

     1 Durham from the 
     
    
     "the Standard and 
     
    
     our both reviewing 
     
    
     y the same light. 
     
    
     3 to thank Lord 
     
    
     ts of the Reform 
     
    
     11 as by far the 
     
    
     is colleagues to 
     
    
     rthe working of 
     
    
     nts in govern- 
     
    
     Y, which all ho- 
     
    
     ; had in view 
     
    
     d and long to 
     
    
     ‘. been taken 
     
    
     at domestic 
     
    
     griefs and 
     
    
     noticed Lord 
     
    
     in the go- 
     
    
     i the noble 
     
    
     iered for 
     
    
     'uly sym- 
     
    
     mistake 
     
    
     tied to, 
     
    
     "C, 0!‘ 
     
    
     'soual 
     
    
     proba- 
     
    
     :c was 
     
    
     .‘eforc, 
     
    
     ly have 
     
    
     mg the 
     
    
     -d Dur- 
     
    
     ltcd up- 
     
    
     \dniiuis- 
     
    
     .onld not 
     
    
     . is impos- 
     
    
     .ith the go- 
     
    
     ce the open- 
     
    
     ii an evident 
     
     the portion of 
     
    
     rewd men ofof- 
     
    
     io,ont heir parts 
     
    
     .on to meet their 
     
    
     now of rather an- 
     
    
     .» kept up, to be sure 
     
    
     ilindiug the public to 
     
    
     .ies, wlnch is really in 
     
    
     Now Lord Durham must 
     
    
     man, il'he can Counten- 
     
    
     hand proceedings, or act 
     
    
     those who carry them on. 
     
    
     organs may asseVerate the 
     
    
     as they like, or as their em- 
     
    
     . but itwill be hard to persuade 
     
    
     . common observation that there are 
     
    
     ple reasons why Lord Durham should 
     
    
     n his resignation, independently of ill. 
     
    
     a, which, after all, would hardly prevent 
     
     attention to the duties of the privy seal. 
     
    
     5 secesswn may at all events, be taken as a 
     
     warning, how we place too much confidence 
     
     in the Ministry. It is to be feared that some 
     
     ofthose who remain have considerably less ho. 
     
     nesty, or at any rate, less ﬁrmness, than their 
     
     colleague who has quitted it. He. was not on- 
     
     ly straight-forward and manly, but able and 
     
     well-informed; he understood the position of 
     
     England, in this year of grace 18:33, better 
     
    
     than any man in the Cabinet. 
     
    
     Newcastle Journal.—Wc announced in a 
     
     great part of our last impression, the retire- 
     
     ment of Lord Durham from the Cabinet. Lord 
     
     Grey laid his amiable son in la w’s abdication of 
     
     oﬂice before the King on the 18th ; on the 15th 
     
     he is gazetted Viscount Lambton and Earl of 
     
     Durham. Now this is the most impudent ofall 
     
     the Premier’s family movements. Heaven 
     
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN 
     
    
     knows that it was enough to have on the Grey 
     
     List upwards of two dozen family Statesmcna 
     
     preying upon unfortunate Bull to the “"1901 
     
     some hundred thousand a-ycar ; but to "115}: 
     
     Lord Du ham two steps in the Peerage. 0" “'5 
     
     retireine'it from an otlice which he could {"31 
     
     have kept without public injury, is an exhibi- 
     
     tion ofpolitical profligacy reserved for a Libe- 
     
     ral Prime Minister—a patriot who sets not with 
     
     a pledge to rule without patronage! What 
     
     are the circumstances under which Lord Dur- 
     
     ham quits otlice? The MinisterialJournals in 
     
     London and their slavish echoes nearer home, 
     
     tell us that the noble Lord retires on account 
     
     ofdomcstic atiiiction and ill health. We hesi- 
     
     tate not to pronounce this assertion to be a 
     
     wilful falsehood, if not on the part ofthe news- 
     
     “ riters, certainly on the part of those who 
     
     have given them their cue. 1f the Noble Lord 
     
     were really so stricken; if he suffered on a 
     
     bed ol'sickness, and sought that privacy which 
     
     is best for a man who wishes to make up his 
     
     account with the world, we should be among 
     
     the last to drag his atl’airs into public discus- 
     
     sion. But we know, on adequate authority, 
     
     that the fact is otherwise; we know that the 
     
     noble Lord's refusal to act any longer with the 
     
     Ministry, is the result ot'anger, at being pre- 
     
     vented from doing mischief. He would fain 
     
     plunge the Ministry over head and ears in the 
     
     depths of revolutionary innovation. Prevent-~ 
     
     ed from doing that. he first tries the elfect ot 
     
     sowing the seeds ofdissention; and, failing 
     
     therein, he retreats in a rage, and Lord Grey 
     
     attempts to soothe him by the gilded ginger. 
     
     bread of a couple of additional titles—two 
     
     steps at onceiu the Peerage, while hundreds 
     
     ot'meritorious men, who have spent the greater 
     
     parts oftheir lives in the service oftheir coun. 
     
