The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-18 00:00:00

S 17 N 7 DECEMBER 18, 1848,

FINANCIAL REFORM.

The foil ming document has been issued by the Finals
cial Reform Association. It respects the army, ord.
ve CANADAst
ig
ation of
(t)hNe
commissiariat, navy, and colonies.
CONTINUED."
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In rSeUsußmjinEgCtThel;
(Haire of the British r,venue in North America, the
Association proceeds to the commissariat department.
In Bermuda, which was last referrt d to (being in the
Parliamentary estimates treated as a part of North
America), two assistant commissaries, two deputy-as-
sistant commissaries, and two commissariat clerks, re-
ceiving as salaries 1,231/. 17s. 6(1., and the pay of the
assistants, clerks, storekeeper, and other subordinate
persons," who perform the actual duties, is 1,5681. 17s.
Bd., to which sums is to be added, for miscellaneous
purchases, extra labour, and travelling expenses, 3401.
Next, there are special allowances for commissariat
officers, not ascertained as regards those in Bermuda.
Next, for land and water transport, 30/. Next, there is
cost of provisions, 17,7644; cost of forage fur horses of
staff officers, 5341.; cost of fuel and light, 1,6701.; one
per cent. on the cost of supplies for probable losses, 2001.
Deduct 10,4941., which is the amount of stoppages from
the pay of military and other servants (not officers), for
their provisions, and the real loss on provisions, fuel,
and light, is to the public 9,674/.
In Canada there are one commissary general, two
deputy commissaries general, fifteen assistant commissa-
ries general, eleven deputy-assistant commissaries gene-
ral, and eleven commissariat clerks, whose pay for the
current year is 9,566 L Os. 10d. These gentlemen have,
like those at Bermuda, assistant clerks, store-keepers,
issuers, and other subordinate persons to do their work,
whose pay for the current year is 6,4544 Bs. 4d.
There are, besides, allowances for black servants,
for miscellaneous expenses, portages, advertising,
extra labour, and travelling expenses, 2,056!.,
making a total for the pay of public servants in
this department of Canada, as returned in the Commis-
sariat estimates (which are, however, under the actual
expenditure) of 18,0761. 9s. 2d. The same class of ser-
vants are paid, in Newfoundland, 7761. 17s. Id.; in Nova
Scotia, 4,5651.105. lod.; in Canada, for land and water
transport, and the supply of water for the troops by the
Commissariat, the charge is 11,250/.; ditto, in Nova
Scotia, 3,500!.; ditto, in Newfoundland, 171/.; loss upon
provisions, forage, fuel, and light (over the amount of
stoppages from the pay of the troops to defray those ex-
penses), in Canada, 17,3494; in Nova Scotia, 12,4671.;
in Newfoundland, 2,852/.

By the Commissariat estimates, the foregoing sums
would appear to be all which this department of service
costs in Canada ; but the miscellaneous estimates tax us
with 14,3081. under the head of " Expenditure of the
Indian Department in Canada for its establishment and
pensions, from the Ist of April, 1848, to the 31st March,
1849," a considerable part of which falls into the emolu-
ments of the Commissariat. First, pensions, &c., to re-
tired officers, 4851. ; second, pensions to wounded
Indians, 601. ; Indian presents, 8,768/. ; total,
9,3131. The profits on those presents, which
consist of spirits, gunpowder, arms, blankets, and
other stores common to the Commissariat depart-
ment, may be supposed to be considerable; but, apart
from the profits on such articles, there are the following
expenses incurred in conducting this establishment :
Salaries, 2,4321.; contingencies, comprising office rent,
stationery, transport, distribution of presents, provi-
sions, &c., 2,5631.; together, 4,9951. Four thousand
nine hundred and ninety-hve pounds expended on the
agreeable employment of having a general holiday with
numerous friends, who joined the excursion from To-
ronto (so eyewitnesses report), to go to the head of
Lake Huron to meet Captain Teyoninokarawen, chief of
the Five Nations, once a year, to distribute the alleged
worth of 9,313/. in goods.
But there is another duty which devolves on the offi-
cers of the British commisssariat in Canada and Nova
Scotia ; it is, to pay out of the British taxes the follow-
ing sums to the undermentioned personages :

