The Weekly Chronicle, (which, to use a newspaper periphrasis fre-
quently applied to that journal, "is understood to express the opinion's of Mr. 'Ward, the Honourable Member for Sheffield,") opens thus oe what he is pleased irreverently to designate as "the Newport job "- " We have looked over again, with great care, the Government statements respecting the Newport job, which the Times has so unsparingly exposed; aus we arc bound to say that the Times has decidedly the best of it, It has hit a blot, and a very black one. We said, when first we heard of Sir Jehn New. port's retirement, that if the public were to pay the price of it for the benefit of Lord Monteagle, the arrangement was one which Tories and Radicals would concur in reprobating. The public does pay the price ; and whenever the ques. tion is brought before Parliament, (as it inevitably will be,) we see not how any man, who represents any thing in the shape of a living constituency, can meet them without trembling, if he fail to record his opinion honestly, upoO
this very discreditable affair. * • •
" By the recent regulations respecting pensions, the 1,0007. granted to Sir John Newport upon the Civil List, must receive the sanction of the House of Commons. The Globe anticipates little difficulty in obtaining it. We view the matter in a very different light, and doubt whether even the optimist Mr. Clay will venture to maititain, when the question is mooted, and discussed, that every thing has been done for the best in this snug arrangemeut, by the best of all possible Ministries, in the best of all possible worlds!"
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