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CIVIL LIST 41JD PENSIONS.
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From the 'Quarterly Review.
The Civil List has beep not seldom the theme of ra-
dical rhetoric. Less innocent than the Scottish damsel who ex-
pected to find the second George walking in the gardens of Hamp-
ton Court with his Crown upon his head, the sons of sedition yet
affect to telieve that this round million does pass through the
pockets of his great grandson. our present Gracious Sovereign.
Now, the plain truth is this :—The English Civil, List was, by Mr.
Burke, distributed into right classes, and the first of. this. only,
the privy-purse, containing £60.000, was placed at the Kings
privaw disposal. Its remaining items stand as follow in the esti-
mate of 1816. the last period of its arrangement. 11. To the
Judges of the realm €514000. 111. To our Ministers abroad, and
to Consuls, 8226.000. IV. The fourth class consists of the bills
of his Majesty's tradesmen in the five great departments of
the Household, and stand. in the estimate at 8t09,000; .
in, rise fifth class. we have the olarice of the great takers, and
the wages of attendants and servants, stated at .8140 000. Now,
be it observed, that in these two latter clamps and iu the first con-
sists the whole envoi= which eau at all be considered as bearing
any personal reference to the Sovereign, If then the Royal in-
come be somewhat mote than 41400,000. its amount does not
perhaps exceed, in a duplicate ratio, the receipts of some opulent
subjects; and may be advantageously compared with the French
King's revenue, a Civil List of about one million sterling, free
from diplonsadc, from judicial, and, we believe, from ell other
extraneous charges.
lo viewing the whole amount it should not be forgotten, that
our late excellent King's regard for economy led hint, in the early
part of his reign, to approve a new arrangement of the Civil List
expenditure. by which he accepted of a fixed revenue in lieu of
those improved funds which had formerly been appropriated to the
Crown. On the revision of the Civil List in 1816, it appeared
that had George II L conducted the entire branch of expenditure
with those funds which bad been provided for his predecessors,
there would st,that period have remained to the Crown a total
surplus of £6,500,000, which sum the public bad gained by the
change of provision.
The next item on the general balance-sheet bears the suspicions
designation of pensions • but two-third tarts of the charge might
have been more properly termed a provision for the branches of
the Royal Family. The rest are pensions for the most part voted
by Parliament, nor need they shrink from inspection. It £248,000
were last year apportioned to thirteen members of our Blood
Royal, their average income will appear modest indeed, contrasted
with the splendid apanages of the Bourbon race; nor probably
'foes their aggregate import outweigh the domains of that French
Prince, part of whose honourable exile was passed in the school-
room of Zurich. The other names on this national list are marked
by public desert; many of thews are stars of Mt history, and when
merit shoots upwards from the bosom of the people, a moderate
tribute may well be appended to the hard won titles of Rodney,
Nelson, or Abercrombie.

SIR ELIAB HARVEY.
From the Chelmsford Chronicle.
The various reports which had been circulated in the
early part of this week, relative to the health of Sir Ebb Harvey,
one of the Representatives of this county, and the circumstance of
some of the London Journals asserting that the death of the Gal-
lant Admiral took place on Saturday last, induced us to despatch a
messenger to the seat of Sir Ellab, at Rolls, Chigwell, in order to
relieve the doubts and fears which prevailed, and put our readers
in po.session of the truth. It will be seen by the subjoined letter,
written by the Admiral himself, that our anticipations have been
realized, and In a manner which we doubt not wiU be hailed with
satisfaction by the county at large :
" Garrunten,—l have been unwell all the summer, but at this
hour am in better health than 1 have been for these two years past.
" IC. HARVEY, Rolls Park, Nue.
" To Messrs. bleggy and Chalk, Chehneford."
THE EARL OF MOIINTCASIIEL AND THE
LORD BISHOP OF FERNS.

COMMUNICATED TO TILE CORK CONSTITUTION.
We are authorised to make the following plain state-
ment of facts, with respect to the publication of the correspondence
between the Earl of Mountcasbel and the Bishop of Ferns, merely
premising, that it would have been laid before the public before,
but that it appeared, until lately, to be wholly unnecessary.
The Earl of Mountcashel having received the letter of the Bishop,
which commences the correspondence, wrote a shun note to request
his Lordship's permission to publish. To this communication the
following answer was received, dated October 8, that is to at,
four days before the date 'allied in the Newspapers to the Bishop's
second letter :

