catherine Gertrude Robinson,
467/. 12s. since 1793 ; Lady Albinia Cumberland (?),
311/. 10s. since 1794. Thomas Lord Walsingham,
936/- 10s. since 1794: a total receipt of 34,650!. 10s.
of the public money.
From the paper it is evident that a Lord Wal-
singham was in the receipt of this pension in No-
vember last year; the then living Lord Walsing-
ham, whose melancholy death at his house in Harley-
street, in the early part of this year, excited so much
sympathy, was George de Grey. The name of the
present Baron, however, his brother, is Thomas.
We find, from a notice of the Walsingham family in
Burke's Peerage, that Thomas, second Lord Wal-
singham, died on the 16th of January, 1818, and
mention is there made of his having enjoyed a pen-
sion for life, since 1814, of 2,000/, a year on his re-
tirement from the office of Chairman of Commit-
tees of the House of Lords, a place now held by
Lord Shaftesbury. What is the nature then, we
ask, of the Pitt pension of 1794, and how long
after his death is Thomas Lord Walsingham to have
his 936/. 10s. per annum ? or do pensioners, like
Corporations, never die ?
In this list of Pitt pensioners (first list) we find
Elizabeth Baroness Cathcart, 389/. 9s. since Oc-
tober, 1798. We find that her husband was Am•
bassador to the Court of St. Petersburgh, a General
Officer in the army, and Colonel of a regiment of
Life Guards. We have also Earl Minto, 9251
since 1800, making 28,574!. Isabella Maria 'Terries
115/. 19s. 6d., Marianna Cockburn, Juliana Mari-
anna Eyre, Viscount Hereford, Charlotte Henrietta
M. Wellington, and Catherine Eliza Marianne
Wilkins (all aristocratical names, quartered on the
public purse), the same sum annually of 115/.195. Gd.
since May, 1800, when a large addition of pen-
sioners was made in one day, May 29, in honour of
the Restoration no doubt. In the same year we
find the name of Henry Lord Montfort-whose
motto is Non inferiora seculus," that is, he would
" not accept less than his neighbours," and come-
quently we find the annual amount he receives from
the public purse is 4671. 125.
Of the others in this list we shall only mention
Louisa Erskine (now Murray), 233/. 55., and Lord
Robert Fitzgerald, 6241.-both since 1801.
In Mr. Pitt's second short Administration, from
August, 1804, to November, 1805, ten new names
occur, the four first of which are Dundasses, for
232/. 55.; the other six names, singular enough, are
those of females. The total amount of pensions in
this short period, still paying by the public, is
1,0341. 15s. 7d. a year.
Between Mr. Pitt's two Administrations occurs
that of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, postea
Lord Sidmouth, who, in the period from July, 1801,
to May, 1804, put on twenty public servants, of
whom there are eighteen females ; the only male
pensioners of that period being Robert John Jen-
nings, 1511. Is. I Id., in addition to Anne Jennings,
same day (July 1, 1801), 252/. 14s. 4d., and
Henry Lord Montfort, who was lucky enough to
please both Pitt and Addington, of 155/. 25., mak-
ing his Lordship's total annual pension, for we sup-
pose the lesser sum did not supersede the greater,
622/. 14s.

