The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-10 00:00:00

are so thickly sown, and where self-interest and
love of power, the universal passion, are ever
evolving them. We would, however, modify
what we cannot change—palliate what we can-
not cure. There are certain offices, which in a
parish are so onerous, that no election can sanction
their imposition. The office of constable, for
instance, ought to be taken in regular and
!ettled rotation. There are others to which,
though not so burdensome, the principle of annual
election may very properly apply.; but to offices
of difficulty and oftrust, which require men of talent
and integrity to fill them satisfactorily, that principle
quite inapplicable. What stimulus has the
man who holds the patent for his honours, as
well as his fortune, at the breath of the pari-
;thioners—who may be ousted at the end of a
twelvemonth, because he has advocated a cause,
which, under other circum-
or pursued a course,
stances, would have received their approbation ?
What stimulus has such a one to study their in-
terests ? We wish to be understood—we know
none of the candidates in any of the present pa-
rochial disputes further than their nam2s in our
columns. We put the case on general principles,
and on such principles, the man who studies any
interest but his own, is one of amillion, and those
who expect to find such a person in every parish,
are very simple-witted gentlemen. To make
men honest, we must make it their interest to
be so; t 9 make them zealous for the good of the
parish, we must give them a somewhat stronger
claim on office than the precarious lease of a
twelvemonth. We should like, therefore, to see
some tacit agreement, if not law, made, that un-

less on a charge satisfactorily brought home of
improper conduct, the officers of a parish, whose
bread is dependent on their office, and who
must be content to quit or neglect their accus-
tomed business to discharge its duties, should
not be removed but once in five or seven years.
We should wish this for two rea -os—in the
first place, it would tend to mak the officer
more attentive ; in the second place, if it
failed of that effect, it would e.ake his dis-
missal more, easily effected ; for. is notorious
that no men retain office more fixedly than those
who are elected every year—a fact, however,
which by no means invalidates our argument.
Much is said of dinners and petty entertainments,
:ind their extravagance will always afford a favou-
cite topic for declamation ; but to what do all
those petty items amount compared with the ex-
penditure of an ordinary parish ? And from
what do they arise but from that absurd practice
of attempting to save money by making men
work for nothing, without reflecting that the
neglect of an officiary, which no law can reach,
will ever cost his employers ten times more than
his salary would. Let the parishioners but look
to the complaints every where made of the slo-
venly mode in which the important duty of au-
diting the accounts of parishes is gone about.—
Do they not see that by that slovenliness more
nay be lost in an hour than half-a-dozen of din-
ners would cost ? And do they imagine that
that laborious duty will ever be correctly done,
finless by one who is properly remunerated for
doing it ? The plain rule in all departments,
itom the highest in the kingdom to the lowest
M a parish is—pay every man adequately
for • his labour, and then the chances are
al in favour of its being adequately per-
formed ; pay him inadequately, or not at all, and
the chances are, that he pays himself more than
adequately, or, failing in that, he leaves his task
undone. If in private life we should have our
till undisturbed by our clerk, we must so reward
his honesty as -to make it worth keeping; and
in pubilf: life, if we would keep the fingers of our
functionaries' out of the treasure-chest, we must
so remunerate them as to make their honesty
worth keeping. Art attempt to get service with-
out paying for it is seldom successful, and when
it is, the service is still more seldom worth
having.—New Times.

We stated yesterday, on information which
admits of no doubt, that it had been seriously
debated for the last week in the Bank parlour,
whether the Directors should not mai'e an
immediate representation to Government of
the necessity of repealing the . Small Notes
Bill." Whether this important question be yet
;cttled amongst those high authorities we do
know, but that it is decided in the affirma-
tive by the general feeling of the country, we
have no hesitation in asserting. In every
,:luarter where industry exerts, end not only
maintains but advances itself, the • approach-
ing termination of the circulation of One
Pound Notes creates the most serious alarm.
In every district where manufactures re-
vive—in every town where trade flourishes—
the same apprehensions are entertained, and
the completion of the measure is justly con-
sidered as calculated to arrest every improvement
n progress, if not to destroy every existing prc-
perity. Under these circumstanced what is to
he expected, but a call from all the interests put
in jeopardy—a call upon the good sense as well ,
as the justice of the Government, and one too
well founded, and if once begun, too general,
not to be heard and obeyed? That such a call
will take 'Alice, in sufficient time to prevent the
apprehended evil, is a matter of certainty. We
therefore put it to the author of the Bill, whe-
ther it would not be wise and politic to antici-
pate the public wish, and to repeal at once a
measure which fills the whole country with
aiorro, and which, if persisted in, can never re-
dent) the serious injury which it may do by any
real advantage.—/bid.
In Lot,-1 Grenville's Remarks on the Sinking
Fund, his Lordship, in his usual impressive man-
ner, observes, c, Much has been auspiciously
begun, much is at; this hour in progress, and
much more yet remains to be accomplished for
the cultivation and improvement of those na-
tional interests which now lie before us in actual
operation, or in immediate prospect ; for the
civil and religious freedom of all the members
,ef the community ; for their
"Union, and firm faith, and firm accord,"
for .securing to them justice, not impartial only,
but cheap, and fapeedy and effective—a blessing
above all estimate ; a d for carrying to its utmost
possible extent, the unustricted liberty of their
industry and commerce. it is by the undevia-
ting pursuit of this liberaland enlightened policy,
advancing m
always with the advancing sciee of
our country, that the surest of all foundations will
'
be laid, not only for her present bappLless, but also
for her future prosperity and glory.”
When
shall we have this " blessing above all estimate,
justice, not impartial only, but, cheap, and
speedy, and effective ?" We rejoice to hear this
language from a Statesman of Lord Grenville's
high character ; we are delighted to hear it stated
that justice cheap, speedy and effectual, is so
great a blessing, because what is wanted in this
coptry, is a conviction on the part of those who
!lave the power, that no object ought to be put
in competition with the securing this blessing to
the people. But a generation of legislators
;nu-:t he educated to a knowledge of what is