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N°. 18,079.] LONDON, TITESDAY
:"- NG SUN SEPTEMBER 3, 1850.
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urn") LIFE POLICIES,

" A trial of considerable interest to Life Assurance Offices and the
public was concluded yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. The
Eagle Company held -a policy for an assurance of 5391. in the Albion
Company as security for An advance, the payment of which policy
was now disputed by the Albion, on the ground that at the time it
was effected the feet of the assured party having been a man of in-
temperate habits was concealed from the office. 'I he chief evidence
turne : upon the question es to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the resu:t was, that a verdict was given against
the resisting office, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest from the date when it became due. The circumstance
of the action being brought by one office against another presents a
striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
licies tinder the present syste,", and shows that the only mode by
wh eh absolute security can be obtained by the public must lie in the
general adoption by Assurance Offices of the plan of vote ling them-
selves in every case by dur inquiries before the grantim f each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility of the com-
pleteness of such inquiries by bolding themselves precluded from
raising any future question. In the present 'case two offices are
found to he diametrically opposed in their opinions as It what can
properly invalidate a ,laim, and yet the public are expected to be
able to goitre themselves a,;aixst such ,!outingcnces. Sinsilar cases
have occurred before, and even if they were more rare, they would
seriously Injure the progress of life assurance. 'the very principle
upon which the business is founded is the removal of uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree,
the people wilo would be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first t,) be deterred."—Times, July I I, 1850.

TUE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY
No. 72, LOMBARD-S MEET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
•
r. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
William WilberfOrce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
fames Fuller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavius Parnell, Esq.
ACDITORS.
;Jaws Turner. Esq.
'David Henry Stone, Esq.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Augu.tus Bevan, Esq.
J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
Jelin Danger&ld, Esq.

George Cumming, Esq.
William D. Starling, Esq.

SECRETARY—David Alison,
BANKEag—Ntessrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Cs.
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, Connaught-terrace. Edgeware•road.
Rev. James Sherbold Boone, A.M., Stanhope.-street, Hyde-park.

Captain Creed, ts orfolk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton. Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, ilydo-park, and Lin.

coin's Inn-flelds.
Thomas Jervis Antos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Hobson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, aid New
square, Lincoln's Inn,

Secretary, Chas. IloOtton, Esq.

The POLICIES of this Company, being-INDISPUTABLE, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securiti.]s, for their validity is not
dependent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the Import of
previous reports and other documents.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As-
surance, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the com-
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will be forwarded,
on application,.to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

ATIIOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON.
The FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie-
tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head
Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the
report, which is too lengthy for publication :
During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England,
and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2801.—making
together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected
mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how
severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last
year.
The number of lives assured between the Ist of June, 1849, and
the 31st of May, 1850, was more than double the number Issued in
the twelve months preceding.
Prop isals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.:
of these 123, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,125/. 6s.
sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 3s.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums.
Since the c-immencement of the Company to the Ist of June last,
assuraw es were effected to the extent of 110,972/. lbs 6d., pro-
ducing in annual premiums 3,732/. 1 ls. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed,
amounting to 23,9001. 16s. 6,1., of which the annual premiums were
7411. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to
2,9911. 15s. I Id.
Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,700/.,
but 1,183/. I Is. 10d. only was advanced.
The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the
last four m nths +hey had considerably extended their business on
the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur
de I'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for
his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance matters,
who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris,
the Cardinal Archhish p of Lyons, and Monseigneur Parisis, Eveque
'le Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con•
siderab!e amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An-
nuities both Immediate and Deferred.
After various resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning
thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Bishep Morris, the Vice-
Chairman,
Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establish-
ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results
and future prosrects.

THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE and
LIFE INgTRANCE COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN., that on and after the 29th day
of September next, the Chief Office of this Company in London will
be REMOVED to Nos. 20 and 21, POULTRY.
3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-home.
HENJN. HENDERSON',
Resident Secretary.
24th August, 1850.

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SIR R. PEEL ON OFFICIAL SALARIES.

The following is extracted from the evidence an-
nexed to the House of Commons' Report on Official
Salaries :
Sir Robert Peel, Baronet, a Member of the House,
examined i

You have filled a great number of most important
offices in the Government of this country, will you be
kind-enough to enumerate them?--I held the office of
Under Secretary of State in the War and Colonial de-
partment from 1810 to 1812. From that office I was
removed to the cffice of Chief Secretary for Ireland in
August 1810, and remained Chief Secretary with three
Lord Lieutenants, from 1812 to 1818; with the Duke
of Richmond, during a portion of his lieutenancy;
with Lord Whitworth during the whole period of his
lieutenancy; and with Lord Talbot, during a por-
tion of his lieutenancy. At the commencement of 1822,
I was Secretary of State for the Home Department, and
remained in that office till the spring of 1827, when Mr.
Canning's Government was appointed. In December,
1828, I egain accepted the same office, that of Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department, and retained
it until November, 1830, when on the meeting of Par-
liament the Duke of. Wellington's Government re-
signed, and Lord Grey became First Minister. In
Dec, tuber; 1834, I accepted the office of First Lord of
the Treasury, together with that of Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and remained in office holding those two
appointments until April, 1835, not more than four or
five months. In September, 1841, I accepted the office
of First Lord of the Treasury, without the office of
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and remained in office till
July, 1846.
From thu general experience you must have had in
those different public offices, the Committee are anxious
that you should afford them any assistance in your
power in coming to a right opinion as to whether
any, and if any, what reductions are capable of
being made, without injury to the public service, in
any of those different departments which have been
referred to them for consideration; I could first place
in your hands a paper which has been delivered
in by- the Chancellor of the Exchequer, containing a
list of the offices referred to in the first part of tho
reference, namely, those held during the pleasure of
the Crown by Members of either House of Perlis-
ment voted in the annual estimates?—l will take the
reference to the Committee. The Committee is ap-
pointed "To inquire into the salaries and emolu-
ments of offices held during the pleasure of the
Crown by Members of either House of Parliament voted
in the annual estimates ; and also into the salaries and
emoluments of judicial offices in the superior courts of
law and equity in the United Kingdom, and into the re-
tiring pensions allotted to the judges, and also into
the experie of diplomatic establishments charged on the
Consolidated Fund." I will first mention those branches
of inviry with respect to which the Committee can obtain
from other quarters more full and raore recent information
t hats that which I can give. With respect for instance to the
diplomatic establishments, it is scarcely necessary, on
that account, for me to give an opinion upon them. I will
however, take the liberty of referring the Committee to a
return which was presented in 1830, showing the charge
of his Majesty's diplomatic service abroad, from 1822 to
1829, both inclusive ; distinguishing the several heads
of charge. At that period the charge for the diplo-
matic service did not come under the annual notice
of Parliament ; it was provided from the Civil List,
not by vote of Parliament. In the year 1828.28, Lord
Aberdeen took a general review of the expenses of the
diplomatic establishments, and after that review so un-
dertaken by him, there were considerable reductions in
the amount of charge. The paper gives the expenses
from the 'sth of January, 1822, to the sth of January,
1830, both inclusive. It distinguishes the various mis-
sions from the Consuls and other heads of charge, and
the total charge of every kind under the heads of extra-
ordinary and incidental expenses, commissions under the
treaties with foreign powers, missions to the new
States of America, consular establishments, pensions
to retired ministers; -superannuation allowances to
consuls. It embraces,- therefore, every charge of every
kind on account of diplomatic and consular service.
Taking the account from 1825, I find that the following
are the charges for the several years from 1825 to
1829. In 1825, the total charge was 418,637/.; in 1826,
459,5381.; in 1827, 412,859/ ; in 1828, 407,1171.; and in
1829, it was reduced to 366,004/. There may have been
causes accounting in part for that reduction, as, for in-
stance, the discontinuance of some missions. I do not
bear.in mind the details, but I know that Lord Aberdeen,
being then Secretary of State for the Foreign Depart-
ment, undertook the consideration of the whole expendi-
ture, and I consider that the saving which took place in
1829 was mainly attributable to the measures which he
took to revise the diplomatic establishment. I believe
that in subsequent years the reductions made by him
were fully adopted by the Government which succeeded,
and were carried in aortae instances still further. The
progress Of reduction was continued. I think that is the
whole information I can give with respect to diplomatic
service of any importance. With respect to judicial
offices, I cannot give the Committee any information
upon them so good as that which they can derive from

