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WE have more than once alluded to the difficulties with which any one who may attempt to classify the Estimates, and to present their con- tents in a clear and intelligible shape, has to contend. To give ocular demonstration of the fact, we present an Estimate entire. It is curious, as showing the mode in which accounts were submitted to Parliament, and the indifference with which that Guardian of the People's purses voted away the People's money without care or inquiry. It should be observed, that this specimen of " Official Accounts" ema- nated from the Treasury, where "there are no fewer than fifteen clerks, who receive salaries of 1,0001., and five of these fifteen receive 1,500/. a year and upwards ;" -1---being half as much again as is paid for the whole Commissariat department of Great Britain. So much for dispropor- tionately high pay inducing efficiency. It is possible that a portion of this Estimate may be charged in some other place, especially the Pensions on the 41 per cent. duty. As we have, however, no means of knowing how much to deduct, we let the whole stand. It will serve to cover unavoidable omissions.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT CHARGES.
AN ESTIMATE of the Sum required to provide for the Payment of certain SALARIEs, ALLOWANCES, PENsrONS, and SERvICEs heretofore paid out of the CIVIL LIST, Ibr England and Ireland, the Hereditary Revenues oi the Crown in Scotland, and the £44 per cent. Duty, but fur which no provision has been made in the CIVIL LIST of Ms present HASESTy ; from the period to which tlte said Services were severally last paid, to the 5th day of April 1832.
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS;
Clear of all Fees, and other Deductions.
Whitehall, Treasury Chambers,
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