LAW AND JUSTICE

4723,805 COLONIAL £220,357 DIPLOMATIC £264,616

WE merely present the gross amounts of the expenditure in each of these departments. The details will be exhibited in the ordinary weekly numbers of the Spectator. The great length to which the more important, or at least the more expensive departments have ex- tended, rendered it necessary to postpone some of it secondary nature. We have selected the above, as susceptible of an independent exhibi- tion ; and for that occasion we reserve more specific observations upon the subjects in question. We may remark, however, that the accounts presented of the Judicial and Colonial expenses are incomplete in themselves, from the want of documents ; and very, v far below the actual cost, from the greater portion of the payments for those esta- blishments being indirectly discharged. Thus, a large part of the cast of many Courts of Justice is defrayed by fees ; in some cases the en- tire expense is discharged from this source ; \ark the expense of Gaols, of Prosecutions, and of Local Police, is defrayed by county or local rates. It is probable that the apparent charge for Justice might be doubled, or even trebled, and yet not exceed the truth. This observation applies much more strongly to the Colonial ex- penditttre. The number of troops serving in the Colonies, compared with the number at home, is as 33 to 43. The more expensive regi- ments being, however, stationed in Great Britain and Ireland, we will rate the -Military cost of the Colonies at only one-third of the whole Military expenditure. This at once gives au outlay of above a million and a quarter, exclusive of Naval expenses, and of money indirectly paid by the public in the shape of Protective Duties. We make ti observations not to raise a clamour against the Colonies-not to their rash abandonment-but merely to point atteotion to one great source of our expenditure. It should be observed, that we are not certain as to the correctness of the amounts we exhibit under either of these three heads ; and the Diplomatic, though nearer the exact truth than the rest, is only so on account of the smallness of its actual amount. In fact, for the Ambassador's' salaries we have been unable to find any proper document to proceed upon. The account we present, is taken from a scale drawn up by a Select Committee on Civil Government Charges ; and though we know the gross amount is very nearly correct it is possible that most of tile details may be wrong. As we have al, ready observed, this branch of the public service was only submitted to the public control on his present Majesty's accession. After twenty months' gestation, a bill was brought in to fix the amount of the ex- pense, and to point out the fund from which it should be paid. The following is the very distinct and satisfactory information the Act of Parliament conveys. " IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to charge upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland an annual sum of 203,5101. to defray the charge of the Salaries and Allowances of his Majesty's Diplomatic .;.erv:Iiits em- ployed at Foreign Courts, and of the Pensions which have been granted or may hereafter be granted to persons having served his Majesty at Foreign Courts; the said charge to take effect and commence from the 5th April 1632."

SUMMARY OF LAW AND JUSTICE.

JUDICIAL,

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Courts ofiust ice in England 11531;517 Ireland Scotland POLICE 109.470 330,634 Total of Law and Justice £723,805

There is a difference of 'nearly a quarter of a million between thiE account and the annual expenditure as stated in the Public Balance sheet. About 100,0001. is accounted for by the charge for Transporta- tion being included in the. Extra Naval Estimate. The balance we have no means of explaining. We may have overlooked the items, or they may not have been published.

COLONIAL SUMMARY.

Civil Establishment of Nova Scotia (After the present year, no further application will be made to Par- liament for the support of the Civil Establishment ; the Province, 'CO

presume, will maintain its own Government.) 4,025 Civil Establishment of Prince Edward's Island Ditto Newfoundland 16,576 Expenses of the Ecclesiastical Establishment of the British North Ame-

mean Provinces 21,,av Expenses of the Establishment of the Indian Department in Upper and Lower Canada; including. Presents, &e. to the Indians, as a species of Annuity either for Lands surrendered, for Services performed in former

200P0 Wars, or as a sort of ensM , mary Tribute 50,000

Charge for Improving the Water Communication in Canada The following Table shows us the benefit of "Colonies." This is only one job.

£500 Already Expended. 'granted for 1882-3. To be c-rtunted. Supposed Expense.* £914,265 £50,000 £80.667 £1,044,952 Salaries to Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, and others, in the West India Colonies 11,486 Civil Establishment anti Incidental Charges in the Bahama Islands 3.978 Civil Establishment of the Bermuda Islands 4,499 Civil Establishment of the Settlements in Westum Africa, viz.- Sierra Leone and Gambia X 9,730 Fernando Po 19,822 Cape Coast Castle and Accra 3,520 - .. Expenses of the Settlements in Western Australia Office for the Registry of Colonial Slaves in Great Britain Salaries of the Registrar, Clerks, and Messengers on the Establishment, and of the Contingent Expeuses ; including Fees on the issue thereof Paid by Fees, for Searches and Certificates £400 Paid by a Vote 1,150

Expenses for the Support of Captured Negroes and Liberated Africans.. Salaries and Incidental Expenses of the Commissioners appoiuted ou the part of his Majesty, under the Treaties with Spain. Portugal, and the

Netherlands, for preventing the Illegal Traffic in Slaves Total of Direct Colonial Expenditure £220,357 DIPLOMATIC SUMMARY.

AMBASSADORS. Ambassadors at Foreign Courts, including House Rent (suppo§ed) Coxset.s. rattler the Foreign Department.)

Salaries to Consuls-General. Consuls, and Vice-Consuls, in Europe and America 50,525 Salaries, &e. to the Consubir Establishment in the Levant, under the Establishment maintained by the Levant Cumpany, aud pre- y/slaw/Ili sanctioned by Government 11,000 Contingent Expenses ; moiety of expenses fur Chaplains, Chapels,

Hospitals, Burial-grounds, Sze 6,500 (Hider the Colonial Department.) Salaries of the Agents, Consuls-General, and Vice-Consuls in the Barbary States 10,700 Contingent Expenses 700 CONTINGENCiES. Extraordinary Disbursements of Ministers and Consuls at Foreign

Courts, together with Outfit anti Equipage 34,441 Presents to Persons of Distinction awl Ministers of Foreign Conrts 7,557

(The practice of the interchange of diplomatic presents is discon- tinued subsequently to the aith January 1331.) Expenses of Entertaining and Conveying Persons of Distinction, Ambassadors, Governors, Ice, 3,193 Total of Diplomatic... £264,616 33,072 11,271 1,550 25,000 10.350 X 140,000 79,425 45,191