Among the females we find a large sprinkling of
the Nobility and lofty aristocrats; Dowager Lady
Clare and Lady Fitzgibbon, 780/. 25., from March,
1803; Anna Maria Duchess Dowager of Newcastle,
the same amount ; this has, however, been since
resigned at the mere mention of printing this iden-
tical return which supplies our present materials.
There are also the Hon. Jane Stephenson, and
Anne Baroness de Mallet, each 1001. 13s. 5d.;
Eleanor Madelaine Wickham, 526/. 6s. sd. ; Anne
Baroness Tritnlestown (since dead). 155/. 25.;
Dame Elizabeth Maria Shee, 3341. 15s. 9d.; Lady
Charlotte Anne Murray, 300/., and Maria Dowager
Viscountess Strangford, 233/. ss. As we have
mentioned the resignation of her pension by the
Duchess Dowager of Newcastle, we find that the
example has been followed only in the following in-
stances:-Jane Georgiana Sheridan, 571. ls. 6d.;
Harriett Vernon (now Smith), 881. l s., on the Irish
Civil List, held since 1773, and Eric Mackay Brown
Rev, on the Scotch hereditary revenue, of 184/.
From the administration of Lord Grenville, on the
English List we have nineteen (one since dead)
pensioners who,e annual receipt is (exclusive
of 600/. Bs. 9d., in the case excepted above)
3,1191. 18s. 2d. Among the pensioners during this
Period are four per.ons named Hammond, each hav-
ing 150/. 55. Bd.; Frances Charlotte Bouverie and
Elizabeth Courtenay, 81/. 19s. each; Henry Flem-
ing, Viscount Hereford (in addition to his Pitt pen-
sion of 115/. 19s. 6d.), 467/. 125.; Elizabeth Bridget
Fox, widow of C. J. Fox, 936/. 10s.; and Elizabeth
and Maria Marsden, 3001. 11. 3d.
From the Duke of Portland we have fourteen pen-
sioners, annual amount, 3,068/. I3s. 11d.; the first
name on the list is that of Robert Southey (the lau-
reate), for 155/. 2s. since March, 1807, an aggregate
received of 3,7221. Bs. There are four Misses Sel-
wyn (all with fashionable Christian names), Albinia
Frances, Maria Louisa, Charlotte, and Henrietta
Elizabeth, with each 81/. 195.; Dame Harriett So-
phia Rooks has 233/.55.; Sir R7oBboelr.t2Ss.h;oraenl:lLilnaedsy,
8,3a3rt1..,5 .555.
;7/
J.
a9ms.elso:l.o;orSe (irciHne?n)ry Blackwood, Bart.,
Jemima Helen Bentinek, 2331. ss.
Mr. Perceval's brief administration has left twelve,
two of whom are since dead ; the only Aristocrati-
cal name amongst them is that of Dame Charlotte
Dundas, 780/, 25.; Isabella Goddard CO has
1662/. 18s. 7d.

