The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-16 00:00:00

CIVIL CONTINGENCIES.

A detailed statement was is..ilesl this Morning
of the expenditure charged against the vote for Civil Con-
tingcncies in the you ended March 31, im;l. We extract
a few particulars :—The special mission of the Earl of Elgin
to (Ague eat 11,000/. ; the expenses of Lord Dufferin in
Syria amount to 2,0001. ; the mission to Perim fur nego-
tiating the commercial treaty of Jan. 21, 10(60, and supple-
mental conventions, 5.1913. lls. 11d. Lord Bloomfield was
allowed 2,5001. for " outfit " upon proceeding to VlOOO4 ;
and Lord Napier the same sum upon proceeding to St. Pe-
tersburg. lir. C. Alison, minister in Persia, received 1.4001.
for outlit ; Sir C. Wyke, minister in Mexico,
1,300/. ; Lord A. I.oftns, minister at Berlin, 1,000!. The
entertainment of the Empress of Austria and suite on boanl
the ()shore° cost 1161. 10s. 61.; the entertainment of the
&rola/Isadore from Morocco entailed expenses amounting
to 2,331/. 2s. td. ; and the reception of the Persian
ambassador, 229/. 12s. 101. Among other items are the
entertainment of the King of Mosquito and servant during
passage between Bluefield. and Greytowo, on board her
Majesty's ship Gorroe, 8/. Ms. ; conveyance of the Earl of
Carlisle between Kingston and Holyhead, 1501. ; passage
expenses of the Bishop of Newfoundland on returning
from a visitation of Bermuda, 60/. ; passage expenses
of the Bishop of Kingstown during • visitation
of Bahamas and Turk's Island, 121/. 95. ; enter-
tainment of the Bi.hop of Bartadoes and suite on
hoard her Majesty's ship Hydra, while on a tour of visita-
tion through his diocese, 541. lle. ; passage exp.:mica of the
Bishop of Antigua during a visitation of his diocese, 371.
Se. lid. ; entertainment of refugees from Nieman on board
the Argos and Hannibal. 22!. Os. 3.1.; entertalumeut on board
Her Majesty's ships llaunibal acid Janice Watt, of the craw
of the steamer Orwell, in ocemequence of the seizures( that
reveal by the followers of Cessna Garibaldi, 11/. 14e. ;
passage allowance to the Bishop of Antigua, 100/. The
Speaker's state carriage has been reraired at a cost of
MV. 10e. ; as expense of 1,4151. 7s. lid. was incurred by
erecting galleries in Hyde-par*, fur the volualeer review of
June lad; 6001. was paid to Mr. H. B. Loch, upon
his arrival in London with the convention put-
ting au end to hostilities in China, "living the usual
present greeted on such an oocaaiou." 7,6731.7 a 101. has
been paid to Pepple, ex-King of !loony, "in fall discharge
of his claims upon her Majesty's government in respect of
certain proceedings of British authorities on the African
coast in conunuon with the slave trails."

Tirr Co:moan-rum or TRA. —A parliamentary
return issued this morning shows the quantity of tea annu•
ally consumed in the United Kingdom, with the average
rate i.n.l amount of duty collected thereon ; alto
the average price, inclusive and exclurive of the duty, and
the average inantity consumed by each individual of the
PoPylotion frfromlBol to 1860 inclusive. The increase in
the quantity consumed has been singularly steady, fluc-
tuating here and there, hut recovering the following yam,
with • new impetus. We take the particulars at the
commencement and the end of the period covered by the
return. In 1801, when the average price per lb., inclusive
of duty, was M. 20., the quantity of tea *Dimmed in the
United Kioudnin was T. 1,730,1501134., aad the amount of
dirty received thereon wee 1,123,068. In 18110 as many am
71%816,39411e. were concerned, the average price per lb., in.
eluding duty, being Is. lOgd. The average quantity cos-
coned Ly each individual of the population was 2114 10oz.
is 1840, and 111.. Boz. in 1801. The average rate of duty
per lb. laid by the consumer wee Is. 2A. in 1801,and Is. sd.
in 1860.

INTECNATIONA L EXHIBITION OF 1862. —The gun-
make feud up to last night exceeded 400001., and further
subscriptions to it are expeaterL The building for the Ex.
liihitioe is proceeding most satisfactorily, and the demands
for space by intending exhibitor' pour in daily to an extent
far exieediug what was ever contemplated. Eolith:Mime
have Leer: received by her Majesty's Commissioners from •
number of foreign government, of the appointment of era.
missiouers to represent the products of the respective coun-
tries. information ha...deo been received by her Majesty's
Conimisdontre that local committees have been formed in
the following towns .d the United Kingdom, to omelet in
preparing work■ of industry for the Exhibition: Birming-
ham, Belfast, Bath, Gravesend, hlowciter, Hertford,
Newark, Newerstle-ou-Tyne, Staffordshire Potteries,
Steektoo-on-Tess, fiterford, alai Walsall. Intimation Las
beer. received from nearly every town in the kingdom
that it will be represented at tho Exhibition.

Mr. Diliby Seymour, uu the 4th of nest month,
propos*, to move, as an amendment to Mr. Whalley's
motion on the Marnooth College Acta, after the words
" consolidated fund," to inert " and also to consider the
expediency of withdrawing all other stnte endowments and
grants for ecclesiastical and religious purposes in Ireland."

_ . .
The Pneumatic Despatch Company are proceed-
ing rapidly with their trial works. The pneumatic pipes
sad the greater portions of the machinery are on the
ground and in coons of fixing, and the whole will be I.
operation in about three weeks. The site selected for the
expo:imolai eway i. on the bask of the river, closely ad-
joining the new railway linage at Chaise I, the temporary
WM of the ground having been granted by the Southwark
and Vauxhall Waterworks Company and the London and
Brixlitos Railway Company. The pipes are of the Leonel
form, thirty Inches is height, and the length now in souse
of erection is one-quarter .1 • mile. Al soon as their °po-
tation has been inspected by the pull,• they will In re-
moved, and pwrmatiently fixed between the General Post.
°Mee and Bloomsbury.

RZFRE.ENTATION or FLINTAHIRE.—The vacant
wet caused by flie recent decease of the Hon. $ I.
Modys is sot unlikely to he warmly contested. Lord
Richard Cheroveaor, son of the Mminis of Wssiminister, is
already is the field se a eatidelate in the liberal interest.
while tie ormservstives. It elated, intend to put forwent
Mr. Haden, of Kimmel Park, as the representative of the
Melissa awl interests of that party in the minute. At the
elective, however, the liberals were sufficiently strong to
rehire a candidate of their own views, 111,4 there is little
&OA of their wises should their opponents costars to
prosnke a costae.
The British chaplaincy at Wiesbaden has Neu
conferred epee the Nay. James Gnus Wine, M.A.. of Ht.
John's
&GCollege, Oaftml. 'seemliest of All Heists, Chard.
stork. le the eese of Mahal:wry.
The potato crop in the Channel Islands is a moat
luxuriant one, and large expertatioes of new potatoes from
those Wombe into this musky are eipected to otesemintos
to about a wears time.