The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-23 00:00:00

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.

sto 1 agst Sweet Hawthorn (offered, take 5)
7to 1 agst Kettledrum (taken freely)
Bto 1 agst Overton (taken)
Bto 1 agst Klarikoff (offered, take 9to 1)
13 to 1 agst Neighbour (taken)
100 to 7 agst Diophantus (offered)
33 to 1 agst Antwerp (offered)
50 to 7 agst Matador (offered)

THE DERBY.
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25 to 1 agst Dictator (offered—take 30 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Neighbour (offered)

CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES.

The Civil Service Estimates, which have now
been issued, amount to £7,690,377, an increase of
£173,188 over last year. The vote for the new
Houses of Parliament is augmented to the extent
of £16,695, which is laid to the door of Sir C.
Barry," acting, as he was accustomed to do, on his
own responsibility," and incurring expenditure
which had never been sanctioned by the Board of
Works. On the other hand, the vote for salaries
and expenses of the House of Lords (in aid of the
fee fund) is reduced to £lO,OOO, and the vote for
charges common to both houses, £2,000. The
charge for Westminster-bridge and the approaches
is, apparently, near its close. Parliament a year
ago passed a vote which completed the grant of
£208,350 required for the bridge, and the vote now
to be proposed will make up the £173,000 esti-
mated to be required for the western approach.
There is to be a second vote of £30,000 on account
of £200,000 for a new Foreign-office. In Ireland
above £lO,OOO is saved on the charge for the con-
stabulary, and there is an increase of £14,665 in the
vote for education, chiefly in the item of salaries of
teachers and monitors. For abroad there are votes
proposed of £20,000 for lighthouses at theßahamas
and Ceylon, (after a similar vote in 1859), £60,000
for the expenses of surveying the North American
boundary, £5,000 for repairs of the Dover ateatucr
tor the service or the Gambia settlement, £llO,OOO
for loss on discount on bills drawn in China, an
increase of £4,000 for the consular service in
Japan, and £13,000 additional for the support
of captured negroes ; against which we may set a
reduction of £12,000 in the. vote " for promoting
the improvement of the Kafirs, and for the
settlement and government of British Kaffraria."
There is an increase of £36,000 in the vote for
Holyhead harbour, which has already cost
£1,188,000, and has been estimated to require pos-
sibly £732,000 more. The charge for repairs and
building of prisons is £30,000 less than last year •,
Woking has disappeared from this estimate, and
the criminal lunatic asylum at Broad-moor nearly
so. Convict establishments in the colonies also cost
less by £33,000, and the number of convicts there
is reduced from 4,132 to 3,618. The alteration on
some other votes hes been already noticed, and in
several instances a change is only apparent, and
owing to a surplus balance in hand. The charge
for printing and stationery is increased £BO,OOO,
and has risen to £416.218 ; Parliamentary printing
and£B9,ooo; the Census, £5,000;
and pthaeperr tnstlterunadts ation al Statistical Congress, £l,OOO.
The real increase this year, however, is but
£68,000, because £12,000 was deducted from the
estimate last year in the premature expectation
that the paper duty would then be repealed, and
Mr. M'Culloch's calculation was that half the paper
duty would be saved in the consequent reduction of
price.
Of the £68,000 no less than £47,000 is
required to make good the deficiencies in former
estimates. Mr, Anulloch reports that there is a
strong tendency to increased expenditure in most
departments, and perpetual. demands for more
expensive paper, books, and article; of all s)rts; but
he says—" With these demands we comply as
seldom as possible, for if once we began
easily to yield to then they would go
on increasing . in a geometrical ratio, till
in no long time this estimate would rise to
£1,000,000 or upwards ; and yet I have no manner
of doubt, supposing it had attained that or even a
higher limit, that the demands for more costly
- articles would be as
great then as at present, or
- greater; they are, in truth, altogether illimitable."
If Solomon had lived later, he would not have been
limited to "three things, yea, four, that are never
satisfied." It may be
well just to add that the Civil
Service Estimates do not show the whole cost of
civil government, because of the large sums that
are charged upon the Consolidated Fund, and paid
without annual vote of Parliament upon estimates.
The balance-sheet which we published on Friday
shows that the expenditure in the financial year
just closed was, in round numbers, as follows:--
Interest of the debt, £26,000,000 ; army and navy,
£28,000,000; war in China. £3,000,000 ; Govern-
ment and civil service, £16,500,000 ; collection of
the revenue, £4,501',000.