The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-31 00:00:00

INSOLVENCY IN TIIE CIVIL SERVICE.

The attention of our authorities appears to have
been at last called to the unsatisfactory condition of
the private affairs of too many of our public ser-
vants. - The last London Gazette contains a Treasury
minute, dated the 3Cth ult., relating to the bank-
ruptcy or insolvency of members of the civil service.
This minute lays down some rules for general
observance, premising that it is to be henceforth
understood that serious pecuniary embarrassment,
from whatever cause it arises, impairs the efficiency
of a public servant. Such embarrassment, if occa-
sioned by imprudence or by other reprehensible cause,
willbe held to be an offence as affecting therespectabilit y
of the service and the trustworthiness of the individual.
Any person so offending will forfeit his claim to pro-
motion or increase of salary from length of service,
and he shall not regain it until he shall have relieved
himself from the discredit of such a position. Aggra-
vated cases will be more severely dealt with, and the
mere fact of becoming a party to accommodation
bills under any plea whatever will subject a civil
servant to the disadvantages mentioned above. In
the event of any civil servant being arrested, or being
adj ated a bankrupt, or entering into a
eel, • • ;lion with his creditorS, he will be
sus ',A from duty and salary, and
,not reinstated
until a careful exanunation has taken place of the
facts of the case, and it has been shewn that his
difficulties have been occasioned by unavoidable mis-
fortune, and not by extravagance or culpable miscon-
duct: Any person who does not inform the head of
his department immediately he is arrested or finds
himself in danger of becoming a bankrupt, will, so
soon as the fact becomes known, be removed from
the service without prospect of reinstatement

EMIGRATION IN THE METROPOLIS

The question of emigration has been taken up
very strongly in the district of St. Paul's, Clerken-
well. A sort -of reading-room or library has been
established there, and a discussion-class formed, con-
sisting of a dozen working men. They hit upon.
oXmigration" as one of their topics, and the incum-
bent; the Rev. A. Herring, was requcsted to furl=
them *ith full information on the subject. The
result of the., inquiries was that a " unanimous vote
was passed in'favour of. emigration to Canada." A
man who *as engaged in the clock and watch trade
made an experimental trip to Canada, and his success
was so great that he is now saving money to
fetch out his family. An emigration fund has
been forme& by the people of St. Paul's, and the
plan of operation is very simple.- A-bhick of land is
• to be obtained in Can: da, and a regular settlmel t
formed, to be called " New Clerkenwell2! This land
is to be divided into allotments, and those persons
wishing to emigrate are to subscribe to the fund on a
certain scale. the basis of this scheme 284 persons
are now paying in their subscriptions. These repre-
sent as many" as eighty-nine
.trades,, a fact which
sheWs how great the distress has 'been among -the
working classes, and how general is the feeling in
favour of emigration. The majority of • the sub-
scribers are heads of families, so-that •the number of
individuals concerned in the movement cannot well be
less than a thousand. • •