The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-30 00:00:00

PESIONS RESIGN D.

_Aston, Lord-971.
Aixkland, Lord-3831.; ceased on Lord Auckland's appointment in
1830

Berens, Lady Catherine-811.
Buirverie, I ady Frances-BU,
Bradshaw, Augustus— 9721.
Bromley, Lady Imnisa—'..)oo/.
Caermartheir, Marchioness of-30U1.
Craribtoun,
lrymple, Eliz:lbeth-49/.
Drummond,- Ih6ruas--30)1.; surrendered v..hlle Undor Secretary in
Ireland.

Elphinstone, Lord--2761. ; surrendered on appointment to Madras.
Grant, Catherine, Anne, and Harriet-971.
Gray, Lady-971.
Hunter, rvir Richard-2881.
Hay, Lady Jane-971.
Luohington, Hon. Ann-624/.
Lennox, Lzaty Sophia--1501.
Yarnell, Lady C:irolitie-200/.
Strang/on!, Viscount—PS/.

The second head of reduction consists of pensions to be
suspended while the circumstances of the parties receiving
them remain uncharged. It produces to the public the twig-
nificent saving fi-r the present of 2,6171., subject, however, to
considerable ruductioq by eontittg,rteits. It is t! to set forth
by the Committee :---
Pvrisionii to he for the present suspended, end to Le re grented on the
respinsibility of the Gtivernthent, dioutii the circinnstenceA of the
parties render it necessary hereafter, when !he specitii.-d contingencies
shall have ocenrred.
Baum. Isabelle— I ; to be suspend. d during the life of her tins.
band, Mr. Batson.

Wellesley, Marchh wss-300/. ; to be sus;:ended during the life of
Marquis Weilesley.
Croker, Rosamond-300/ ; to be all spended during the life of the
Right lion. J. Wilkon Croke:.
Drummor Honourable M. a—c2oo/. ;to be suspended during the
hie of her husband, :Jr. Drummond.
Drummond, Clementina—,l9l. ; to ha suspended during the life of
her hu.band, Mr. Davis.
Frectnantle, Albillia-431; to be suspended during the life of her
husband, Mr. i;utler Dmvers.
Hobart, Lady Were-1001. ; to be suspended during the life of her
h
ushand, Mr. Cattercal. of Lochiel.
Goddard, Isabella-602/ • to be suspended during the life of her hus-
band, Archdeacon Goddard.
The third class of pensioners affected by the recommenda-
tions of the Committee
dopublic. n. it afford arty immediate gain to the
We give their names and the amount of their pen-
sions ; but we shall exclude them from our aggregate of say-
ings to be
effected
in
consequence. of the labours of the Com-
mittee, which we are fairly entitled to do, in consideration of
allowing the full present, althougha it be but temporary profit,
extracted from the preceding c
Pensions which the Committee consider
'—
d
should determine at another
or an earlier period than that Whichesit contemplated by the original
grant.
Sidney, family of-5001. ; not to continue for the life of the grantees,
but f.sr the life of the present Sir J. S. Sidney.
Stewart, Sir Simeon H.-9.001. ; not to continue for the life of the
grantee, but for the life of his mother.
Tyrronnell, Earl of-6001.; not to continue for the life of the
grantees, but for the life of his Lordship's mother, the Hon. Mrs.
Carpent, r.
Strathmore, Countess of-1 S 4/. ;to be surrendered when the circum-
'glances of Lady Strathmore enable her Ladyship to do so ; this contin.
gency is anticipate.l by Lady Strathmore, who has expressed her willing-
ness in s,tcli case to resign her pension.
to ha continued, not for the life of the
Holm:.s, T. K.-5,.)0/. ;
grantee, but for the life of %V. Holmes, sen.
Burnt:old, ; to be continued, net for the life of the
grantee, but for the life of Caroline Rumlold.
The fourth head of reduction is that absolute and perma-
nent one of pensions to be entirely and finally abolished.
This will not make the nation much richer in purse, however
it may expose the poverty of spirit which .characterises its
rulers. The saving to be accomplished under this head is
3,3121., and the names of the sufferers are thus given in the
appendix to the report
Pensions for which the Committee do not consider it expedient that
foture provision should be made.
Courtenay, Lady Elizabeth —sit.
Bay,
Lady Mary Turner--971.
Hobart, LadrAlbinia—lool.
Johnstone, Edward J.-3001; a retired allowance to which tbeparty
has been entitled, but which was
9a7uispended, being in future paid.
Napier, Caroline, now Reid -.-
Sheridan, H. Brinsley-571.
Sheridap„,.Harriett s,, now Blackwood
Walsinghain, Lord-9364
Home, Earl of-2761.
Onslow, Arthur-811.
Sinclair, IA lIZ-1846

