The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PIITCriJMNALS.

In the proceedings- of the House of Com-
mons pn Monday'night there sprung up, with-
out. any -result, a conversation on the salaries of
judges:' We have before given our opinion that
thejudges, both chief and uuisne, are in these
days extravagantly paid, and that retrenchment
in this part of the public service ought to take
place. It was stated by the Solicitor-General
that the judges had been divested of much valu-
able patronage, in consequence of which their
salaries had been, and ought to be, raised ; and
one office was instanced as abolished, that of
Chief Clerk to the Justice of the Court of
it. is no great saving to
King's Bench. Now,
the public to substitute salary for patronage, and
we do not believe that the list of abolished
offices could be much lengthened, whil-t the
increase of salaries has been universal, extending
to all the courts and the jud,es in them. There
is also much misapprehension on the subject
of the professional receipts which a barrister
is supposed to relinquish on his elevation to
the bench. We do not believe that there are
more than two or three judges on the bench who
made so much by one-half when practising law.
yers as the amount of their present salaries;
5 5001. a year is, in tru h, too much by at least
1,5001 for a puisne judge, and 8,000/. too
much by a quarter for a chief. In another
point, also, the Solicitor-General was wrong.
When objecting to the mar-hailing of causes
and distributing them indiscriminately among
the courts, he said that much hardship would
be inflicted on the suitors if they might not select
the Judges before whom they would have their
causes tried. But do the suitors on all the cir-
cuits throughout England, Wales, and Ireland,
choose the Judges by whom they would have
their causes tried ? On the contrary, the
Judges choose their circuits after the causes are
put down for trial, and no suitor can know by
whom his cause will he tried. The- objection
to this marshalling, springs' from the liability to
abuse of that authority, be it what it may, by
which the causes are to be marshalled. One of
the offences charged against the great Lord
Bacon was selecting causes for rapid decision.
—Times.

We do not remember ever to have indulged
in a more hearty laugh, than when we perused
the list of the new Administration, with which
the Morning Post has delighted the town ;
the facility of stepping from the sublime to the
ridiculous was never more happily exemplified
than in the choice of the new Premier. The
Duke of Richmond to succeed Earl Grey !
All things undoubtedly are possible to Kings ;
but we thought his Majesty had gone to the ex-
treme point of Royal omnipotence when he made
the Postmaster-General a. Militia Aide-de-
Camp, as a reward for having been the only ,
Minister who dissented from the Cabinet recom•
mendation to create Peers in the memorable
crisis of last year ;—of which act of patriotism
the Tory papers did not leave us loeg in ig-
norance. It seems, however, that his Grace's
services are not to be confined to the Militia
- and the Post-office, but -that the Courtiers,
• Tories, and " Moderates" (as Lord Brougham,
Sir J. Graham, Messieurs Stanley and Rice
are called) are to rally under his auspices,
and arrest the dangerous march of liberalism.
We know well enough the power of one of Sir
F. Freeling's franks, but it is not, we apprehend,
within the compass even of his " privilege " to
ensure the safe delivery of this precious packet.
Besides, it were hardly fair on other important
interests to withdraw .),),ks Grace's attention from
them. What would bec6me of Goodwobd races ?
the Cocked-hat Stakes, Drawing-room Stakes,
Bonusses, &c. I—What of Newmarket ?—of the
Jockey Club, of which his Grace is one of the
most active Stewards, and brightest ornaments?
—of the Smithfield Cattle Show—of South-
downs, fat hullock, and lean Lennoxes ? No,
no : it were a crying sin to take his Grace's
attention from these matters of public and private
interest, for the treatment of which his Grace's
mental qualities and refined education so emi-
nently fit him ; and we therefore trust our friend
of the Post will reconsider this appointment.
If the junction to which he refers is to take
place, and a Richmond is to beat the head of
the new Government,
.we recommend the
Dowager Duchess, as having equal talent, more
leisure, and as being in every respect better
qualified for the situation.—Morning Chronicle.
Notwithstanding the rumours which have been
afloat for some days past in the city, that it was
the intention of Government to pay off seven mil-
lions of the debt or capital due to the Bank, ano to
reduce its charges of management, we are strongly
inclined to think Lord Althorp has contrived,
somehow or other, to hush up matters, and that
nothing will take place in the present session of
Pai liament as to the renewal of the Bank Char-
ter, except, perhaps, a little " useless talk." We
come to this conclusion from a serious conside-
ratien of the effect of the notice issued by the
Bank on Saturday last, that (pursuant, it is pre-
styned, to 48 Geo. 111. c. 1, s. 13), an agree-
ment has been made by the Directors and the
Commissioners of the Treasury, whereby the
Bank has undertaken to circulate all Exchequer
Bills that are authorised to be issued by the Act
now in fbrce, until the 4th of April, 1834
those Exchequer Bills amounting to not less
Own twelve millions. Now, if it was in-
tended to lessen the debt due to the Bank; or
to make any material alteration in the relative
position of the parties, it is not very likely the
Bank would have been so ready to accommodate
the Government to the extent of not less than
twelve millions for nearly twelve months, look-
ing, as they ought to do, at the uncertain state
of the exchanges for so long a period. The
fact is, no real difference exists between an
account overdrawn by an individual or by a
Government. In both ca es the debtor is the
slave of the creditor. Mr. Young was quite
correct in the opinion stated at the last meeting
of the Proprietors, " that the Bank of England
would continue as long as the national debt con-
tinues." The real questions ate, to what extent
Exchequer bills can be/breed into and con-
tinued in circulation, and at what period the
Chancellor of the Exchequer will be cohipelled
to unite the income of the consolidated fund,
by increasing its charge to the extent of the
additional interest created by funding the un-
funded debt ?—Morning Herald.
There are two classes into which the oppo-
nents of Ministers may be divided—those who
feel dissatisfied with the absence of the measures
and efforts for the relief of the distiesses of the
country, which, under any' circumstances, 'but
especially after the passing of the Reform 13111,
they had a right to look for ; the other, the old
hackneyed class of mere party politicians, whose
oppostition is uniformly grounded on the love el
power and place, and who would oppose any
thing and any boy whiCh stands between them
and their readmission to office. However oppo-
site two such parties are in-their motives, it foi-