     try, and have shed their blood, and lost their 
     
     limbs in fighting her battles, find it ditlicult in 
     
     obtaining a paltry return of a few scores of 
     
     pounds a year in the shape ofa naval or milita- 
     
     ry pension. But, for the sake ofargument, let 
     
     us adopt the assertions ofthe Ministerial pa- 
     
     pers, and set it down that Lord Durham quits 
     
     otiice because illness and domestic afﬂiction 
     
     render him incapable of discharging, as the 
     
     Times intimates, the “ important" duties of 
     
     Lord Privy Seal. We answer, firstly, that there 
     
     are no duties, or next to none, to perform, the 
     
     oﬂice being as near a sinecurc as may he. 11 
     
     there were duties, how were they performed 
     
     during the pleasurable jaunt to St. l’etersburg 
     
     last summer? SeCondly, if there are duties, 
     
     and the noble ir-rd is unable to perform them 
     
     on the score ofltl health, why did he reluctant. 
     
     ly take upon himscif arduous labors which did 
     
     not belong to him? Why did he interfere. in 
     
     the great departments of the Executive? Why 
     
     did he make such strenuous efforts to take the 
     
     Seals of the Foreign Ofiice from the hands of 
     
     Lord Palmerston? We admit that noble Lord’s 
     
     incapacity, but we deny that Lord Durham is 
     
     incapable of improving our foreign policy, 
     
     wretched as it is. And if the noble Lord had 
     
     no duties to perform, or, having duties, did not 
     
     perform them on account of impediments ori- 
     
     g inating in circumstances connected with him- 
     
     self, what are we to say to the reward which 
     
     has been obtained from the Crown on the No- 
     
     hlc Lord’s rclinquisliment of Utlice. But this 
     
     is not the true position ofthe question. The 
     
     ctlice, as we have said. involves scarcely any 
     
     duties, and therefore required from his Lord- 
     
     ship neither time our labor. He took it as af- 
     
     fording him an entrance into the (tabinet; and 
     
     in thc (‘abinet Lord Durham was constantly in 
     
     operation in person or by proxy. lfhe did not 
     
     condescend to take his seat at the Council- 
     
     board with those: whom, it appears, he has 
     
    
     been in the habit of designating ‘ the rabble of 
     
    
     t 
     
    
     it 
     
     ﬁt! 44; 
     
    
     the Ministry,’ he found no difﬁculty in reach. 
     
     ing the Premier, who, as Mr. Larkin tells us 
     
     is now grown old, weak,and foolish ; and thro: 
     
     the Premier he spoke with an effect which has 
     
     been a subject of complaint about Whitehall 
     
     for two years past. 
     
    
     London Erramz'ncr.—-Lord Durham’s resigna- 
     
     tion is attributed to ill.liealth. This may be 
     
     trnc_—proh:ibly is true; but were the cause of 
     
     another sort. the truth would not be confessed 
     
     andthc convenient plea would be put forth: 
     
     Most men areJnst now sick—of the Ministry. 
     
     Between the severity of the season and the 
     
     measure, the dust in the streets whirled into 
     
     our eyes by a March wind, and the dust in 
     
     Parliament, the present state of things is es. 
     
     pccinlly dis:igree;xhl&lt;_~. The fable of the wind, 
     
     the sun, the traveller and the cloak, seems to 
     
     be enacted both by the weather and the gov- 
     
     ernment; and we are in the first stage of the 
     
     experiment—the Boreas part. 
     
    
     NAVY ESTIMA TES. 
     
    
     Sir .7. Graham said he was deeply sensi- 
     
     ble ofthe great importance of the vote he 
     
     was about to propose, for it was the first of 
     
     large amount that came under the conside~ 
     
     'ation of this reformed Parliament. He 
     
     trusted, however, that the House would 
     
     support the necessary establi~hments, and 
     
     come to no conclusion inconsistent with 
     
     the honor, the best interests, and the secu- 
     
     rity ofthe country. In the year 1828, the 
     
     whole question of expenditure was very 
     
     carefully brought under the review of the 
     
     House by the right hon. member for Har- 
     
     wich, (Mr. Herries), who, having a pecu- 
     
     liar facility for placing the mast complica- 
     
     ted accmnits in the most lucid order, did 
     
     upon that occasion make a very able and 
     
     perspicuous statement. (Hear, hear.) In 
     
     1827 the expenditure was L55,744,000; 
     
     of these charges, the Finance Committee 
     
     decided that L35,95€Z,000 could not be 
     
     reduced. These charges were, interest 
     
     and charges on the debt, 138,940,000; ci- 
     
     vil and military pensions, 111,556,000; half- 
     
     pay and superannuatious, 115,456,000; ma- 
     
     king as he said, 135,952,000 leaving L20, 
     
     000,000 whereon to operate in the way of 
     
     reduction. Between 1827 and 1832, are- 
     
     duetioa of nearly L5,000,000 had been ef- 
     
     fected. Now, therefore, there were only 
     
     L1&amp;,OO0,000 to be operated on the way 
     
     ofreduetion. The military and naval ex- 
     
     penditure, in the year 1897, amounted to 
     
     1.1ti,‘.’05,000. In the year 183‘), it W35 
     
     but Llfi,:205,000. So that, since the year 
     
     1827, 143,000,000 out ofthe total reduc- 
     
     tion of L:3,000,000 belonged to that 1103 
     
     of expenditure. This year, the l'etluct'im 
     
     would be—seamen’s Wages, 11443000; “in 
     
     her, L:3-l,000; new works, L4:‘:,000; hiret 
     
     packets, l.4,740; civil establishents, L28 
     
     310-. other heads, mason—(some head 
     
     were not heard, but the whole amou"tet 
     
     to 1320,000.) The reductions made b 
     
     the present government were—twelve com 
     
     inissioners. by whose reduction a saw! 
     
     of Li 4,200 had been made; sixty one 5 
     
     perior ofﬁcers of dock- yards, whose sa 
     
    
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