The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-03 00:00:00

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Eiberpool gytiutharti.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1436•

The wind is evidently- not in the right quartet at his
Home Office. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has pustP°nd
promised exposition of the intentions of his 1110Je5.10,
ministers with respect to the Irish Municipal hill fr,°o
yesterday to Thursday next. "Justice to Ireland,'
at,
accordingly in a state of suspense, and the beggar
his mess quietly. What is to be done, of course' lb
cannot even conjecture. He says he will persevere /110
his motion to reform the lords, but the fact that he '9lrd
so is rather against the fulfilment of • his threat. I'll,
JOHN has declared that lie will vote against the TO,lcre,
having, perhaps, no choice between voting for it situ
tiring from office. Lord MELBOURNE has returned
London, and has been present at a Cabinet Council I)feeci
in his private house; but as he has not vet exhibl'
himself in parliament, or at the public offices, we l,ro,
sume he is still indisposed.

If any honest radical would but take the trouble t°
amine and sum up the enormous and unnecessollip
penses heaped upon the country by the reformers°
the last few years, he would, we are sure, exclaim
Otway's hero in Venice Preserved—"l am a villatlD.6
Yes, a villain, to be a supporter and abettor of men "re,
in the name of liberty and economy waste the publico,
sources upon quacks, needy adherents, and useless
litical adventurers.
°
If, however, the modesty of the said radical ivill 1- op
permit him to apply so strong a term to himself, let
cbo
read what we are about to lay before him, and decide
more richly deserves it.
In a committee of supply on the miscellaneoe9 es.
imates on Monday last, we find the following sual9c°te4
for the following persons and purposes.
I.—Expenses of the Commissioners of Inquiry into
Municipal Corporations in England, Scotland 0
and Ireland
2.—Expenses of Commission for digesting the Sta-
tutes of Criminal Law
3.—Expenses of Commissioners of Inquiry into Coun-
ty Rates
4.—Expenses of Commissioners Of Inquiry into Cha-
rities in England and Wales.
s.—Expenses of Commission of Inquiry into Religious
Instruction in Ireland
B.—Expenses of Inquiry into Religious Worship and
Instruction in Scotland
7.—Expenses of the Commissioners of Poor Laws in
England and Wales....
B.—To Inspectors of Factories
9.—To Inspectors of Prisons.

5,100 0
°
00

75$ 0C

30,0°° Op

36,800 0 °'

10,090 0 (?

o °
49,00 0 0
5,500 0
x272:./33 °
o
Here then is a pretty sop to begin with— to
no less se
"""---- 'AND SEVENTY THOOP
POUNDS spent in jobbery—upon persons %%ll° eo,
have been much better employed in watering the sire 'he
or in picking potatoes in the various workhouses rnht 5
kingdom. The everlasting inquiry into charities "hao
already cost several hundred thousand pounds, and
good have the commissioners done ? That into relieejd
worship in Scotland is as vile a job as ever was sebeaisl
by man. The people of Scotland wanted addit4"no
churches, but instead of churches Lord JOHN 11115°,,e,
sent them hungry commissioners, lawyers of c°u'ore
upon whom and their nonsensical proceedings foe
money has already been thrown away than would ", pod,
built a considerable number of the churches reriti'r $
The inquiry into religious instruction in Ireland 168$
similar imposition upon the public, solely for the PurP.o4
of excluding the bible from the schools and advalic'.oo
the designs of popery. Then there is the sumxsrs
),8
to the Inspectors of Factories—t 9 useless men, Ix'to
services are not worth five thousand straws. 13`It for
dear commissioners of Poor Laws, they come in
re
an immense slice of this job money. Who they
fate
dr what they do for the benefit of the poor, °I. All
reduction of the rates, we defy any man to tell. f r
that we hear about them has invariably some rell
ence to parish discords, where their interference 4 i(koe
mischievous. We consider the money spent upon ta
men to be unpardonable extravagance.
0
So much for commissioners—the very word is °-410
to
—and whig lawyers! Now let us dig out a few 19:1,
items expended more secretly upon another class of cvg
morants. We find in the same estimates the I.oll°*cbilio
sums voted to what is called the fes fund of the ri
offices, viz.:—

°
. . £42.300
0 0
• 11,270
2 0 0
• 14,3 0
12, 0 0
0 0
•• • •
• 20,08/11
0 -
1:10(292
There goes another HUNDRED THOUSAND potirl-n 5 vijo
to lawyers, but who they are, or what they do, 13E611heso
himself alone can tell! But this is not all. or
offices swallow up other sums in an extraordinary

-To the Treasury FEE FUND
-Home Department do
.Foreign Department do
-Colonial Department do
-Board of Trade do

ner. For instance:— 0 0
I.—Treasury Contingent Expenses £ 6.°°°n o
0 0 $
2.—Home Office ditto N
5,4
3.—Foreign Office ditto 3lO 0 $
4.—Colonial ditto - 619 $
°/
~....._: 5..3...-Board of Trade ditto 5,- 0

---- 0
oti
Here goes another half-hundred thousand pouoo6'.l,al
yet none of this embraces the salaries of the Prietciribst
officers or clerks, or the secret service money! if it.
a dashing time these Whigs and radicals must have °ted
The curious part of it is that these supplies were v
ked
almost without a question. Had half the sum been eek..
for by a tory government there would have been a vie
incessant badgering on the subject.

The burgesses are indebted to Mr HENRY !Ike(
for a glance, behind the scenes, at the "small rr,tsta the
committed by our immaculate town councillors. 'notic
proceedings of Wednesday the DEPUTY Towil"ctrl' the
reported "that a :urn of £250 had been voted toilaid.
expense of witnesses on the bills at present heft° r
liament."
It appeared very odd that more than one sun" 6 eio°
be voted at the same time for one purposes there 19,,
sod
another grant of £550 for "witnesses in Lood°n' e thB
£5OO for a "deputation sent to London." Of c°°,.fasor
public could know little or nothing of these ar'tio
ments and these liberal allowances of money for Pat dorio 0
objects. All that the public has to do is to table
rag.
thel cash and be silent. Good men cannot (1° cop'
v
ise men know best what is for the benefit of their
Nods of
stituents, and, therefore, when they expend tiie eti
the corporation we have no right to dispute the" °y t
we
or propriety of the appropriation. That is

call liberality. the tir
Mr. HENRY LAWRENCE, however, did not like oi§
ture of a -transaction in which money paid to, I
iWtiglf
ora
entered as having been paid to PAUL. He acc
inquired into the subject, inspoeted the TRE-661/1100
books, and there he found that the .C2so,saa to be rpre
for "expense of witnesses nn flu, prefe°