20 JANUARY 1849, Page 8

The Times mentions, in order to contradict, the reports that

the Treasury investigation, carried on by Mr. Gibson Craig and Sir Charles Trevelyan into the establishments under the three Secretaries of State, had met with some objection: Lord Palmerston and Sir George Grey had been repre- sented as the resisters-

" The above-mentioned gentlemen were, in the first instance, appointed on the application of Sir George Grey, to investigate, in concert with the 'Under-Secre- tary, Mr. G. C. Lewis, the establishment of the Home Office; after which it was arranged with her Majesty's Secretaries of State for the Colonial and Foreign. Departments that the inquiry should be extended to their offices, an Under-Secre- tary being in each case associated with Mr. Gibson Craig and Sir C. Trevelyan."