s. d.
Bishop of Montreal ... ... 1,000 0 0
Archdeacon of Quebec ~. ... 500 0 0
Rector of Quebec ••• ••• 400 0 0
Rector of Quebec, for house-rent ... 90 0 0
Minister of Trinity Chapel, Quebec ••• 200 0 0
Rector of Montreal ... ... 300 0 0
Rector of Three Rivers ... ... 200 0 0
Rector of Durham ... ..• ... 100 0 0
Rector of Cold well Manor ... ... 100 0 0
Rector of St. Armand
... 100 0 0
Verger (or doorkeeper) of Quebec... 30 0 0
Rent of Protestant burial-ground ... 20 18 6
Presbyterian Minister, Montreal ... 50 0 0
Presbyterian Minister, Argenteuil... ... 100 0 0
Roman Catholic Bishop, Quebec ... ... 1,000 0 0
Bishop of Nova Scotia ... ... 2,000 0 0
Archdeacon ••• ••• ... 300 0 0
Presbyterian Minister ... 75 0 0
Pension to President of King's College '...• 400 0 0
Archdeacon of New Brunswick ... 300 0 0
Archdeacon of Bermuda ... . 200 0 0
Archdeacon of Newfoundland ... ... 300 0 0
Roman Catholic Bishop of Newfoundland 300 0 0
To Foreign Missionaries of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Nova
Scotia ...
.. 3,412 10 0
Minister of Prince Edward's Island 100 0 0

