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1,023/. was voted for the civil establishment of Heli-
goland.
On the motion that 18,3941. be granted to pay the
charges and expenses of the Governors and Lieutenant-
Governors of the West India colonies,
Sir C. NAPIER said that now that they had steam-
communication, there was no reason to appoint Lieute-
nant-Governors for all these islands. He begged to
suggest for the consideration of the Noble Lord, whether
it would not be better to have one Governor-General for
the whole of the islands.

Lord STANLEY said it had been found necessary to
Lave a separate officer for each island.

The vote was agreed to.
On the vote that 11,303/. be granted for the ecclesi-
astical institutions of British North America.
Mr. ROEBUCK said that he was desirous to have this
grant more fully considered than it could be in this
night's Committee.
Lord STANLEY said that he would make no objec-
tion to the adjournment of the Committee till Monday
next.

The CHAIRMAN then reported progress.
The other Orders of the day were disposed of, and
the House adjourned at Twelve o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

No. 108, (continued.)—W. Education, Science,
and Art, Estimates, &c., Miscellaneous Services, for
the Year ending 31st March, 1845.—This estimate
shows an increase of 45,3761., as compared with that
of 1842, for the like services, and of 35,7931., compared
with last year. The services for the current year are
charged, respectively, as follows :—(1.) Public Edu-
cation, Great Britain, 40,000/. (2.) Ditto, Ireland,
72,0001. (3.) Schools of Design, 4,4101. (4.) Pro-
fessors of Oxford and Cambridge, 2,0061. (5.) Uni-
versity of London, 5,1881. (6.) Universities, &c.,
Scotland, 7,3801. (7.) Roman Catholic College, Ire-
land, 8,9281. (8 and 9.) Royal Irish Academy, and
Royal Hibernian Academy (each 3001.), 6001. (10.)
Royal Dublin Society, 6,8501. (11.) Belfast Acade-
mical Society, 2,1001. (12 and 13.) British Museum :
viz., Establishment, &c., 37,9871.; Ditto, Buildings,
46,030/. ; Ditto, Purchases, 3,245/. (14.) National
Gallery : Picture Purchases, and Expenses of the
Gallery, &c., 1,5001. (15.) Museum of Economic
Geology, 2,3001. (16.) Scientific Works and Experi-
ments, 7,2351. (17.) Monuments to Sir Sydney
Smith Lord De Saumarez, and Lord Exmouth,
1,5001. (18.) Agricultural Museum, of Edinburgh,
5,0001. (19) Botanic Garden, Dublin, 2,000/.—ln all,
256,260/.

