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THE CIVIL SERVICE AND ITS 1 PROSPECTS . Wr have never seen the Civil Service as a body act Sfh 3 i inaptness as in this matter of reductions . PUher the introduction of competition has dis-• Jfthem or they have lost their capacity for organised * je ™^ * y of pubHc affairs . The elder SpSrs are eS sulkily resigned , or disbelieved S'SepossSmty of reductions . The younger are moposSig schemes based on a partial ignorance of the true position o ithe question . The men of between ten and twenty years' standing , who will be nTost iniiu-iously affected , are apparently quiescent . ThereAs neither union nor energy , nor even plan visibll in the entire body , and unless a very rapid change takes place , they will find themselves under the shears without having prepared a word m their own defence . The Sudder Court has protested aShist giving up a penny . Mr . Drummond in a rfally clever paper which stops far short of the truth has shown that Government contribute only 250 / . a year to the pension . Mr . Money has prepared a memorial remonstrating against Mr . Ricketts' reductions on general principles . We publish to-day a circular sent anonymously to . the whole service , entreating them , in most extraordinary grammar , to do something not explained , to secure some benefit not specified , hi some method not made clear , for tlie Pension Fund . The service may depend on it , if their able men can show no more ability than this , if they are determined not to stir , or stirring stir in secret as if they " were ashamed of their cause , their time will have It may possibly accelerate their action if we explain in plain terms , their true position . The six hundred members of the service throughout India out of college draw among them , while in service , £ 1 , 200 , 000 a-year . They will be entitled , when out of service to £ 600 . 000 a-year in pension and annuities . The bare mention of those sums in a Parliament accustomed to consider colonial allowances will appear sufficient reason for large reductions . The Secretary of State has every reason to encourage that view . Government wants money , wants it more bitterly than our readers would be ¦ apt to believe without official confirmation . With " the next year money must be had somewhere , if the State is not to adopt an expedient its servants would deem worse than Mr . Kicketts . The Council of India has not the remotest interest in protecting men appointed by their own exertions , even if it had , as it 1 ms not , the power . Parliament has no civilian members . There is literally nothing to prevent English action of a most determined sort , except the interests of a class who at home have no votes , no boroughs , and no class at their back . Add that the Secretary of State stands pledged personally to reductions made from England , and that the next Indian budgpt will terrify Lombard street , and we may leave it to educated Englishmen to estimate their chance of retaining an average salary of £ 2 , 000 a-ycar . - , Under these circumstances the only feasible line of action scorns to us clear . It is useless to protest on the general ground , to talk of the difficulty of getting good mon . of the' inferiority of the new and under-paid class who may be introduced . A trained cook is bettor than a plain cook , but to dilate on that fact to an employer with the Court ot Bankruptcy in immediate distance , is simple lolly . Cooks will bo had of somo kind , and employers in distress must just put up with Inferior dishes , ¦ even if less healthy for their childron . Equally absurd is tho notion of standing on sorvico claims . Parliament has abojishod a hierarchy before now , and will care no more about a scream of wrath lVom tho sorvioo than it did about tho demand for Lord Canning ' s recall . Tho reductions will be made , and tho only chance for the sorvico is to devjso , if possible , Borne compromise by which they may submit to tlio English diotatc , without tho prospect of personal misery and ruin . The possibility of a compensation for salaries seoms nevorto have entered the hoads of all tho officials who havo " remarked" and " romonstratod" and " protested" and " feared all through Mr . lticketta' appendices . Yet that ib the claim which will address itsolf most readily to the English mind . Tho Houso of Commons coinprohenda individual sutfUring . It will moat oortalnly not Burronder its right of fixing tho salaries ot tho servants of the Crown , but i | b may yield to tho ploa that State roforms should not ruin individuals . It has so yiuldod previously tlmo and again . Is it impossible to secure to the six hundred gentlemen who
