UPPER CANADA.

CIVIL G-OVERNMENT.

It should be borne in mind, when estimating the value of incomes, that an offi- cer of the government of the colony, in possession of 100/. per annum, is placed, in regard to pecuniary circumstances, in the same relative position to "time higher orders" of gentry and freeholders there, as he would be with 1,0001. a - year, or thereabouts, to the corresponding classes of society in this country. A revenue of about 160,000/. is annually collected from the industry of about 4000o families, inhabiting a tract of country which was in a state of wilder- ness forty years ago. Of this sum, scarcely a tithe is under the nominal con- trol of the annual vote of a Legislature unequally chosen, and the members of which are exposed to many great temptations, from the overwhelming influence of an Executive, supported by the clergy, and troops paid by Europe, and whose power is almost unbounded. The expense of collecting the Assessed and Pro- perty Taxes, and the Custom-duties, varies from 10 to 100 per cent. on the amount collected; law costs are an intolerable burden ; the Judges are party po- liticians, removable, and occasionally removed, at the nod of the Governor or Colonial Secretary ; and the Ministers of the Crown invariably support this state of things. I do not perceive that it is of the least consecinence to the co- lonists what Administration is in powerttre; the Colonial Fa:icy-is for ever the - same. A largerevenueis secretly disposed of. I thrice moved and carried an ad- dress to the Lieutenant.-Governor, through the House of Assembly, by an an- nual vote which was unanimous, praying for full and detailed information as to what had become of the money of the Colonists. The reply of his Excellency was always to the same effect,—that his Majesty's (late and present) Ministers had instructed -Min to keep the disposal of a part of the revenue a secret from the people's representatives. I wrote to England, but the Whigs made no al- teration in the system of their predecessors.

In 1829 and 1830, the Local Government said that no supplies would be wanted, they having instructions from Downing Street to take what they re- quired. In 1830-31, I moved an address to the Lieutenant-Governor in the House of Assembly, requesting information in detail concerning the salaries, fees, and other emoluments of the officers of the Colonial Govemrneut. The returns were, in many cases, obscure and imperfect ; and in some cases no re- turn whatever was made. The income of the Crown officers, and many others, most be more than double what is stat.al below ; but we were glad to obtain any returns on such a ticklish subject. 15,000/. have been expended in a College on the Oxford principle, within a few years; 225,000 acres of choice land have been granted to a few Govern- ment officers on its behalf; 1,000/. a year are paid to it out of the land-sales ; and the whole is conducted by the Local Government, not only without legisla- tive control, but in such a manner as to call for an annual vote or address of re- prehension from the Assembly. The Local Legislature have annually prayed his Majesty to cease to send out money to America to pay for priests they do not want; and many thousands of the pe3ple have signed petitions to the same effect, for presentation to his Ma- jesty and the House of Commons. But it is all to no purpose ; the priests keep the people quarrelling, and are useful by fomenting divisions among them. The law-lees alone amount to 40,000/. or 50,000/. per annum, paid by a few emigrants in a wilderness! Nearly 80,000/. per annum of public money are expended by a local magis- tracy chosen by the Government during pleasure, and over whose proceedings there is no popular control.

FIRST CLASS.

Annual Payments made from Colonial Revenue, without any Vote of the House of Commons or Colonial Leyislature, by authority emanating from Downing Street.

PENSIONS. Sterliug.. Sir W. Campbell. late a Chief Justice £1,200

V. 0. Powell, ditto ditto 1,000 Sir D. W. Smith, of Northumberland, England. Baronet 200 John M`Gill. thr three and a half years' services as Receiver-General 450

Thomas Talbot (brother or an Irish HP) 400 Family or the late General Shaw - 100

D'Arey Bouillon. father to the Attorney-General 500 Family of the late Colonel Smith 200

Captain W. Janie 104

Captain John NI'Donell 104 Lioatenant Daniel 51.Dougal 73 wi, low of Governor Campbell of Bermuda 250

SINECCRES. Total of Pensions 4,581

Provincial Agent in England. utterly unknown in Canada 200 Dr. strachan, Archdeacon of York 300 Dr. Stewart. Archdeacon of Kingston 300 Samuel Ilidont, Agent for Officers ;salaries 200 Dr. Straehan, President Board of Education (no duties prescribed bylaw) 270 Thomas Merritt. Deputy Surveyor of Woods 47 C.C. Small, Clerk of the Crown (duty performed by deputies) 910 lames Baby, Officer of the Laud-granting Department 225 Other Officers of the same Department (no duties to perform) 2,341 Naval Officer, nurse unknown 100 Dr. Phillips, Master of Royal Grammar School 200 Surveyor-General (seer was in the Colony) about 700 Duncan Cameron. Secretary and Registrar (duty perf. by a deputy) 1,100 The Clerk of the Executive Council (duty performed by a deputy). 820