her sources.
You were for a long time Secretary of State for the
Home Department; is it your opinion, looking at the
general scale if allowances to the judges, that any dimi-
nution can be made in them without detriment to the
public service?—During the period when I was Secre-
tary of State, there was an- increase made both to the
salaries of the judges and to their retiring allowances;
and.l am sure that that increase was founded at the time
upon the difficulty of inducing men of the highest cha-
racter at the bar, possessing the qualifications moat re-
quired for the judicial office, to accept it.
In what year was that?—lt, was in 1825, during Lord
Liverpool's Government.
Are you of opinion that any reductions might now be
made without producing inconvenience with respect to
finding fit and adequate persons to undertake those
offices?—My attention bas not been much directed to
the subject. I have a doubt whether the retiring allow-
ance of the judge does not hear an undue proportion to
the amount of his salary, and whether that allowance
might not admit of some reduction.
Have you Considered the proportion which those sa-
laries bear to one another -with reference to one or two
of the offices of which the salaries are the largest, for
instance, that of the Master of the Rolls?—I have not
given any particular attention to that subject.
Mr. Walter—Aro you aware of any particular occa-
sion on, which the difficulty to which you have alluded
was experienced, of inducing suitable men to accept the
judicial office?-4 am speaking now with respect to a
period more than twenty years ego; I do not bear in
m►nd the names of any particular members of the bar
who declined judicial office; the increase of salary was
made in the year 1825, and I think the ground of the
increase was a representation from the Lord Chancellor
as to the difficulty of inducing men, of the highest qua-
lifications for judicial office, to abandon the profession.
That was the general ground; the particular cases to
which that statement may lam referred I do not bear in
mind.
• Mr. Deedes—Supposing that prefessional incomes now
were on the average less than at the time you hare al-
luded to, perhaps that difficulty would not exist to the
same amount at the present time?-0f course, so far as
that was the ground of the increase; hut I have no in-
formation upon the fact, whether they do make less or
net.
Chairman—During the time that you wore First Lord
of the Treasury, from IS-11 to 1846, was any difficulty
experienced in securing the greatest talent at the bar to
fill the office of judge? —I do not r( collect any instance
during that period.
Mr. Ellice—Are you aware of any distinction between
the duties of the Master of the Rolls and those of the
other judges in the Court of Clthe: ry below the Great
seal, which would render it IieCCSS3f y or expedient to
pay a larger salary to the Ma ;ter of the Rolls than to
t.iiher of the Vier-Chancellors, for instance?—No; I am
not aware of any; I have not paid much attention to
that subyect.
Mr. Bright—Will you Etat° whether the union of ju-
dicial and political offices in the Lord Chancellor is not
athlleowocacnacseiodnepofartimncerneta,siiengasmthuee,h7peusts in the retiring
Chancellor after his elevationt not agsoionag ahachckantgoehoifs
pro-
fession Go-
vernment there is a change of Chancellors, and the Lord
fession becomes entitled large retiring allowance;
and isit not the fact, in consequence,o a
same time?—l 4prehend thatt
persons that
receivingare three
re
or four ex-Chancellors receiving large pensions at the
tiring 41lowenew are, ra'
England, Lord Brenham and

Lord Lyndhurst; in Ireland, Sir Edward Sugden and
Lord Plunkett. If I am correct in the enumeration,
there must be four at leant.
Is there any insurmountable objection to the separa-
tion of those offices, the judicial and political, S) that the
frequent possession of a retiring allowance by an ex-
Chancellor might be avoided ?—I do not know that there
is any insuperable obstacle. It is a matter which has
(Len been taken into consideration, but I think the
general result of the consideration has been in fawr of
retaining the political and the judicial functions united.
There has been so much advantage to the Cabinet from
having the assistance of the highest equity judge, Oat
objections have always been made to the separation of
You do net imagine that the frequent change of the
highest judge in the realm, a change arising from poli-
tical considerations alone, is prejudicial to the interests
of justice on the whole?--I have not sufficient proles-
sioeal knowledge to answer very positively. I have no
proof befsre me of 'any actual injury sustaine.l by it.
It is a very complicated and extensive subject, to which
it would be diffi3ult to do justice in an answer to a
question.
Mr: Evans—Are you of opinion that eves if the
judges' retiring allowance were more than it is, they
would retire any sooner than the state of their health
obliged them to retire?—l think there is great unwil-
lingness on the part of a judge to abandon his office
until he is really disabled from performing the duties of it.
,Mr. Bright—Have you any information with regard to
the number and the labours of the judges in Ireland?—
No; it is very long since I held office in Ireland. My
impression is, that comparing the duties of the judges in
Ireland with those of the judges in England, the judicial
establishment in Ireland is large.
Are you aware that there have been alterations in the
system in Ireland by the establishment and extension of
Assistant Barristers' Courts, by which the labours of
the assizes have been very much diminished, and thet,
in' some cases, the progress of the judge is rather a pro-
gress of obiservation than of labour?—l have that gene-
ral opinion; bat the Committee would get much bet:er
information respecting the amount of the judicial busi-
ness in Ireland from other sources. It has not come
particularly under my review, asd any estimate that I
can form must be a very vague one. The Committee
can get information as to the amount of business done
by the Irish courts, and as to the diminution of it, if
any, more full and complete than any that I can give.
Mr. Ricardo—With regard to the retiring pensions
of the judges, do you know what the reason is of a
different principle being adopted with respect to the
Lord Chacellor, as distinguished from the other judges,
with reference to the period of service which en-
titles him to a pension?—The Lord Chancellor holds
his office by a much more precarious tenure than the
other judges. He is not independent of the pleasure of
the Crown; he is subject to the loss of office from
a change in the Government; and that, I apprehend, is
the reason for the power to grant to the Lord Chan-
eel'or a retiring allowance after a very limited period of
service. In the case of a judge in one of the superior
courts in Westminster-hall, you require a considerable
number of years' service before the grant of a pension.
Those judges are entirely independent of the Crown, and
hold their offices during life.

