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London, England, 1850-09-07 00:00:00

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DAY ,t 1850.
LOND N SATUR 0 ,SEPTEMBER 7,
N°. 18,083.]

DISPITTISD Llano 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 fact of the assured party having been a man of in-
temperate habits was concealed from the office. Ihe chief evidence
turne I upon the question as 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
40/. 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 under the present system, and shos, s that the only mode by
whreh absolute security can be obtained by the public must lie in the
general adoption by Assurance Offices of the plan of prote ding them-
selves ill every case by due inquiries before the grantim- f each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility of the com-
pleteness of such Inquiries by holding themselves precluded from
raising any future question. In the present case two officates a
can
re
found to be diametrically opposed in their opinions as tc has
properly invalidate a claim. and yct the public are expected is be
able to guare themselves against such contingences. Simila cwou'ases
have occurred before, and even if they were more rare, theyrd
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 who would be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."--Times, July 11, 1850.
THE LONDON
LICY CO INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POMPANY
No. 72, LOMBARD-MEET, LONDON.
TIII:ISTEE3.
I. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Melina, Esq., Q.C. I James Fuller Madex, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
maxcioas.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
Tohn Ilamilton, Esq.
fames Fuller Madox, Esq.
, John Matthews, Esq.
C. Oetavius Parnell, Esq.
• AUDITORS.
George Cumming, Esq. - iJames Turner, Esq.
William D. Starling, Esq. 'David Henry Stone, Esq.
SECRETART—David Alison, Esq.
BANICERS-.- M essrs. Spooner, Attwoocls, and Co.
• PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, Connaught-terrace. Edgeware -road.
Rev.-James Sherhold Boone, A.M., Stanhope-street, Hyde-park.
Captain Creed, Norfolk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and MR-
coin's Inn-fields.
Thomas Jervis Amos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Robson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New-
square, Lincoln's Inn.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
John Dangerfleld, Esq.

Secretary, Chas. Hoglton, Esq.
The POLICIES of this-Corapany, being INDISPUTABLE, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, 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 i
has been rn the practice
from th of Liefecom-
As-
surance, the progress of this Company arid
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will be fcrwarded,
on appliCation, to SolicitorsALEX , to whom Commission is allowed.
ANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

OATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE
'L) 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 2501.—making
together 7001., which have been paid. This
hen is
it far below thee expected
mortality, and is especially favourable, wis remembred
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.
Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9(33/. 2s. 6d.:
of these 121, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 65.
Sixteen Policies lapsed, representing (3,0481., upon Iv hich 3201. 3s.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums
Since the c"mrnencement of the Company to the lot of Jnne last,
assurances were effected to the extent of 110,9721. 12s 6d., pro-
ducing ill annual premiums 3,732/. 115. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed,
amounting to 23,9301. 16s. 6d., 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.
lied for to the extent of 17,7001.,
Since last meeting loans were app
but 1,1831. Ils. 10d. only was advanced.
The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the
last four months they had considerably extended their businesa on
the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur
de l'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 Archbishop of Lyons, and Monseigneur Paris's, Eveque
de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con•
siderable amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An-
nuities both Immediate and Deferored.
of the Report, and returning
After various resolutions, apprving
thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Ilishep Morris, the Vice-
Chairrr, Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establish-
ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results
and future prosFects.
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season throughout the Empire and its dependencies. Price 455.

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2 s.. -- _ —— Director, Mr. T. B. Simpson, Albion, Great Russell-street, Co-
- vent•garden.
4 --.. 2
4 ...... -...THIS DAY, September 7,
3 _ _
4 ..., •-- Immense Success of Denim's new Fairy Ballet. "The Origin of
4
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a
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Fe oats marked t sion restored,
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the RICK vr,,...
r exercise of the graceful bow, with the advantage ooper instruc-
alike front
th: . BLACKWALL, on the arrival of tion, gratis ! Shooting three dozen arrows before prod,,
ti,;,-----___,,w.,. .„.. renchurch-street Station. after Five, 6d. per dozen Matches for Dinner, In , Pir
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t q .. . . -21 i— _- _- - beds of flowers at Cremorne. Everything has been done to relater
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this metropolitan ducosse.
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Public.
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it possible for him to go through all this, unless you
render him some assistance ? I say, then, it is a
great advantage that there should be one or two per-
sons with whom he can confer—men who have the in-
fluence uf high office, and who are connected with him
by the ties of a common responsibility ; it is highly
important that he should have one or two men with
whom he can confer, who are not overwhelmed with
details of office. If he applies to a Secretary of Sate
for assistance, he finds him just as overburdened as
himself.