Wilkins, Finn, Eliza, :Icy: Strettrm-1. I 5/..
Scutt, Sir I..l:laid, Bart.--4421.
- —fferefor(l, Viscount--552./.

It thus appears that the total saving to the country from a
manifest breach of faith with a numerous body of ihdividuais,
amounts in-the aggregate to no more than 9,5161., an induce-
ment to such a proceeding, which makes the Frocet ding itself
ss-en, even more pitiful and paltry, if that be possible, than it
did before the result was known
It further appears from the Report that the Committee in
the course of its proceedings divided forty • seven times, and that
in every one cf these divisions the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer was in favour of the pensions, and Mr. Hume against
them. We will, therefore, for the sake of clearne,s, take the
names of these two Members of the Committee as expo-
nents of the two sides in every division—a course recommended
by the remarkable fact, that they were never on the same side
by any accident, and that upon one occasion Mr. Flume divided
alone, in apposition to a pension which every other Membrr
present supported, in concurrence with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
At the second meeting, held on the 15th of February, it was
resell ed :

" That for the purpose of facilitating the business of the Committee,
the pensions should be divided into two classes, viz.:—
" 1. Pensions of the continuance of which no doubt exists at
present.
" 2.. Pensions to be inquired into at a future stage of the inves.
tigation."
Before the Committee proceeded, however, in this work of
classification, it was moved by Mr. Villiers Stuart—
a That, when a pension has been granted exclusively as a reward for
services, it dots not appear expedient to inquire into the private circum.
stances of the patties now enjoying it."

An amendment was proposed to insert before the word
" services" the word " public," and the first division of the
Committee took place, when Mr. Hume's party, for the inser.
tion of the word " public." amounted to three, and the party
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for its rejection, to nine.
On the same day another preliminary motion was made, viz :

" That all correspondence with parties for the purpose of obtaining
further information should henceforth emanate from the Chairman of
the Committee.

No light is thrown by the report upon the object of this
motion. It seems probable that its purpose was to divest the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, as much as possible. of the in-
fluence and authority in the Committee which his official means
of procuring information might naturally give him. On the
division the Chancellor of the Exchequer mustered 7 votes,
and Mr. Hume only 4. The following divisions, to the num-
ber of 25, relate to individual pensions, the question in each
case being, whether they should be placed in class I or class 2,
in every instance, as we have already observed, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer being in favour of class 1, and Mr. flame
in favour of class 2. The following is the list of those in
respect to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was the
victorious leader :-
1. Dame Airey.
2. Arabella Batley.
3. .I:and S. Charlotte S. Birou de Goutaut.
4. Isabella Birt, J. F. Ewart, and Mary Shaw.
3. Charles 0. Boa les.
6. Lady Anna Maria Dawson.
7. E. T. and E. C. H. Brooksbank.
8. Sir Thomas Henry Browne.
9. Caroline, Jane, and Arabella Margaret Calera&

10. Mary Frances Campbell.
11. Lucretia Ciciaporci.

12. Dowager Lady Clare.
13. Wm., James, F., and John B. Dundas.

14. Lady Cecilia Latouche.

15. Edward Leeves.
16. Henrietta Wharton Mackenzie.

17 Isabella and Mary Rollo.

18. Ch. H. Maria Wellington.

The following is the less fortunate list of pensions in re-
spect to which Mr. Hume, achieving triumphs over the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, condemned to encounter the dangers
of class 2.
1. Lord Aylmer and H. 'l'. W. Alymer.

