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

NATIONAL PENSIONS, 6.c.

The permanent chargeson 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 1867-63.. 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 theatnount up to £406,800. The seeond
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 Duchesss 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, wh°
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. Th°
third great item is £137,997 for salaries and
allowances ; in this sum there are included the
£20,000 a year of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
the £5,000 of the Speaker, the £1,200 of the
Sergeant-at-Arms, £17,040 a year for augment -
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, £26,360 a year for Maynooth
£21,000 for the Queen's Colleges, Ireland, and
sundry allowances to officers of the Church of Scot"
land, French ministers at Dundalk and Portarling-
ton ; the Lord Mayor and citizens of Dublin, £7l4'
and so on. The fourth item is £175,198 for
ries and pensions for the diplomatic service ; the
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, Prus-
sia not £9,000, and the United States not £6,50'
The fifth item is £666,943, for courts of justice.
It includes the salaries of the judges and chief off"
cers of the courts, the chairman of quarter sessiees
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in Ireland, &c., and a host of compensation annuities
for losses by law reform-195,680 a year to proc-
tors and other officers of the ecclesiastical courts'
compensation to officers of courts of req.uests,
the " county clerk" of Middlesex receivwf
£3,100 a year ; £7,700 to Lord Ellenborong;
as formerly chief clerk of the Court of Queen
Bench ; £4,028 to the Rev. T. Thurlow,
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for-
merly Clerk of the Hanaper. Finally, othe
miscellaneous charges, £l7B,2l7—paymentg fer ;cc,
Greek and Russian-Dutch loans ; secret se"' of
£20,000, half the expense of the annual revisiontv,.
rateable property in Ireland, and a few other poob,
ments. These sums, together exceedini, £l-78°°d_ tecl
make up the item of " charges on the Consolidate
Fund," which in the balance-sheet of the year takes
its place with the other great civil service it,,u7sa,
the interest of a debt (a special charge on the
under
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solidated Fund) awl the expenditure undid "
authority of votes of the [louse of Commons.

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