nr SUMMARY OF NAVAL NON-EFFECTIVE , EXPENDITURE.

Voted for 18324.

Pensions to Officers . ... 83,593 Half-pay £785,506 Pensions to the Widows and Relations of Officers slain, 12,828 drowned, 3:c 132.837 Pensions to Widows of Naval Officers 10,317 Marine Officers 14,000 Compassionate Allowances 1,300 Bounties to Chaplains 250,000 Out-Pensioners of Greenwich Hospital £1,990,381

The circumstances which seem to justify the half-pay of a military man do not apply with such force to a sailor. Unless employed by the public, the former will not be employed at all ; the latter has the com- mercial marine for a resource. Whether the higher skill in tactics and gunnery which the officer of a man-of-war requires should entitle hint to some remuneration, is a matter of question. We apprehend a lower rate of half-pay than Naval officers receive at present, would be suffi- cient for this purpose. Whether a certain sum might not be deducted from the pay both of Naval and Military officers to form a fund for Super- annuations, &c., is a point deserving, perhaps, more consideration than we have at present space to bestow upon it. In our observations on the Pensions, we remarked that the Naval force was not only the best, but the cheapest. The Non-effective expenditure of this "noble service" confirms the opinion. In the "Land Forces," the drones outnumber the bees by one sixth. In the Navy, the numbers actually employed rather exceed those on the retired list. The cost of the Army and Ordnance Non-effective service has increased since 1817 by about one fifth ; the charge for the Navy has diminished. The reason is probably that half-pay in the Army can be acquired by a sojourn in town or country quarters. The man who enters the Navy must submit, even in peace, 0 the rigid discipline and confinement of a ship, as well as to the un- pleasantness of the nightly watch, and the occasional warfare of the elements. We believe it will be found a general rule, that the absence of the Aristocracy from any employment is always in proportion to the labour undergone and the efficiency required.

This praise of the Navy Inefficient Expenditure must be considered as strictly comparative. The expense is much beyond what the necessi- ties of the service require. It has been stated in Parliament, that there are two Admirals to every ship, and that only 1 officer out of 9 is em- ployed; there being 5,000 officers on half-pay, and 600 on duty.

NAVAL HALF-PAY. Voted for 1035-3.

Half-pay to Admirals of the Fleet, Flag Officers, Captains, Com- manders, Lieutenants, Masters. and Chaplains .. „ £679,919 Refired II all-pay to Rear Admirals, Captains, and Commanders , 55,278 Half-par to Majors, Captains, and Lieutenants of Royal Marines 36,04 Pay of Retired and Unattached Officers of the Royal Marines 14,335 Total Amount of Half-pay £795,506 £93,593 PENSIONS TO WIDOWS AND RELATIONS OF NAVAL OFFICERS. Pensions to the Widows and Relations of Naval Officers slain, drowned. Sze 12,828

Deduct

Amount of Pensions ceased £340 340 Add £19,488 2 Sisters, at 35/. each 70 4 Widows, from 30/. to 100/. 270 Pensions granted in 1931-3 to No alteration. 240 340 Total Amount of Pensions to Widows and Relations £12£29 £132,837 £10,317 NAVY COMPASSIONATE LIST.

Allowances to Orphans of Naval and Marine Officers in 1931-2 £12,000

Add in 1839-3 9,000

£14,000 £1,300 OUT-PENSIONERS OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL.

Out-Pensions to Commissioned Officers £4,200 Out-Pensions to Warrant-Officers and others (Sail- ors ?) in 1831-2 £245,000 Add in 1939-3 800 245,900 Total Amount of Out-Pensions of Greenwich Hospital £250,090 Wounds 21 Boatswains, at Pensions from 13/. to 75' 958 24 Gunners, 13/. to 75/ 1,71/S

30 Carpenters, 30/. to 85/ Mb

:29 Cooks, 29/. -Is. Id. to 34/. 17s. 48 981 - 4,643 Increase in 1831-3 £1,393 - Total Amount of Pensions to Officers PENSIONS TO NAVAL OFFICERS.

Pensions to Commbsioned and Warrant Officers £82,200 Deduct Pensions ceased or transit rred to Half-pay 3,250 -Add • 78,950 Pensions granted in 1932-3, to Commander P. P. Bagwell, for PENSIONS TO WIDOWS OF NAVAL OFFICERS, (Formerly paid by the Widows' Charity) : viz.- Widows of Flag Officers, Captains, Commanders, Lieute- nants, Masters, Chaplains. Boatswains, Gunners, and Carpenters £136,180 Deduct Balance received from the Widows' Charity as the amount of unclaimed Pensions, subject to any future demands 3,343 PENSIONS TO WIDOWS OF MARINE OFFICERS. Pensions to the Widows of General Officers, Lieutenant- Colonels, Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, and Surgeons, in 1931-2 £10,000 Add in 1932-3 317 BOUNTIES TO NAVAL CHAPLAINS. Per Day.

20 Chaplains 4s. who have served 7 years

20 3s. 5 20 2s.64. 4

On board any of his Majesty's Ships of War, provided it shall ap- pear by the Books of the said Ships that they have been actually

borne and mustered thereon for the above times