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THE payment for the past year is taken as our data. The charges are so various, and the jumble is so great, that any estimate must of ne- cessity be very imperfect.

"VARIOUS PUBLIC SERVICES." Paid in 1831.

(Part?) Salaries and Expenses of seven Commissions £25,153

Expenses of passing under the Great Seal seven Commissions 733

Ditto two Fatents 619 Miscellaneous payments for Services, Disbursements, and Contingencies,

of various descriptions, jumbled together without order or method 87,456

(Es. gra.) Amount paid on account of R. Lander's late expedition of Discovery to Africa £853 18s. Id. Sir Robert Chester, in lieu of the percentage which the Master and Assistant Master of the Ceremonies formerly received eipon Presents made by his Majesty to Foreign Ministers, Fee, in the year 1830. £487 10s. Coals, and other necessaries, provided for the Court of Common Pleas, in

1830 and 1831 £100 18s. One year's Salary to the Resident Surgeon, and for the Cost and Carriage of Medicines supplied for the Sick Poor in the Scilly Isles .... £123 105. 84. To defray the expense incurred in Macadamizing Downing Street, £190 Us. 64. Expense incurred in England and Scotland in procuring information relative

to the Boundaries of different Cities and Boroughs £6,623 12s. 64. Amount of Fees paid at the Treasury and Exchequer £3,153 10s. To pay Rewards offered by his Majesty's Proclamation of the 23d November 1830 for the discovery, 8:c. of the offenders in the districts at that time in a disturbed state, and to discharge expenses connected therewith £32,000 Miscellaneous Payments for Services, Sze. &c. in Ireland 11,584 (Ex. gra.)

Rig Excellency the Marquis of Anglesey, the usual equipage-money allowed the

Lord Lieutenant on his arrival in Ireland £2,769 4s. 84.

Exclusive of the Rapids of St. Ann's, of which no Estimate has been presented. t Financial Reform, third edition, p. 126.

Right Honourable Lord Plunket, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the like, on his

appointment £923 Is. 64. Expenses defrayed by Officers of the (King's) Household, not being part of the Civil List, in the quarter ended 10th October 1330, and in the half-year ended 30th June 1831-

Furniture. ironmongery, Sae. for Whitehall Chapel, Apartments of the Officers of the Guards, and fur the Tower

Robes, Collars, Badges, 80. fur K nights of the several Orders Repairing the King's Crown, Mares. Badge, 4-c. Gold and Silver Sticks, Officers attending Proclamation of his Majesty's Accession Plate supplied to Lord Melbourne, upon his appointment as Secretary of State, in

the quarter ended 30th June 1831 £199.463 336 2,578 511 483