The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT Or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

An incident which we some time ago stated to be pro-
bable, has now actually occured : Mr. Calcraft has been
appointed Paymaster-General of the Forces in the place of
Mr. V. Fitzgerald (now a Cabinet Minister, and President
of the Board of Trade), and has in consequence taken the
oaths as a Privy Councillor. This looks Whiggish enough,
or rather liberal enough, beyond all doubt; and certainly
tends to prove—first, that there was great rashness on the
part of Mr. Iluskisson in broadly tendering his resigna•.
Lion; and next, that as such a❑ event could not be ex-
pected, so likewise was it not wished or desired by the
Duke of Wellington, though we ourselves, we will
frankly own, leaned to a different opinion at first. It
was said of William 111., after he had ascended the
throne of this country, that he availed himself of the ser-
vices of Whig and Tory indiscriminately, as they seemed to
favour the peculiar objects of his policy at different eras
of his reign. The Duke of Wellington seems to club the
two indiscriminately at the same time, being determined,
we presume, to maintain the command and direction of
their powers and faculties, without regard to the party
feelings of which each may be possessed. Mr. Vesey Fitz-
gerald may be considered as a liberal, being a strong advo-
cate for emancipation ; sad Mr. Calcraft has always been,
and still remains a Whig. We suspect he will not be the
last of the party who will accept of office under or with
the Duke.— Times.

There eeems to be. brewing up an attack upon the Pre-
rogati.:e Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Doc-
tot's' Commons. We have had a letter or two on the sub-
ject of the Deputy Registrars in that Court; and the whole
system is denounced, in remonstrance after remonstrance,
by Dr. Highmore. This learned gentleman—and learned
he is from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head—
has a wild, rambling semi-crazy way of writing in words
of his own fabrication, very much like Jeremy Bentham;
hut still we can understand that he pounces upon many
abuses and absurdities in the practice of the Court. A
quotation from these works would not give a favourable
idea of the writer's sagacity ; but, to take one single fact,
if it cost the late Bishop of Lincoln 5001. in Proctors' fees,
to attempt the removal of a profligate incumbent from
his diocess, which incumbent, we believe, still officiates in
the sanctuary : this, we say, is a scandalous abuse, How-
, ever, the stone is moved and beginning to roll ; no one
knows where it will stop, or what rotten buildings it will
knock down in its course.—lbid.
We lately called the attention of our readers to a vote
by which the House of Commons declared, that a certain
number of individuals in the parish of Mary-la-bonne, re-
sponsible only to themselves, might tax, ad libitum, the
property of every inhabitant in that populous parish, ex-
pend the money so raised in any manner which might seem
agreeable to them, and contract debt to any amount in ad-
dition. Last night, the 'louse came to a vote with re-
spect to the continuance of a sinecure, which we shall
take special care not to characterise as it deserves to be
characterised. We allude to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury's Bill, of which the third reading was carried, by a
:ajtranspired in the course of the debate, bear out the follow-
gostatement of a Correspondent:—" His Grace, the
Majority of 83 to 49. The facts of the case, as they
present Archbishop, wishes, by means of this private Bill,
to !secure to his son an appointment, which in the regular
successor. The appointment in question is the office of
way would, in all human probability, be in the gift of his
Registrar to the Will or Prerogative Office at Doctors'
Commons, at present filled by the two surviving pa-
tentees of the late Archbishop, upon the death of which
gentlemen a vacancy will take place, to be filled by the
Archbishop filling the See at the time. The office is a
complete sinecure, in the fullest sense of the word. The
duties, requiring nice discretion and great experience,
;.re performed at present by three Deputy Registrars, pro-
fessional gentlemen, who, by moderate fees and much la-
bour, justly earn the praise so unmeritedly bestowed by the
Attorney-General on their principals. The patronage of
the principals is considerable, arid among other good things
enables them to bestow four sinecure offices, called Clerk-