2. Charlotte Bathurst (6001.), with reversion to four daughters.
3. Isabella Blair (now Binning), by casting vote of Chairman.

4. Lawrence Bradshaw.

.. Arabella Hamilton.

6. Lady Mary Hay (two pensions).

7. Catherineand Jane Arbuthnot.

On the 15th of May, and at this point of the proceedings, it
was resolved :
" That it is expedient to form a new class, ♦iz :
" CLASS 3. Pensions which the Committee consider ought to be dis.
continued, unless fresh evidence should be produced." _ _

And after some intervening business it was resolved—
" That it is expedient to form a new crass, viz.:—

" CLASS 4. Such pensions as cught to be in abeyance, the present
circumstances of the parties not requiring them."

After the new system of classification we still find the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer as before the patron of class 1, while
Mr. Hume transfers his affection to the two new classes, 3
and 4. We mill thereoro resume in the first place the series
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's victories :-
19. Catherine and Jane Arbuthnot.
20. Mary Campbell.

111. Marianna Cockburn.
•22. Emma Finucone.

'23. Children cf John Hamilton, deceased.

:4. Augustus Hobart.

25. Earl of Huntingdon (by casting vote of Chairman—the number
bein,; 6 for I,l:icit,g ttc pciislon in Cla” 1, and G for postponing
the decision.)
26. Viscount Molesworth.

27. C E. iNl'Leilan (now Lambert.)
:18. Lady Louisa Murray.

29. Rosamond Harriett Pennell.
30. Sir G. Rich.

31. Lady Mary Hay.

32. Earl of llothes (by casting vote of Chairman, the number being 5
on each side).
33. Lord Aylmer and Admiral Aylmer. (This division, the hut in
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer beat Mr. flume, was
upon a motion made by the Right Hon. Gentleman himself, in
reference to a former adverse decision of the Committee. The •
Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion was—" That, on re-con.
sideration of the services of Admiral Aylmer, it is not expedi.
ent that this pension should b: discontinued. The division was
12 to 2. Mr. Ph;lpotts being the Member who supported Mr.
Hume.)

We have now only to quote the instances in which, subse-
quently to the two new resolutions relating to classification,
Mr. Hume prerdlecl over the Chancellor or the Exchequer.
8. Lord Mountford condemned to class 3 (this vote was afterwards re-
considered, and on further circumstances being stated, the pen-
sion was transferred to class 1).
9. Mary Dulcibella Drummond consigned to class 4. (This was de-
cided by the casting vote of the Chairman).
10. Thomas Knox Holmes. (This gcntkman is Meson of W. Holmes,
Esq., and the Committee decided by a majority of 7 to 5 against
the motion of the Chant:o;or of the Exchequer, that the pension
be placed in class one, and in favour of the amendment of Mr.
Grote that this pension be continued fur the life of Mr. William
Holmes the father.)
11. Viscount Hereford.

12. The Marchioness of Westmeath. (This pension was placed in class
:Shy the vote of the Committee, but it, was afterwards re-consi-
dered and find to he s. cured by patent tor life. It was
fore transferred to class 1.)
We hare thus pl.lced our readers in possession of the recom-
mendations of the Committee on pensions. from the labours of
which some pet•sons were foolish enough to expect tesults of
Importance to the country its a financial point of view. We
base carefully abstracted also all the information the Report
conveys, as to the course of proc:ei•dings in the Committee.
The number of questions on which the Committee divided
appears to have been no less than 47 ; although we recol-
lect that a Jlinister•ial journal boasted a few days ago of
the pension Committee having concurred unanimously in
their Repo: t.