The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-19 00:00:00

NATIONAL PENSIONS, &c.

The permanent charges on the Consolidated Fund,
more than £1,800,000 a year, require of course no
annual vote of the House of Commons ; but a de-
tailed statement of them is given in the finance ac-
counts, which have been issued for the financial
year 1867-68.. There are six great items or classes
of expenditure. First comes the Queen's civil list,
as settled on her Majesty's accession to the throne,
£385,000 ; and the civil list pensions. as they are
called, bring the amount up to £406,800. The second
item is £275,250, for annuities and pensions. It com-
prises the annuities settled on the Royal family, now
£lll,OOO a year—the Prince of Wales £40,000, his
Princess £lO,OOO, the Duke of Edinburgh £15,000,
the Crown Princess of Prussia £B,OOO, Princess
Louis £6,000, Princess Christian £6,000, the
Duchess of Cambridge £6,000, the Duke of Cam-
bridge £12,000, the Dachesss of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz £3,000, Princess of Teck £5,000. There
are also the pensions for eminent naval and military
services, £35,000 ; the pensions to the Rodney,
Nelson, Wellington, and other families, the Raglans
and Havelocks, to which the name of Napier will
now be added. The pensions for civil services,
£21,139, have been diminished by the deaths of
Lord Colchester and Mr. Lushington, and by the
suspension of Mr. Disraeli's £2,000 while he is in
office. The four first-class pensions are appro-
priated to that gentleman, to Mr. Walpole, to Sir
G. Grey, and Mr. Milner Gibson. The pensions
for judicial service of late Lords Chancellor of Eng-
land and retired judges, £44,700 a year, have also
been diminished recently by death, but have received
an addition in the pension of Dr. Lushington. The
hereditary pensions of the Duke of Marlborough
and others, formerly deducted from revenue in
transit, continue at £7,360. Irish pensions,
£34,092, include those of retired lords chancellor,
judges, assistant-barristers, and others ; among
them the Earl of Roden, late Auditor-General of
the Exchequer, £2,698 a year; Lord Avonmore,
£4,200 a year, as late principal Registrar of the
Court of Chancery ; and that ancient annuitant,
the housemaid of the Irish House of Lords, who
still lives to receive her modest £lB a year for lo3s
of emoluments by the Union. Some miscellaneous
pensions, £21,960 a year, complete this list. Tb°
third great item is £137,997 for salaries and
allowances ; in this sum there are included t"
£20,000 a year of the Lard Lieutenant of Ireland,
the £5,000 of the Speaker, the R,1,200 of tb° •
Sergeant-at-Arms, £17,040 a year for augmenta-
tation of stipends of Scotch clergy, £2,000 Or
itinerant preachers of the Church of Scotland,
£20,300 for the ecclesiastical establishment in the
West Indies, £26,369 a year for Maynooth College,
£21,000 for the Queen's Colleges, Ireland, ant
sundry allowances to officers of the Church of Scot'
land, French ministers at Dan.dalk ani Portarling-
ton ; the Lord Mayor and citizens of Dublin, £714,
and so on. The fourth item is £175,198 for sala-
ries and pensions for the diplomatic service ; tb°
embassy to France taking the lead with its £15,000
a year, followed by those to Russia and Austria,
£ll,OOO each, and Turkey above £lO,OOO, rrils-
sia not £9,000, and the United States not £6,500'
The fifth item is £666,948, for courts of justice'
It includes the salaries of the judges and chief off"
cers of the courts, the chairman of quarter sessions
Ireland, &c., and a host of compensation annuities
for losses by law reform—£9s,6Bo a year to Poe
tors and other officers of the ecclesiastical courts .
compensation to officers of courts of requestB:
the " county clerk" of Middlesex receivi°°
£3,100 a year ; £7,700 to Lord Ellenboroug%
as formerly chief clerk of the Court of Que°,ll
Bench; £4,028 to the Rev. T. Thurlow, I°r„
inerly Clerk of the Hanaper. Finally, e°lll,.
"
miscellaneous charges, £l7B,2l7—payments for
.t,;
Greek and Russian-Dutch loans ; secret s ervic
of
£20,000, half the expense of the annual revision
rateable property in Ireland, and a few other 1330):),
inents. These sums, together exceeding £1,80,0,u,ed
make up the item of " charges on the Consohda:
Fund," which in the balance-sheet of the year tat....e'
its place with the other great civil service Itenr_a_
the interest of a debt (a special charge on the Li ;s0
solidated Fund) and the expenditure ender
authority of votes of the House of Commons.

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