Tracts Volume 1-4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...which is appropriated yearly to the payment of Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances, in the progress of the Revenue to the Exchequer. (See Tract No. I.) Uniting the L.7,000,000 to the L.6,274,579, we have an accumulated charge of L.13,274,579. Strange to say, this still falls considerably short of the Civil Expenditure. On looking into Parliamentary papers, it will be found that there remain numerous payments from the Woods and Forests, the Board of Trustees in Scotland, and other hereditary revenues; while there do not appear to be any recognisable account of those salaries and allowances exclusively chargeable on fees of office. Reckoning up the various branches of outlay, the lowest estimate we can form of the cost of the Civil Government is Fourteen Millions--a sum which, according to the census return of 1841, is dispensed among 16,959-individuals, such being then the number of persons employed in the Civil Service. Besides the usual charges on account of the Civil Government, it will be remarked in the Financial Account of each year, that there are large payments on account of Ireland, the West Indies, the Caffre war, or some other contingency. Although reckoned as casual payments, they may almost be put down as disbursements of a regular kind; for no year is exempted from their visitation. That to which we have at present to direct our attention, is the cost of the Civil Government; and on this subject we cannot but express regret that the whole outlay in this branch of affairs should not be of that open and avowed character which befits the honourable reputation of Englishmen. Not so much as a half of the entire charge can be discovered without a most intimate acquaintance with Blue Books; and even after the most minute examination of these authoritie...