Is not the assistance of persons in both Houses of
Parliament required to carry through measures not
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Houses, the House of Lords and the House of
Commons.

You said that you differed from Lord Durham in
one point, namely, in his recommendation that there
should be no salary attached to the office of Privy
Seal P—l think there ought to be a salary attached
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so:well as they are expressed in that admirable speech
of Mr. Burke, upon the principle of economical re-
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Committee will allow me to read the passage : he
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SIR R. PEEL ON OFFICIAL SALARIES.

(Continued from The Sun of Thursday.)
It has been suggested to the Committee whether it
might be possible to disconnect some of those offices
from seats in Parliament ; whether, for' instance, if
the junior Lords of the Treasury were prevented from
having seats in Parliament, the business might be
more effectually done, even at lees salaries than those
attached to those offices ?—I cannot answer that ques-
tion with reference to individual offices, but con-
sidering generally the official labours and Parlimen-
tery labours of the Prime Minister and those holding
the highest offices of state, I certainly think they re-
quire all the assistance you now give them.
In Parliament ?—ln Parliament and out of Parlia-
ment; a Minister in the House of Commons is there
frequently seven or eight hours in the day for six
months in the year ; and I do not see how he can
get through the labour of the office with less assis-
tance, official and Parliamentary, than he has. I
cannot prove to you that three Lords of the Treasury
or four Lords of the Treasury are the exact number
there ought to be ; but looking at the whole, the re-
sult of my observation and experience is the opinion,
that political offices, with reference both to official
and Parliamentary duties, do not admit of reduction.
Does that observation apply also to other branches,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Pay-
master. General, the Lord Privy Seal, and the Master
of the Mint?—We will take the members of the Ca-
binet. You have the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the three Secretaries of
State, the President of the Board of Control, and the
First Lord of the Admiralty ; all those are offices
which at all times and under all circumstances would
be in the Cabinet, I apprehend, in addition to the Lord
Chancellor. There are certain other Cabinet offices
that have not the same amount of labour imposed
upon them; there is the Lord President of the Council,
whose labours, however, have been very much in-
creased of late. The time of the Lord President is
probably fully occupied with the proper duties of his
department, since the great increase of those duties by
new functions connected with education and other
matters. the Lord President of the Council receives
2,0001. a year. That is by no means an excessive re-
muneration for the duties that are performed; the office
is one of great importance and dignity. Then, as to
the Lord, Privy Seal, that office certainly has not the
same amount of official duty attached to it ; but, in
my opinion, it is a great advantage in conducting the
affairs of this country to have one or two members of
the Cabinet who are not overloaded with the proper
duties of their respective offices ; it is a great advan-
tage to the Prime Minister to have colleagues to
whom he can commit the consideration of a particular
subject, with whom he can confer upon it, and by
whose advice he can benefit. I will refer to the evi-
dence which was given in the year 1831, by Lord
Durham, who held this office of Lord Privy Seal in
the Cabinet of Lord Grey ; he is asked this question
—" Is the office of Privy Seal an office requiring
pretty frequent personal attendance ?" He says, "It
is an office that requires constant attendance, but not
at the office where the clerks do their duties." After
stating what the duties are that belong to his
office, be is asked this question—" The Lord
Keeper being a member of the Cabinet, is it not
customary to refer to him general subjects con-
cerning the Government, when any other of the
great officers are overburdened with business? Iles
it not been the habit to refer questions for consi-
deration to the Lord Keeper when he is a member
of the Cabinet ?" Lord Durham's answer is this :
" Undoubtedly ; I should say that during the three
months which I have been a member of his Majesty's
Government, I have never had one day in which
I was free from business of that description ; on many
days from seven to eight hours a slay. It is the cus-
tom to transfer the consideration of such subjects as
do not immediately fall within the business of the
heads of departments to those members of his Ma-
jesty's Cabinet wfio are not required to give personal
attendance in their offices." Lord Durham is then
asked, " Does your Lordship not consider that offices
of the description of the Lord Keeper and the Lord
President of the Council are very useful in the exe-
cution of the business of the Government in the man-
ner described in your Lordship's last answer ?" He
says, " I should say they are extremely useful, and
that no Government could go on without them ; but
I am not to be supposed as stating from thence that I
do not consider the salary given to the Lord Keeper
of the Privy Seal as more than ems ass
remunera;
tion for the duties he performs as Lord Keeper.
Lord Durham adds, " If I am to give my own in-
dividual opinion, I should say all offices of honour
and dignity alone are separated in principle from
those of labour and emolument. I consider the office
of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal one of high honour
and dignity and station, but the personal labour re-
quired is certainly not such as to demand the salary
affixed to it, nor, indeed, is any salary whatever ne-
cessary to make it an object of high ambition." I
agree wish Lord Durham as to the importance of re-
taining that office in the Cabinet, in order that the
holder of it may share in the deliberations of the
Cabinet, and may occasionally take charge of business
of very great importance, not immediately connected
wish his office; but I totally differ from Lord Dur-
ham as to the propriety of retaining the office without
salary ; I think the salary ought to be attached to
the office.
From your experience, when you were Prime
Minister, do you think it would be impossible to
carry on the government of this country without the
addition of some such offices as those ?—I cannot say
what is impossible; but I think, in the case of a
Minister holding one of the chief offices, the business
which be ought to go through, and which he is sup-
posed to go through, is so heavy, that without
assistance the strain would be too severe. Take the
case of the Prime Minister. You must presume
that he reads every important dispatch from every
foreign court. He cannot consult with the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and exercise
the iofluence which he ought to have with respect
to the conduct of foreign affairs, unless he be
master of everything of real importance passing in
that department. It is the same with respect to
other departments; India, for instance, how can the
Prime Minister be able to judge of the course of
policy with regard to India unless he be cognizant of
all the current important correspondence? In the
case of Ireland and the Home Department, is is the
same. Then the Prime Minister has the patronage
cf the Crown to exercise, which you say, and justly
say, is of so much importance and of so much value;
he has to make inquiries into the qualifications of the
persons who are candidates; he has to conduct the
whole of the communications with the Sovereign ; he
has to write, probably with his own hand, the letters
in reply to all persons of station who address them-
Felees to Lisa ; inb to receive (leputatio..s on public
business; (luring the sitting of Parliament In is ex-
pected to attend six or seven hours a day, while Par-
liament is sitting, for four or five days in the work ;
at least, he is blamed if be is absent. Now, how is

