Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-09

"The Minister OF Finance making sweeping changes
in his department Many of the suboials in the provinces
were under pecuation The Government has paid
of 500, 900 dhs in bill M. Eynard and the
remaining $4,000 drhs in ready money from the Treasury to
Sir E. Lyons that the half yearly interest due to England
on the 9th OF March is paid up"
Catching defaulters and paying up the interest on
their foreign debit Why, these Greeks must be
breaking loose from Locofocosm quite fast: Athens
herself must be recovering from her old democratic
pendants. If she were not her Secretary of the
Treasury would, on ascertanng any such little
apsus among the faithful, at have written to the
District Attorney to retain the ofender the ground
that he was an excellent Democrat; that every body
whom they could appoint (aote they could appoint
none but men OF the true Jackson and Jeffersonan
grit would help himself out of the public soup,
like this worthy Republican and that. since this
person had already swallowed his skinful, both the
public interests and the party morals enjoined on
the Government that he should retain his Office a
new man would be voraciously hungry for the pub
lie plumber, and would gobbe up the .spos great
deal faster than one could do who was already
satiate, surfeited, and crop-full.
| To come back to London the creation of new
peers (and Alexandria bridge, by the by, very
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a new Ministry, procures us little historical note
about one of the titles, which has interest. Few
names are more memorable, in those great annals
of British freedom which make one of the noblest
pages of history, than the name of Strafford-that
far ablest, subtest, most resoue and dangerous of
all the Ministers who ever lent their help to the
Stuarts or others, towards pulling down the public
freedom:
"NEw PEERs.-It is stated that General Lord STAFFORD
is to be raised to the Eaom and that Lords Acheson and
Cremorne and Sir X Buckley Philips Ba will be crea-
ted Peers of the realm. Leutenanenera Sir John Mac
donald, Lord Ftzroy Somerset and Sir Colin Hake are
receive the Grand Cross of the Bath With refer
to the foregoing, the Globe adds The revival of the
Eadom of sraord by the elevation of General Lord
ford TO that ne revival which takes place for the third
time The first occurred in the reign Of Charles the Second
who restored the title to the of the great Earl of Saor
sacrificed Ivy Charles the First to the popular hatred The
second revival of the title made by Queen Anne who
conferred it male relative of the family and the
third takes place under Queen Victoria by whom is now
conferred on the brother of the late member for Mddesex
and may doubtless measure be regarded MS tribute
to the memory OF that most consistent public man. who du
the OF life spent his country political service
upheld firmly under good and evil report those principles of
civil and religious liberty of which his family have ever been
the stanch and Underwriting adherents."
As to Strafford's Thomas Wentworth's) having
been " sacrificed by Charles the First to the popu-
lar hared the fact is entirely true to the disgrace
of Charles but by no means to the extenuating the
public acts for which Wentworth suffered He
richly deserved his fate for what fate can well be
more cruel than the Minister merits who, in free
naton for advancement, or out of his Unborn slay-
ishness of SOUL sells himself to the detestabe cause
Of tyranny of faction, helps bad or foolish
prince to make himself superior TO the laws and
breaking thus the bond between people and prince,
between the citizen and his magistrate breeds sure
calamities in the State: the loss Of order always
terrible mischief, spreading thousand others !;
often the loss Of liberty, that first of social blessings
when men know how to preserve it, not merely in
batte-felds where they may fight well with not
virtue, but that of courage but by what is hundred
times more diffcult-by keeping pure the morals
public and privately practising and chershing
virtue, and aiding the good (who alone can be free
or make others SOY against the bad, who alone can
make men slaves. All that we just now said, the
Earl did; and though with consummate ability
the spendor which high parts, the gift of eloquence,
commanding character and lofty personal bear
ing can shed upon even the worst designs, so that
he inspired in his times and has ever since preserv-
ed in history admiration and sympathy-yet surely
he was but the guiltier for eminent qualities which
might have achieved so much legitimate greatness,
and yet turned aside from personal honor and pari-
otto duty, to be- for the and power of the mo-
ment at best the minion and the instrument, but
presently the victim, of weak yet violent ruler.
In the sober view of right reason, il is far more
pardonable when men, ambitious of distinction, sur
rounding our Executive, make themselves the accom-
plces his crimes in order to be the sharers of his
sway. A real greatness-a greatness which, confer
ring wide benefits the times in which il acts is re-
paid in the love and esteem of after generations,
such men cannot hope: TO them, therefore, place,
office, ministerial station, those counterleits of
grandeur which impose on the multitude and the
tools OF the day. are temptations enormously large
Just IN proportion as they are unfit for power are
they dazzled with that possibility of it which
nothing could bring to them but the happy chance
OF sovereign as incapable as themselves. Nothing
more NATURAL them than that they should will
llngly' Tor the price they receive, become the
| agents and tools of public mischief. Neither
their master nor they have the wit to mea-
sure The enormous and lasting i'll which they are
doing Indeed such men are not answerable for
all the harm they infict: the public folly or