Do you consider the 'Lord Chancellor in the light of a
political person, or of a judicial person?—The retiring
ension is considered part of the inducement to a man of
the highest reputation at the bar to leave the profession,
and to embark in political life, being subject to the con-
tingency of a sudden loss of power.
Do you think it impossible to estimate the retiring
pensions in the salaries of the judges and of the Lord
Chancellor?—l think you are liberty, in calculating the
t )tal emoluments of the judge, to consider the retire-
ment which he has in prospect, as well as the amount of
actual salary which is paid to him during his tenure of
office; it is a fair element in considering the amount of
salary to be enjoyed by him.
Gould it not all be put into the salary; could not you
give him a certain salary, and leave it to the individual
himself to provide for the future3—You would propose
that the salary of the judge should be increased to, say
6,0001. a year, or any other given sum, instead of 5,0001.,
and that there should be no retiring allowance. That
the contingent interest in the retiring allowance should
be merged in actual salary, as the judge would of course
remain entirely independent of the will of the Crown,
and hold his office subject only to removal on an address
of either House of Parliament, I think you would find
that the judges would retain their offices a very long
period.
Your objection to the judge being left to himself to
provide fir the future is that he would ret Ain his office
longer than he would be capable of exercising the func•
tions of it properly?--There would be a tendency to that
in the case of al office entirely independent of the
Crown, and from which the holder is removable only on
an address of either House of Parliament. If you
allotted to the office a high salary and no retiring al-
lowance, there would be a tendency in the judge t) retain
the office and the high salary to the /vest moment, in-
stead of retiring into privacy, there being no provision
on retirement; I think that would be the result.
That is an argument for retiring pensions generally, in
all cases, is it not?—No, not in cases where the person
holds office subject to the pleasure of the Crown; but in
the case of offices held for life, or quemdiu se Gene yes-
sera, there is an advantage in holding out the prospect of
a retiring allowance after long and faithful service rather
than increasing the salary of the office.
Mr. Cobden--Might not the objection be partly met
by fixing a certain period of life beyond which the judge
should not occupy the bench?—lf you advert to the his-
tory of the judges, you will find it a very delicate and
difficult matter to limit the periol of their service; you
will find several judges who have attained the greatest
eminence, have rendered the greatest
,service, and have
performed their duties most actively and usefully at very
advanced 'periods of life. Some cases there certainly
have been, cases which must be familiar to you all, in
which complaint has been made of a judge retaining his
office much too long; but still I think any precise limi-
tation of age would be found very difficult. A rule that
a judge should not remain in office alter6s or 70 years
of age, might deprive the public of the advantage of the
learning and experience of judges who might be perfectly
competent for public service.
Mr. Bright—ls not the inconvenience to which you
have alluded found to arise frequent'y with regard to
the bench of bishops; do not they often retain office
beyond the period at which they are capable of per-
forming their duties ?—I do not know an instance of
resignation by a bishop.
2dr. Cobden—Do not you think that public opinion
would very much tend to correct any tendency on the
part of judges to remain upots the bench after their fa-
culties were no longer equal to the duties of the office?
—lt has not done so in some remarkable caws.
Mr. Ricardo—lf a judge would remain in office be-
cause he had no retiring pension, may he not also re-
main in office in order to get the difference between his
retiring pension and actual salary?—That certainly is
possible; but the judges are influenced in retaining office
by higher motives. There is an unwillingness on their
part to retire from the discharge of active duties, and
to receive retiring pensions, while they feel themselves
able to render public service.
Chairman—lnstances of judges retiring are not very
numerous, even with the temptation now held out?—Not
very.
Mr. Bright—With regard :to the office of Lord
Chancellor, when the judicial and political offices are
united as they are at prekent, is there not danger
that the Government, seeking for a very serviceable
man as a political character, may in some degree over-
look that which is required for the highest judge
in the realm, presiding in the Court of Chancery?
—The political advantage of a Lord Chancellor to a
Government would b 3 entirely relinquished if ho were
not a man of the highest eminence in the profession. A
Government which adopted an inferior man as Lord
Chancellor fur the purpose of receiving aid from him, in
a political capacity, distinct from professional service,
would lose immensely in the estimation of the profes-
sion. It would be their manifest interest to take a man
of the highest eminence in the profession as Lord Chan-
cellor.

Mr. Cobden—Have there not been instances within
your recollection of men being called to the office of
Lord Chancellor purely on political grounds, and who
have notoriously not been suited to the office in respect
of legal attainments?—Political considerations must
ne-
cessarily influence, to a certain extent, the appointment
of the Lord Chancellor, because, as the office is a
poli-
tical as well as a judicial one, it is necessary that the
person accepting the ctlice should concur in political
sentiments generally with the administration with which
he acts. To that extent, therefore, political considera-
tions do influence the appointment. But a Government
would naturally select for the office cf Lord Chancellor
the lawyer of the highest eminence generally concurring
with them in political opinion.
Chairman—We will now go on with the list before
you of offices held during the pleasure of the Crown,
usually filled by Members of either House of Parliament.
Looking at the reductions which were made in 1830
upon the salaries in 1780, as stated here, are you cf
opinion that in any of those departments in the list be-
fore you, further reductions can be made without detri-
ment to the public service?—It would be impossible for
me to prove that a salary of 5,0001. a year is exactly
the sum which ought to be assigned to a particular
office. The Committee will see that this is a matter in-
capable of demonstration. Doe cannot prove that
4,800/, might not be t•uffioient in future, when 5,000/.
ht:a bten•sufficient; I can only state that any opinion, the
result of exp ,rience, is strongly adverse, upon public
grounds, to a diminution of the emoluments at present
received by those who fill the chief offices of the State;
I have a strong impression that the scale of emolument
is not more than is just, so far as individuals are con-
cerned; and that a reduction of it would be impolitic
with reference to the interests of the public service. I
think that, upon the whole, the comparative scale is not
an unfair one; If I recollect rightly, the chief officers of
the Government, the three Secretaries of State, the
Chancellor of the Excht quer, and the First Lord of the
-Treasury, receive now 5,000/. aear y; the First Lord of
the 'Admiralty, an office of equal importance, receives
4,5001. a year, but then he has_a house attached to his
office; the President of the Board of Control, I believe,
has 3,500/. a year; the other offices are upon a lower
scale; I am not prepared to advise any alteration in the
comparative scale.
W. Walter—There gtre clues
_ill which the offices of

Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the
Treasury have been held by the same person; has it
teen usual that such person should receive the emolu-
ments attached to each office?—ln 1830 it was proposed
by the Committee of that year that where the two
offices were united there should be a saving in the double
salary to the amount of 2,500/. a year; that is to say,
the person holding the two ofli:es together should re-
ceive 7,5001. a year. I believe that mine has been the
only else in which a person since that period has held
the two offices together ; and in consequence of that
siiggeetion of the Committee I receive I a salary at the
rate of 7.5001. a year during the few months I held the
two offices. In- former periods, I believe, when Lord
North held the offic,s, he received the double salary,
and I think Mr. Pitt did. Ido not know whether the
double salary amounted then to as much as it does at
present; but I think there was no abatement from the
salary assigned to the two offices when held by one
person.
Ii not such a combination of offices unlikely to occur
again, in consequence of the great increme in the basi-
ness?—Judging from the labour to be performed, I
think it not likely to be undertaken again; when re-
appointed to office in 1841, I determined not to under-
take the double duties, after my experience of them in
1834-5.
Chairman—With regard to the Secretaries of State,
is there anything in the nature of the duties attached to
either of those offices which you think would entitle it
to a higher salary than the others?—The Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs is subject, perhaps, to some
expenses to which the others are not liable; but he has
the privilege of an official house, if he chooses to avail
himself of it.
There' are several other offices which the Committee
have been informed have no very onerous duties attached
to them; for instance, the Lord Privy Seal, the Pay-
master-General, and the Master of the Mint; will you
favour the Committee with your opinion as to how far
it is desirable that those offices should be maintained at
their present salary2—l think it would be desirable that
the Committee should advert to the progress which has
been made of late years in reducing the emoluments re-
ceived by persons tilling high offices in the State. It is
because that progress has been made, because the
tendency has been to increase the labour and to reduce
the advantages and emoluments of office—(l speak now
of pecuniary advantages and emoluments)—that I come
to the conclusion that it would not be advantageous fa
the public interests to carry the reduction further.
Mr. Bright—l presume you do not apply that spe-
cially to any particular office, but speak generally ?
Speaking generally. I will take the period when I en-
tered public life, the year 1810. I find that since that
period there has been a progressive reduction in official
advantages and emoluments, and- an increase in thella-
hour imposed on public men. The conjoint operation of
diminished emolument and increased labour leads me to

think that it would not be wise, having regard only to
the public interest, to diminish much further the induce-
ments to enter the public service. To a man who has
independent means, tt a considerable extent it may not
make any material difference ; but to a person who has
not the advantage of hereditary wealth, a man of very
great abilities and of great capacity for rendering public
service, but of comparatively limited means, the amount
of salary may be a serious consideration. Those who
observe with satisfaction a departure from the rule
acted upon in former times, of confining high public
offices to the great families of the aristocracy, or to per-
sons of great wealth, who rejoice in seeing the dis-
tinction and advantage of office opened to persons of
superior attainments, but of no great wealth or high
family connexions, ought to msint tin the policy of at-
taching liberal salaries to the highest official employ-
ments.

Mr. Cobden—ls it not the fact that that exclusive
class to which you refer, do monopolise appointments to
those highest situations to which large salaries are as-
signed?—l think nor.
Take the succession of Cabinet Ministers for the last
twenty years, do yon not find that nine-tenths of them,
or at all events four-fifths of them belong to the aria-
tocracy ?—I think Cabinet offices of late years have been
appropriated very much according to the Parliamentary
ability displayed by those who were candidates for
them; I cannot say of late years I recollect the case of
any eminently distinguished man attached to a party,
to whom (when that party came into power) a man of
mere wealth, but of inferior attainments, has been pre-
ferred.

Chairman—Will you state to the Committee what the
advantages of patronage were at the period when you
first entered office, and what they are at present?—ln
the advantages and emoluments of office I include the
opportunities of a Minister to benefit himself and the
members of his family; and I will compare the extent
of advantages and emoluments of that kind in the
year 1810 with their present extent. First, let me
take the state of sinecure offices in 1810. In that
year a Committee was appointed which had duties to
parfJrm very similar to those which are entrust d to this
Committee. There was a subsequent Committee on sine-
cures in 1834, which in its report said, " On consulting
the Report of the Select Committee on Sinecure Offices
appointed) in 1640, they find that in that year, according
to the papers referred to that Committee, there were in
existence throughout his Majesty's dominions 242 offices,
which, according to the opinion of that Committee, came
under the denomination of sinecures, and of which the
total net income amounted to 297,0951. per annum. By
the return of the sinecure offices now in existence, re-
ferred to your Committee, it appears that there remain
100 offices of a similar description, the total net emolu-
nti of which amounts to 97,8031. Now those sine-
cure c ffices were offices which the Ministers of the
Crown had the power in many cases of appropriating
either to themselves or to their immediate relatives. In

1782, in the memorable speech made by Mr. Burke upon
economical reform, he expressly refers:to some of these
sinecures. He says that the nature of those profits
which grow out of the public distress is in itself invi-
dious and grievous; and he proposes to regulate the
offices and to diminish the salaries, but still to retai❑
them as sinecure offices available for the reward of
public service. Those sinecure offices thus applied as
the reward of public service were among the advantages
of office. • They were left untouched in 1782, being con-
sidered the legitimate means of making a provision for
the descendants of Ministers.

Are you aware how many of those
.sinecnres which
you state to have existed in 1834 are now in existence?
—I presume there are none. There may some remain
in which the existing life interest was protected; but the
intention of Parliament was to abolish those offices alto-
gether as a means of reward; if there are any that now
exist, they would be subject to reduction on the termina-
tion of the life interest.