ships of the Seal, each worth not less than 1,0001. per
annum, the holders, exempt even from residence, appoint-
ing as deputies to offices of much difficulty and importance
clerks, not incompetent, but in a class of life too low for
the situations. The annual emoluments, besides the pa-
tronage, are estimated at thirteen thousand pounds a year,
arising from fees from executors and administrators. After
liberally increasing the allowance to the Deputies, who
must be gentlemen of diameter and responsibility, and who
ought to supersede the principals, 10,0001. a year might
still be at the disposal of the public ou the abolition of the
sinecure." As far as the Archbishop of Canterbury is
concerned, it is clear that all that he possesses is the chance
of the office falling in during his iectunbency.
.He may
die before the present Patentees) or he may stirviSe thee',
and in the latter case cone, as the present Patentees will
not resign, can lie derive any thing from the disposal of
the Registrarship? "In 1810 (said Mr. Hume) a Com-
mittee of the House was appointed to inquire into sinecure
offices. On the Report being manic, the House passed a
aeries of Resolutions for the reduction and abolition of all
offices of which the effective duty was entirely or principally
discharged by deputy ; and in the year following, Bills were
introduced to carry those Resolutions into effect. On the
18th of June, 1811, a second Report was made by the same
Committee, relative to the officethe Court of Admiralty,
and in the Ecclesiastical Courts. Iu that Report, it was
stated that the duty of the principal Registrars was done
entirely by deputy." Now, as was justly contended by
Mr. Ch'arles W. Wynn, " the proposal before the House
was utterly inconsistent with the principle of the Act
founded on the Report of the Committee on Sinecure
Offices. It would be impossible to regulate or diminish
the emoluments of the Registrarship, until this third life
expired." Here then we see the House of Commons
agreeing, by a large majority, to a vote directly at variance
with the rule laid down by. themselves, thereby declaring
in the face of the world that they regard no pledge, adhere
to no principle, and observe no law but that of inclination.
The eighty-three men who came to this vote might, with
equal justice, have voted to each of their number 20,000/.
a year out.of the public money. We can discover no one
justification of this act, which may not be equally alleged
in favour of that of a Calabrise brigand, who transfers the
property of the traveller to his own pecket, namely, that
it is safe, because he is above the law. There is really
and truly a lamentable want of moral principle in the
higher ranks of this country. We really are at a loss to
know what it is that these eighty-three men would consi-
der themselves bound to abstain front doing, so long as a
certain functionary (whose finishing hand is the only
guide in right and wrong to many people) happens to be
on their side. There are several good people iu this coun-
try, who have taken it into their heads that the Duke
of Wellington is about to favour the nation with a po-
litical millennium. Nuw, we would just ask Sir Francis
Burdett, who seems to have an extraordinary confi-
dence in his Grace's virtues, to bestow one moment's re-
flection on this act, by which the largest sinecure in the
couutry, with one exception, is disposed of under the Go-
vernment of this honest and disinterested Minister, in the
teeth of the pledges of Parliament, without one ground of
justification. Of what avail are the reconunendations of
Finance Committees, when we see see here that the report
of that last named has hardly been laid on the table, before
the Attorney-General unblushingly defends an act, giving
a fresh vested interest in a sinecure Of/ a princely amount?
All these appointments of Committees have obviously no
other object than to amuse the public. The Duke of Wel-
lington is neither better nor worse in this respect than any
other man who should fill his office ; and we only notice
his countenance of this glaring act of jobbing at the public
expense to point attention to the silliness of those declara-
tions which would teach men to expect impossibilities.—
The higher ranks of this country must be fed at the public
expence; and they will allow no man to be long at the
head of the Government who does not consider the object
of Administration to be, to extract the utmost that cam he
extracted from the public for their benefit. A few clerks or
labourers may now and then be dismissed ; but were he to
touch anything worthy of the acceptance of a nobleman,
he would soon discover his error. But, after this specimen
of Ministerial purity, he must be a very credulous man,
indeed, who can suppose that his Grace's influence with
the Aristocracy is ever likely to lie endangered by any ill-
timed scruples respecting the placing the public money at
their disposal.—Morning Chronicle.