now fill the service an individual compensation , which while sparing the" State shall spare them too ? ¦ ¦ ¦ , ' i « ¦ It is a difficult point , but we believe one Kind or compensation is possible . The crave to live in England almost balances the desire for large salaries , and may be made the basis of arid arrangement . Suppose , as an extreme example , the average of salaries were reduced thirty-five per cent ., and the sufferers allowed after fifteen vears' service to return to England on three hundred a-year , or after twenty on five hundred , and the value of whatever sum they had paid up to the Fund . The" loss to Goyerment would be at the uttermost but half the gain , an continue only for the difference between eighteen and twenty-five years . For the future service any terms * if frankly stated beforehand , are just . We do not mean that these figures in any degree represent the precise object to be sought . We give them only as indicating the line in which , and in which only , a working plan of compensation may possibly be found . It is by balancing a small sum enjoyable in England , against a large sum to be sweated for in India , that alone the necessities of the State can be made compatible with the interests of the service . At all events , the time for combined action is passing ; and if the service simply await the decree , or meet it by a declaration of their right to more than they already have—and that ; is what all proposals at present amount to—they will fail to avert the blow . Mr . Ricketts' ten per cent , reduction could be met There is room in most establishments for that amount of paring down . A shorter bill with Wilson , a horse the fewer , a little determination to make servants devote their energies to work instead of to swindling , would pretty nearly reimburse that loss Staff officers live well enough on half the remainder . But if we do not utterly mistake the condition of the finances , Mr . Ricketts' report will be lauffhed at . There are difficulties ahead , difficulties due chiefly to the monstrous management of the past three years , before which all private or class interests must give way . Twelve months more , and the most kindly of secretaries must act like the most , cold-blooded of doctrinaires . —Friend of India ,
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The- artists of Britain may point with triumph to the records of the twelfth day ' s sale of the Northwich collection , which consisted with but few exceptions , of works of native school , and realised a sum of about £ 12 , 000 . One of the . most prominent pictures was the " Marriage of Strongbow , by L > . Maclise , which brought 1 , 710 guineas The late William Leslie's « Christopher Columbus and the E < n ? " brought 1 , 070 guineas : E . M . Ward s " Fall of Clarendon , " 805 ; Maclise's " Ivanhoe , " for winch the master was paid 500 , brought 1 , 305 guineas ; the famous « Athens , " by W . Mailer ,, an artist who died all too soon , 520 guineas ; a Sidney Coopci " Meadow with Cattle , " £ 472 10 s . ; Frost ' s " Diana and Nymphs , " for which he is said to have received but £ 3 G 5 , was bought greedily for £ / 08 los . ; a Wilson , a Creswick , a Danby , and a Redgrave , each found a purchaser , after spirited competition , for about 300 guineas ; and F . Goodall ' s " Departure , of tho Norman Conscript" passed into the hands ot tho enterprising Mr . Gambart for £ 003 . The number of pictures in the various metropolitan exhibitions of 1859 . was a few more or less than 4 , 300 ; while the total of catalogued works at tho French National Exposition in the Champs Elyeees was not more than 4 , 000 . The sales at tho Society of British Artists' Gallery in Suffolk-street , wero 159 , and the gross receipts wore £ 0 , 000 . With the take at the Academy wo are not acquainted , buC ' rumour says that there was a falling off . I ho young Society , who havo mado a homo of tho Portland Gallery , wero singularly fortunate . At their private view they sold more than £ 1 , 000 worth . This ma bo partly duo \ o tho fact that the affair being in somo sort a commonwealth , almost every subscriber or member can command tho satisfaction of being seen . ' No tyrannical academician may there hoist the buds of genius to tho celling , to make room for portraits , without being called to account ; and so groat is tho anxiety among tho middle classes of tho day to possoss oil paintings , that no merit can blush unseen or unbought so it uo hung within seeing distance Of tho 290 pictures at the Old Water Colour Sociotv , 180 wero disposed of With ono or two rtJmarkablo exceptions , wnicn we noticed in a former article on this gallery , every work of real merit or attraction was swept on uy the fashionable attendants at tho private view : and wo imagine that little but decided rubbish had occasion again to encumber the studios ot tho painters . At tho Now Water Gallery , wh oh was as far above tho general average as was the uki Water Colour below it , 105 drawings , including tho
