The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-03 00:00:00

Contemporary says:—
" But he has asserted his own merits with so triumphant
a pertinacity that many a wearied Whig—here and there,
perhaps, a too credulous Conservative--has believed Lord
13r.ugham to have relinquished thousands, to have dis-
countenanced jobs, and to have shamed all Chancellors
from Francis Bacon to John Scott by the promptitude
and the learning of his judgments."
Of the credulity of Conservatives generally,
the Post is certainly well qualified to speak.
Its own existence, and any degree of credit being
attached to its statements, even by Conserva-
tives, is a proof that their credulity is not small ;
but we never heard before of its inclination to
acknowledge the merits of enemies who have
annihilated Conservative power. We must
suppose, therefore, that the " stray Conserva-
tives," who confess the improvements wrought
in the administration of justice and the offices
of the Court of Chancery, since Lord
BROUGHAM'S accession to the Woolsack, have
been compelled to du so, because longer to have
called him an interested jobber, a creator of
patronage, would have exposed them to the fate
of children who, shutting their eyes when they dip
their hands into a sugar-basin, fancy no one
sees them. The gravamen of the attack, how-
ever, made by the Post upon the CHANCEL•
LOR yesterday, is, that in a Bill which his
Lordship brought forward last session, but was
obliged to withdraw. frntn._the Dnacsiu-heaciu-cc.o
only from 14,0001. to 8,0001., casting a part of
the duties performed, or rather not performed by
Lord ELDON, upon a Court of Appeal created
for the purpose. The words of the Post are—
" The Chancellor is to have 8,0001. a year, and for
this be is—

" Ist. To retain jurisdiction in Bankruptcy, where his
work is already lightened by the establishment of a new
Court.

" 2d. To retain jurisdiction in lunacy, to which, we
suppose, be will devote as much, that is to say, as little,
time as he does at present.
" 3d. To attend the Privy Council—whenever it suits
his convenience.

" 4th. To preside in the House of Lords—whenever
it agrees with his pleasure.
" sth. To keep the King's conscience."
The attendance at Cabinet Councils, which is
one of the overt political duties of the CHAN-
CELLOR, is not here mentioned. It did not

suit the Post to recall to the public mind the
apologies we used to have for Lord ELDON'S

delays, grounded on the weight of his political
duties. It was more convenient, though some-
what less candid, to speak of keeping the
KING'S conscience, &c. Let us, however, com-

pare the salary purposed to be received by the
CHANCELLOR with that paid to an officer whose

rate of payment cannot be attacked by the Post,
whatever we might have to say upon it.
The SPEAKER of the House of Commons,
with no political duty to perform, receives for
presiding in the House of Commons a salary of
6,0001. per annum, 5001. for house-rent, and
about every three years 2,400/., under the name

of plate and outfit. This makes about 7,0001

per annum, received by the SPEAKER, for peform-
ing one of the duties of the CHANCELLOR. We

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know that the bodily labour of presiding in the
House of Lords is not so great as that of the
SPEAKER of the House of Commons ; but every
body knows that the duties of the latter office

might be as well performed for half of the present
sum, and that more is only paid to keep up the
dignity of the office. Such being the case, the actual
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labour of sitting in the House of Lords weighs
nothing in the question. Upon this view of the

matter, then, it appears that the CHANCELLOR
is only to receive 1,0001. per annum for dis-

charging judicial duties which will at least be

still as heavy as those of the VICE-CHAN

CELLOR. Looked at in any other point of view,
the argument, or rather mean insinuation of

;he Post falls to the ground,

telum imbelle •ine ictu."

FlRE.—Sunday evening, between the hours of
six and seven, a fire broke out in the premises occupied
by Mr. Leman, in Geveland-street, Mile End road, a
grocer and chtesemonger. The fire was got under by
eight o'clock, but the whole of Mr. Leman's property was
destroyed.

Our townsman, Dr. M'Diarmid, who sailed
with Captain Ross in the arctic expedition, and who was
highly eulogised by that intrepid navigator, has been rai•ed
to the rank of surgeon in the navy, and appointed to the
Royal William yacht.— Greenock Intelligencer.
The British Reformation Society have recently
published a new edition of their map, showing, within
the last two years, an increase of ten Roman Catholic
Chapels in England, and a total of 423 ; arid seven in
Scotland, with a total of 74.

leave his operations free, and he would not be
ruined, but keep employed a population which
would maintain the value of his land without corn
laws. When the writer talks of " bonding corn
at the lowest scale of duty, and giving the
speculator powers to release it at the highest pos-
sible price,"and of doing away with the bonding
system, he only displays an ignorance which
might be expected of him ; but the proposal
with which he concludes, to restrict the impor-
tation of food in proportion as the national
debt is increased, is a proposition too asinine to
have been expected, even from an advocate of
Corn Laws.

The Morning Post is at the present moment
engaged in the somewhat hopeless task of en-
deavouring to persuade the public, at least that
small portion of it which reads its lucubrations,
of the immaculate virtue and disinterestedness
of Lord ELDON, and the grasping selfishness of
Lord BROUGHAM. As may be expected, facts
are occasionally stumbled across which impede
the progress of their argument, but with happy
ignorance of the ridicule they excite, they still
labour away at their vocation. If there be one
thing more established to the satisfaction of
the public than another, it is that the CHAN-
CELLOR has materially reduced the patronage
of his office,—that he found it a means of
enriching scores of relations with sinecure
law appointments with large emoluments, and
that when he leaves the Woolsack his successor
will find the legal patronage reduced to about
one half of its former pecuniary amount, and
that few or no officers are paid more than the
amount of work and knowledge required of
them warrants. Even the Post admits that
Conservatives have been convinced of this fact,
but pretends to console itself with the idea
that they have been so convinced because the
CHANCELLOR himself has told them so 1 Our