The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-03 00:00:00

Passengers ••• •••
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...

... £206 2 11
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.— (253 i miles
open.) Traffic for week ending Sept. 29....£16,023 3 6
Corresponding week in last year, (196 i
miles open) ..
...011,347 6 1
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. Gross traffi: receipts for
the week ending Sept. 28 :
Passengers
Carrying account

... £193 14 5
... 12 8 6

Total

• .£12,593 18 4
▪ 3,251 15 11

Total ... ... 15,815 14 3
Corresponding week last year... 12,835 8 11

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We are happy to find that Lord Denman is enjoy-
ing himself, in tolerably good health, at his country villa,
Stoney liliddiqc.rt!

Chairman—With regard to the G
Ire-
and, supposing the measure
tenant should be abolished, what should be carried, and that thnowffiebeforfe
I shaoduoldtepdrofoprosethno
your Lordship propose toaet
o scale Government eoorf nstmaLhil e:oanttidle
Parliament
saLf
mdileoeruene
dues
establish for Govern-
ment of Ireland ?._.j othere scale of
salaries than the scale three Secreta-
ries of State ; I think thep fourth Secretary of State
and the under- secretaries should have salaries equal
in amount to those which are now held by the other
Secretaries of State and their under-secretaries, and
that there should be one Parliamentary under-secre-
tary, and one permanent under-secretary.
Ireland,
insds,,
in 500/
keepinga year
up ;
Sir John Trollope—ls not the salary of the Irish
Secretary at the present time equal to that of the
he
principalconsiderable
Secretaries
expenses of State
in ? T
the house and gardens in the Phcenix Park.
Mr. Bright—He has two houses allowed him in
Ireland, besides the salary ?—Yes •
, I know that the
expenses are considerable • I think Lord Stanley told
me, that when he was Chief Secretary, the garden
alone cost him 5001. a year.
Chairman —lt will not be necessary for the new
Secretary of State for Ireland to reside in Dublin ?
I think certainly not to reside in Dublin; it may be
necessary for him from time to time to go over to
Ireland, but that must depend upon circumstances.
Mr. Walter—Will there be any office in Dublin to
which persons may apply who may wish to communi-
cate with the Government ?-1`1.0; there may be two
or three clerks there connected with the Government
business ; but I think it is desirable to have every-
thing that requires decision decided here ; I mean
everything relating to the administration now carried
on by the Lord -Lieutenant.
Chairman—What is the saving in point of money,
which you contemplate from the change by substitut-
ing a Secretary of State for Ireland for the Lord-
Lieutenant ?—I think you may reckon upon its being
10,0001. Lord Clarendon represents that there are
some persons connected with the offices in Ireland who
are of long service, who have houses in Dublin, and
have families in Dublin, and that it would be much
better altogether, more just towards them, and at the
same time better for the public, to give retiring allow-
ances to them, than to bring them over to this coun-
try; that, of course diminishes the saving.
Mr. Bright—As the Secretary of State for Ireland
will have to transact business only for that portion of
the United Kingdom, the population of which is only
about one-half the population of England, and which
in some respects does not furnish more employment in
proportion for a Secretary of State, will it be neces-
sary or proper that he should have so large a salary as
5,000/. a year?—Yes, considering that he has now
20,000/. a year, I think 5,0001. would not he too much
for him ; I think it is desirable in making this change,
to make it, in some respects, gradually. There is a
vast deal of business now transacted in Ireland. I
think it has been too much the custom in Ireland to
refer on every occasion (which is not the case in
England) to the Government for advice and assistance.
Nov it is desirable to get rid of that system ; but I
do not think a Secretary of State can shut his doors
at once, and say, " I will not hear you, and I will
not entertain your case ;1' it is desirable to alter the
system, but you cannot at once get rid of people's
habits.

Chairman—There is also an office connected with
Scotlande a r ;
shouldcan
beSou
attached
explain
to
why the sum 0r2,000/.
a-ythe
office of Queen's
Commissioner for the Church of Scotland ?—No, I
certainly cannot give a reason for it • T •
till lately. Ph...

Have not some persons, for instance, been appointed
to high office abroad who have never served anywhere
before in the diplomatic department ?—My opinion
is, but it is an opinion that I do not entertain with
very great confidence, because I have found others
more competent to judge who have differed from me
—but my opinion is, that the former way in which
the diplomatic service of this country was conducted,
of appointing persons from time to time from this
country, who were men of good information, and
competent to give an opinion on foreign politics, was
a better way of conducting the diplomatic service
than making it a regular profession as it has been
made. I remmber stating that opinion, in private, to
Lord Aberdeen, a great number of years ago. Ido
not think he agreed with me, and I do not think Lord
Paiwerston agrees with me either; but certainly that
is my impression.
Mr. Walter—Has your Lordship formed any opi-
nion as to the share which the maintenance of the
passport system may have in rendering so large an
establishment of foreign ministers and consuls neces-
sary, and as to whether, if that system were abolished,
it would probably lead to a diminution of expense
upon this head ?—lt must tend to keep up part of
the expense, 1 should not think a very large propor-
tion ; but I should doubt whether we are near the
time when passports will be abolished by foreign go.
vernments.