Looking at those offices as part of the advantages con-
nected with holding high offices in the State in 1810, yen
are of opinion that the circumstances of their abolition
must be taken into consideration in estimating the in-
ducements to men to take part in the public business of
the country ?—I think tho view of the Committee would
Fe an imperfect one if they did not consider those things.
I do not mean to contend that because those sinecures
have been abolished, you must necessarily maintain the
existing salaries at their present amount; bet I think that
you ought ts compare the inducements which there were
at a comparatively recent period to enter into public life,
with the inducements that exist at present. Such com-
parison is one element in the consideration, and the
review will be an imperfect one if it be omitted. I show
you that in 1810 there were sinecures to the amount of
295,0301. that have been swept away. Some of those
offices were applied to the increase of the official emolu-
ments. Lord North when Prime Minister of this
country held also the office of Lord Warden of the
Cinque Ports. Mr. Pitt when First Lord of the Trea-
sury held the office of Lord Warden. Lord Liverpool,
when First Lord of the Treasury, also held the office of
Lord Warden of the Cinque Port:. I apprehend that
there was attached to that office not only considerable
patronage and a residence by the seaside, but a salary of
4,000/. or 5,0001. n year, which salary was enjoyed by
those Ministers, in addition to the salary of the First
Lord of the Treasury. I believe that in 1780 the emo-
luments of Lord North, as Prime Minister, derived from
all those sources, were not less than 10,4001. a 3 ear.
Here is a case, therefore, in which sinecure offices were
among the emoluments and advantages of high office.
Those emoluments and advantages have ceased; not, in-
deed, altogether, because, upon the abolition of sinecure
offices many of which had been applied to the increase
of official income, and to the reward of public service,
Parliament granted to the Crown the means of making
some provision for retired Ministers. This report to
which I have been referring alludes at the conclusion of
it to that provision, in the following terms: —" Your Com-
mittee, in presenting this statement of the amount of
saving which will ultimately accrue to the public from
the abolition of sinecure offices, have not overlooked the
circumstance, that by the Act of 1817 the Crosyn was
empowered to grant pensions as rewards for official ser-
vices in lieu of these sinecures which were formerly ap-
plied, to a certain extent, for such purposes. The
amount of annual charge which, according to the 57
Geo. 111. c. 65, might be incurred by the public, was
limited to 45,0001." Now, . the system of retrenchment
has been here also progressive, because that amount of
45,00 0 /. which was allotted to the Crown on the aboli-
tion of sinecures in the year 1817, was further reduced
by the Act which passed in the year 1834, from 45,000/.
to 21,600/, "of which," this report says, " according to
the last return, pensions to the amount of 16,500/.only were
actually granted and in existence.'' The result is that
there is now no power of attaching any sinecure office
as an increase to the emoluments of a Minister ;* that
the amount which now can be appropriated by the Crown
as retiring allowances to those wt o have held the highest
offices in t)_e State cannot exceed 21,6001., anethat
practically, it is never likely to reach that amount, since
there can bo only a certain number of pensions granted
for the tenure of certain offices.
Mr. Ellice—By the Act of 1834, is not there another
limitation with respect to the means of a person apply-
ing for a pension after filling a public office?—There is.
No person can now hold one of those pensions with-
out a declaration that his private means are such as to
require an addition to his incorne?—That is quite true;
I believe the highest amount of pension is now limited
to 2,0001. a year; and the holders of tour offices only can
receive that largest amount of pension; that is to say, a
pension of 2,000/. cannot be held at the same time by
more than four persons who have filled certain specified
offices, Whig the highest offices of the State.
Do you know to bow many persona it is now paid?—l

PRICE -5D,1

think there is one pension of 3,000/. a year, to which
the existing Act does not apply. Lord Bexley, I be-
lieve, receives 3,0001. a year. Ido not know how many
other pensions there are.
Mr. Cobden—ln speaking of those sinecures, and of
the advantage they afford to Ministers of State, do you
mean that they were advantageous as furnishing the
opportunity of their appropriating one of those sinecures
to thquaselv2s, or as patronage which they had to distri-
bute?—Mr. Burke, in speaking of the great offices of
the Exchequer, says, " Efficient Ministers have been
their own paymasters. It is true; but their very par-
tiality has operated as a kind of justice; it was service
that was paid. When we look over this Exchequer-
list, we find it filled with the descendants of the Wal-
poles, of the Pelham?, of the Townshends." I appre-
hend he meant that long after the death of the Ministers
to whom he referred, he found their desendants occupy.
ing some of these sinecure offices in the Exchequer. A
Minister, therefore, had, or might have had, it he were
so inclined, a double advantage from those sinecure
offices; he might, as in the case of one of the best of
these offices, the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports, ap-
propriate it to himself, and he bad also the means of
providing for his relations and connexions by the grant
of other sinecure offices. In 1810, the Crown had also
the power of granting offices in reversion; the Minister
of the Crown had the power, up to the year 1809, of
conferring the reversion of one of those great offices
upon some friend or relative of his own. That oppor-
tunity of rewarding service, which existed in 1809, exists
no longer. _ _

Mr. 'Walter—With reference to the question put by
Mr. Cobden, whether as a matter of fact the highest of-
fices of the State have not generally been filled by mem-
bers of the aristocracy and persons of ample means, are
you not of opinion that the salaries attached to those offices
shbuld be so regulated as to admit of persons taking
them whose private means would not be adequate to the
discharge of these duties in a suitable manner without
the aid of these salaries?—l think it is of the greatest
public advantage that men of ability without large here-
d.tary fortunes should be enabled to accept office. If
you consider the men who within the last hundred years
nave exercised the chief influence upon the march of
poli ical events, and upon legislation, you will find that
those persons exercising that influence have not been
the possessors of large hereditary fortune. in that class
will be found the two William Pitts, Mr. Fox, Mr.
Burke, Mr. Canning, and Mr. Huskisson. Of the first
William Pitt, Lord Chesterfield says, that the whole of.
the fortune that he inherited was 1001. a year. He en-
tered life as a cornet of horse, with a fortune certainly
not exceeding 4,000/. He did not accumulate money in
office, for on his death Parliament paid his debts to the
amount of 20,000/. The second William Pitt must, there-
fore, have entered public life without any independent
fortune. He held office for a long period; but the
means which it afforded to meet the expenditure to
which he was subject were so inadequate that on his
death Parliament paid his debts, to the amount, I think,
of 40,0001., there being no imputation of extravagance.
Mr. Ellice—During that time he held the offices of
First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, and Chief Warden of the .Cinque Ports?—Yes.
Then take the case of Mr. Burke. Mr. Burke was pri-
vate secretary to Mr. Hamilton, the secretary to the
Lord-Lieutenant; he was afterwards private secretary to
Lord Rockingham. Mr. Fox entered life without the
advantage of hereditary fortune. Mr. Canning had
none. Mr. Huskisson's means must probably have been
very small, when he entered public life as private secre-
tary to Lord Stafford. Whatever was the time for which
those eminent men held office, the emoluments of it in
no case enabled them to make a provision for their
families. It is surely a great public advantage that men
of those eminent qualifications for rendering public ser-
vice should have some inducement for entering into the
public service, rather than into professions. If they do
enter it, it would be most unfair to allot to them any
amount of salary which places them in an inferior posi-
tion to that of colleagues who may hare, from the acci-
dent of birth, larger means of supporting the expenses
of office.

