QUALIFICATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XII, Issue 842, 24 July 1855, Page 3

QUALIFICATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.

Under the present system, there is no rising in our civil or military service without votes or tondyum. If you have the first or c:in degrade your manhood b\ practising the List, you hsue a good chance of success : but marry a Grey or an Elliott, or be their led captai», or lend them money, and your chance becomes a certainty ; , for without doubt nicely and dishonest men still continue to sell -indirectly* indeed, usually, but still to sell — the appointments in their gift forgot. Only last week an individual, dating from the respectable neighbourhood of St. James's-squaie, where people are generally supposed to guess shrewdly at the ways of the world, unblushingly offered £40 for a commission in the militia. Not long "ago a man, who afterwards turned out a murderer, got his wife to ask hrr former mi^t'oss (a court lady) to obtain him an appointment in the customs, and she did her best to obuin it for him. An insolrent public man we all know obtained a large sum of money on his personal security on condition that he should use his influence to procure the lender a place. A nohle lord whose f.Uher was member of a defunct caMnt t sold govornment contract-! to worthless people ,- was cheated, mile a noise about it, and was found out. Another, uiiil t precisely the same circumstmces — that is, his father was member of a lata government — had also a good business in the s ile of ill places. At last, howe\er, he was obliged to rein c from the 'r\de, in consequence of one of those unfoise^n events which so often frustrate the expectations of ingenious men He had demanded £500 as the price of some petty post or other. The pl.icc-hunter, a small tradesm in, was peitoctly ready to p.iy the sum, but neither pdity would trust the other. At last it was agreed that a £500 note should be cut in half and divided between the.n, having been thus rendered apparently useless to either till the contract should be duoly peif innoJ. The place-hunter also agreed to pay a per ccntage to Captain 131<mk, a half pa\ o'fi. or, who lhcd chiefly at Peel's coffee house, and who had conducted the negotiation to so satisfactory an issue. All might have gone as smoothly as usual but my lord was hard pressed for money, a.id anticipating no* difficulty about the pla( c, he pawned the half note to a money lender, saying that he had ju^t received it from his uncle, the Dukr of , . n nd that the other half would follow. The other half did not follow however ; for the place-huuter found a more profitable investment for the money, and demanded it back again ; •o that there was an awful row among then, and the thing got blown upon. Who doss not remember the infamous story of Mrs. Clarke, and her s-\le, by means of touters, of the comni incL'r-in-chioPs patronage ? Who does not know that there was a clerk in the office of a great aimy agent, who held a captain's pay and commission w ithout ever having had his uniform made ? Look at p')or human nature, and ask yourself, gentle render, winch has most influence ovei a man— his wile, his mistress, his childien, his connections, his friends, his inteie^t, oi his duty ?— Daily Xeirs. Aki,lo-S\xon a»<d Latin Words.— "The proportions which the dictionary, tint is, of the language at rest, would furnish are very diffeie.it from those which the analysis of sentences, or of the language in motion gives. The notice of this fact will lead us to some very important conclusions as to the character of the words which the Saxon uud the Latin severally furnish, and principally to this :— That, while the English language is thus cdiipact in the main of these two elements, we imM not, for all tms, r.-gard these two as, making, one and the othei, exactly the same kind of contiibutioas to it. On the contrary, their contubutions are of a very different chaiarter. The Anglo-Saxon is not so much, as I ha\e just called it, one element of the English language, as the foundation of it, the basis. All its joints, its whole articulation; its sinews, and its ligaments, the great body of articles, pionouns, conjunction?, propositions, numeials, auxiliary verbs, all smaller woids \vlveh <-erve to knit together nv<\ bind the larger into sentences, the-r\ iut to speak ot the o-iaminatical structure of the 1 .ncuage, sue exclusively Sa^on. Th>3 Litin rn.'y contribute it 3 tale ot bucks, yea of o-oodJv and puhs-hcJ hewn srones to the spiritual building, but" the mortar, with all tint hold-, and binds these together, and eons'iiutos them into a house, is Saxnn throughout.— Ewjhsh, Past a.d Prei><siU. By 11. Y. 'Irci.ch.