The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-09
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POLITICAL MORALITY.

AOAIlICAL MORALiTY.
In an article on the "Past and Presen,
Morality of British Statesmen" the North
British Review gives the following list of
the offices and emoluments which Marlbo.
rough at one time enjoyed, in addition to vast
Parliamentary grants of cash and estates:
Pienipotentiary to the States, f70O0 -
General of the English forces on Mr.. How Is
esta blishment, f5OO0; General in Flanders
s5ooei Master of the Ordnance, $4,000
Travelling charges as do, 81 1925; Colonel
of the Foot Haards, $4,000; Pension, $4,000.
From the States of Holland as General OF
their troops, 10000. From foreign troops
in English pay, sixpence in the pound, Els
200. For keeping table, f1oOO. Total f54,
s25 The Duchess's offices were-Keeper OF
the Great and Home Parks, fl, 500; Mistress
of the Robes, 81, 500; Privy Purse, f1,5Oo
Groom Of the Stole. 5000; Pension out OF
the Privy Purse, $4,000. Total, f9,50o. One
authority says that the Duke and Duchess
between them had 10000 year.
Sir Robert Wa!poie, though not believed
by the Review to be personally dishonest,
managed to obtain for himself and his sons
ten fat offices, many of them mere sinecures,
the joint income of which amounted to up
wards of f25, 1000 year.
Some of the members of the American
Congress may take heart of grace from read
ing the Reviews account of the corruption
which was rife and general during the reign
of Triennial Parliaments, from 1694-1715.
Several members of the House of Commons,
it is said, were detected in system of false
endorsements of Exchequer Bills. The
Speaker, Sir John Trevor, accepted bribe
of $1,000 from the city of London, and was
himself, for some time, the person who man
aged the bribery of the members. For being
fonnd out in similar offence, the Secretary
of the Treasury was sent to the Tower
The peace of Paris, which followed the fall
of the Pitt Ministry, was bought, vote by
vote, with hard cash. The prices for single
vote ranged from f2oO and upwards. In a
single morning, f25, 900 were thus paid away.
If Mr.. Letcher's committee at the last Con
gress had been successful, something equally
rich might have turned up.
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE-MR. j. M.
DANIEL.
The Boston Post, with equal justice and
severity, thus speaks of the New York Tri-
bune:
The reckless libels of the Tribune-its disre-
gard of every principle of truth and justice In it's
political warfare have reached point beyond that
ventured upon by the most degraded and abandon
ed presses OF the country. Its scurrilities, its
provoked personalities, Its infamous sanders, place
beyond The pale of ordinary treatment, and rem.
der it as little entitled to the protection afforded by
the ordinary mode of attack, as a mad dog run
ming among an innocent crowd endeavoring to
thrust his poisoned teeth into whatever of flesh and
blood he may meet in his way"
An illustration of the disregard of truth and
justice by the Tribune, (which thinks it Il
yirtne to libel Southern man, may be found
In its fables concerning unv Of - .e.,ns.
men, Mr.. John M. Daniel, the representative
Of this country at Turin. Not long ago it as
serted that he was absent from his post and
had been living in Naples for the last six
months. Were we to adopt the style of the
Tribune, we should style this a seandalous
be compelled to slaughter swine, we do not
desire to step into the pen with them, and
ight them with their native mud. Suffice ii
therefore to say, that there is no foundation
whatever for the TIibunes assertion. Mr.
Daniels friends in this place have regularly
received letters from him, written at short in
tervals, and all at Turin, thus showing that
he has been steadily at his post. We learn
that in none of these letters is any mention
whatever made of Naples, and we do not be
lieve he has ever been there in his life. We
have no idea that the Tribune will retraci
its libel, or hesitate to fabricate new one
upon any Southern man who may incur its dis
pleasure. To be Virginian is crime, which
with such people as the Tribune, Times and
Harper's Magazine, warrants any species Of
retaliation. The Tribune editor feels none
the worse on Saturday night for whole week
of unmitigated slander. His reading of the
decalogue is,-Six days shalt thou bear false
witness against thy neighbor, and the seventh
thou shalt go to Rev. Mr.. Chapin's abolition
meeting house, and thank God that thou ar
not as other men.
INCREASE OF POPULATION IN GREAT BRI
TAIN.-The British census shows wonder
derful increase of population in the last cen