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The Report of the select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to examine the papers respecting Sinecure Offices, contains a view of the progress that has been made towards the total abolition of sinecures. In the year 1810, it appears, there were in existence throughout his Majesty's dominions 242 sinecure offices; the total net income of which amounted to 297095/. At present there are 100 offices of a similar description ; the total net emoluments of which amount to 97,803,—a diminution in that period of 200,000 per annum. It further appears, that, in 1810, of 297,095 of then existing sinecures, provision had been made for their prospective abolition to the extent. ot 88,3471.; and that of the 97,803/. of sinecures now subsisting, a similar prospective provision has been made to the extent of 81,984!.; so that (in the words of the Report) "the amount of sinecures, for the ulti- mate abolition of which no Parliamentary enactment has provided, is already reduced from nearly 200,000 per annum, as it stood in 1810, to less than 17,0001. per annum." And even this small annual burden, if the recommendations of the Report are carried into effect (of ttIiicI2 there can be very little doubt) will be altogether removed.—Muranig Chronicle. Mr. Blackburne and Mr. Parkes the Chairman and Secretary of the Corporation Commission, are now engaged in a tour to the corpora.te
towns, for the purpose of revising the returns made by the Commis i - sioners, previous to the completion of the report, which t is understood, will be ready to be submitted to Parliament early in the approaching session.—MU.
Mr. Stephen, the Colonial Counsel, has been appointed Assistant Under-Secretary of the Colonial Department. A material alteration is about to take place in the mode of appointing to clerkships in the Treasury. Instead of absolutely appointing, as heretofore, one person to the vacancy, the Premier will nominate three candidates, who will be subjected to a strict examination by some com- petent officer, probably the Under Secretary, and the clerkship will be conferred on the gentleman who shall prove himself the best quulified. --Globe.
The Fenwick, a vessel of 250 tons, is about to be despatched by Government to Bermuda. 'ibis vessel conveys a number of gentlemen who have been appointed to different posts in the colony under the Slave En sacipation Act.
Robert Willimott, Esq., whose death was announced on Tuesday,
was a sinecurist of no ordinary calibre. lie had, we believe, an an- nuity of 3001. per annum, as Secretary to the lute Lord Liverpool, and also held the several sinecure offices of Receiver-General of the Post-office, at an annual salary of 8001.; also Receiver. General of the Excise, at 1,0001. per annum ; and also Secretary to the Cinque Ports. -True Sun.
Sir Charles Wetherell is at present at Wisbaden. The facetious knight went to Ostend by the steam-boat, and from thence to Bruges. Sir Charles departed from thence in his own carriage, attended by an English servant ; he stopped a few days in Brussels, took a peep at Spa and Aix-la. Chapelle, places he had not visited for many years. lie embarked on the Rhine at Cologne ; and if the time permits, he will visit his friend the Duke of Cumberland, who, accompanied by the Dutehess and the Ex-Whipper-in of the House of Commons, are at present at one of the watering-places in Germany.
Earl Spencer left his seat at Althorp on Monday, on a visit to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Wiseton Hall, in Nottingham. His Lordship's health, considering his advanced life, is in a very improved state; indeed, so strong is the noble Lord, that during the present month he has been paying a tour of visits to his son-in-law, Lord
Lyttleton, at Hagley, and to Mr. Poyntz, at Cowdray Park. At Bagley he met his nephew, the Duke of Devonshire, who had just arrived from a visit to the Earl of Stamford at Enville Hall. Lord Althorp has been at Wiseton since Saturday : his Lordship was staying in Northampton when the Edinburgh festival took place, and he did not contemplate entertaining company at Wiseton during the races at Doncaster.-Morning Chronicle.
Sir Francis Burdett has been entertaining a party of sporting friends at his seat, Drayeot, Lincolnshire, with partridge-shooting. Mr. J. W. Croker has been among the visiters.-Herald.
Notwithstanding the close connection for many years past, of the Grosvenor family with the turf, Touchstone is the first horse belong- ing to the Marquis of Westminster that has ever won the St. Leger. General Grosvenor arrived in town express to inform the noble Mar- quis of the success of his horse: with which his Lordship was much gratified. -Herald. [Touchstone is almost the only horse Lord West- minster ever had that deserved to win. His Lordship has lately been taking some pains with his breed of racers, and looking after his jockies and trainers.]
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