Chairman--Will you be kind enough to state whether,
independently of those sinecures to which you have re-
ferred, any other advantages attached to the office of
Prime Minister, or any of the other principal offices, in
1820, which they do not now enjoy ?—I have stated
what has been the reduction made in sinecure offices. I
will now call the attention of the Committee to the pen-
sion list of the three kingdoms, as it existed in the year
1810. I will take first the pension list on the Civil List
of England. In 1782 an Act passed (the 22d of Geo.
111., c. 82) for the regulation of the Civil List and the
control of the grant of pensions. By that Act the Eng-
lish pension list was limited to 95,000/. a year, and until
reduced to that sum tie power of the Crown to grant
pensions was limited to 6001. per annum. It was then
provided that no greater sum than 1,200/. should be
granted to any one person, except members of the royal
family. With respect to pensions on the Irish Civil
List, in 1793 an Act was passed, with the consent of
the Government, placing restrictions on the power of the
Crown as to the grant of pensions on the Irish Civil
List. In 1793, when the pensions on the Irish Civil
List amounted to 124,000/, an Act was passed restrain-
ing the Crown from granting pensions in any one year
exceeding altogether the sum of 1,2002, until the whole
pension list should be reduced to 80,000/. a year.
The Irish pension list was net reduced below 80.000/.
until the year 1813. As to pensions on the Scotch
Civil List it appears that • before 1810 there
was no check whatever upon the power of the Crow t in
respect to the grant of Scotch pensions, except the
amount of the revenue from which those pensions were
derived. In 1810 the Scotch Civil List pensions
amounted to 39,3791., and that year an Act was
passed, providing that until the total annual amount was
reduced to 25,0001., no larger pension than
3001. should be granted to any one person from the
Scotch hereditary revenues. Besides those several
pensionye a r
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naaindrtnupti
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dpthrctplhgersereioer3ronged
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per cent, duties. That was the state of the Pension List
y
in the three countries on the Ist of January, 1810
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slylr: peraccount
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What is the amount of pensions at the present moment
as compared with the amount in 1810?—At a much
later period than 1810, the total amount of pensions Was
not lees 145,0004 In the report of the Committee cf
1831, on Civil Gavernrnent Charges, there is this!pa,ssage:
" The pension list, formerly charged on the Civil List
of England and Ireland and the hereditary revenues of
Scotland, and which amounted to 145,7501., is now re-
duced to a sum of 75,000/. charged on the Civil List."
But that sum c f 145,750/., wss the amount of the pension
list as it existed in th 4-! reign of George IV. The pen-
sion list which existed in 1810, in the reign of George
111, was of much larger amount.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

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GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
5 to 1 agst Captain Hervey's Strongbow—!aken
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Hobson's Rhedycina—taken
ST. LEGE R.
Even on Lord Zetlaud's Voltigeur—field for choice
5 to 1 agst Mr. H. Hill's Pitsford
6 to 1 agat Capt. Archdall's Windiscbgratz-7 to 1
taken freely
000 e
8 to 1 agst Lord Enfield's Bee-banter—taken and
afterwards
16 to 1 agst
jr.d Scott's offered
edc
Cyprus
20 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's Cruiskeen colt—taken
and afterwards offered
Several hundreds laid at even between one and the
field, the field always having the call; 9 to 1 taken freely
about Beehunter ; 20 to 1, to 2001, or 300/., about Boling-
broke; and I,ooo's to 30 and 20 about the Cruiskeen colt.
DERBY.
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Pownfy's Lamartine—taken and
afterwards offend
25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichols's Newminster—taken
fcerwards off,red
25 to 1 spt Lord Eglintoa's Hippolytus—taken and
and afterwards offered
30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Phl,gathon—taken
33 tot agst Lord Stanley's Storm
40 to 1 ng.t Mr. Raiford's Prime Minister—t freely
40 to 1 a,:st Lord Caledon's Aaron Smith—taken
3,000 to GO agst Mr. Liley's Old Ralph Burns—taken

COPPER COINAGE.—The town-council of Sheffield
recently memorialized the. Treasury for a new issue of copper
coinage; and, last Friday,,they received rather a curt reply.
" I Um commanded," saws Sir Charles Trevelyan to the
mayor, " to inform you that as there is a superabundance of
copper coin iu London, of which parties at Sheffield, or other
towns, experiencing a deficiency, can avail themselves throagh
a banker or other agent, my Lords do not consider it expo
client to comply with the prayer of the memorial."

NAVAL FSTELLIGENCE.
) Poictiers (ordinary guard-ship), Captain I'. Richards,
C. 8., was put out of commission on the evening of Fri-
day, and the Cumberland, 70, was commissioned on Sa- •
turday morning. She is ordered t,) be fitted and btor act
fOi service at sea, AEC] is to have a complement of 287
men, the same as the Poictiors.
St. George., 120, Captain J. Niai, C. 8., bears the red
broad pendant of Commander Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
at Davenport, and is to be stored and fitted for service
at sea.

Trafalgar, 120, Captain llon. M. Stopford, fitting st
Sheerness, is not to proceed to the Noro until further
orders.

Crane packet brig, Lieutenant-Commander Parsons,
was paid wages yesterday morning, and sailed direct Er
Fairncuth.
Linnet, 6, packet-brig, Lieutenant-Commander James,
will be paid wages this morning at Devenport.
On the trial of the GI-chock iron•screw frigate, on
Friday. her speed vas much the same as on the last
trial-9.5 knots per hour. The vspourous condition of
the steam still affects the working of the engines, not-
withstanding all the efforts the contractors have made
to remove it. The condition of the vessel or engine is
nothing improved.
PORTSMOUTII, MONDAY.—Tho Blenheim, Irdiatnan,
arrived at Spithead from the river, to embark passen-
gers and stock, and will sail for Calcutta to-morrow.

