the anticipated Amount, being £36,605, instead of £33,057.-
1160 men, with
It will be perceived that the heavy expences of a Police force a- Superintendent and two Snepectors pom London,
are the principal
Cause-
of the outlay in excess
the
of
early retionates for this Colony-
The Chief Magistrate's Department and Polive. Retablishment.
have together cost the sum of £11,291, and, with
one
the Supreme Court, £7,447, constitute nearly half of the Charges of the whole Civil-Retablishments.
The Supreme Court, under the peculiar our Treaties with China, has an-
circumstances of o
operation beyond the Colony, and may be
international
considered as partly provided for purposes. But - notwithstanding this I conceive- that it's expences may be hereafter diminished.
reference to the sums voted in
With
Parliament for the Public Service in China, it is satisfactory to find that, while the allowance
·
for
!
237
for the Colonial and Consular. Rxpenditure for the ending 31th March, 1846, was £80000, the
Year
actual.
- charge (with the aid of the Colonial Revenue) has been enly £64,545.4.5, exhibiting a difference- in favor of Government of £/5/456.15.7-
Parliamentary hetimate.
£. S. d.
for the Colony 49,000. 0.0
£
I : for the Consulates. 31,000.0_0_80,000.0.0
hxpended Colonial-
hstablishments
40/85.12.4
Add Public Works Ve.. 21,971.13.3
t
62/57.5.7
Deduet Revenue received - 26,605.13.2
Expended, Consular
Retablishments
/
35,551.12.5
28,991.12.0
64,543.4.5
Saving on Parliamentary retimates, £ 15,1156.15.7
I see
no reason
why the Colonial Revenue
should