No. 108, (continued.)-Itstimates, &c., Miscella-
neous Services for year ending March 31, 1845.-
(VI.) Superannuation and Retired Allowancesand G ra-
tuities for Charitable and other purposes. This class
comprehends 18 Estimates :- (1.) Superannuation and ,
Retired Allowances; vote required, 86,9371. (2.)
Toulonese and Corsican Emigrants; ditto, 6,2001.
(3) Vaccine Establishment ; ditto, 1,8501. (4.)
Refuge for the Destitute ' • ditto, 3,0001. (5.) Polish
Refugees and Distressed Spaniards, 12,1001. (6.)
Miscellaneous Charges, formerly on the Civil List ;
ditto, 4,9321. (7.) Miscellaneous Charges, formerly
on the Hereditary Revenue of Scotland ; ditto, 2,1541.
(8.) Foundling Hospital, Dublin ; ditto, 6,7671. (9.)
House of Industry, .Dublin; ditto, 13,429/. (10.)
Female Orphan House, Dublin; ditto, 1,0001. (11.)
Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin; ditto, 2,500/.
(12.) Lying-in-Hospital, Dublin ; ditto, 1,0001.
(13.) Dr. Steevens's 'Hospital, Dublin ; ditto, 1,500/.
(14.) FeVer Hospital, Cork-street, Dublin ; ditto,
3,0001. (15.) Hospital for Incurables, Dublin;
ditto, 5001. (16.) Board of Charitable Donations and
Bequests; ditto, 700 l: (17.) Non-Conforming and
other Ministers, Ireland; ditto, 35,630/. (18.) Con-
cordatum Fund, and other Charities and Allowances
in Ireland; ditto, 7,3401.-Total aggregate to be
voted, 190,539/., being a decrease of 4,852/. as com-
pared with the estimates of 1842, and of 1,7671. as
compared with those of 1843. The items of increase
on the comparison of last year are an excess of 650/.
on vote No. 1, and of 721. on vote No. 6. The items
of decrease are the diminished charges for vote No.
2, by 5001.; vote No. 5, by 500/. ; vote No. 8,. by
830/. ; vote'No. 9, by 5441., and vote No. 18, by 135/.
The vote for Superannuations and Retired Allow-
ances embraces the Treasury, including Solicitor's
department, the three several, departments of the
Home, Foreign, and Colonial. Secretaries, Privy
Council Office, Board of Trade, Alien Office, State
Paper Office, Slave-trade Commissioners, Consuls
abroad, Convict Hulk Establishments, Insolvent
Debtors' Court, Audit, Stationery, Exchequer Bill
Offices, Exchequer Messengers, Paymaster-General,
Paymaster of Civil Services, Mint, Ditto in Scotland
(sinecure offices abo:ished), Deputy Keeper of Re-
galia (Scotland), Persons formerly employed on Roads
(Scotland), Public Offices in 'lreland, late Linen
Board, &c., Paymaster of Civil Services, late Vice-
Treasurer and Teller of the Exchequer, Ireland
(1,5601.), late Irish Annuity Office, National Debt
Office, &c.
No. 108, (continued.)-VII. Special and Tempo-
rary objects :-(1.) Towniand Survey of Ireland,
5,000/. (2.) Shannon Navigation, 2,9971. (3.) Am-
bassalor's Residence in Paris, 1,330/. (4.) Ambas-
sador's Residence at Constantipople, 10,0001. (5.)
Steam Navigation to India, 50,0001. (6.) Militia
and Volunteers in Canada, 16,6001.-In all, 85,9271.
Decrease compared with 1843, 29,239/.
109. Civil Contingencies.-An account of the sum
expended, under the head of Civil Contingencies, in
the year 1843, and an estimate of the sum required
for 1844.-The total expenditure under the head for
the last year was very heavy; namely\ 116,4051.
The estimated amount for the year, ending March 31,
1845, is 100,000/. Some of the items of last year's
actual expenditure we shall here particularise :-
1. Extraordinary Disbursements of Ministers at
Foreign Courts.-Under this head we are happy to
observe that there is a decrease as compared with the
year 1842 of 4,1811. The total amount is stated at
15,717/. ; in' the preceding year it was 19,898/. ; but
on the charge of " Special Missions, Foreign mid
Colonial," we find the enormous increase of 12,608/. ;
in 1842 this charge was 22,2571. For last year it
amounted to the enormous sum of 34,865/. Again,
whereas in 1842 the charge for Outfit and Equipage
of Ministers at Foreign Courts was nil, the expendi-
ture on this account last year was 6,680/. We must
observe, however, that the total aggregate of increase
on the expenditure of 1843, compared with 1842,
