21 FEBRUARY 1835, Page 20

The Third Part of the Resources and Statistics of Nations

contains some valuable political documents—the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act, the Bill of Rights, and the French Constitutional Charter established on the accession of Louis PHILIP. There is also an account of the different public offices in England and of some of the Courts of Law (not all, for the Ecclesias- tical are omitted), and a kind of running commentary on the rise and progress both of the English and French Constitutions. The pure statistics are, however, very meagre, and not always of the latest date. For instance, the salary of the Chief Justice of the King's Bench is put down at 10,000/. per annum, though it was reduced to 8,000/. on the death of Lord TENTERDEN ; Lord EL LEN- Benoircit's sinecure clerkship is stated at 9,623/. : this, however, We think has been what the Whigs call " regulated "—that is, the average of a certain number of years has been taken and the maximum fixed at the amount of that average. The much-boasted process still, hbwever, leaves the abuse enormous enough: if our memory does not deceive us, the do-nothing receives nearly 7,000/. a year.