. " Palace, Fern, Oct.B.
" Mr Loao—Tbongh my letter was not written to meet the
public eye. yet I shall hasard criticisms on its faults of composition
rather than objeetto your Lerdsbip's proposal. But It will be sc.
knowledged as reasonable that I should en your Lordship'. answer
before a printer is employed.
" I regret that your Lordship's health should have bun later.
rupted by Illness. I !ace the !wooer to be,
" Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
" THOMAS FERNS." •
This note, dated the sib, arrived at Moore Park ou the 10th,
when Lord Moutcasisel immediately sent off his answer to the
Bishop's letter, in compliance with the desire of the Right Rev.
Prelate, and a week from the above date was suffered to elapse
previous to the Ant letters (namely. the Bishop's first and Lord
Moontcashel's answer,) • appearing in the columns of the Cork
newspapers.
With respect to the second letter received from the Lord
of Ferns, it is dated the 13th of October, and not the 12th. (B.=
latter date appears in the public papers,) and was pot put into the
Post Ogee until the 14th, as appears by the post mark. Both
these facts arc ascertained from the original manuscript new in the
bands of the Bart of Mouse:Jebel: The armed letter of the Bishop
cothequently did not arrive at Moore Park until October 16, at
about two o'clock, P.M.
The two first letters appeared in the Cerk Papers on the 17th
of October, for which purpose it was 'accessary that the manu•
scripts should be in the possession of the editors on the 16th, and
in fact they were at the respective of in Cork before two
o'clock on th t day, the period at which the seeped letter of the
Bishop arrived at Kilworth. Tbey were
.prepared for the press
on the and carried by his Loidship's Secretary on that
evening to Fermoy (as no coach passes in the vicinity of Moore
Park at a suillciently early hour,) from whence he started on the
morales of the 16th, for Cork. with the letters its his noleetautt-
Thus it appears, Ist. That the consent of the Bishop of Ferns
to publish was given. not In the second letter which appears in the
Papers, dated October 12, but in a totally distinct communication.
dated Oct. 6; and, !Idly, That the manuscripts of the two first
letters were out of the Earl of Monter...slurs pound" on the
day privioes to the receipt of the second letter. and were acted*
in possession of the Editoteof the _,Paper An Cork, before that
communication arrived at Moore Patk. . . •
If the wish of the Bishop that his two letters should. appose '
together was even. guessed at, it would have been wholly im-
possible. (coesidering the distance of Moore Park from Cork) that
a copy could have been prepared for the press, and seat foe insertion
in suackent time to admit of its being published with the other
letters on the morning -of the 17th. .But, fact, the Earl of
Mountcashel never for a moosent supposed hat such was the Pre•
Iste• desire, but imaceived.tbe second letter to be (whit In effect
it is), a distinct member of the cursespoadence. to.whic,h he might
reply at his leisure. and which was to be published together with
his answer u in the former instance ; and his intention so to do
was on the day after the letter was received, intimated in a private
letter to a friend, an extract from• which has already appeased; in
the public prints. .
which gave
It is muted that these papers circulation to the
insinuation of Lord MounteashePs having wished to suppress the
Mishap's second letter, iriligive Wanton to this plain statement
of facts in reply. •mmisig
REGE r 7"S PARK.

The fine ostrich presented lately by Lady Londonderry
to the Zoological Society baying, in the course of its rambles, ap-
proached too near the cage of one of the wild beasts, received a
severe wound in the neck by a bite from the latter. A great deal
of attention wu paid to the lard. not only on account of the noble
donor. but also for the sake of the nemcb itself, it being a remark-
ably beautiful bird, and a great favourite at the Gardens, eating
every flung which was presented to it. Notwrthstandiog du beet
surekal treatment, atter a tew does of disconsolate wanderings it
died. Agreeably to, the scientific character of the Society,. Mr.
Joshua nroultee, the anatomist, in the presence of Sty or slaty
winning gentlemen. three days gave what might le termed an cc-
troopers iseture. with a demonstration trir the anatomy of the
ostrich. kr. Brookes brought with him .various preparation, to
illustrate the several puts 9f the birds•ssneli as the kg-bone of a
nee-boseksaws stood's, the ostrich, as lowa ketwra to lot.ng
s.riuserhaltly Unlit bird; ii.preparatioo, of the ltu!sap kart, ke
. The details would wily be understood by profession' men. Toe
lecture afforded. much aatilfactlme. The ostrich is being prep.red
for a *skins. . .
Sundays evefiiing,just as the einhets.-Of New College,
Geoid, wive oreignidlog fir the Chapel for *Divine &nice, an the
.gos lights West Mo. turd the cengregatiw were left is total darkness.
'Theduiret could net be Immediately remedied, consequently no
:Aar* sal pLet .