In all, for North American Clergy paid
by our Military Commissariat £11,578 8 6
Among other personages in Canada paid out of
British taxes, there are persons employed in clearing
snow from official places of residence, and chimney-
sweepers and washerwomen are charged for wherever
there is a town-major, a barrack-master, or a fort-
adjutant; so that whilst those officers, their clerks and
assistants, hold offices in plurality, and draw pluralities
of pay, they draw pay also for every kind of menial
service performed in their official places of residence.
The following specimen of expenditure in the Ord-
nance Department will lead us to those minor facts; and
those, again, will lead us to inquire where the corruption
begins, and what must be the rottenness of the govern-
ing system which spreads corruption to every extremity,
the most distant and the most minute in the Government
service. There is good reason to believe that, if a faith-
ful return were rendered of all the appointments of
subordinate servants in the colonies by the several heads
of the Army, Navy, Ordnance, Commissariat, Colonial,
and Treasury departments, it would be found that a
large majority of them were made at the solicitation of
Members of Parliament, representing small borough
constituencies, or counties which are in the nomination
of a few powerful families.
At Quebec there are-One storekeeper, 550 L; three
clerks, at salaries varying from 901. to 2101., 510/.; assist-
ant clerk, -1.; law charges, 200/.; ground-rent, 511.;
removing snow, 201.; postage, 80/.; sundry other con-
tingent disbursements, 100/.
MONTREAL.-One storekeeper, 5601:; one deputy
storekeeper, 340/.; five clerks, from 90/. to 2501., 7801.:
one assistant clerk, 80/.; one temporary clerk, 91/.;
postage, 200/.; law charges, 2001.; fines on release from
all seignoral charges, -l.; rent of two storehouses, 2641.;
travelling expenses, advertisements, and other contingent
disbursements, 212/.
KINGSTON.-One storekeeper, 290/4 three clerks,
from 90/. to 210/., 520/.; postage, 100 Z; law charges,
701.; travelling expenses, advertisements, and other con-
tingent disbursements, 82/. ; signal station establishment
at Cape Diamond and Island of Orleans, consisting of
nine persons, 229/.
ISLE AUX Noix.-One deputy storekeeper and acting
barrack master, 250/.; postage, &a., 8/.
TORONTO.-One deputy storekeeper and acting bar-
rack master, 300/.; one clerk, from 90/. to 1801., 180/.;
one assistant clerk, 861.; one temporary clerk, -; extra
pay to two barrack masters performing ordnance duties,
911.; law charges, 100 L; postage, 2001.; travelling ex-
penses and small disbursements, 531.
RIDEAU CANAL.-One storekeeper and acting bar-
rack master, 3201.; two clerks, from on!. to 1701, (tool.;
one temporary clerk, 911.; law charges, 1001.; travelling
expenses, 501.; taxes, 200/.; postage and other disburse-
ments, 170/.
OTTAWA CANAL.-One deputy storekeeper and acting
barrack master, 240/.; postage and other small dis-
bursements, 180/.
NEWFOUNDLAND.-One deputy storekeeper and acting
barrack master, 210/.; one clerk, from 90/. to 180/.,
180/.; sundry small disbursements, 311.
HALIFAX.-One storekeeper, 400/. ; one deputy-
storekeeper, 2501.; four clerks, from 901. to 2101., 6101.;
two assistant clerks, 1601; ordnance hospital, 401.; post-
ing, travelling, advertisements, and sundry other dis-
bursements, 2861.; signal station re-establishment, con-
sisting of five poisons, 1001.
NEW BRUNSWICK.-One deputy storekeeper, 304;
two clerks, from 90/. to 180/., 300 L; sundry small dis-
bursements, 40/.; signal station, Partridge Island, 17/.
PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.-One deputy-storekeeper
and acting barrack master, 250/.; sundry small disburse-
ments, 31.
BARRACK DEPARTMENT.-QUEDEC DisTitier„-One
barrack-master, at 15s. per day, 2741.; seven barrack
sergeants, one at 35., five at 2s. 6d., and one at 2s. 2d. per
day, 317 L; labourer, -1; lighting lamps, 33/.; washing,
bedding, sheets, &c., 330/.; sweeping chimneys, postage,
advertisements, and other contingencies, -1.
MONTREAL DISTRICT.-Five barrack masters, from
7s. 6d. to 15s. per day, 8681.; eight barrack sergeants,
1 at 3s. and 7 sit,2s. 6d., and 1 at ls. 6d.,
373/4 one la-
bourer, 271; rent of officers' quarters and taxes, 1,7921.;
948/. ; sweep
washing, bedding, sheets, &c., ing Fhimirs,
postage, advertisements, and other contingeack s,
KINGSTON.-Two barrack masters, from ss. to 12s.
6d. per day, 3651.; four barrack sergeants, from 2s. 6d.
to 3s. per day, 192/.; washing, bedding, sheets, &c.,
3951.; sweeping chimneys, postage, advertisements, and
other contingencies, 2301.
TORONTO Dm FRICT.-Five barrack masters, 684/.;
eight barrack sergeants, 3651.; three labourer!, 911.;
sweeping chimneys,
washing, bedding, sheets, &c., 6651.;
postage, advertisements, and other contingencies, 738/.
ISLE AUX Norx.-One barrack sergeant, at 2s. 6d. per
day, 461.; washings, bedding, sheets, &c., 60/.; sweeping,
chimneys, postage, advertisements, and other contingen-
cies, 1121.
RIDEAU CANAL.-One barrack sergeant at 2s. 6d. per
day, 461.; washing, bedding, sheets, &c., 251.; sweeping
chimneys, advertisements, and other contingencies, 57/.
OTTAWA CANAL.-One barrack sergeant, at 35.6d1.
'per day, 641.; washing, bedding, sheets, &c., 11/.;
sweeping chimneys, postage, and other contingencies,
211

NEWFOUNDLAND.—Two barrack sergeants, at 2s. 6(1.
per day, 911.; washing, bedding, sheets, &c., 1001.;
sweeping chimneys, advertisements, and other contin
gencies, 100/.
lIALIFAx.—One barrack master, at 15s. per day, 274/ ;
four barrack sergeants at 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per day, 2011.;
two ditto labourers, 23/. ; washing, bedding, sheets, &e.,
250/. ; svveep7i.g chimneys, postage, advertisements, and
other coming.-n&es, 2001 ; rent, 421.
SYDNEY, CAPE BRETO:4.—One barrack master, 137/. ;
one barrack labourer, 121.; washing, bidding, sheets, &c.,
40/. ; sweeping chimneys, postage, advertisemtnt and
other contingencies, 641.
NEW BRUNSWICK.—Two barrack masters, at 7s. 6d.
per day each, 274/. ; two barrack sergeants, at 28. 6d.,
1371. ; washing, bedding, sheets, &c., 150/. ; sweeping
chimneys, postage, advertisements, and sundry other
contingencies, 121/.
PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.—One labourer, 12/. ;
washing, bedding, sheets, &c., 251.; sweeping chimneys,
postage, advertisements, and sundry other contingen-
cies, 20/.