out of the general grant for these branches of civil
contingencies, was but 1,023/. ; and compared with
1841, it shows a decrease of 13,7901. These
" extraordinary disbursements" do not include the
salaries of our Ministers " at Foreign Courts," nor,
of their attach4s, but only such items as post-office'
charges; wages to .servants; charges incidental to
keeping up of official residences, &c. ; also, charge of
outfit and equipages. Our Ministers, whose expenses
are to this extent charged. for in this estimate, are
those accredited to the Courts of France, Austria,
Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, Frank-
fort, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Saxony, Wur-
temburg, Spain, Portugal, Buenos Ayres, New
Granada, Brazils; Mexico, Naples, Tuscany, Sardinia,
Greece,Conitantinople, Hamburg, Hanover, and Texas.
Among a veriety of heavy charges, the equivalent
of which it is somewhat difficult to discover in the
items respectively set opposite to them, are the fol-
lowing :-Amount issued on account of the Right
Hon.. Henry Ellis's special mission to the Emperor
of Brazil, 1,500/. ; amount expended for the Earl
Marshal's baton 104/. (!) ; the Commission ap-
pointed to settle the claims of British subjects who
served in the Portuguese Army and Navy, during
the war of liberation in Portugal, on account of
expenses of the CoMmission, 2,0001.
Miscellaneous Services.-Estimates, &c., for Miscel-
laneous Services for the year ending the 31st of March,
1845 -Colonial, Consular, and other Foreign Ser-
vices ; Civil Establishments and Expenses. These
services are thus enumerated :-1. Bahamas, 3,4101.
-2. Bermudas, 4,0491.-3. Prince Edward's Island,
3,070/.-4. Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 4001.-
5. Sierra Leore, Gambia, and Gold Coast, 13,680/.-
6. St. Helena, 13,500/.-7. Western Australia,
7,219/.-8. South Australia, 3,7751.-9. Port Es-
sington, 4,2241.-10. Falkland Isles, 9,8121.-11.
New Zealand, 7,5651.-12. Heligoland, 1,023/.-
13. Governors and others, West Indies, 18,394/.-
14. Clergy, North America, 11,353/.-15. Indian
Departments, Canada, 18,895/. -16. Emigration,
11,2821.-17. Justices in the West Indis, Mauri-
tius, &c., 49,7001.-18. Negro Education, 12,000/.-
19. Captured Negroes, support, &c., 35.000/.-20.
Commissioners for Suppression of Slave-trade,
24,0001.-21. Consuls abroad, 07,3001.-22. Mi-
nisters at Foreign Courts (extraordinary expenses),
20,000/. The aggregate of these items (379,6511.)
shows a decrease in 1844 of 44,207/., as compared
• with 1842, and 46,962/., as compared with 1843.
Commissariat (No. 133, 19th March, 1844, H. C.)-
Abstracts of the accounts of Commissariat Officers
abroad, during the period from Ist April, 1842, to
31st March, 1843. the abstracts are twenty-two in
number. The details of each are given with much
minuteness ;. but their general contents are also di-
gested into two accounts. The first of these (A) is
a " General Abstract of the Receipts into, and Dis-
bursements from, the several Commissariat Chests of
the following Colonial Stations," for the above period.
The second (B) purports to be an " Analysis of Dis-
bursements, or expenditure, for Commissariat Chest
Account in the Colonies."
(A) The total receipts were-for Canada, 544,4521.;
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 159,6451.; New-
foundland, 24,955/. ; Bermuda, 83,995/. ; Bahamas,
27,4141.; Windward and Leeward Islands, 302,211/. ;
Jamaica, 151,121/.; Honduras, 16,3521.; Gibraltar,
115,395/.; Malta, 218,918/. ' • lonian Islands, 71,579/.;
Cape of Good Hope, 237,337/. ; Mauritius, 97,093/. ;
Sierra Leone, 40,804/. • Gambia, 8,216/. ; Ceylon,
71,184/. ; New South Wales, 233,625/. ; Van Die-
men's Land, 276,352/.; Western Austalia, 13,384/.;
South Australia, 3,4721. ; St. Helena, 45,8411. ;
Mexico, 408,2401.-Total, 3,151,586/. This Analysis
(A) is subdivided into the following heads-namely,
Amount of Bills drawn on the Treasury, 2,132,3227. ;
Premium, 44,828/. ; Specie received from England,
107 9331 • Inprest between Stations, 469,7231,; same