Then comes Lord Liverpool's Administration,

leaving chatgeiblell4,,the State, from Sept. 1812
the date of the first name, the Hon. Ann Rodney,
761. 195., to April, 1827, the date of the last, Sir
D. D. Scott, Bart., 200/. 7s. 3d., one hundred and
six individuals, with an aggregate annual payment
of 33,532/. 13e. 9d. ; of this sum there has lapsed
by deaths and a resignation in the period between
the printing and the date of the document, 822/.
9s. 8(1., the greatet part, 6001. Bs. 9d., by the death
of the Duke of Wellington's mother, Ann Countess
Dowager of INlornington.
In this long list we find the following pensions 1-
Lady Anne Culling Smith, 600/. Bs. 9,1.; Dame
Anne Yonge, 3001. 7s. 3d.; Earl of Tyrconnell,
600/. Bs. 9(1.1 Penelope Baroness Clarina, 233/.
55.; Dame Carteret Smith, 155/. 23.; Martha Pye
(widow of the late laureate, we suppose), 60/. 7s.
9d.; Dame Fanny Maria Lushington, 3501. Bs. 6(1.;
Henrietta Wharton, widow (Qy. of whom ?), 501/.
175.; George John Baron Auckland 300/. 7s. 3d.;
Lieut.-General Wm. Knoll's, 400/. 15s. 9(1. Cor-
nelia Jacoba Baroness Radstock, 389/. Os.; Isabella
Maria Herries, 115/. 19s. 6d.; the Hon. Emily Mas-
sey, 115/. 19s. 6d.; Dame Anna Burrard, 490/. 15s.
9d.; Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart. 661.4-.; the Rev.
Alex. Sterky, and the Rev. Wm. Kuper, same day,
Oct. 19, 1816, 400/. Iss. 9d. each ; Dame Louisa
Frances Edwards, 150/. ss. Bd.; Charlotte Julia,
Dowager Countess of Rothes, 155/. 25.; on the
2d March, 1818, are six of the Sheridan family with
571. Is. 6d. each, one of the three since resigned ;
in July, 1818, we find Emily Eden 2031. 19s. 4d.,
and in June, next year, Frances Harriett Eden the
same amount ; the Honourable Catherine Pelham
233/. 55., followed by Hon. Anne Rodney (again)
761. 195., the same amount as before; Sir Herbert
Taylor, April, 1819, 936/. 10s., total received since,
twelve years and a half, 11,7061. ss. (who would
net be a King's favourite ?) ; Lady Matilda Wyn-
yard 467/. 125., Lady Margaret Cameron 500/.65. Id.,
Sophia Georgians Lady Lenox 150/. ss. Bd., Dame
Anne Douglas 300/. 7s. 3i1., Dame S. Torrens
624/., Lady Mary Fitzroy 2001. 6s. 71, G. J.
Baron Audley 4621. 15s. 7(i., Arabella Edward
Bouverie 300/. 7s. 3d., the Hon. Deborah Murray
200/. 6s. 7d.; Sir R Baker 500/. 6s. Id.; Dame
Marie Lavie 1551. 25.; Sir Simeon Henry Stuart
200/. 6s. 7(1. ; Maria Magdalena Whittinghtem
4001. 15s. 91; Sir George Richard Farmer, Bart.
185/. 145.; Harriette Arbuthnot, Jae,. 5, 1823,
936/. 10s., she and Sir Herbert Taylor re-
ceiving the highest amount given by Lord Liver-
pool ; on the sth of next January, therefore, Mrs.
Arbuthnot will have received eight years'
pension, amounting to 7,492/., paid out of the
public purse for public (of course) services ! ! She
is followed by another name which looks very bo-
roughmongerish, Charlotte Bathurst 6001. Ba. 9d.;
Lieutenant-Colonel Merrick Shaw, 500/. 6s. Id.;
Lady G. Fitzgerald de Roos 2001. 6s. 7d. We have
Charlotte Bathurst again after a lupe of less than
two years from the date of her former pension, get-
ting 2001. 6a. 7(1., to make it clear the eight hun-
dred pounds a•year. Thomas Charles Earl of Port-
more, 233/. 55.; Dame Mary Cockburn, 680/. Is.
8(1.; Sarah Baroness Muskerry, 233/. 55.; which
appears tl►e regulation sum for pauper Peen and
Peeresses. July 5, 1825, records four packs, two
male and two female, at 100/. 131. sd. each ; Dame
Catherine Stepney has 200/. 6s. 7d., and Ann Lind-
say Scott, 250/. 7s. sd. ; Dame Louisa H .rvey,
300/. 7s. 3d., and two more Bathursts, Mary and
Charles, appear, in June, 1826, the first with 250/.
7s. 5d., the other 350/. Bs. 6d. This must have
been a very useful family to the State, if we judge
from what it pays them. Robert Francis Lord Gifford,
800/. Bs. 2d.; and Augusta Harriette Mary Cock-
burn has 200/. 6s. 7d.

