Mr. Sranse tce's solemn assurance that the subject of the
Pension- list should be unreservedly referred to a distinct Committee after the Civil List Committee had finished its labours, must be in the recollec- tion of everybody, for it is but a week old. Nevertheless, yesterday, Mr. Semen Rice actually proposed, in the Civil List Committee, that a sum of 70,0001. should be granted to the Queen for pensions! The proposal ants resisted by Mr. GitoTE. Mr. RICE spouted blarney about the honour of Government and so forth. Mr. GROTE was proof against the blarney ; and be was supported by Mr. HUME, Mr. STRUT; Mr. Hawes, and Sir. Wirmaat EVANS, (it there were any others on tl:e same side, their names will appear with the Report on Monday.) But Mr. EicE would have carried his job, had not Sir ROBERT PEEL, with two or three other Tories, joined the Liberals, and thus defeated the tricky Chancellor of the Exchequer. There is prodigious chuckholee at the ToryClubs: they say, the too ingenious but not in- genuousMr. Rice will "double up " the Ministry. After this exposure, it becomes especially necessary to take care that the Pension-list Committee is not packed. The fact that the revision of the !pensions nut not a concession to principle,. but " a tub to the whale "—a sop to the grumbling Radicalss—connected with the attempt of the Chancellor of the Exchequer above mentioned, justifies the potent suspicion, that Ministers intend another piece of humbug, and to convert the pretended inquiry of the Committee into a fraud.
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