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OFFICIAL PLURALISTS.
One of the returns ordered by the House of Commons, last session, was for " the names of all permanent public officers who hold any office or employment out of their office, as Directors of Life Assurance, Railway, Banking, or other Commercial Companies; stating the office each such servant holds, the time he has been in the public service, and the amount of salary and emoluments received from the public by him in the year 1852." From the return just issued, it appears that eighty-two gentle- men engaged in the public service in England, thirty-four in Scotland, and four in Ireland, are connected more or less intimately with such ex- traneous pursuits as those enumerated in Mr. Hume's motion. The House of Commons staff supplies Directors to three Assurance Com- panies; the Treasury, one; the Council Office, one ; the Colonial Office four, two of the four holding a directorship each, one holding two, and the fourth holding three. Bridge, Railway, Bank, and Assurance Com- panies, are included in the list ; and the same variety occurs in the re- turns made by the other public offices. The Colonial Land and Emigra- tion Office gives two names ; the Foreign Office, one ; the War Office, two ; the Exchequer, one ; the Poor-law Board, four ; the Inland Re- venue, seven; the Customs, four ; the Ordnance Office, four ; Greenwich Hospital, six ; the Admiralty, five ; the Post-office, eight; and so on. The salaries of the gentlemen enumerated are for the most part of the higher class, ranging from 500/. to 50001. Mr. P. Gannaway, a letter- carrier, stands at the foot of the speculative ladder, and Mr. Justice }tank at its top ; the former has 681. a year, and is a Director of a Friendly Loan Society; Mr. Justice Mauls has 50001. a year and is a Director of the University Life Insurance Company. Mr. Justice Crow- der is the only other instance of an English Judge holding a directorship. In Scotland five Judges are enumerated as engaged in extra work.
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