Arre.Pous.-One barrack master, 2001.; one barrack
labourer, at is. per day, 111.; washing, bedding. sheets,
&c.; 151. ; sweeping chimneys, , postage, advertise-
ments, 48/.
FORT GARRY.-One barrack master, at 103. per day,
1831.; one barrack sergeant, at 4s. 6,1. per day, 821.;
sweeping chimneys and contingencies, 201.
In addition to the foregoing, there are establishments
charged for in the navy estimates at Kingston with such
sums as the following :-Clerk in charge, 350/.; acting-
foreman of shipwrights on special service, 300/.; allow-
ance to the incumbent of Fort Maitland, for officiating as
clergyman to the crews of her Majesty's vessels at that
fort, 10/.; allowance to the clergyman of the English
church at Penetanguishene, for the use of two pews
forithe crews of the steam-vessels on the Lakes of Ca-
nada, 121.; allowance to acting foreman of shipwrights
in lieu of a house, 21. 2s. per week; allowance in lieu of
stationary, namely, to the officer in command on the
Lakes of Canada, 101.; to the clerk in charge 10/.; tra-
velling charges, &c., 87/.
And at Halifax there are, the naval storekeeper and
agent victualler, 4501.; clerk to ditto, 200/.; rates and
taxes, 191.; allowance to the storekeeper in lieu of sta-
tionery, 121. ; printing, sweeping chimneys,
_and other
small charges, 351.
Again, there is under another head at Halifax, clerk
to the agent victualler, 2001. ; allowance to the agent
victualler in lieu of stationery, 6/.; fuel, &c., 14/.
Again, at Halifax, there is under the head of naval
medical establishments, clerk in charge, in addition to his
salary as agent victualler, 501.; allowance of stationery,
21. 25.; fees to the chaplain to the garrison, 10/. 10s.;
other small expenses, 91. Bs.
Next there are, under the head of wages to artificers
in Canada, 4601.; Halifax, 2,7001. Again, for the same
in the victualling department at Halifax, 80/.
The variety of heads under which those items are en-
tered and charged, require a variety of clerks and office
expenses to correspond.
Once more, at Halifax there is, wages to artificers in
the medical department, 1001

Again, there are at Kingston, Canada, repairs and
painting, 1741.; for the same at Halifax, 1091.; and
again, at Halifax, in the medical department, 11/.
These small items in the aggregate, make up very for-
midable totals; and the totals of all the colonies repre-
sent a fearful amount of British taxes. Their relations
to the commercial statistics of the colonies will appear
hereafter.