With regard to another department which has been
observed upon, namely, the B )ard Gf Trade, is it your
opinion that the present establishment of the Board
of Trade is required for the public service ?—I do not
see that it is possible to conduct the business of the
Board of Trade on more economical terms than it is at
present. The President of the Board of Trade bas
2,000/. a year, and the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade holds the office of Paymaster-General, for
which he has 2,0001. a year. For the conduct of the
business it is absolutely necessary to have a repre •
sentative of the department in the House of Lords;
the more able the representative in the House of
Lords, the better will it be for the public interests. I
recollect when there was great difficulty in prevent-
ing the House of Commons attaching a salary of
5,0001. a year to the office of President of the Board
of Trade, when Mr.. Huskisson filled that office.
Among men of all parties, there was a very general wish
that a salary of 5,000/. should be attached to the Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade. That had reference,
no doubt, in some respect, to the personal merits of
Mr. Huskisson ; but I am certain that, if at one time
the Government had proposed to attach a salary of
5,0001. a year to the President of the Board of Trade,
it would have been generally agreed to.
Have not the duties of the Board of Trade in-
creased, and are they not greatly increasing ?—ln
1842 the duties of the Board of Trade were as heavy
as in any other department of the liovernment.
Is it your opinion that the duties of the Board of
Trade are as heavy as those of any other depart-
ments ?—I think they are. The President of the
Board of Trade has always taken a prominent part
in public business. When the recent changes in our
commercial policy were in progress, there was no
office that was of greater importance than the office
of President to the Board of Trade. .

