Although we have said as little about the Six Articles

of the Globe as the Six Articles said about the Exchequer, it does not follow that they are unworthy of notice : on the contrary, they are rich in their way. They display the earnestness but the awkwardness of a volunteer. There is about them a tone of self- complacency and inflation, coupled with an official swagger and an official narrowness, which seem to mark the nature of the inspira- tion, if not the actual artist. To get a fair idea of the Six Articles, they must be read consecutively ; and of course it is impossible to reprint them; but we can gather together a few of their beauties.

GRANDILOQUENCE.

As to the House of Commons offering the slightest opposition to such a pension, proposed to he granted to such a man as Sir John Newport, after a public life of more than half a century, in which he lam rendered services to Ms country the benefits of whidt will remain while that country continues to wrist, the idea is so monstrous, that even the Times would not venture to suggest it, were it not pressed by the force of facts and statements which have compelled it to substitute raving for reasoning.

PROVING TOO MUCII.

The infirmities attendant on a life which Providence has protracted to upwards of fourscore, rendered retirement from office not merely desirable to himself; but necessary to the public service. Sir John Newport's public life has closed.

As Sir Jouss was an octogenarian when he was appointed, his "infirmities" tell snore against his place than in fisvour of his pension.

A BIT OF PIIILOSOPIIT.

In public station, as in private life, a good name ["Good name in man or woman, dear my lord "] is connected with the due and effective discharge of duties. Character is influence, and that influence is power. Power from in- fluence will extend its operation where power from law and positive authority cannot reach. The good-will of the people, towards whatever Goveromeni, has always supplied the most effective aid to the Administration. It is there- fore no less desirable for the country than for the Government, that its Minis- tersshould stand well in public opinion. Those who desire to subvert the Ad- muastration betake themselves to base and injurious inventions—falsehoods as malicious as they arc mischievous—to effect their object ; and with consist- ence, for their own purposes, would invalidate the ellorts of those who believe and know that the Government deserves well of the people, set the truth before the public, that their verdict may be according to truth.

EGUIVOCATION.

Total salaries Old Exchequer -e

Deduct 14,082

Decreased annual charge in favour of the public £30,000 In addition to the above, a's considerable further saving has accrued to the public by the decreased charges ,pr Contingencies and .31-essengers, arising from the consolidation of the two offices, and the system of economy which has been introduced and enforced.

When a "considerable further saving" is talked off in connexion with an alleged saving of 30,000/., most people will think that more than a few hundreds must be meant. Yet the "Contin- gencies" of the Old Exchequer were returned at less than 500/.

MORE EQUIVOCATION.

" We rather think," says the Spectator, "the creation of a new office, or a considerable extension and remodelling of an old one, for the management of Exchequer Bills, took place—though the sternly independent ' Globe says nothing of it." "We rather think," the "new office" has no existence, save lathe inventive faculty of our contemporary ; if it were to be found anywhere else, we "rather think" it would have been discovered by his sagacity and denounced by his love of impartiality.

The Globe evades one half of the proposition. Can he ven- ture to deny that the abolition of the Old Exchequer has been attended with additional expense at the Treasury for the manage- runt of Exchequer Bills ?

IMPUDENCE OR IGNORANCE.

The twaddle about Mr. Ellis and his pension, as retired Clerk of the Pells, and the complaint that the public should be burdened with his pension when he might have been appointed to a post in the new department, has been already answered. Nothing is more obvious than the principle, that the appointments to subordinate posts in important departments of the public service must be left to the discretion of those who are responsible for their due execution. The suc- cessful working of the new system would materially depend on those intrusted with its management: it was, therefore, necessary to be the more circumspect in their selection. * c * With still less propriety is it objected against a Government to which those gentlemen are determinedly opposed, that it did not consent to employ them in confidential and responsible situations in one of the most important departments of the State. In many instances the arrange- ments of the Government hare been thwarted, and its confidential communica- tions revealed to their opponents, by some underlings, whom a false delicacy retained in place when their patrons had ceased to hold the Government.

If fitness were required to "work the new system," Mr. atm was the very man ; whilst neither the Lord nor his successor the Baronet was likely to know any thing of the system new or old. To talk of the chief officer of the Exchequer being "confidential," is twaddle. Anybody who chooses to study the Votes, may learn all about the grants as quickly as the Exchequer people themselves: the transfer is known to the clerks of the Bank of England, and of the respective public departments, as soon as it takes place. That the situation may become "responsible," we concede : under cer- tain circumstances, the head officer of the Exchequer would have to resist the demands of the Government for money the Commons have refused to grant. For this reason he holds office for life; for this reason politics should be of little consideration in appointing him ; and this reason renders any party motives or jobbing more improper in the Exchequer than in other departments. At all events, a needy and place-expectant lord, a superannuated party octogenarian, an inveterate jobber, or an acknowledged trickster, ought to be the last person appointed to an office which requires independence and firmness.