Mr. Cobden—Did I rightly understand your
Lordship to say that you concurred with Lord
Palmerston as to the necessity of maintaining all our
diploMatic establishments as they exist at present ?
My opinion is, that the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs is the best judge of the necessity of those ap-
pointments ; there are some of them as to which I
could not give an opinion whether they are necessary
or not ; I have no doubt that they are all useful in a
certain degree ; but my own opinion is certainly that,
from time to time, as things change, and as you ap-
point new ministers to South America, and new
ministers in some part of the East, you might reduce
or abolish some of those in Europe; that is the ge-
neral tendency of my opinion ; but I will not give an
opinion as to-any particular mission.
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liam- Follett, who was offered a puisne judgeship by
Lord Cottenham, and he refused it.
It is alleged that the emoluments of the members
of the bar are now, and have been for some time,
diminishing rather than otherwise ; that being the
case, and seeing, also, that their professional gains
are always to some extent precarious, and that the
most successful has always somebody treading closely
upon his heels, and that as he passes the meridian of
life his powers become impaired, and unable to sus-
tain the enormous labour of first-class professional
business ; regarding all those things, is it your opinion
that you could not adequately and properly fill up the
appointments to the chief judicial offices if it were a
rule laid down by Act of Parliament, or a rule of
practice, that 5,0001. a year was the limit of the sa-
lary ?—I have been told that professional gains at the
bar have been diminished, but I have no knowledge of
that circumstance ; of course, if the emoluments at
the bar have much diminished from what they used
to be, that will very much determine the question ;
but I do not think that a man who had the practice of
Sir James Scarlett, or who had nearly that degree of
practice, would take an office of 5,0001. a year.
Mr. Walter—Does your Lordship think it neces-
sary that a person appointed to the office of judge
should necessarily be chosen out of the class of the
most successful advocates ? Is it not the fact that very
excellent judges, and even some of the most distin-
guished judges, have not been men of that class?—
Yes ; I do not think it is necessary for the office of
puisne judge, that a man should be at all at the head
of the profession in point of practice.
Mr. Bright—Would it not be generally admitted
that there are men now acting as puisne judges who
are equal in character and in legal ability, and who
have as much the confidence of the profession and of
the public as any men who can fill any of the higher
appointments ?—There certainly are men of very
considerable ability and reputation as judges.
Are there not, at the present moment, amongst the
puisne judges men to whom, if they were raised to
the woolsack, or to the situation of chief justice in any
of the superior courts, no person in the country
would raise the slightest objection ?—Yes, I think
there are.

Then, if gentlemen possessing first-class character
and qualifications have consented to take the office of
puisne judge, with a salary of 5,000/. a year, with
almost no prospect of promotion, may not that be
taken as a ground for believing that if the limit were
5,000/. a year, the chief judgeships could be Equally
well fined up ?—I think that you might have very
eminent men in that way ; but I think you would be
very lik,ly to exclude from your choice the men who
have the greatest practice, and that would be a mis-
fortune.

If men such as now give every satisfaction on the
bench are to be had, and have all along been had,
without difficulty at the salary of 5,000/., what chance
is there of the danger to which you refer in your last
un ypL y 041."
WOU +46lf Collfidelne
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a very much

ENCLOSURE OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.-I take leave
to call your attention to the fence about being erected in front
of the British Museum. "You doubtless know the plan of the
architect was a dwarf wall and iron palisades extending the
whole length of the buildings, which, from its lightness, and
the relief it would have given the edifice, was highly approved
by the public, and its completion has been long anxiously
looked for. Unfortunately the gentlemen residing in the
wings have objected to the publicity which an iron railing
would give to their dwellings, and they have succeeded in
getting the plan altered, so that a stone wall twelve feet high
is to be erected at each end, extending some yards beyond the
residences : thus one-half the space, or nearly so, will have
the aspect of a prison, and the wall•will doubtless in a few
weeks be embellished with a succession of temporary " con-
veniencees" to the annoyance and disgust of the neighbour-
hood. The news of the alteration of the plan was at first
received with incredulity, but now that the ground is marked
out showing how far the high wall is to extend, sorrow (I
will not say indignation) is fast taking the place of disbelief.
—Correspondent of the Builder.

A new work from the pen of Mrs. Crowe, the au-
thor of " The Night Side of Nature," " Lilly Dawson," &c.,
has just made its appearance. Any book by this popular
writer is sure to interest and amuse, but her present produc •
tion appears calculated to excite, in a high degree, the lovers
of the marvellous, for the belief in the supernatural is evidently
still strong amongst a large class, as is proved by_ the popu-
larity of the author's "Night Side of Nature." ;The_ title of
her new production is "Light and Darkness; or, Mysteries
of Life." The scenes which may be expected to
fall in the
scope of such a work seem the peculiar province of this ori-
ginal writer, but what will probabiy greatly hei[2,-hten their
interest is the fact that they are all stated to be drawn from
real life.
DIABOLICAL CONPUCT.—On Sunday morning, the
22d ult., the up-mail train, on arriving within two miles of
Pens') urst, encountered an obstruction on the line, which
caused the engine to jump, and made firefly from the wheels.
Happily the train was not thrown off the rails. On exa-
mination the remains of a large gate were found, which had
evidently been placed across the line. Two men, hoppers,
baying been seen by Caudal], the constable of Leigh,
wandering about half tipsy about that time, he took them
into custody, and having confined them separately, they
both confessed having placed the gate on the line, each
charging the other with being the chief offender. They
were committed for trial at the quarter sessions. —Maidstone
iroarnai.

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