But now, after the extensive fiscal changes which
have been made within the last eight years,
is it not
probable that the cases coming from the ports, and
from the departments of the trade generally to the
Board of Trade, will be very much fewer than they
were in former years do not know what may
have taken place since 1846; but up to 1b46, the
period when I left office, I think it would have been
a very great misfortune to interfere in the slightest
degree with the efficiency of the Board of Trade ; I
think the Treasury derives the greatest assistance
from the Board of Trade. Their respective duties
were not very well defined, but there was complete
harmony between the two departments, and the
Treasury could not have efficiently performed the
duties performed by the Board of Trade.
The question referred to this, whether the changes
made in the last eight years in our fiscal system must
not have necessarily diminished to that exteet the
cases coming up requiring attention from the Board
of Trade F—l do not know what may have taken
place since 1846 ; it is possible that there may have
been a reduction in the duties of the office since that
time; I know that there has been a railway depart-
ment recently constituted, but upon the a hole I
should think that the business of the Board of Trade
has gone on increasing, like all other business.
Do you think there is any important reason against
uniting the two offices of President and Vice-Presi-
dent in one person, beyond the desirableness of having
a representative of the Board in each House of Par-
liament F—l can only
speak from my own experience.
There was a time when the railway business was
very heavy ; I have seen Lord Dalhousie go through
more labour in the course of a week, and for a suc-
cession of weeks, than I ever before witnessed. I
have been afraid that his health would break down
assistance of the Vice-President of the
uwnidtheorutthetsheeverity of that labour. lam sure that
Board of Trade it would have bean utterly impossible,
during the period I speak of, that the business could
have been got through.
That business was railway business?—The rail-
way business added so much to the pressure of the
other business.

Now that the railway business is very much gone
house e
dsaenaa
and the
gteanxeersalluypohnaveimnepeonrtasn, and our
muchour C Custom
is there, in your opinion, any necessity for two
offices of President and Vice-President, beyond the
desirableness of having the board represented in both
Houses of Parliament?—l cannot speak with thesame
confidence with respect to the general business of the
department since I left office, with which I can speak
of it up to the time when I left it; I think upon that
point the Committee will be able to obtain much
better information than any that I can give. My
general impression is, that the business of the Board
of Trade requires the personal intervention of an
officer in the House of Lords and of one in the House
of Commons ; and that it would be a public inconve-
nience if there were a reduction in the Board of Trade.
Should not you consider that the changes which
have been made of late years must have had the effect
of increasing the references to the Board of Trade
from the consuls abroad and from the Foreign-office
with respect to our communications with other
powers ?—Still such references would not be of equal
importance with the consideration of legislative
measures. While those measures were in progress
the business was, perhaps, more important than it
now is ; my impression is, that there is business
amply sufficient to occupy the time of two members
of the Board of Trade filling the offices of President
and Vice-President. I do not advise an increase of
their salaries, or an increase of any salaries, but I
have a strong impression that the number of persons
employed and the amount of their emoluments,
speaking with reference solely to the interests of the
public service, do not admit of reduction.
With regard to the office of Master of the Mint, in
oualnddbseydseterived from
a man devoting his attention to the reform of them of the
which there has been no particular change since the
time you were first Minister, is it your opinion that
there are any definite duties affixed to that office ?
My impression is, that there is required a complete
Mint,rep
viel
ando that
f the
whole
great
advantage
regulationsw
Mint, rr any of the wages of which are obsolete ; su
posing. tleit.'dorm to take piece,
not know thap
:
there i 3 business enough at the Mint to Occupy the'
whole time of a public o fficer ; but I regard thellle
tership of the Mint in the same light as thei s-
Seal. I think it a great
advantage to the Governmentry

