Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-10-05
From tie M,r- York Evening Express.

qucnt upon struggle for the loaves and fishes"
and the spoils of Office The Select Committee
on Indian Affairs, it is highly probable, will be
renewed at the next session Of the House Of
Commons; and the Wing journals are exceeding
ly fearful that the civil patronage of India will
be made over for twenty years to the Tories.
This same civil list is very nice thing for those
who are so fortunate rs to be upon it, amounting,
as it does in the aggregate, to about, f3,250,-
900, exclusive of the whole Indian revenue,
while the civil list Of Great Britain only amounts
to about six and half one-hundredths of the
revenue. The number of superfuous govern
ments, there being no less than seven of them,
and monstrous salaries, are the principal causes
of this great extravaganza.
A civil officer, from the day he arrives in In
dia receives the full pay of Lieutenant Colonel
in the British Intantay, and after ten years SER
vice has a pension of $1,000 year.
The salary of the Governor-General is 925,-
900 per annum, five times as much as the Pre-
sidcnt Of the United States,) besides furnished
palace any quantity of servants, public feasts at
the public cost, all his travelling expenses, and
the snug sum of $4,000 for outfit and pas
sage-lnoney. There are four councillors to ad-
wise him at salaries of $4,000 each {; one Of
them, the Commander,in-Ch Chief, who does nothing
in particular, has 10000 per annum in addition
in his military capacity. The Governors of Ma
drls and Bombay have not quite so much, but
are cruelty obliged to manage on fl5,000 per
annum while their councillors suffer on the short
allowance Of only $4,000. Thus the Executive
and Legislative government Of India costs about
f2300,00O per annum.
The judicial branch is not far behind. It
costs about 100000 more, which is little
short Of 100000 more than that Of Great
Britain and Ireland
There are first four Queens Courts, three SUI
premc and one Recorders Court, with eight
Judges in all. Their annual cost is about &275,-
900. The Chief Justice OF Bengal has $1,000
a year, and those of Madras and Bombay 96 900.
Tire p,ri7r1rs uf bengHt nave 10000 s:urt-
those of Madras and Bombay 950o0-The Re-
cordcr of the three Eastern settlements, who
travels over about 500 miles to fulfil his duties,
has e4,50O, and all have pensi ons, after ten years
service, of from $1,000 to f2,b0O per year, be-
sides outfit and passage money.
There are also extensive ecclesiastical estab-
li>hmcnts, consisting of Bishops, Archdeacons,
Chaplains, Presbyterian ministers, of the Scotch
kirk, and others, all of whom receive salaries, pen
sions, outfits, passage money, &c, but whether
they return a quill pro quo in Indian souls saved
is not settled or taken into consideration.
The passage money alone in 1851 amounted
to fl9,945 lis. 3D.
Reward for service is not in any degree pro-
poritonate to the dignity or usefulness Of the Of
flee all are rewarded as hear as can be alike;
the only principle governing being, that every
ofI,n ba urr q sum
Supreme Judges and Collectors of Taxes receive
the same salaries. A Chief Provincial Judge
has f3,S0O year, and an Exiseman exactly the
same sum. The pension list is open to all alike,
after the prescribed time of service, from the
small tax collector with his f2, 800 year up to
an Indian counseller, growing bilious on slO,-
900,
Such 'spoils" as these are worth having, but
the contrast between these enormous salaries
paid to the English officers and those paid to the
Indian suborlinates is very great. There are
100000 Indians and in all India only about
10000 Englshmen. There are three classes of
native Judges who receive salaries amounting to
1922, f30G, fl34 per year. The first draws
Just one-tcnth of the salary of an English Pro-
vincial Judge and the third less than one-tweu-
ticth of what is paid to subordinate Collector
of Land TaX
The inorrlinate salaries of the English officers
in Iudia were fixed at the time it was thought to
be rich in mineral wealth, but it has proved poor
enough, since the wages of the laboring classes
are only 2d. day, and l00,O0O,0OO of people
only contribute f25 100000 or about one half
of what quarter Of the number of people con-
tribute in Great Britain. The salaries of the
Governor General and Judges were fixed eighty
years ago. and some high subordinate officers six
ty years since, when voyage to India occupied
six months and was very expensive, 1t can now
be made easily and agreeably in thirty days, and
one may live in Calcutta almost as cheap as he
can in London, and enjoy tic same luxuries that
the great metropolis affords.
An East India Director with this enormous
patronage to beStow is certainly a man to dof
ones hat to-, and whose smile and favor is not to
be dcspScd But all this goes to show that
much of those possessions, upon some of which
the sunrise flag is being hoisted every hour out
of the twenty four, costs more than it comes to,
and that it may be all very we'll to boast of, but
it is an exceedingly expensive luxury to keep.
HYDRoruoBIA.-A letter from the Hague
states that two cases of hydrorhobia have been
cured there by the employment Of sulphae Of
ouininc. combined with opium A full state