SALARIEs A N D EMOLUMENTS. Total of Sinecures 7,713

Sir J. Colborne, additional Salary as Lieutenant-Governor 1,000 Peter Robinson. Crown Laud Commis. and Surveyor of Woods 1,000 Dr. Strachan. President of the University salary unknown. S. B. Robinson, Chief Justice as Speaker of the Legis. Council .... 360 R. Stanton, Government Printer 750 Judges and Crown Lawyers' travelling charges 493 Five or Six Professors, King's College emoluments unknown. Joseph Spmgge, Master of Central School. with the fees 280 Samuel Armour, Master of Government School, Peterborough, with the fees 120

George Markland, Bursar, and Joseph Wells, Registrar K.0 unknown.

J. H. Dunn, as Receiver-General of Crown Lands 2) Lieutenant-Governor's Private Secretary 590 'Slime other Clerks in the Governor's Gffice 500 Surveyor-General's Office, Clerks, See.. 1,837 Crown Land Commissioner's Office, Clerks, Sze. unknown.

S. P. Jarvis, Deputy Secretary and Registrar 150 Deputy Clerk to the Executive Council, and other charges 634 D'Arcy I3oulton, Auditor-General 215 W. Barnett, Timber Gauger. Ottawa 250 Messrs. Shirreff, Timber Collectors, ditto 400 Their Clerks and Charges, ditto 250 Pr. M'Donell, Roman Catholic Bishop salary 400 Sum divided in unequal proportions among Roman Catholic Priests 750 Sum divided Annually among those of the Presbyterian Ministers who belong to the Established Church 750 Additional to Archdeacon Stewart . 50 Sum divided among Churelnof England Clergy, out of the Land Re- venue •2,800 Total of Salaries arid Emoluments 14,879 Total X 27,173 Upwards of 50 Postmasters, at from 2001. and power of frankiug down to Si.

SECOND CLASS.

Payments made from Colonial Revenue or Fees received for services wider permanent Acts of the Colonial Legislature.

SINECURES.

Colonel Coffin, Adjutant-General of Militia (duties performed by a De- piny, who is paid a salary, and for contingencies 2551.) £325 Dr. Phillips, Chaplain to Ilonse of Assembly (incumbent discharged by successive Assemblies, who protest against the recognition of any domi- nant church) 45 Pmesrosts. • Three at 20/. each 60 Militia Pensions 1,200

SALARIES, See.

Jonas Jones, Judge of three Districts, &c. &e. 625 Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant-Governor 2,000 5 Executive Councillors : Dr. Strachan, Petre, Robinson, Ike 500 J. B. Robinson, Chief Justice 1,500 L. P. Sherwood and J. B. Macaulay, Puisne Judges 1,800 Grant Powell, 1701.; Thomas Taylor, 1151.; Dr. Jones, 2001. as Distiict Judges. Dr. Phillips and other 10 District Teachers, 901.each, and considerable fees 1,275 Grant divided annually among about 250 schoolmasters 2,625 Archibald M'Lean, Speaker of the House of Assembly. Clerk of the Peace for three Counties, Registrar for Stormont County, &c inecme unknown.

• The Clergy of the Church of England have also for their use one seventh of all the lands in the Colony, besides grants, trusts, gifts, glebes, &c., in all embracing about lane acre in four or five throughout the province. James Fitzgibbon, Clerk of Assembly. Registrar of Probate Court, &c. X390 48 Members of the House of Assembly, at Os. per slay, in session, and tra- velling charges (Town Members have no wages) 2,050 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and Master in Chancery 175

[There is no Chancery Court.]

J. H. Dunn, Additional Salary as Receiver-General 700

His Clerks. &c 551,

Clerks of the Peace. Niagara, Bathurst, Johnstown, and Newcastle Districts 711

Samuel Ridout, Registrar of York County 401,

T.1). Campbell, Clerk of Johnstown District Court 26:i A. Pringle, Clerk and Customs' Commissioner, Midland ditto 304 Registrars, Niagara, Gore, and Ottawa (with other offices) 410 George Anderson, Clerk of E. District Court 11 — £10,011

. THIRD CLASS.

Miscellaneous Payments from Colonial Revenue, ho virtue of Orders from Downing Sim Imperial Enactments, Judicial :thrill: Local Arts, 6.e.