a great advantage to the public service, that there
should be a limited number of persons not over-
whelmed with the proper official duties of their own
department, able to assist the Gwernment in the
House of Commons and in the House of Lords in
conducting the public business.
Have you observed that the noblemen and gentle-
men generally appointed to those offices of great dig-
nity and little or no labour, such as the Lord Privy
Seal and the Mastership of the Mint, have been pre-
cisesly those to whom the Prime Minister would re-
fer those important questions to which you have al-
luded, and whom he would consult upon those mat-
ters ?—I recollect persons filling the office of Master
of the Mint very capable of rendering most valuable
assistance; I think the efficient discharge of the
whole functions of government requires the present
number of offices; and there is an advantage, inde-
pendently of that, in having different shades of poli-
tical opinioa represented in the Cabinet.
The office of Master of the Mint is not always,
perhaps not generally, a Cabinet office ?—No ; I was
speaking more particularly of the Privy Seal and the
President of the Council; I think there is an advan-
tage in having a Cabinet composed of a certain num-
ber of persons who represent the different shades of
opinion there may be among members of the same
great party ; I do not, however, defend the mainte-
nance of these offices upon that ground ; I take
another and a stronger ground, that the proper dis-
patch of public business requires that the present
number of Parliamentary offices should not be re-
duced.
Are not some of these offices maintained rather
with a view to reward men of party, or to satisfy the
claims of particular sections of parties, than with any
reference to the public duties which appertain to the
offices themselves ?—lf you are to maintain the sys-
tem of Parliamentary government, I am not prepared
to say, that if that be one of the purposes to which
these offices are applied, it is not a legitimate applica-
tion of them. In this country you govern by means
of party combination, and you must govern by means '
lof it according to the present Parliamentary consti-
tution. It is therefore necessary that Members of
Parliament of great eminence should be connected
with Government by the tenure of office. But, as I said
before, Ido not rely upon that ground ; I think there
is more than sufficient labour, in the whole, to occupy
all the persons who are now employed in the public ser-
vice ; and that the division of that labour among some
whose time is occupied for twelve or fourteen hours a
day in the proper business of their offices, and among
others whose time is not so occupied, and who have,
therefore, leisure to consider matters not properly
pertaining to their own departments, is not an incon-
venient or unwise arrangement. It is upon that
ground that I defend the maintenance of such an
office as the Privy Seal and the Mastership of the
Mint; not asserting that the special duties of those
offices are sufficient to occupy the whole time of the
holders of them, but thinking that they may be most
usefully occupied with other matters connected v. ith
the public service.
Agovving that there is a fair reason for maintain-
ing those offices, and allowing, also, that the dignity
and station which the office gives is to be taken as
part of the compensation to the holders of the office
along with the pecuniary emoluments, would it not
be possible that those offices, which are more honorary
then laborious, should be paid by salaries rather more
nominal than real, and if you give large salaries of
5,0001. a year to the Home Secretary, and 2,0001
a year to the President of the Bird of Trade,
who have important duties to perform, would not
it be fair to say, that the Mastership of the
Mint and the Privy Seal, being held by gentle-
men to whom no sp-cific labour is apportioned,
they should be content, to a great extent, with the
honour attached to those offices, and that their sala-
ries should be small ?—lf it be true, as was stated by
Lord Durham, and I believe it was strictly true, that
although the duties of the Privy Seal in themselves
are not very arduous and laborious, yet still that re-
ferences were made to him upon general business
which occupied him sometimes six or seven hours a
day, then I think the Lord Privy seal is performing
public service when he is so occupied ; and that
2,0001. a year is not more than a suitable remunera-
tion for that labour. He takes the salary because he
has labour to perform, not labour connected with his
immediate office, but labour of much more import-
ance. He is capable of rendering great service, by
relieving those who are overburdened by official duty.
A good deal has been said regarding the expense
to which a Cabinet Minister is subjected, owing to
his high position. Taking that class of men from
which Cabinet Ministers are usually selected, men,
if not of ample, of fair fortune, is there any very
great increase to their ordinary expenditure incidental
to their becoming Cabinent Ministers P—l have be-
fore observed that a man with twelve or fifteen thou-
sand a year of his own, has probably no necessity for
any great increase in his establishment on appoint-
ment to office.

were free ?—Yes; an account is kept of the amount
of postage at each office.