Haghe , the Warrens , the Tidey , and the . Cocks , were sold in the room , and brought a sum between £ 3 , 000 and £ 4 , 000 . A gra ' nd series—some 200 in number— . oi drawings by Raffaelle and Michael Angelo , the property of the Taylor Museum , at Oxford , have been lent for exhibition to the London public—or , we ought to say , to the S . W . London public . They are most remarkable as exhibiting the wondrous skill of hand , and the matchless knowledge of anatomy - wherewith those masters were gifted . The Michael Ansrelo set comprise studies for his gre . it fresco , " The Last Judgment , " and others for his decorative paintings in the Sistine Chapel . TV e need hardly say the collection is worth more than one visit , or that the instruction department would enhance the value of the boon in an educational point of view , were they to lay on an accomplished CLCGFOTtG ' i The French Academie des Beaux Arts has decreed its annual sculpture prize to the following students : 1 . M . Falguiere , of Toulouse , pupil ^ of Jpuffroy ; 2 . M . Cugnot , of Vaugirard , pupil of MM . Duret and DiebSlt ; 3 . M . Samson , of Nemours , pupil of Jouffroy . The subject was " Mezentius Avounded preserved by Lansus . " . . ¦ - _ . Mr . Dyce , R . A ., has been awarded their first prize of £ 50 by the Council of tlie Liverpool Fine Art Academy , for his beautiful picture , The Good Sl The annual vacation at the National Galleries commences this day , and will end on the 23 rd of October . During the recess the collections at Marlborough House will be transported to the Brompton Galleries , as the house is to be set in order for the reception of the Prince of Wales . It will be remembered that the Council of the Society of Arts made an abortive effort some months since to rouse the ^ manufacturers _ pi this country in favour of a Great Exhibition for 1861 . Three hundred gave in their adhesion , but the feeling was , on the whole , ; against the project ; not , we believe , as alleged by our contemporary the Observer , and those journals who have heedlessly adopted and endorsed his error , in consequence of the threatening aspect of political affairs , but because many long-headed n *""^ - turers were of opinion , after the Exhibition of 18 o 1 , that , putting aside all nonsensical palaver about " gratitude to a certain Royal Highness" " natoojaal dory " " blessed concourse of nations , the bond ot fraternity , " and " a ' that , "; the game , as one of advertising , not only " ne valait pas de ^ andelle , but was a very losing one , inasmuch as they gave a great deal more than they received , in the W of knowledge and power , from their brothers of the hour from beyond sea . But the potterers in Johnstreet are , we read , about to return to the charge . They have adopted the notion of peaceiul rivalry thrown out so ingeniously by the Count de M ^ ny , and are itching to rally the manufacturing interest round that standard- It is too soon . The industry of this country and of foreign countries has not made such giant strides during the last teai years that a comparison of notes is demanded by the interests of civilisation ; while the cost to exhibitors i s enormous , and the proposal now made smells , horribly of a job . The Society of Arts are , we take it , but upavissc to mask some new Bromptonborn scheme , and its managers are , we be hove seeking distinction they might acquire far more legitimately by hanging to the skirts of tho Royal Commission . The best part of tho fudge is that the O bserver affects to think the venerable society ^ ines & smys aks S ^^ Sslil tical Geology iu Jormyn-atroot . ,
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MUSIC , DRAMA , ENTERTAINMENTS . m ^ mmm moreover , announced that she afterwards w lUing S sundry concerts In tho Irish-provinces , not a few $ the Irish- public havo been curious to learn whe for tliVwodl . li Nightingale had H realWrn hontcimplutlon "gain to < " » ' « public He , I ho Ziro-M iW « W , and Water / ord JSxauUuar partookof this colUs , A "* B oxprosBod It in print , ro ~
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10091859/page/11/
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