Sreitrr I ION! F. OFF'('.
LORD PCNCANNON his lately appointed a son of Genemal Sir JOHN
A1.1 110:-:A1.1) to the office of his ivate Secretary. We leant that several Members of the liotise or Commons, sinvere friends to the Mieistry, co.:shier this appointimat an exceedingly injildieiOUS One. Sir JOI1N A • ataeasaso is en iograitied Tory of the very worst scheol and the son is no .ipostate from the pi ineiples of his father. We can easily credit, thesefore, what -as he sr of the dissatisfaction of those Wasters wnwe inallIPS'i requires frequent commutate:dam with the Home Office. For althelisli Lord Duseasaos: may have sufficient reliance on the voter g gentleman's superiority to all party prejudice, when flat public ips:d and the ditties of his post are commented, still it is out of the nature of things that persons unto quainted with helium should not hesitate to place confidenee in an avowed political coemy. To a eel tnin extent, Lord Dustesssaoa is hiinmseif C011140- niistql by his unfortmate selection ; for the young geictleman, we believe, bniught no great reputatien for toknt from his College, to justify the Home Seeretary in overlooking all pi udential considerations in !cis fevems At the present crisis in the affairs of Ireland, it behoved Lord Dr NCANNON to have chosen a Secretary in whom the ft lends of
Government .'mild place conlidence—who was personally and by eon- ,
n n exco a iriona to Liberal principles. Mr. MACD9N5LD is tuciticem' time
one our the other; aild Lord DUNCANNON Will find that the uistaist which must attach to his Secretary will affect himself most unplea- santly, and the puddle servire most ilijitriously.
If it be said, in reply to these observatioes, which are made by mauy as well as otieselves, that Mr. Mat:ow:atm is only the primate Secretary of Lord Deae.ssasoa, we rejoin, that he is aeatally a public oflissr, paid with the public money, and intrusted wich important public duties. His secretaryship is only nominally a private function.
BRITISH DIPLOMATISTS AND CONSULS ABROAD.
Lorin Palau:as-ma is reported to be on the eve of " tumblg over a new leaf " with his foreign agents. The goial work has been grievously dt layed, and British interests have been allowed to stiffer in the most disgraceful manner, by the helpless and inefficient set to whom they have liven too long intrusted. The broods of incapable and unwilling Tories, %alio crawled oil time backs ef the Rotten Boroughs into places they never were fitted for, have been too long allowed to roost undis- turbed. It is true, the recent diininution of their salaries has called forth curses both loud and deep ; and it is scarcely possible for Lord Pasmansaos: to be ignorant of the rebellious discontent of his under- lings. The fact is notorious, indeed, that when it could he safely done, his wishes, or rather the orders of the Wiuig Governinent, have been either cunningly thwarted, or obeyed with lukewann indifference. Every one who visited Turin, for instance, in 1831, tnight have been edified by the Eiglish Eiivoy's open and loud abuse of Ministers, and ids contemptuous sneers at Reform. Was lie a proper representative of a Whig Government at the despotic Court of Sardinia ? It appears he has betto tholiela so ; fur he was lately knighted acid sent back to his post. Look at Mexico, where our Charge d'Affaires has for these last nine years done little else, that we ever heard of, than accumulate his salary. It is not, iedeed, to be expected, that an individual who is milaiown to the Mexieans and to the English, except by the fact of his rairier being his constant table companion, can possess any proper in- Iluslice, or coommaad the rea,cect of any party in that country. Are our representatives at Frankfort—at the Diet of Switzerland—inGreece —in Portugal—or at the Hague, fit representatives of the Liberal Government of England 1 Turning from these, let us glsnee for a moment at our Consular establishments abroad. Ask the English merchant, what assistance our Consul at Naples has ever rendered him—what resistance he has ever offered to the vexatious impositions of time Neapolitan Customhouse ? Look at our Consuls, generally, in the Mediterranean ; and it will be found, that %diem; they are not violent Anti- Ministerialists, they are ignorant, and most improper individuals to be intrusted with the Con- sular office. An Italian, mimed CAPO Gaasso, fur itistance, is English Consul in Crete; for which he receives I50/. per annum. Ile Is totally ignorant of Ow English and French languages, and we believe of every thing else: but he has a pretty daughter, who interested a certain naval officer while on that station. Again, is CARTWRIGHT at Con. Stan tillOple, Or BRANT at Smyrna. or BUCHANAN at New York, or ROBERTSON at Philadephia, or Wet.en at Vera Cruz, or O'Gonmasrat Mexico, or FERRIER at Rotterdam, and many others who must be well known to Lord PA IZIERSTIN for their political partisanship or personal incapacity. or worse—are these fit persons to he continued in the situations they at present hold? We say, no. There can be neither confidence in, cor true service obtained from, any individual, whose Ultra-Tory politics are his prominent and distinguishing character. It is not sufficient that they are obsequiously polite to the Admiral on the station, or that they give good dimmers to the skippers of packets or Lieutenants of nmen-of- war. We must now appoint men who have the commercial and the political interests of England at heart : and we trust, since Lord PAI.• mensaos has begun with the notorious WARRINGTON at Tripoli, he will make a general sweep of all the Tory imbeciles, who have been so long a clog and a disgrace to this country.
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