But the writers of the letters paid no postage at
all ?—They did not. Many persons are not aware
that the offices still take in letters if the postage be
not paid; many of those who write to Ministers pay
the postage without necessity, not being aware that
they are under no obligation to pay the postage.
Has not the number of registered letters in the offices
very much increased ?—Very much. Oa looking at
the report of the Committee on miscellaneous expen-
diture, I find that Mr. Parker estimated that the
number of registered letters in the year 1800 in the
Treasury was near 5,000, and in the year 1819 it
was near 30,000. Now, admitting that in 1849 a class
of letters whs registered that probably would not
have been registered in 1800, and that, therefore, the
increase of business is not so great as those figures
would indicate, that it is not six-cold, still it must
have increased in a very great degree.

THE SIVINSCOE MURDER.

COMMITTAL OF CHADWICK'S WIFE AND

HER MOTHER.

STAFFORD, FRIDAT.—It will probably be in the
recollection of our readers that at the late Stafford
Assizes sentence of death was passed upon William
Chadwick for the murder of his uncle, Samuel Tuni.
cliffe, by administering poison to him, but which
sentence has not been carried into effect, in conse-
quence of strong representations having been made
to the Learned Judge, Mr. Justice Williams, before
whom the trial took place, and also to the Secretary
of State, that other parties were equally guilty with
Chadwick in the perpetration of the dreadful crime,
the result of which was that he received a respite
during her Majesty's pleasure.
The facts relating to the murder are briefly these :
For several years previously to last Christmas an old
man, named Samuel Tunicliffe, had resided upou a
little property belonging to himself, situated at But-
terton, near Leek, in Staffordshire. In the latter
part of that year Chadwick and his wife visited him
several times, and importuned him to leave his pro-
perty and reside with them at Swinscoe, where
they had just removed from the Potteries. The im
portunities of Chadwick and his wife ultimately
proved effectual, and the old man went to live with
them, being then, although seventy years of age, in
apparently good health. Shortly after he had been
there he complained of illness, and was violently
purged, and after the lapse of a month from his re-
moval to Swinscoe he died. In consequence of the
anxiety of the parties to claim the deceased's property,
and from other circumstances, suspicions wore excited
and the body was exhumed, when large quantities of
arsenic were foUnd in the stomach and intestines.
Chadwick, his wife, and her mother were subsequently
arrested, but from some cause or other the two latter
were discharged, and Chadwick himself was commit-
ted to gaol. In consequence of statements made by
him, and also from corroborative circumstances,
Chadwick's wife and her mother, Ann Tunicliffe,
were again apprehended, and on Thursday last, after
the examination of several witnesses at the county
prison at Stafford, before the Hon. and Rev. A. C.
Talbot and Mr. E. Knight, both prisoners were fully
committed to take their trial at the next ass.aes upon
the capital charge.
From the evidence taken at the examination,
it appears that in the latter end of January the
prisoner Ann Chadwick went to a druggist's shop
at Ashbourne, and asked for two-pennyworth of
croton oil, when the assistant gave sixty drops only,
mixed in linseed oil. The prisoner stated at the time
that it was for cattle ; but this was subsequently
proved to be false, as Chadwick never had any cattle
in his possession. On the morning of the old man's
death a neighbour was called in by Chadwick to wit-
ness the signing of a deed of gift by the deceased, at
which time both the prisoners were supporting the
deceased in a chair ; but he expired without signing
the deed. When Chadwick found the old man was
dead he appeared very angry, and said, "I knew what
would be up when that d—d old bitch came from the
Potteries ;" and then, addressing the prisoner, Ann
Chadwick, said, " ll—n you, you are as bad as her;
you know what we have done !" On the morning of
the 25th of February, the day appointed fur the in-
quest, both the prisoners arrived very early at the house
of Claadwiclee father, who also resided at Swinscoe, and
waited until Mr. Chadwick came down stairs. On
seeing him, the prisoner Tunicliffe said, they had been
walking nearly all night from the Potteries to get to
the inquest, and that he must go there also ; and
then, turning to the other prisoner, continued, " He
must say ,that he had been boiling wheat in water
with arsenic, for the purpose of poisoning crows;
that he had then set it on the slop-stone to cool, and
probably the old man might have come in and eat of
it, as he was a greedy old fellow." A few minutes
after this had been said a daughter of Mr. Chadwick's
came down stairs, when the prisoner Tunieliffe said
to her, " We have burnt the deed ; we have burnt it
under the teakettle," pointing to the kitchen Sre.
The prisoner Ann Chadwick said, "Yes, we have."
Upon being asked why they had done so, the prisoner
Tunicliffe replied, " The last thing my husband said
was, that we must burn it, fur it might bring both
families into trouble." (in being further questioned
as to whether they had forged the name of the de-
ceased, they returned no answer. The prisoner
Tunicliffe then said she should go to the Waterhousee,
and ask Mr. Hall to go to the inquest and say he had
attended the old man while he was ill, observing that
it would be a good deal in their favour. In the
course of conversation with a man named Roberts,
that person said to both the prisoners, " The old man
was poisoeel, it is well known, and some of you have
done it ;" to which the prisoner Ann Chadwick said,
"I know nothing of it," but 'Tunicliffe was not heard
to reply. It was also proved that at the inquest the
convict Chadwick said to his wife, " You know you
are the guiltiest party," to which she replied, " Hush,
man ; you do not know what you are saying.; you
are mad."
William Tunicliffe, a youth, and son of the priso-
ner, proved that his mother had desired him to fetch
some deeds from a drawer in an upstairs room after
her return from Swinscoe, because his father would
not let them remain in the house, and which deeds he
subsequently delivered to Mr. Hatton, the chief-con-
stable, by whom they were produced, and proved to
be deeds which had been taken from the house of the
deceased at Butterton before his removal.
O.her corroborative evidence was given, and medi-
cal testimony adduced to prove that the deceased had
died from the effects of poison.

