Old Lord Grenville is gone at last • and Lord
Auckland succeeds him as Auditor of the Exchequer. The Globe says— "Thu appointment was absolutely necessary to enable the ordinary daily payments to be made fur the public service; but although Lord Auckland is understood to be ap- pointed permanently on constitutional grounds. of course he will receive no part of the emolitruents of his new office while he retains those of his present situat. ."
The Globe then goes on to state, that a bill will be presented to Par- liament next session, for the remodelling of the Exchequer, in confor- mity with the plan of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of that department ; and that Lord Auckland will be the Comp- troller, with 2,000/. per annum. The .2Iforning Chronicle has also au article Oil the subject, in which it is said that- " Lord Auckland will. even until the act of Parliament regulating the whole est r Wish- ment shall pass, only receive the same amount of emolument as he will do afteronnls. supposing the recommendation of the Commission to he adopted by Parliament- Nor is this all, fie as we understand, he does nut relinquish the other offices he holds at the pleasure of the Crown, until the act is passed. whilst but one salary is paid by the public for the whole—a saving equal to the whole amount of o list land Greuville re- ceived is for the present made. (if course. when the establishment of the Excirquer is finally regulated, the duties of Auditor, which are to check and control the Execti. tire Government. rendering the possession of any office under it incompatible with the discharge or such high functions, Lord Auckland will cease to hold any other."
From this it would seem, that his Lordship, from the date of his appointment to the Exchequer, is to relinquish his salary as President of the Board of Trade-3,000(. per annum ; and to perform the duties of that office as well as his new onefor 2,000/. This is not very likely. Then we are informed, that the possession of any other office under Government is incompatible with bolding that of Comptroller of the Exchequer, as the duty of this officer is to check and control the Exc..
cutive Government. Yet Lord Auckland is to hold these incompa, tilde places till the new bill for regulating the Exchequer has passed. All this is a sad jumble.
The following declaration has been extensively circulated for signa• tore among the laity of the Church of England.
" At a time when the Clergy of England and Wales have felt it their duty to address their Primate with an expression of unshaken adherence to the doctrines mind discipline of the Church of which they are ministers, we the undersigned, as lay members of the same. are not less anxious to record our firm attachment to her pure faith and worship, and her apostolic hem of government. " We further tied ourselves called upon. by the events which are daily passing around ns, to declare our firm eonviction, that the vonsecration of the State by the public maintenance of the Christian religion, is the first and paramount duty of a Christie* people; and that the Church established in these realms, by carrying its sacred and beneficial influences through all orders and degrees, and into every corner of the laud. has for many ages been the great and distinguishing blessing or this country, and out less the means, under Divine Providence, of national prosperity than of italivianal piety. " In the preservation, thereffire„ of this our National Church in the integrity of her rights and privileges, and in her alliance with the State, we feel that we have an in- terest no less real, !Ind no less direct, than her immediate ministers; and we acconlingly avow our firm determination to do all that in us lies, in our several stations, to uphold., unimpaired in its security and efficiency, that Establislinieut which we have received as the richest legacy of our forefathers, and desire to hand down as the best inked. tame Of our posterity.'
The valuable living of Woodinansterne, in Sorry, vacant by the death. of Doctor Buchanan, has been presented by Lord Brougham to the Reverend Samuel Long, who married a sister of Mr. Secretary Stanley. This was done, it is said, in compliance with the personal solicitation of Mr. Stanley.
It is most lamentable to observe the extent to which aristocratical emigration is at this present time going on. We happen to know that the letters of credit granted to English Continental travellers by the two principal banking-houses at the West end of London, exceed this year, both in number and value, by more than a half, those of any pre- ceding year !--.21/orning Chronicle. [Lackaday ! what is to be done ? would a tax on prole..rty overtake these absentees, and assist in reclaim- ing them to their disconsolate country?]
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