THE PACIFIC.
We have correspondence from Valparaiso to the 30th
of June. Tlae Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral
Hornhy, C. 8., in his flag-ship Asia, 84, Captain R.
,
Stoprord, was there, with the IN-Arne, Is Captain
G. Fanshawe, Champion, 14, Commander Hayes, and
Driver, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Johnson. Our cor-
respondent says—" The fis,e,•-ship, having now more than
completed her three years of commission, will in all
probability remain at Valparaiso until the arrival of her
relief. On the anniversary of Queen Victoria's acces-
sion and coronation, the ships of the squadron at Val-
paraiso were tastefully dressed or decorated with fl grr,
and all of them, including the foreign men-of-war and
the forts on shore, fired a royal salute on each day at
twelve o'clock. On the glorious 18th of June the ma-
rines of the squadron at Valparaiso were lauded at half-
past eight, A.M., for a field-day, under the command of
Captain Anderson, the captain of the marines of the
flag-ship. After going through a variety of battalion
and light infantry movements with great steadiness and
precision, and firing away 20 rounds of ammunition, all
of which lasted until about three o'clock,r at., they were
marched from the Playancha to the music of the old
English drums and fifes, and returned to their respective
ships about four, rc. Previous to the conclusion of
the field day, Lieutenant Snow, the junior first lieute-
nant, was called to the front to give him an opportunity
to put the battalion through a movement or two. The
Admiral and family are quite well."
The merchants at California complain bitterly of
having' no consul or ocher authorised representative of
the British Government, and the visits of her Majesty's
ships, Inconstant and Driver, have, under these circum-
stances, been highly beneficial.
The shipments of specie by the American steamers to
Panama are becoming larger every month, so that man-
of-war service in the way of conveying freights will, ere
long, be at a discount.
Meander, 44, Captain the Hon. H. Reppel, had not
arrived at the station, and the Admiral wail wondering
what had become of her. We have reported her, how-
ever, so late as May last, at Hobart Town. She is or-
dered home on her arrival.

Inco❑stant, 36, Captain Shepherd, bad not arrived at
Valparaiso, but as the large shipments of specie are
made in May and June, he was expected to arrive with
about a million and a half of dollars.
Thedalus, 19, Captain Wellesley, had a spell of two
months at Callao, but the Admiral had ordertd her to
California, where she is to remain to the end of the year,
and return to Valparaiso early in January.
Daphne was to be sent the first week in July to
Mexico, but not for an English freight.
Swift, 6, Commander Aldharn, was on her way from
Mazatlan to Honolulu with Admiralty dispatches fur
Captain Collinson.

Champion was to leave Valparaiso the first week in
July to visit some ports on the coast, and then to return
to Valparaiso. _

Cockatrice tender, Master•Ccmmander Rundle, was
at the Sand wich Islande.

Driver rejoined the flag-ship on the 21st June, 51
days from San Francisco, where she remained a fort-
night on her way from Vancouver's Island. It is satis-
factory to find that she did not lose a man. She brought
a remittance of 173,000 dollars in gold dust, the greater
part of which was consigned t) Valparaiso, and the re-
mainder—about 60,000 dollars—will be conveyed to
England by the Inconstant. She also brought some dis-
tressed Chiliens.

Gorgon, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Paynter, was at
Chiloe, but was daily expected back to Valparaiso.
American corvette Vaudelia was at Valparaiso.
Store•ship Australia, from Deptford, arrived on the
27th June.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—The First Lord of the Ad-
miralty held a levee to day at the Royal Naval College,
and saw about fifty officers, to whom he had given au-
diences elsewhere this year.
The other members of the board, except the official
secretary, embarked this morning from the Sally-port
on board the Fire Queen steam-tender soon after nine
o'clock, and proceeded to the Blenheim, 60, Captain W.
11. Henderson, C. 8., steam-guard-ship at Spithead.
The Board rata' e I at half•past twelve, and landed
at the dockyard, which they left again at half-Fast one
o'cl,ek and proceeded to the Clarence Vtetualling carts-
blishment, Gosport; thence their Lordships proceeded
to the Royal Marine Barracks Forum, and inspected the
division of Royal Me,rines under Colonel-Commandant
Menzies, KU., with whose ciliciency their Lordships
could not fail to be otherwise than catisfiod. Their
Lordships re-embarked at Oct-entice-yard at three
P N., and crossed over to the Gun-wharf, over which
they were esccrted by Mr. Stewart, the di-
rector of the establivhment; from the Gun-
wharf the Board en -2rossid the harbour, and
made an inspection of • the Royal Naval Hos-
pital at Haslar, wider the sup.rintendence of Captain Sir
W. E. Parry, F.R.S., which, like the other establish-
ment (Clarence yard), o7er which Sir Edward so ably
presides, yielded eminent satisfaction to their Lordships.
To-night their Lordships entertain the heads of all the
departments ut their hotel, and leave to-morrow for the
Chsnnel Islands.

The Fox, 42, Commodore Lambert, was towed out to
Spitheld, by the Echo steam-tug, at half- past five this
morning.

The FlAmer steam-vessel, Commander St. Ledger, pro-
ceeds this evening to Spitheid.
Her Majesty's schooner Bermuda, Lieutenant Jolly,
arrived at Jamaica on the Ist of August from a cruiv,
and sailed on the 3d for Greytown; her Majesty's ship
Imaum was at Jamaica, the Alarm at Antigua, the
Persian at Greytown, and the Indefatigable at Havannah.
The royal mail steamer Severn, left St. Thomas's fur
Jamaica on the 11th of August, and the Tay on the
following day for the same place. The Clyde was at
St. Thomas's when the Avon left, waiting to take the
Mexican mails of the 2d of August. The Conway was
at Demerara, the Derwent, Larne, and Eagle at St.
Thomas's, and the Great Western in the Gulf of Mexico.

APPOINTMENTS.
Woor.wicri, SEPT. 2.—Acting Assistant Surgeon—
James F. Stoddart (1850) to the Port;and, 50, flag-
ship of Rear-Admiral Muresby, C.D., for the Pacific
station,

Naval Instructor—Junes Stephen (1841) to the Tra-
Falgar, 120, at Sheerness.

Midshipmen—William T. W. Hambly to the Fisgard
flag-ship at Woolwich; and James Willcox to the
Shearwater steam-vessel, employed o❑ particular service.
Naval Ca lets—E. W. Warren to the Portland;
Charles J. Dobree to the Victory flig-ship at Ports-
mouth; and Dudley Beaumont to the Fisgard.
Boatswain—John Turner to the Geyser steam•sloop at
Woolwich, now ready f, r commission.

ROYAL MARINES.
Colonel Patke, Commandant of the Woolwich
division, has an additional month's leave of abhetice;
Captain Fleming an additional month; CaptLi i Maxwell
fourteen days; Captain Onslow, Lieutenants Usher and
Gwyn, three months, and Lieutenant Pratt an additional
month—all dated August 30.