We rejoice that there is at last a reasonable prospect
of the two Houses of Parliament agreeing on some measure
for an alteration in our abominable Game Laws. When
things come to the worst, there is an old proverb which
says they will mend ; and to This state these laws had, in
effect, arrived; for if any thing worse can be imagined
than the whole system has become in practice, we are
willing to wait till a greater consummation of evil can be
brought about. Bat we believe such a prospect to be im-
possible, and that these laws have produced the very acme
of evil, from which it is high time the subject rebounded
hack into a purer and less blighted atmosphere. - At the
same time we agree with Sir John Shelley, who, from a
warm and uncompromising opponent of any innovation in
these laws, has yielded to an overwhelming necessity, that,
for whatever the Landed Interest may lose upon the occa-
sion, they have only to thank that part of their own body
who have converted the manly sports of their ancestors
into a mere senseless scene of slaughter. It is the
bottu system which, by holding out increased facilities,
and larger supplies to the poacher, has rendered it, like
some species of smuggling, by far too extensive and
powerful for the law. And how is smuggling best de-
feated but by taking duties from, and opening trade in, the
commodities which are the objects of it ? Nor does it at
all follow, that we cam perceive, that permitting the sale
of game will at all diminish the amusement of the fair
sportsman. In fact, we all find that , there is already a
contraband trade in game, nearly, if not to the full, as
large as the allowed trade can become—a contraband trade,
by the bye, in which (with all due respect be it spoken)
some of the loudest declaimers against the sale of game are
pretty strongly suspected themselves to have partaken.
What becomes of the waggon-loads of game which are
slaughtered at the most celebrated battus? It is well
known that the visiters can get none, and that the home
table cannot consume one-tenth of it. The keeper and his
master, and some of those witnesses who were recently
examined before the Lords' Committee, but whose names
are not given, can tell, and would soon convince the most
sceptical, that the main reason with some of the loudest
declaimers against the sale of game is the apprehension
that it will break in upon the snug monopoly which they
themselves enjoy. We do not wish to see Country Gen-
tlemen deprived of their amusements; on the contrary,
we would wish to see every inducement increased that can
lead them to spend their time and fortunes upon their
estates, away from the vices and luicurice of the metropolis,
and it is because we believe that the proposed alteration in
the Game Laws will produce a great good, without any in-
convenience or disadvantage to this highly respectable class
of the community, that we have advocated it so warmly as
we have done.—Morning Herald.

Mr. Calcraft was yesterday appointed Paymaster of the
Forces in the room of the Bight lion. Vesey Fitzgerald,
and sworn in a Privy Councillor. A week or two ago it
was understood that this Right Hon. Gentleman had re-
fused all the offers which had been made to hint by the
Duke of Wellington; but though we reported the fact, we
always entertained strong doubts of its correctness. Mr.
Calcraft is a great stickler for promotion -471 the army, and
his principles are therefore not likely to clash with those of
the heads of the military Government of which he now
forms a part. We know not indeed where he could have
found himself so completely in his element as in the situa-
tion of Paymaster of the Forces. Mr. Croker has also
been swc,ro in a Privy Councillor; but does not change
his office ; and it is added, that Lord F. L. Gower is
to be the new Secretary for Ireland. We fear he will
scarcely be so acceptable to our brethren in the sister
island as the late Secretary; but it is something
neverthe-
less, to have a man in that important office whose sentiments
on the great question of Catholic Emancipation are not
opposed to those of the six and a half millions of people with
whose interests be is partially entrusted. The Stafford
family is said, in the Ministerial Journals, to have signified
its approbation of the Duke of Wellington's Government.._.
in other words, to have tendered its support. We were
aware that Mr. Huskisson's resignation was a matter which
gave great satisfaction in that quarter, though undonbtully
from no selfish motive; and we can therefore easily con-
ceive that those who regretted this step on ha part, would
he the first to sympathise with tke difficulties of the
Premier, and to aid him in bolstering up the incongruou.,
machine wbich he has constructed. We should scarcely
have expiicted, however, that Lord F. L. Gower would
have been the first to mike his bow to the Premier.—
.21forning Advertiser.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

