The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

THE CIVIL LIST.

The following protest has been entered upon the
journals of the House of Lords :-
1. Bennie the Civil List arrangement is framed upon
statements laid before Parliament, with the full know-
ledge of the Ministers of the Crown, those ztatemonts
being in the ❑ature of estimates upon which the grant of
income is to be made.
2. Because those statements contain a minute detail of
the expenses for which provision is made, including the
salaries of officers, and even the wages of servants, and
the grant is made on the supposition by all parties to the
arrangement that such salaries aro to be always paid.
3. Because, even as to the other heads of expenditure
provided for, there is an understanding of all parties that
nearly the same sums will be required during the conti-
nuance of the arrangement.
4. Because no supposition ever entered the mind of
Parliament in making the grant, that large savings were
to be effected out of the income granted, and on the
contrary the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the
Sovereign is wholly alien to the spirit of our constitu-
tion, which requires the Monarch to be dependent upon
Parliament for the revenue by which his state and dig-
nity shall be supported.

5. Because any such accumulation by means of savings
upon the Civil List has a direct tendency to diminish the
splendour and impair the dignity of the Crown, and so to
defeat the very purposes of the grant.
6. Because, for these reasons, it is the undoubted right
of Parliament to obtain information from time to time
touching the amount of the savings under the several
heads of the Civil List expenditure, and the rather be-
cause if there were a deficit, instead of a saving, Parlia-
ment would be of course applied to for aid, whereas the
public never can directly benefit by any surplus, how
considerable soever.

7. Because the amount of such savings must form an
important matter in considering the applications from
time to time made for Parliamentary aid in tho esta-
blishment of the younger branches of the Royal Family
during the reign of the Sovereign to whom the grant of
the Civil List income was made, as well as in future ar-
rangements which the wisdom of Parliament may make
with respect to the rights and claims of the Crown.
8. Because no possible risk to the subsistence of the
Civil List arrangement, made with the Sovereign at the
commencement of the present reign, can arise from giving
the information sought; and there can be no indelicacy in
di,closing the amount of the savings supposed, on good
grounds, to have been effected, inasmuch as those savings
must by law be made known to departments of the Go-
vernment which are under no obligation to conceal them,
and it must be made known under which head of the
Civil List expenditure the saving, if any, has been made,
or the deficiency, if any, has arisen.
9. Because the accounts before Parliament appear to
state the amount of the savings—for example, 38,7501.
for the year ending the sth of April, 1850; and if this is
an incorrect statement—or if in reality the statement
bears reference to some other matter than that which it
seems to regard, justice to all parties requires that this
should be explained and set right. But if, as appears,
such savings have been effected, there can be no reason
why Parliament should not be informed of the branches
of expenditure on which they have been so effected.
10. Because it appears that, independent of the Civil
List revenue, and of 12,0001. paid last year into the
privy purse from the revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster,
29,0001. have been paid from the revenue of the Duchy
of Cornwall for the service of the Duke of Cornwall—a
service which, at that Illustrious Prince's tender age,
can hardly require so large a provision; and no one has
ever contended that into such an expenditure Parlia-
ment has not both the right fully to inquire, and the
practice of so inquiring.
(Siczned) BROUGHAM.

ROYAL CORK YACI-IT CLUB.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Slit,—Having seen in The Sun of Friday an article
headed "A Cup and not a Cup," copied from the Cork
Examiner, and which you justly call a strange para-
graph, may I beg the favour of your inserting the
contradiction, which appeared in the following paper,
a copy of which I enclose.
I have the honour to be yours, &c.,
lIOR ACE T. N. MEADE,
Hon. Sec. R.C.Y.C.
Club •house, Queenstown, Aug. 10.

We, the undersigned, members of the Royal Cork
Yacht Club and Managers of the Regatta, 1850, having
read in the Cork Examiner of August 7, 1850, an article
headed " A Cup or not a Cup," feel ourselves called
upon to state that no such correspondence took place as
alluded to; and that the entire article is false and with-
out the slightest foundation.
Thomas George French,Vice-Admiral,R.C.Y.C.
George B. Jeffreys, Flag-Lieut., one of the
managing committee.
Robert Hare,
P. S. French,
Samuel Hodder,
W. F. Wentworth, R.Y.C., Hon. Secretary
Regatta,
James Roche,
Edmond Morony,
O'Neill Ferguson,
Godfrey T. Baker, steward,
Edward H. Newenham.
Bartholomew Verling, one of the managing
committee,
Eyre Massey Shaw, steward,
James Ronayne,
A. L. Newman, lion. Treasurer,
Horace T. N. Meade, Hon. Sec. to the Regatta
and Club.

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reaping HARVEST AND THE CROP3.—The important
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The oper
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has been in many cases hastened by the farmer in conse-
quence of much of his corn having been laid by the late
heavy storms. We are afraid the unfavourable weather of
the last fortnight will materially affect this year's crops.
The fields everywhere show well for straw, but the ears are
rather light, and there has been a want of sufficient sun to
produce either a large yield or a first-rate sample. The pro-
duce, therefore, we apprehend, will be rather below an aver-
age, and the quality also somewhat inferior. The potato
disease is, we are sorry to report, spreadin4 very fast, and
threatens to be more calamitous than has been the case in
any year, except that in which this sad visitation was first
exp.rieneei. With regard to other crops, barley is generally
said to be thin in the ear; peas have been nearly cut off by
blight, and the late beans have suffered much from the same
cause, but the early bean crop promises fairly. The orchards
have nearly everywhere shed their fruit from blight.—Glou-
cester Journal.