COLONIES IN THE INDIAN SEAS.

CEYLON.

The island of Ceylon is one of the richest dependencies of the Crown ; the patronage of course is in proportion. The salary of the Governor is 10,000/. a year, with a palace to live in, and an " Aratchy," a " Kangan," and Lascoreens to attend upon him. There are more than thirty places above 1,000/. a year, their average giving nearly 2,000/. per annum each. The apparent cost of the Establishment is 122,920/. ; the average expenditure of the Colony during a period of ten years is nearly 350,000/. The whole of this enormous patronage is divided between the Governor and the Crown ; the latter taking the fat things, and leaving the former the lean. The excess of expenditure over the revenue, during the last fourteen years, was 1,365,000/. This Lad diminished, when the "last accounts came away," to 32,000/. per annum. The whole of the expenditure, excepting, perhaps, a portion of the Military, is discharged by the Colony.

i The reader s by this time acquainted with the scope and object of our tables. They are followed by a description rather political than financial. Our respectable correspondent's account is pleasing, for it is flattering. We hope the picture is as true as it is friendly.

(Paid by Colony.) Total of Ceylon

TABLE OF SALARIES.

Governor (Sir R. Wilmot Horton) Second in command (Major-General Sir Hudson Lowe) Also Colonel of 930 Foot Chief Secretary to the Government (Hon. J. Rodney) Deputy ditto and Secretary to the Council (T. Edent 2,000 Superintendent of Charitable Establishments (ditto) 180 Tice-Treasurer and Commissioner of Stamps (W. Granville) Auditor and Accountant-General (II. A. Marshall) Civil and Military Paymaster-General (C. E. Layward) Superintendent-General of Vaccine Establishment (Dr. Forbes) 450

Deputy of Inspector of Hospitals (ditto) 820 Sole Commissioner of Revenue and Commerce (Hon. R. Boyd)

Superintendent of Cinnamon Plantations (J. Walbeoff) 1,500 Sitting Magistrates, Mahabadde 180 - 1,630 Collector of Revenue. Colombo (P. Anstruther) 1,539 Ditto and Customs, Gallo (L. Santorm) 1,025 Ditto ditto Tangalle (J. N. Maryaart) .. 1,106 Ditto ditto Batticelau (11. R. Scott). 790

Provincial Judge ditto (ditto) 750

- 1,540 i Collector -of Revenue and Customs, Trincomalee (P. A. Dyke) 843 Government Agent for Tambaukaduoc (ditto)... 500 - 1.843

Collector of Revenue and Customs, Jaffnapatam (I. Price) 1,173

Ditto ditto Manar (J. W. Huskisson) 784

Supervisorof Pearl Banks (ditto) 200 Provincial Judge and Sitting Magistrate, Manar (ditto) 200

- 1,184 Collector of Revenue and Customs, Chilaw (F. J. Templar) 1,044

Provincial Judge, Calpentyu (ditto) 500

- 1.544 Chief Justice (Sir R. Ottley) 4,500 Puisne Justice (Charles Marshall) 2,500

• The settlement at Kangaroo Island. For a full account of the plan and Fa-specta f this intended Colony, see Spectator, No. 174, October 031.

Civil Establishments Judicial Establishments Revenue Establishments Miscellaneous Civil Disbursements Military Establishments- Ordinary Expenses Contingencies

Arrests of the last year

£87,796 41,360 70,930 2,290 £333,049 10,000 3,308 3,308 692 £4,000 115,391 15,282 2,000 2,000 1,270 3,000 Advocate-Fiscal (W. Norris) Ditto and Master in Eiplity Perring)

Provincial Judge. Colombo (H. Pennell)

£1,800 1,200 1,600 Judge of Provincial Court of Galle and Matura (It. M. Sneyd)

1,600 Provincial Judge and Sitting Magistrate, Trincomalee (D. A. Blair)

1,152 Provincial Judge, Jaffnapatam (P. Browrigg)

1,500 Judicial Commission, Kandyau Provinces (J. Downing)

2,000 Revenue ditto ditto (G. Turner)

1,500 Archdeacon (Venerable J. M. S. Glennic)

2,000 Senior Chaplain (Hon. and Rev. E. Finch) 800

Principal of Schools.... (ditto) 270

Pensions-

1.070 Sir E. Carrington, retired Chief Justice

1.200 Sir A. Johnstone, ditto

1,000

The following information concerning Ceylon, is taken from the letter of a correspondent (alluded to in our introductory remarks on this island), and is in some measure corroborated by a file of the Co- lombo Journal, which our correspondent has been obliging enough to send for our inspection.

" Since the appointment of its present Governor, Sir Wm:um' HoaroN,- the system of administering the affitirs of the island has undergone a complete change. The chief ameliorations consist in the establishment of a perfectly' free press ; in submitting, through the columns of the newspaper, every mea- sure that is intended to be proposed to the Legislative Council, to the inhabi- tants of the island ; and causing every petition or protestation that is made to be entered on the minutes of the Council, which, being sent to England half- yearly, may be called for by any member of Parliament. The system of com- pulsory labour has also been abolished, and every native allowed to work or not as lie pleases, as freely as an English labourer. A savings bank has been esta- blished, under the auspices of the Governor ; and a mail-coach set up (the first successful one in India, if not the very first), to run between Colombo and Kandy, a distance of eighty miles; while the Government has just commenced the work of prolonging to Trincomalee the magnificent road, the Simplon of India, which now connects Kandy with Colombo.

" The Governor, in a letter lately received, says, that were it not for the num- ber of troops at Ceylon,--it being used, from its centrical position, as a depot for the other Presidencies, and therefore burdened with many more troops than it wants,-were it not for this circumstance, it would now pay all its expenses from its own revenue, and even afford a surplus. " The trade of the Colony is at present in a state of rapid increase, princi- pally owing to the consumption of cocoa-nut oil in England ; and as the obsta- cles which formerly opposed its advancement are removed, it is expected that it will shortly become the most prosperous of our Indian possessions."

MAURITIUS.

Civil Expenditure- (Paid by Colony.)

Pay and Salaries ...................... ............ £84.514 Fixed Contingencies ..... . 30,044 Unfixed Contingencies . . 36.962 Pensions . . . 3,763 X Military Expenditure- 155,233 Island Pay and Allowances .. 22,519 Contingencies. 202 22,721 Total of Mauritius ........ ..... . ..... £173,004 Total Expense of the " Establishment "

TABLE OF SALARIES.

Governor (Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Colville) Private Secretary to the Governor (F. E. S. Viret) ........ £400 Colonial Aide.de-Camp ............ .. (ditto) .. . ...... 420 Chief Clerk of the Civil Establishment (ditto) ... 950 Chief Secretary to Government (Colonel Barry) Acting Auditor-General (N. S. K elscy) .

Civil Engineer and Surveyor-General , Treasurer and Paymaster-General (S. F. Ferris) Registrar of Slaves (E. A. Draper) ....... ....... ...... . Collector of the Internal Revenue ......... ............

Collector of Customs .................. Chief Judge and Commissary of Justice and Judge office Ad- miralty (E. B. Blackburn) Registrar of the Court of First Instance (E. F. Pruer)

ProcurcurGencral (.1.N. Foisy) £840

King's Attorney to Land Court (ditto) 360 - 1400 1,003 1,144 1,000 10,000 1,270 3,150 2,000 1,000 2,000 1,822 3,412 2,200 3,518 1,076

202,376 Chief Commissary of Police (John Finness)

102,317 Protector of Slaves (IL M. Thomas)

13,074 Vicar Apostolic