THE FRENCH FLEET AT CHERBOURG.
The ships composing the squadron have been for the
last few days constantly exercised, but the heavy rain
that bas fallen has !wen a great impediment to the evo-
lutions. The day before yesterday the whole fleet ex-
ercised at general quarters, and the firing was perfect.
At two o'clock P.M. a sham attack, by gunboats, was
made upon the Flemish fort. Forty boats, each carrying
a carronade, from a 12 to a 30-pounder, were formed to
line ready for the attack, when an immense wave rolled
in and prevented the manorivre from being executed, to
the very great disappointment of the numerous body of
spectators, who had anxiously gathered to witness its
being carried into effect.

We regret exceedingly to relate that the gunnery
practice of the morning did not pass over without a very
serious accident, which unfortunately occurred on board
L'Hercule. It appears that after one or two discharges
the vent of cne of the guns was not properly attended to,
and the consequence was that an expl ision took place,
and two of the gunner's crew, while sponging the gun,
lost their arms, and the gunner's mate has since suffsred
amputation of the thumb. The sufferers were immedi-
ately removed to the naval hospital, where they are now
lying in a very dangerous state.
The town is quite full. No lodgings can be procured
for love or money. In fact, we are really suffocated
with visitors. Our jetty presents a most unusual ap-
pearance. It is perfectly crowded with ♦isitors, and our
only regret is that it is to be so soon doomed to return
to its usual state of dulness. We have visited the various
ships of the squadron, and can bear testimony to the po-
liteness we, in common with all strangers, have met with
from all the officers with whom we have been brought in
contact.—La Marine.

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The Sardinian Government has just presented Mr.
E. A. Wood, a young gentleman only eighteen years of age,
with a splendid gold, medal, for courageously taking com-
mand of a Sardinian brig from the Brazils to Genoa, when
met at sea, with captain and mate dead, and several of the
crew dead and dying, from the
.yellbw fever raging on board,
and safely navigating her to Gibraltar, upwards of 1,000
miles, and theme to GeLoa.

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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
For a few nights only, Adelphi Company ard Adelphi Pieces.
Second Apr oarance of Mr. Hudson in " The Knight of Area."
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE KNIGII rOF ARVA. Characters by
Messrs. Hudson, Lambert, Boyce, Cullenford, and Miss Woolgar.
Arter which an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO-
MESTIC ECONOMY. John Gretmly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumly,
Mrs. F. Matthews.
To be followed by THE IRISH LION.' Tim Moore, Mr. Hudson.
To conclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE ; or, Raising the
Wind on the most Approved Principles. Alonzo, Mr. P. Bedford ;
Ferdinand, Miss Woolgar ; Prospero, Mr. 0. iimith; Ariel, Miss
Fitz

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The best ventilated Theatre in London.
Crowded Houses to witness the attractive and magnificent Spectacle
of Mazeppa, which, with brilliant novelties In the Wonders of the
Arena, form the most varied and attractive Entertainments in. the
Metropolis, which will be continued a few nights longer.
TRIS EVENING,
Will be produced Lori. Byron's gorgeous Spectacle of MAZEPPA
and the WILD HORSE. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Ricks.
To be succeeded by an inimitable Display of Batty's Feats of
Equitation in the Cirque Olympique, by the male and female Eques-
rims, and re-appearance of Madlle. Gardoni.
To conclude with THE WHITE FARM.
Bos-office open From Eleven till Four
Stage Manager. Mr. W. West.

Lade the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, &c. &c.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
OPEN every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and
THURSDAY.
Grand Musical Ensemble. Four Military Bands.
Prodigious success of the entirely new-modelled DioramiC Pic-
ture representing the PASSAGE of the ALPS by Napoleon and his
Army the largest Picture in the World!! with innumerable moving
Figures the size of life. Modelled, painted, and produced by Mr.
Denson and Son, assisted by Messrs. Adams, Wilson, &c. &c. The
Picture has occupied the Messrs. Denson for many months, and it is
confidently submitted to tt:e Public as a chef-d'oeuvre of art, and not
nferior to any production of the day.
Another splendid Elephant.
The Splendid MENAGERIE has lately been enriched by several
Valuable Presents from the Queen.
The Musical Department is conducted by Sir. Godfrey. It will
be the aim of the Establishment to offer tor the gratification of the
Subscribers and the Public, the most Splendid Military Band in the
Kingdom ! I Selected from the Bands of her Majesty's Horse and
Foot Guards, and the most eminent Artistes in the profession.
The following list of engagements will, it is hoped, convince the
Public, that the long-acknowledged excellence of the Band of this
Establishment will be fully maintained I The Repertoire of Music
will be most extensive and varied, arranged from the most Popular
Operas in this and other countries. Solo-Players—Messrs. Lazarus,
Prosperre, Egerton, Crozier, Webb, Holt, &c.
During the evening a grand Colossal, Scenic, and Pyrotechnic
Tableau illustrating the celebrated Picture by David, of Buonaparte
Crossing the Alps Showing a general view of the Region of the
Alps, stretching from the small mountain lake in the foreground to
the distant snow-clad mountains, crowned by the stupendous Mount
St. Bernard and its far-famed Monastery. A portion of the French
Army is first seen " en bivouac," presently the drums beat to arms,
and amid the clash of Military Bands and Martial Music, the Troops
commence the Ascent. The Soldiers are seen dragging the Artillery in
Trunks of Trees, now ascending almost Perpendicular Heights, and
traversing the most Terrific Ravines, but all difficulties are overcome,
and the Gallant Army is seen pursuing its course to the Fertile
plains of Italy.
The whole to conclude with a Gorgeous Display of Fireworks, by
Messrs. Southby, introducing, amongst various novelties, the most
admired feux d'artiflce of former seasons, jets d'eau, water rockets,
revolving pieces, a magnificent Transparency fifty feet in height,
painted by Messrs. Danson, representing Buonaparte on Horseback
cheering on his Troops, surrounded by warlike emblems, insignia of
honour, flags, trophies, &c., amidst a cerruscation of various coloured
Ares.
The complicated and difficult machinery, and the erection of the
picture under the direction of Mr. Thos Lowe. The extensive gas
fittings by Messrs. Butcherby and Dixon, 23, King-street, Covent-

Adminion. Ise,

TO-MORROW, September 4, the Royal South London Floricultu-
ral Society will hold their Last. Grand Dahlia, Hollyhock, and Mis-
cellaneous Flower Show, open to all Exhibiters. Every Exertion
has been used to render this the most attractive Exhibition of the
Season. An extra Brass Band will attend. All the unrivalled at-
tractions of the Gardens, and extra Fireworks, by 6eutliby. Doors
open at One. Admission, One Shilling.
On Wednesday, September 11, the Boys of the Greenwich Naval
Asylum School, will, with their Juvenile Band, visit the Gaiters.