Take a person like the late Lord Sydenbam, Mr.
Poulett Thomson, a man of moderate fortune, was he
necessarily subjected to any considerable expense
beyond his former expenditure, by being made a Ca-
binet Minister, and President of the Board of Trade?
—lf he had not more than 2,0001. a year, I should
say that the emolument which Mr. Poulett Thomson
received from office was not sufficient to defray the
additional expenses to which he was subject, whatever
was his private fortune.

You
think that a Cabinet Minister in general
would incur an additional expenditure of 2 0001. a
year in consequence of his being placed in that posi-
tion ?—lf he were Prime Minister, or Secretary of
State, it would be much more than that. I do not
think that 5,0001. a year is more than sufficient as a
salary of one of those great offices ; but., as I said be-
fore, to a man of 15,0001. or 20,0001. a year, it- is a
matter of comparative indifference to him whether
you give him a salary cf 3,0001. a year or 5,0001.
He has of his own means to sr*tthe expense of
office. But in the case of such men. :as I have named,
the two Wm. Pitts, or Mr. Fox, or at: Canning, or Mr.
Burk,,,, or Mr. lluskisson, if they beeCime Secretaries of
State, an official salary less than that which is now
appropriated to those offices would not suffice. They
have no adequate establishment of servants, of car-
riages, of horses ; they must have some provision of
that kind. Then observe, after their habits of life
have been altered, and their new establishment
formed, a change of government may suddenly take
place, rendering useless the expenditure they have in-
curred. The precariousness of the tenure of these
offices must be taken into account. Mr. Fox, I be-
lieve, after labouring for 40 years in the public ser-
vice in Parliament, did not hold Cabinet office for
much more than eighteen months. During the two
periods when he was Secretary of State, in Lord
Rockingham's administration, and Secretary of State
with Lord Grenville, I do not apprehend that Mr.
Fox held office for a period of two years in the whole.
In each case he probably entered office without hav-
ing an adequate establishment, and had to provide
one. In the latter case, death prevented him from
holding office more than a few months, and at the
former period a change of Government took place.
Would not that rather lead to the conclusion, that
the amount of salary is, in point of fact, not the con-
sideration which induces men who possess talents for
public service to pursue official rank and station ?—I
am sure that it is not. Their views are much more
elevated. Such men as Lord Chatham, and Mr. Pitt,
and Mr. Fox, enter into public life from honourable
ambition, from the desire to render public service,
but I doubt whether it would be wise or just in the
state to turn round upon them on that account, and
say, " Since you are prompted by these high and ho-
nourable motives, we will cut down the salary, about
which you think nothing, and care nothing." It is
more wise to say, "We will allot to you a provision
sufficient to enable you to sustain the unavoidable ex-
penses of office ; we will give you no temptation or
excuse to abuse its patronage."
Are not the payments of our Cabinet Ministers
much higher than those of the Foreign Ministers ?—I
do not know what those Ministers receive ; I should
have thought not. There are probably many indirect
allowances made to Foreign Ministers. The Minister
of Russia, for instance, has I believe many of his ex-
penses borne by the State, besides the direct emolu-
ments of office which he receives.

