many inspectorships under the Home Office), which have come to be almost invariably filled by ex- military and naval men, and those Departments will soon discover that by employing ex-colonels with their 300l. a year, they can secure what they require "under cost price," (somewhat similarly to the method in which the lower ranks of the Diplomatic Service are filled), and the emoluments of the ap- pointments in question will come to be fixed and considered accordingly, and thus much the same Baving will in the end be effected as by the proposed curtailment of 10 per cent. of salary, without the irritation and correspondence with the Treasury entailed by the new proposals. Such an arrangement may also have the effect of hastening the period at which the British taxpayer will realise the excessive costliness of the present War Office and Admiralty systems.
And as regards civil pensioners, it is submitted that no case is made out for amending the present laws and practice; and that the principal effect of the proposed changes will be simply to throw greater charges on the taxpayers both Imperial and Colonial.
May 20th, 1886.
F. R. R.,
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