The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00

THE "WASHINGTON CHRONICLE" ON THE CIT'IL

SERVICE BILL.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

We thought that if thew was a measure the
benefit of which could not openly be disputed it
was the Civil Service Bill of the Hon. Thomas
Jenckes. That it would be as hateful to the crowd
of office-seekers as Grant's system of dealing with
their applications, all can readily believe ; but we
did not think it was open to the bitter attack which
has been made in the Washington Chronicle. There
it is objected to as an attempt to ape the illiberal
and arbitrary system of monarchical Europe, as re-
lieving the President of his responsibility for execu-
tive appointments—that it prevents the people from
selecting the candidate, as the Board can assert his
inability to pass a satisfactory examination--as if
the people troubled themselves except about the
great appoiuttnents (they should be checked if they
did), upon which their influence is decisive ; or as
if the President's responsibility was more than a
mere cypher, a delusion, and a snare. Look at
the gigantic system of fraud which has grown up
under Andrew Johnson's Administration. Who etti
fix on him the responsibility ? All acknowledge his
personal honesty, while openly saying that for party
purposes be rather protected and fostered dishonest
officials than checked them, and threw the blame of
the result on the Republicans. A small civil service
may be controlled, as was formerly that of the
United States, but, with such a Civil Service
as the one to which that of the United
States has now grown the attempt is not only
absurd, but disastrous. Take the case of Mr;
Spencer M. Clark, head of the currency and
bond printing bureau, whom Secretary M'Cullocb,
for more than three years, was trying to remove
from the post, convinced that he was not a proper
man. The administration of the bureau's affairs
had long been suspected in and out of Congress. WO
will venture to say that no department in the service
required a character of more strict integrity, offered
more temptations to dishonesty, or from which
evil reports could have been used more Will'
riously on the money markets. Yet a man in whoa;
no one appears to have had confidence remained
there for more than three years, while his chief was
all the while anxious to dislodge him. This is 3
sample of the President's responsibility ; and stir,
posing (which we have no reason to suppose) that
some fearful frauds are detected in that bureau by
the Retrenchment Committee of Congress, novi
about to make a new and more complete examiaa"
tion of its affairs, what would be the use of a Presi-
dent's responsibility ? No, let us have some effee'
tual and no such bogus checks.

J. S. Clarke, the comedian, after a successful
engagement in England, it is announced, is to return
America this winter.

Lingard, now performing at the Theatre Cornique'
New York, has received $33,742 as his share of the re-
ceipts of the last six months. In New York the theatres
and public halls are to be examined by an official cotusliS-
sion to ascertain whether they are safe.
The Richings Opera Troupe are playing in Chi-
cago. —Carncross and Dixey, at the Seventh-street OPe„
House, announce the Grand Duchess "Rlconstructed
and the "Lancashire Lass."—Blind Tom has began an
engagement at the Concert Hall, New York, appearinr°
every evening and on Wednesday and Saturday sf*-
noons.
M. Du Chaillu is again lecturing in New Y°l4;
—Miss Piney W. Forsythe has succeeded her father
proprietor and editor of the Liberty (Miss.) Advocate'
Ralph Waldo Emerson is said to be getting deaf. ..
The New York Albion establishment has beet.
sold by W. H. Morrell to Mr. Kinahan Cornwallis. 'lg
consideration paid is said to be over $20,000, and it 0
understood that the new proprietor will make 0,1
important changes in the character of the sheet.
weekly review of financial and commercial affairs 110
be given, and questions of political economy Will
discussed.
Frank Leslie announces a new weekly nevi°.
paper.
Mississippi is to have a new magazine, called tb°
"Coloured Citizens' Monthly."
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A CHINESE NEWSPAPER.—The Chinese oh-
organ, the Pekin Gazette, is said to be prepared in the t°or
lowing manner :—There is in one of the depa,rttnent°l,,
" boards," of the Government a copying office for the P'"otl
mulgation of official matter. A large number of collier
are employed therein. Besides the copies of decre!Sh
quired to be made, to be sent officially to all the
hto
et,
mandarins, the clerks are allowed to make copies for
sons who desire to obtain them on the day of their pu of
cation. Most of the embassies and foreign residents.
Pekin subscribe to these copies, which are really the
cial gazette. Mr. Burlingame'd secretaries inform me,
a writer in the Galaxy, that in all not more than 90 1-1,0
sons thus subscribed. The subscription price for 1-he
manuscript copies is seven dollars per month. They
issued daily. The price obtained is really a perquisite ej
the copying office. Thousands of persons are eroPl°l3lolo
throughout the provinces in making copies, in sobers
or in part, of the contents of this organ. The Pr"torl
of the Gazette obtain their copy from the office, the
publish the same two days after its publication I°lole
manuscript form. Officially, nobody is supposed to sae'
how the printer gets his matter, yet its publication og
cepted as on official promulgation. Copies of the G°rg
tote
are made, by permission of the proper official, by Porazige
in the large cities of different provinces. The oar
office, as well as the provincial printing offices.,' 0 fir
sionally issue bulletin slips containing some ne"1015
garding the rebellion, or similar matter, which IS s„tioli
bought with avidity by the people. The subset-11ot
price to the Pekin Gazette is about a half-dollar in St pa
per month. The Official Gazette has become a pote° fed
useful auxiliary of the Imperial Government, and ?o, of
effort is made to increase its influence. An eXaDlinatwi hie!'
its pages will curiously illustrate the methods 11,03fpir
the Manchoo dynasty, as well as the Chinese josg.
trative system, has been able to maintain itself s°
It is a so-called paternal autocracy, tempered hiufflo'
cism of its abuses. The traditions of the people coal:
rizo and demand this, and the safety of the dyllastY;ofees'
pels its attention. Wendell Phillips will find his 11, bore
words outdone by the censures and complaints whitentlter
continually sent to Pekin against the provincial and poi
local authorities. Those are inserted in the Gcatiod,
ss
sent over the empire to bo met and confuted or Proo of
the case may be. The action of the imperial (13119sby so
the reigning member thereof, with his counsellors, it is
means escape this censorious and critical spirit. odOir
powerful manifestation of public opinion which the role:
nistration cannot ignore. These criticisms, 6.5
• come from some member of the literary cl 38; 1;60'05'
those who, having passed the necessary eltarali3bt tt'",
have not afterward availed themselves of the rigt
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