Mr. Canning's Administration has left two pen-
sioners, Augusta Amelia A. Arbuthnot (late Papen-
duch), and Mary Willimott, each 100/. 13s. sd.
Lord Goderich's, from August to December,
1827, leaves nine: total amount of pensions,
2,259/. 9s. 10d. The first of the list is Rosamond
Croker; the Ex-Secretary of the Admiralty has fre-
quently denied that he receives a pension; Miss
Croker is his adopted child. Then follows Barbara
Ursula Planta, 200/. 6s. 7d.; Sir T. Beilby Wat-
son, 9361. 10s.; Anne Courtenay (of which there
are several on the list), 3001. 7s. 3d.
The Duke of Wellington's administration leaves
thirty pensioners, the total'amount paid to them an-
nually being 8,536/. 2s. 7d. On the Duke's list we
find Sir Henry Browne, 200/. 6s, 7d.; Dame Isa-
bella Congreve, 311/. 10s.; Earl of Huntingdon,
4001. 15s. 9d.; then follow five individuals named
Hastings, having between them 221/. 19s. 10d.;
with the following curious Christian names :-Se-
lina Arabella Lucy, Arabella Georgina, Louisa, Ed-
ward Plantagenet Robin Hood, and Richard Godol-
phin Henry. Then follow George Fitzclarence
(now Earl of Munster), 500/. 65.; Sophia Coun-
tess of Mulgrave, 800/. Bs. 2d.; Sarah Ponsonby,
200/. 6s. 7d. ; Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
500/. 6s. Id.; Charlotte Bathurst (the third time!)
180/. 13s. 5d.; Lady Hill, 4671. 12-.; and Colonel
and Miss D'Este the same sum each ; Lord Frede-
rick Fitzclarence, 500/.; Mrs. Tierney, 400/.;
Thomas Knox Holmes, 500/.; Edward DI ummond
and Algernon Greville, 250/. each ; and Dame
Mary Rae, 6601.
The total amount on the English Civil List is
71,9781. ss. 9d.

For the present we postpone an analysis of the
Irish and Scotch Civil List expenditure.

IRELAND.

KING'S COUNTY REFORM MEETING,

A meeting of this county was held on Monday,
1
in Tullamore, to petition on the subject of the Re-
form Bill. Upwards of 6,000 persons were present ;
among the persons of rank and respectability pre-
sent were—Lord Rossmore, Colonel Drought, Co-
lonel Westenra, the Hon. R. Westenra, lion. J. C.
Westerns, N. Fitzsimon, B. Mullins, J. O'Brien,
R. Cassidy, Esqrs., Rev. Mr. O'Rafferty, Rev. Mr.
Barry, Rev. Mr. O'Donoghoe, Dr. Hare, &c.
Colonel DROUGHT proposed that Lord Rossmore
should take the Chair, which was accordingly done
by his Lordship. A letter was read from the High
Sheriff, containing his refusal to call the meeting.
Lord ROSSMORE addressed the meeting at some
length, and made the following observations on the
Reform Bill :—" If reformation be necessary for
the representation of England, is it not equally so
for Ireland ? I will not now enter into a long speech
or trouble you with any long arguments in support
of that question ; but this I say, that I do not feel
and Ido not know, and it is my duty to inform you
all here, and others elsewhere, that the question of
Reform is surrounded in the King's County by a
host of enemies, and hollow friends, which is the
worst of the two. Gentlemen, lam a Reformer—
and I really am a Reformer because I believe. in my
soul that it must be the main spring of every benefit
or advantage for the poor of Ireland. The ground
upon which: Reform stands has been so frequently
and so ably trodden over elsewhere, that no nee, in-
formation can be thrown upon it, or fresh argument
advanced to establish its utility—nay its absolute
necessity. Have not his Majesty's Ministers, with
the sanction of their King, offered to us Reform ;
and have we not accepted of that offer ? I would
say to the self interested and infatuated oligarchy—
' you have thrown out the Bill, and in a luckless
and hapless hour for Great Britain ; you may do so
again ; but you also—neglecting the signs of the
times—take upon yourselves the consequence of
forgetting that the schoolmaster has broken the
charmithat once hung around the neck of your order.' "
—(Cheers.)
The meeting was subsequently addressed by
Messrs. Brien, Stoney, Drought, Cooke, Cassidy,
Mullins, Robinson, Reverend O'Donoghoe, and
Lawless. The meeting dissolved about seven o'clock,
giving three cheers for King William IV.

In the midst of a very furious tempest of
wind, rain, lightning, and heavy thunder, which deluged
this neighbourhood on Monday last, the mistletoe thru,h,
enshrined in an evergreen bush, about a quarter of a mile
from this town, was heard essaying its sweet and full toned
melody !--Dorset Chronicle.

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LITERATURE.