LORD TEYNHAM AND HIS TEN CHILDREN.
" The Honourable Sydney Campbell Roper Curzon, youngest son of Lord Teynhava, has been appointed a Junior Assistant Examiner in the Audit Office, Somerset Place. Lord T. has a family of ten children living."—Ifforning Herald.
IT is a fine thing in England to be even the tenth child of a Lord. We are not aware of Mr. CURZON'S qualifications for the office t* which he has been appointed; and knowing the way in which Go- vernment patronage is conferred in this country, we may venture to believe that it is a point Which has never been inquired into. But his father is a poor member of the nobility, with ten children : of course they must be maintained at the public cost. The True Sun objects that the place is so poor in profit—only 90/. a year; and enlarges upon the claims of Lord TEYNHAM to the favourable consideration of Ministers, in a manner so unusual with our con- temporary, that we suspect he is only quizzing. 44 When we consider," says the True Sun, " Lord Tevnham's large family of ten children, Ms descent from the most ancient of our :English Barons, and his heavy expenditure in the suits in law and equity he is forced into to recover his hereditary estates, we cannot but observe on the want of proper feeling and consideration for him in the Ministers of the Crown."
So it seems that Lord TEYNHAM and the Bishop of HEREFORD have equal claims upon the Ministers of the Crown—they have each ten children; and, like applicants for parish relief, are en- titled to demand from the public so much a child per week. But perhaps we are doing the descendant of a long line of Barons in- justice. Lord TEYNHAM'S "public services," says the True Sun, "during the late war, as Colonel of the Oxford Volunteers, are well known." Moreover, "4 The cause of Catholic Emancipation and Reform were as much indebted to the exertions of Lord Teynham as to any other individual in the House of Peers ; and his efforts, we fear, in the cause of civil and religious liberty, have brought down upon him the vindictive malice Of a party who will never forget his disinterested efforts to improve the condition of the people."
As Sir Toby Belch said to Malvolio, "Why are these things hid?" The people of England, we will confidently assert, have not the slightest conception of the obligations they lie under to Lord TEYNHAM. His public services during the war as a Volun- teer Colonel, and his more recent and extraordinary exertions in favour of Emancipation and Reform—exertions which equalled those of Earls GREY and DURHAm—have been concealed " with an unhappy mysteriousness" from the public eye. Certainly a paltry place of 90/. per annum to one of his sons is a miserable return for such services. The only excuse that can be offered for Ministers is, that perhaps they know as little of Lord TEYNHAM'S uncummon merit as the rest of his 'Majesty's subjects.
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