Collector of Customs, K ingston (W. Kirkpatrick) sffe"t .. Prescott, &e. (R. 1). Frazer) 31 .. York (G. Savage) 32r From thirty to forty other Collectors amid Deputies, at 2001. and downwards, besides a share of all the seizures, say- 4,001 Eleven District Treasurers, fees 4 per cent. Eleven Gaugers, Importers, anti Collectors of Excise—fees, per centages,lunknoc share of revenue pee:titles, &e. Sheriff, Ottawa District (A. Mt Mitten) 1830 365 .. Dome District 1W, B. Jarvis) .. 700 .. Eastern District (D. M'Docell) . 48tt

.. Gore, 2701.; Niagara, 2001.; London, 270/ 74,

.. Bathurst District (J. 11. Powell) 1830 20' .. Newcastle District (II. Ruttan) 590

Adria Sherwood, Sheriff, Treasurer. &c. Johnstown 471:

W, Hands, Sheriff, Collector of Excise, Treasurer, Collector of Customs, Surrogate, Western District 38!t

Elias Jones, Clerk of the District Court, Excise Gauger, Sec., Newcastle,, 24"

Henry J. Bolton, Attorney-General 1,10o C. A. Hagerman, Solicitor-General 50e Nine Deputies to Crown Clerk 250 J. Baby, Inspector-General, and for Clerks, Sec . 96'

Grant Powell, Clerk, Legislative Council 281, Other Officers of the Legislature 1.121, W. J. Kerr, Canal Superintendent 140

To Deputy Postmaster-General, all time newspaper and printed piper post-

age, which is supposed to exceed Get SUMMARY Or COLONIAL EXPENDITURE-IN TIPPER CANADA.

(Paid by Colony.) Class 1 • £21,173 .. 2 18,011 14.317 Total paid by Colony X53,501 .. 4. Paid by Great Britain 6.773 £60,274

There are, besides- the functionaries above enumerated, numerous office holders,—trading justices who live by the fees of court, emigrant agents, deput sheriffs, district judges, surrogates, registrars, peace clerks, district cow ditto, commissioners of customs, &c. The Welland and Rideau Canals, am still more especially the Government Bank and its agencies, are sources of pa tronage, furnishing many lucrative situations. The Customhouse officers hay. no check to their returns, nor do they make them under oath. The Canada- Land Company's officers and clerks are an additional and unnecessary burden upon the industry of the country. Nearly the whole of the patronage, of tin extent of which in one colony I have attempted to give a faint outline, is in till hands of the Government here and its colonial agents, to be exercised at plea sure. Both priest and civilian depend on Downing Street, directly or indi- rectly, for their appointments and tenure of office. At the opening of the Legislature of New York, the state adjoining Uppel Canada, in last January, the Governor, who is justly proud of the honour of pre- siding over two millions of his countrymen, with a salary of 8881. a year, made the following remarks in his address to the two Chambers—" Here national prosperity is the prosperity of every individual ; not a cent is contributed by way of tax, not a dollar 39 expended from the public coffers, which is not as sented to by the people and employed to enlarge their means of enjoyment." To this also it must come at last in Upper Canada- Either the Reformed Parlia- ment will hearken to the complaints of the colonists, and authorize a remedy, or else the evil must be removed by the exercise of that power "which slumbers in the arms of temperate freemen." Never was there a people worse treated co more enduring than we of Upper Canada have hitherto been. FOURTH CLASS. £14,317 Annual Paymcnts made from the Treasury of Great Britain. Major-General Sir J. Colborne, Commander-in-Chief, his Staff, the Troops,

Commissaries. It eilders, enoting and keeping up Garrisons, Naval Officers, Shipwri-Itts. Pensioners, &et sum unknov Pension; widow 'ttarnimson, wife of a Church Missionary X 75 Salary; Dr. St raellan, as Church Missionary 275 Bishop's Commissary 150 Dr. Phillips, Church 'Missionary 2011 To Church of Euglaml Clergymen, from British Annual Grants, over and above all other payments herein stated 3,631 Chief Superintendent t.,f the Indian Department 40o

Fold other Superintendents at 231/. each, ditto 924

Three Interpreters at 1021. ditto 306 Au Assistant Superintendent, ditto 137 Pension List, ditto 671 6,773

[A few years ago, it was said by military officers, that it was expedient to ea petal 130,000/. in the Indian Department in Canada ; now they say 20,000/. enough. As to the presents, I know but little of the mode of distribution, al, that little is unfavourable. With regard to the superintendents assistants, h terpreters, &c., one for Upper Canada is as good as a score, for the ostensit. purpose named ; but if a military despotism were wanted to be kept up, a doza or two scattered over the Colony with large incomes might make themselva useful in one way, if not in another. In examining the papers sent down by Government to the Committee a Finance in 1828, I was very much astonished to find, that the official returns fa Upper Canada salaries, fees, incomes, emoluments, &e., were missing for tl. years 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827. The Colonial Expenditure had trebled sinc 1823, the latest return that appears to have been submitted to the Committo Surely the Colonial Secretary must hare forgotten all about these year returns.)