The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-10 00:00:00

CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES.

Among the civil service estimates lately issued
class 2 comprises the salaries and expenses of the
Public Departments. The amount is :!-:1,413.503---
almost: precisely the s.ame charge as lost year. First
comes the demand fOr the Houses of Parliament,.
£87,483, though this does not include the snlaries
of the Speaker and S.::rgoant-at-Arms, both of
which are placed upon the surer basis of the Con-
solidated Fund. Next are the Treasury and the
departments of the three Secretaries of State—

Home, Foreign, and Colonial, together 170,13 ,the
greatest demand being for the Foreign. office ar.d tho

Treasury. in consequence of their needing a large
and superior class of clerks. A group of offices of
somewhat less eminence follows—the Privy Coun-
cil office, the Board of Trade, Lord Privy Seal, Pay-
master-General, and the office of the Controller of
the Exchequer (himself upon the Consolidated
rand), together requiring £99,709, which is a slight
increase on last year-6 vote. There is also a little
crease in the staff of the Woods and Forests, which,
with the office of Works, requires £57,342. The Civil
qervice Commission—quite a modern, but a most im-
portant department—will Bost £5,976 ,and the Public
Records and State Paper-officell9,l9l, both of them
about the same as last year; the work of both offices
is before the public. As we proceed we come again
upon modern offices, for not a few have been created
or remodelled since the change in the Government
of the country which commenced with the Reform
Act, and the new departments are generally
distinguished by the laudable practice of making
an annual report of their proceedings. The Poor
Law Commissioners of the three kingdoms require
no less than £222,969 ; the travelling and inciden-
tal expenses of the inspectors amount to £4,000 in
Ireland and £B,OOO in England. The inspectors
and sub-inspectors of factories, mines, and collieries
have £21,140, but there are no less than 31 of these
functionaries"; their allowances for travelling ex-
penses exceeds £5,000 a-year. The vote for the
Copyhold, Tithe, and Enclosure Commissions
amounts to £31,950, but nearly half of this appears
to return in the shape of " imprest." The general
register officers and local registrars will require
£45,513, but that port;on of the charge which re-
lates to Ireland is devoted to a miserable fragment
of a register, owing to a religious difficulty. A
batch of Irish establishments—the Lord-Lieu-
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tenant's household, the Chief Secretary and his
office, the Paymaster of Civil Services, the Inspec-
tors of Lunatic Asylums, and the Board of Public

Works are -set dow-n for £55,900. Several minor
offices follow, together taking £100,279 the
Audit-office, Lunacy Commissioners, Public Works
Loan Commission, West India Relief Commission,
the Mint, South Wales Roads, Friendly Societies

Register, and Scottish Exchequer Offices, with
which last come items for her Majesty's Limner
and Historiographer, and for the Queen's "Plates"
to be run for at Edinburgh, and for the Archers and
Caledonian Hunt' The secret service vote is
£32,000 as before ; but the demand for postage for
the public • departments rises this year from
£106,750 to the large sum of £128,628. The only
other vote is for printing and stationery, £335,285.
That eminent authority, Mr, M'Culloch, the con-
troller, calculates on a saving this year by the re-
peal of the paper duty of £12,000, or about half the
amount of the duty; but on the future price of
paper he declines to speculate. This vote, we fear,
still covers too much waste. Two years ago a stop
was put to a practice in the English register-office
of giving away the quarterly reports, and sending
them post-free to every applicant, and they are now
to be purchased like other books ; but the old sys.
tem is still kept up by the Scotch Register.Geue-
ral. Mr. M'Cullech, the controller, says there is
always a strongtendency to increase in theprinting
demanded by the departments. Most persons would
be puzzled if asked to give any fair reason or jus-
tification for the publication of many table of mi-
nute details in the " blue-books" of this session.

THE MAIES-.---7-----

MAILS DUE.
Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
ampton) M _ ay 19.
• •
(via Marseilles) June 4.
Bahamas and Havana (via New Yurk).. .. June 7.
Canada, &e. (via Cork)
.. .• • . •• • May 9.
Cape of Good Hope, &c... • • • • " June 1.
China, Penang., and Singapore (via S'ampton) May 19.
Do. • (via Marseilles) May 13.
Gibraltar (via Southampton) May 19.
India(Caleutta), CeTlen, &e. (via Southampton) May 19.
Do. • (via Marseilles) May 13.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. May 25.
Do. (via Marseille.s) .. May 19.
Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &e.. June 5.
Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto .. May 11.
Malta, Egypt, and-Aden (via Southampton) .. May 19.
(via alarseiile4s) .. May.l3.
United States, California, &c. NafPOrk) May 13.
,We.->tern Coaa of Africa, Madoita;Toneriffe .. May 10
Aiest Indies and Pacific, Cartbgena„'Cuba, &c. May 14.

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_, ,ANFIELD FACTORY.--A return shows that the
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tot 1 amount expended from April 18, 1850, to March 3,
18 0; at. Enfield Factory, was 1215,577. The number of
nmsbet rifles, of the pattern 1853, made by machinery, -was
87;105.
ALDERSHOT BARRACK.S.—A return shows that
the gross sum expended up to the present in the purchase
of laud et Aldershot, erecting barracks, and bringing water
to them, is £1,291,5:31.