The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

THE NAVY, 4-c., ESTIMATES.

TILE estimates for the ensuing financial year are out. The
sum total that will be required for the service of the ensuing
year, 1856.57, amounts to £12,148,641, being a net increase of
£291,135 over the year 1855-56.
The items are as follow, viz.:— Wages to seamen and marines,
£3,237,893 ; victuals for the same, £1,434,730 ; the Admiralty-
office, £138,399 ; the royal naval coast volunteers, £20,000;
the scientific branch, £58,982 ; her Majesty's home establish-
ments, £153,795, and those abroad, £36,494; wages to arti-
ficers employed in the establishments at home, £1,190,309,
and to those employed abroad, £109,913; naval stores, &c.,
for the building and repairs of ships, £3,447,351; new works
and improvements in the yards, £864,334; medicines and
medical stores, £70,000 ; miscellaneous services, £88,972 ;
half-pay, £655,421 ; military pensions and allowances,
£494,363 ; and civil pensions and allowances, £147,685. Thus
it will be seen that the effective service requires a sum of
£10,851,172, and the non-effective, one of £1,297,469.
The above may be called the Navy Estimates " Proper."
Next follows the estimate for the " Transport service and pri-
soners of war," which will entail a total charge of £6,971,537
—a formidable addition to the sum required for the general
navy estimates. The greater part of this estimate (£6,829,922)
is for " freight, &c., for the Army and Ordnance Departments ;
the sum total required for prisoners of war amounting to
£125,800 only.
The Post-office Department (packet service) will entail a
charge on the nation for the ensuing financial year of
£756,487. against £755,239 last year. Of this sum £25,000 is
required for the Irish mails, £4,009 for the Channel Islands,
£15,500 for the French, £20,500 for the Peninsular, £172,840
for the American, £240,000 for the West Indian, £25,000 for
the Western American mails, £21,500 for the West Coast of
Africa, and £154,414 for the Overland Indian, &c.
These three branches of the Naval Estimates make, to-
gether, a grand total of £19,876,675.
The Army and Ordnance Estimates have yet to appear.

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.

TrIE official accounts just published show that, in the year
ended the 31st of December, 1855, the public income of the
united kingdom amounted to £63,364,605, and the public
expenditure to £84,505,788, leaving the somewhat alarming
deficiency of £21,141,183.
Of the revenue, the customs yielded £20,987,762; the ex-
cise, £16,389,486 ; the stamps, £6,805,604 ; the taxes (land
and assessed), £2,945,784; the property-tax (income tax),
£13,718,185; the post-office, £1,137,219; the crown lands,
£280,515 ; the sale of old stores, &c., £522,138 ; moneys re-
ceived from the East India Company, £60,000 ; miscellaneous
receipts, £402,768.; and unclaimed dividends, £115,149.
Of the expenditure, the interest and management of the
permanent debt cost £22,792,594; terminable annuities,
£173,240 ; the interest of exchequer-bonds (1854), £217,000;
the interest of exchequer-bills (supply), £560,635 ; deficiency,
£9,386 ; and ways and means, £26,749 ; making a grand
total, for the public debt, of £27,647,899. The civil list en-
tailed a charge of £396,570 ; annuities and pensions, £340,991;
salaries, &c., £162,697 ; diplomatic salaries and pensions,
£149,244; and courts of justice, £493,082. Of the " supply"
services, the army cost £14,5452059 ; the navy, £19,014,708 :
and the ordnance, £9,632,290. The vote of credit (additional
expenses of the war with Russia), £5,200,000.; and miscella-
neous civil services, £6,741,126. The balances of public
money remaining in the exchequer on the 31st of December
last amounted to the sum of £3,688,600 against £6,015,612
on the sth of January, 1855. In an earlier account, made up
to the 30th of September, 1855, the revenue is made to
amount to £62,990,580, and expenditure to £78,505,553—
leaving a deficiency of £16,614,973.

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
TUESDAY.

On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Leases and
Sales of Settled Estates Bill was read a second time.
Poon.-Lew.—ln answer to a question, Lord STANLEY of
ALDEIILRY said a bill had been prepared carrying into effect
the recommendations of the committee of inquiry relating to
the removal of Scotch and Irish poor, but that no change in
the English law of settlement and removal was contemplated.
CRIMINAL TRIALS.—The LORD CHANCELLOR laid on the
table a bill to enable the Court of Queen's Bench to send for
trial to the Central Criminal Court persons charged with
offences that could more suitably be tried in that court than
in the court at Westminster. There was no doubt the. Court
of Queen's Bench had the power of removing the process
from an assize town where there was likely to be a prejudice
against the accused, but whether it had the power of ordering
the trial in the Central Criminal Court was doubtful. The
object of the bill was to settle this difficulty.
Their lordships adjourned at six o'clock.