NAVAL INT ELLIGENCE.
SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S SUADRON.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Sir Charles Napier, with
his squadron, sailed this morning for Lisbon. The wind
was lair from N.E. all day yesterday, but accompanied
with such thick weather and heavy rain, nearly all day
and throughout the greater part of last night, that it
would have been impossible to sale under such circum-
stances with a squadron, except at great risk. The Rear-
Admiral accordingly did the best that could be accom-
plished; he unatoored the squadron yesterday afternoon,
and sent notice to his fair passenger, the lion. Mrs.
Norton, of his intention to sail this morning if the wind
continued. She was accompanied on board in the Myrtle
steamer immediately afterwards by the Port-Admiral,
the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., and the Lieutenant-
Governor, Lord F. Fitzclarence, G.C.H. She is on a
visit to her sister, Lady Seymour, at Lisbon. This
morning the wind continued the same, but the weather
had cleared up. At 8 A.M. the ships crossed topgallant
and royal yards, and at 9 A.m. loosed and set top-
sails, topgallant sails, and royals simultaneously, and
commenced heaving up their anchors. In twenty minutes
after, the whole of the vessels, with the except4on 'of the
Stromboli, were aweigh. The St. Vincent 'was the first
vessel in tripping her anchor, at five minutes past 9, and
was followed in rapid succession by the Hey nard, Prince
Regent, Rifleman, Plumper, Powerful, and Orestes.
The Stromboli, from some unexplained cause, did not
weigh ti'l nearly a quarter of an hour after the last of
the others. The squadron stood to the S.E. on the
port tack, till. having weathered the Knab light at 10h.
40m., they bore up in succession in the order of sailing.
The Earl of Essex, nephew to the Port Admiral, Sir
Bladen Capel, went off in the Myrtle steamer, at 9
o'clock A.M., to pay a farewell visit to the Hon. Mrs.
Norton. The squadron was under weigh before she
got out, but the Admiral hove-to to receive his last dis-
patches and letters, which the Myrtle also carried. The
wind has since shifted to the S.S.E. At 1 o'clock the
squadron was in sight in the S. by E. quarter, the St.
Vincent leading, with all plain sail set, followed by the
Reynard, Powerful, Plumper, Prince Regent, Strom-
boli, Rifleman, and Orestes, in the order in which we
write them; wind very light. The Prince Regent and
the Powerful had reduced sail to topsails, jib, and main
trysail. At 3h 20m. the wind had changed to S. by W.,
still light; the squadron carrying all plain sail on the
port tack, the western tide just making in their favour.
Fears are entertained that they will be back again. The
St. Vincent has just tacked at 3b. 27m. P.M.
We shall again enumerate the vessels that sailed to-
day, under Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier:—
Guns. Crew. Tons. Builder.
St. Vincent... l2O 890 2612 Sir W. Rule.

y wc Caledonia,
i a ,
Prince Regent 9O 820 2613 After
Powerful B4 750 2296 After Fr. Canopus,
200 tons larger.
Orestes
STEAMERS.
Guns. Crew. Tons. H. P. Builder.
Plumper ... 12 110 490 60 Fincham.
Reynard ... 12 110 5C6 60 Altered copy, Dito
Stromboli... 6 160 970 280 Symonds.
Rifleman ... 8 80 486 100 Fincham.
Thus the force under Sir C. Napier comprises eight
ships, four sailing and four steam-vessels ; the aggro-
gate tonnage is 10,423 ; number of guns mounted, 346;
horse power of steamers, 500 only ; number of men,
3,085.

The Driver, steam-sloop, Commander C. R. Johnson,
returned from Portland yesterday morning, and came
into the harbour.

The Sharpshooter, iron screw-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Bayley, which got on shore on a grass bank be-
tween Lancing and Worthing, on the Sussex coast, in
proceeding from this port to cruiza off the Kentish and
Sussex coasts, for the protection of the fisheries, got off
without damage, with the prompt and highly efficient
assistance of the Coast Guard corps in the district of
Inspecting Commander Hills. The Sharpshooter struck
about a quarter to six o'clock on the morning in ques-
tion (but under what circumstances is not yet known);
she was quickly seen by the Coast Guard on duty, and
when her stranded position wis observed the Coast
Guard galleys from Worthing and Lancing were imme-
diately launched through a heavy and most dangerous
surf to the assistance of the vessel, which appeared in
danger of going to pieces. Lieutenant Maxwell of the
Worthing station, took command of the Coast Guard boats,
and assisted in towing the Sharpshooter's boats to
lay out her anchor, for the purpose of heaving her off
on the flowing tide, and remained by her about three
hours until she got afloat, when he returned with his
boat :party to the station. The officer and men who
launched to the assistance of the Sharpshooter did so at
the imminent danger of their lives, and are deserving of
more than praise, as there is no doubt entertained but
that for their timely and prompt succour, the Sharp-
shooter would have become a wreck, as there was a
raging surf foaming around her, and a strong southerly
wind, almost a gale, blowing at the time. The circum-
stance of the Sharpshooter's stranding was quickly re-
ported by the Inspecting-Commander of the district to
the Controller-General. When the Sharpshooter comes
to this port, she is ordered to be docked and examined.
The following are the promotions and appointments
during the past week, as given in the Hampshire Tele-
graph:—