The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-23 00:00:00

The Consolidated Fund.

Perhaps a recapitulation of the charges sustained by this
fund will possess some interest to the reader. Her Majesty's
Privy purse absorbed £385,000 in 1861-2, as compared with
the same amount in 1860-1; pensions per Act Ist Victoria,
cap. 2 (class 5)-not a very clear definition, it must be ad-
mitted-£19,261 in 1861-2, as compared with £19,160 in
1860-1; the allowance to bis Royal Highness the late Prince
Consort, £28,103 (to Dec. 9, 1361) in 1861-2, as compared
with £30,000 in 1860-1; her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, £5,833 (to March 16, 1861) in 1861-2, as compared
with £30,000 in 1860-1; her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Cambridge, £6,000 in both years ; her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, £3,000 in both years ; his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, £12,000 in both
years; her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge,
£3,000 in both years ; her Royal Highness the Princess
Royal, £B,OOO in both years ; and his Majesty the King of
the Belgians, £50,000 in both years ; making a total of
£520,197 in 1861-2, as compared with £546,395 in 1860-1.
Naval and military pensions abet rbed £37,997 in both years,
pensions for civil services, £36,000 in 1861-2, as compared
with £38,078 in 1869-1; pensions for judicial services,
£71,859 in 1361-2, as compared with £72,571 in 1860-1; the
hereditary pension to the Duke of Marlborough, £4,000 in
both years ; the hereditary pension to the heirs of the Duke
of Schomberg, £2,160 in both years ; a moiety of the Earl of
Bath's pension, £1,200 in both years ; servants of George
111., Queen Charlotte, and Queen Caroline, £2,534 in 1861-
2, as compared with £2,621 in 1860-1; pensions formerly on
the civil list of George IV. and William IV., £31,127 in
1861-2, as compared with £33,254 in 186 )-1 ; pensions for-
merly on the civil list (Ireland), £9,108 in 1861-2, as com -
pared with £9,584 in 1860-1; and ruisoellatrous pensions,
£1,039 in 1861-2, as compared witsheo.t,poa7r2edm ,:iBt6ho£- mak-
ing 2102,537
a total of £177,025 in 1861-2, a
in 1860-1. The salaries paid out of the Consolidated Fund
were as follow in the two years -The Speaker of the
House of Comment,' £6,200 in both years; the Controller-
General, £2,000 in both years; the Commissioners for the
Audit of Public) Accounts, £5,100 in 1861-2, as compared
with £5,351 in 1860-1; the Lunacy Commissioners, &0.,
£11,929 in 1861.2, as compared with £12,278 in 1860-1; the
augmentation of Scotch clergy stipends, £17,040 in both
years; ecclesiastical establishments in the West Indies,
£20,300 in both years; the civil government, Isle of Man,
£10,468 in 1861-2, as compared with £10,132 in 1860-1; the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, £20,000 in both years; the
Maynooth College, £26,360 in both years; the Queen's Col-
leges (Ireland), 521,090 in 1861-2, as compared with £20,987
in 1860-1; and miscellaneous, £15,462 in 1861.2, as com-
pared with £15,285 in 1860-1; making a total of £155,859
in 1861-2, as compared with £15,933 is 1860-1, The other
payments out of the fund :-Diplomatic service £174,424 in
1861-2, as compared with £172,468 in 1860-1; Judges and
officers of courts of justice, 169f;,790 in 1861-2, as compared
with £700,675 in 1860 -1 ; interest and sinking-fund nn Rus-
sian-Dutch Loan, £78,093 in 1861-62, as compared with
£80,761 in 1860-1; interest and sinking fund on Greek
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£47,213 in 1861-2, as compared with £47,306 in 0-1 ;
Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, £20,000 in both
years; secret service money, £lO,OOO in both ears ; im-
provement of harbours, Isle of man, £23,038 in 1861-2 (this
item does not appear in the accounts of 1861-2) ; expenses
of constructing certain fortifications, 10.,£970,000 in 1861-2,
as compared with £50,000 in 1860-1; wine drawback allow-
ances, nil in 1861-2, as compared with £288,218 in 1860-1 ;
compensation for theme oss of uties on tin, &C., L 17,633 in
1861-2, as compared th 12 2d 2471 n 1860.1 ; and moiety of
expense of revision of rateable property (Ireland), £5,400 in
; quaking a total of L 2,012,491 in 1861 -2, as compared
1861-2
with £1,391,566 in 1860-1. The aggregate payments out of
the fund were consequently £2,895,572 in 1861-2, as corn •
pared with £2,296,428 in 1860.1.

The Rev, C. R. Holmes, M.A., late Scholar of
Clare College, Cambridge, has been appointed Vice Prin-
cipal of the Oxford Diocesan Training College, Culham.