(or about £35,000 a year) has been expended on public Works (including repairs to Roads, Streets, and Bridges) and I observe that in the Estimates for 1863, a sum of £42,200 has been set aside for objects of that nature. I notice these charges because although there is no more legitimate expenditure than that on works of public utility, the amount of that expenditure is in a great degree regulated by the amount of surplus Revenue of which it in some degree furnishes a test.
I further observe that this prosperous state of the Revenue has been coincident with a large and general increase in the expense of Public Departments - which entitles me to assume that the existing Establishments will be able at their existing Salaries to perform the work required of them for