SUNDAY, JUNE 15.—High water 56 min. past 12.
Wind S.S.E. to S.E. _ . _

CLEARED OUTWARM.—The Zephyr, Davies, for
Havre; Maria, Bobbins, for Newfoundland; Louise and
Julia, Schuman, for Elsineur ; Maria, Dordt, fur Elsineur ;
Macclesfield, Burton, for Brazils.; Colbaiz, Meyer, for
Dantzic; Bengal, Atkins, for Bombay ; John Taylor,
Atkinson, for Calcutta; Catherine Josephine, Mententiam,
for Antwerp; Lady of the Lake, Leitch, for Philadelphia ;
Concordia, Kraaft, for Elsineur ; Caledonia, Ord, for New
Brunswick.
The Woodman, Woofendak, Liverpool, for' St. John's,
N. 8., was spoken 25th May, in Ist. 43. lon.• 28.
The Strabo, from Antigua, for tilt- Clyde; struck on
Tory Islands, during a thick fog, and will be totally lost.
Telegraph-office, June 15.
Passed Holyhead yesterday, at p.m., outlool-bound,
No. 351, William Neilson; 157, Mauney ; 174, F39IY-4au,-*
Jenkins.
_ .

At 2. 30, p.m., No. 271, Algonquin•
The btig Douro, Nu. 135, inward-hound, is a(:;-roun:i
East Hoyle, near floylake.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

tATTERSALL'S, JuriE 16.
The betting tlia3 almost at a saiid still, and every body
waiting to know what hortmg run at Ascot. The
Gloucestershire Stakes seemed to ini.!,
.
the call, and the
betting was nearly confined to it. Miss Cm-e'en seems to have
crept above Alcaston, and is taken for choice. Little was
done on the St. Leger, but Velocipede appears gOl
11,g "t
of fashion, takers not being anxious, and betters m*4:ady
to I. All above that is booked. They closed :13
follow
SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 Soya. EACH, AT A1.5.,W1TC-31p1ITIOW.
Johanna Southcote volt was backed at ever; agtt time field,

and at 6 to 1 agst Zinganec.
t}ll'L G Luta: E:VrESAIIIKE sTaKE4s—CIIFLTENII.OI, JUNE 17.

3 to 1 on Miss Craven
3 to 1 agst Alcaston
5 to 1 agst Jocko •
Si. LEC;EIt.
4 to 1 agit Mr. Armitage's Velocipede (talian)
11 to 2 agst Colonel King's Bessy Bedlam
6 to I agst Hon. E. Petre's The Cvlonel
0 to 1 agst Mr. Marson's Murphy
25 to I agst Lord Milton's Ballad Singer
25 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Terror

GREAT WRESTLING MATCH, FOR 201. BE,
TWIXT JAMES CANN AND FRANCIS OLVER.
Yesterday afternoon the Cornwallers and the Deionian{
were on the qui vice to witness the trial of skill betwixt_
James Cann, brother to the Champion of Devon, aryfi
Francis Olver, a new man from Cornwall, the best of
two three fair back-falls, the latter of whom xv.l consi-
dered by his friends and countrymen as an out-and-outer,
and able to throw any man in the London ring.
The match took place at Mr. Rouse's new enclosure, at
the Eagle Tavern, City-road, which was crowded to ex-
cess. The men entered the ring as the clock struck five
—betting six and seven to !bur in favour of Cann.
Olver gave his hand to Cann in the mcst friendly way,
and they then grappled. Cann kicked severely, but the
returns were slight on the part of Olver, who chewed
fearlessness of punishment, anti was evidently the strungek:
man, he lifting Cann from the ground, and thtnwing
him heavily. Again they met, and again Caun saluted
his mother earth. A severe struggle followed this bout,
and mature kickings; in the 00Unte of which Cann obtained
a favourite lock, but was shook off by his antagonist
amidst loud cheers.—Cann made a similar attempt, but
was lifted from the ground and thrown heavily, amidst
cries of " foul! fair ! &G." The umpires uhimatcli.de-
cided " foul," and the men again grappled. After a long
time, in which the advantages were nearly equal, Cann
was thrown a tremendous fall, flat on his back, with his
antagonist flush on hint. Olver jumped up, but Cann was
unable to recover himself, and complained much of Lir
side.

A medical gentleman on the ground diroctly.examincd
hitn, and found a depre:,s;on of fracture of at least hne of
the short ribs, which of course stopped the match, and left
the prise in the hands of (Aver, who then offered to wrestle
any Devonshire man in London for 50/. Cann,t after
being bled, was removed in a coach, and noticing serious is
apprehended from the accident, he being considerably better
at twelve o'clock last night.