JOBS.
ONE job has; come to light this week, of so extraordinary a cha- racter, that we must advert to it, and more gravely than perhaps the common occurrence of political jobbing may appear to deserve. This, however, comes to us-accompanied by circumstances which take it out of the common- run-of such affairs. Our readers can bonny have forgotten an appointment in the Privy Council, which, in the week of the downfa.rof the Wellington Cabinet, excited con- siderable attention.. Earl BATHURST was charged with having proteeded with .ino.st indecent haste, before the breath had fairly left the body of the former occupant, toiroportune the.King to bestow on his Loahhip's son the-situation, Of Second. - Clerk, aq Qffnie-4.1rearlY Condenmed..as uieless: The fact-of the appointmei wa.acinestioned*ttle ,Lorr House; and onj its truth or falsehood begfqry drAPP4f61,,fijmAr. g.arl BOgtra*in t*: VP** htsLótdship, in a tone Which did not indeed reach the bar, but which was fully and sufficiently heard by the House, denied—. solemnly denied—that the situation had been filled up. Earl BA.THURST is a nobleman—one honoured by the King, but a few weeks ago, with a highly important office : if a respect for honour is to be looked for anywhere, surely it must be among the Peers of the land ; yet Earl BATHURST, deliberately, in the presence and hearing of his peers, and in answer to a direct question to that effect, denied that the office of Second Clerk of the Privy Council had been filled up. Now what is the fact ? What said Lord ALTHORP on Thursday night ? The appointment has taken place —it was made by the late Ministry—and in whose favour ? Lord aATHURST'S son !
We care nothing about the non-abolition of a sinecure—we care nothing about a job, however rank and scandalous ; they are, as we have said, too common to attract, almost to deserve, no- tice or castigation : but what are we to say to Lord BATHURST'S assertion, made, it will be presumed, with a full and perfect know- ledge of the state of the fact ? We take no exceptions to Lord BATHURST'S anxiety to increase the fortunes of his house ; hut with what eyes can we behold his equally strenuous efforts to di- minish its honour? Can such conduct be explained away? We hope it can, and clearly ; and we earnestly entreat of that Peer, if he have one feeling of regard for the opinion of the honest and up. right among his countrymen, that he will speedily give the public the required explanation.
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