You allude to the increased labour to which the
Ministers are subject at the present time, as compared
with the middle and end of the last century, but do
you not think that in all classes of the community
there is much more active and continuous labour in
all pursuits than there was at that time ?.—here ro-
bably is, but that activity reacts, I think,T uponp the
duties of the Minister. That tendency to increased
labour throughout all classes adds to the public busi-
ness. It would be important that the Committee
should ascertain the progressive increase of business
in each department, caused by a combination of many
circumstances. Probably the penny. post has had its
influence. There is a greater disposition to write to
Ministers, to send suggestions, and it is very usefu
that there should be that free voluntary communica-
tion upon all matters of public concern ; but it great y
increases the business of the public offices.
Sir Charles Wood said, that in his opinion an in-
crease of business had taken place in consequence of
the penny postage ; was it not the case that letters
received by the public offices before the penny postage

TOTAL LOSS of the INDIAN INDIAMAY

,
SHOCKING SUFFERINGS OF THE SURVIVORS.
It is with much regret we announce the shocking
loss of this fine Indiaman, 500 tons burden, on her
outward voyage from England for Bombay, on a reef
of rocks, named the Cargados Garayos or Narerett
Bank, with melancholy loss of human life. The an-
nexed narrative is from a gentleman who was a pas-
senger on board the ill-fated vessel :—" Nothing of
any note occurred until the night of the 4th of April
last, when, at eight o'clock, the captain informed us
that, if his reckoning was correct, we should either
be clear of, or very nearly upon, the Cargados reef.
Being rather taken aback at the cool way in which
he expressed himself, I ran forward to the forecastle,
followed by the captain and one of the passen-
gers. Twenty minutes had not elapsed before I
distinctly saw breakers ahead, which I immedi-
ately pointed out to the captain, who turned to one
of the seamen standing near him at the time (named
Peter Martin), and asked him if he thought they
were breakers He replied, yes they are—and the
same moment the look out man on the foreyard sang
We were then going six
knots,out,
wbirteha kt
he res ahead.
starboard'' tacks about two points, free
wind east, steering north. The captain ordered the
helm to be put up, and the ship fell off to the north-
west, and in far less time than it has taken me to
write she struck—at first slightly, then went on with
a fearful crash, starting ever timber in her, pieces of
mwroemckent all hopes to save
floating up all around
the
vessels
. were W e saw in a,
as she heeled over to seaward suddenly, the
mak-
ing a clear breach at
se
aanend
over her every roller. This was
the work of a few minutes only. Three parts of the
crew were by this time on their knees, crying, and
making the moat frantic appeals to heaven for aid.
All order and discipline were now at an end. The
carpenter and two seamen attempted to cut away the
masts, but owing, I suppose, to the excitement of the
moment, they cut away the weather rigging only ;
the masts of course went by the board, but being still
attached to the vessel by the lee rigging, and falling
over to seaward, they served as a battering-ram, beat-
ing the vessel to pieces every successive roller. After the
first burst of excitement was over, a simultaneous rush
was made for the boats, but we found the only one
that was available was the starboard quarter boat,
the other two had been stove to pieces by the wreck.
The captain was not slow in taking to our only ap-
parent chance of escape, the remaining boat, eight of
the seamen speedily following him ; and as he was
going over the side I reminded him that he ought to
be the last person to leave the vessel, instead of which
he was evidently desirous to be the first. They
shoved off, and pulled back once or twice near the
vessel, asking for water and bread, which of course it
was out of our power, and much more out of our in,