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and intelligence sufficient for the due exercise of political power form only a very small minority of the whole population, if the uninstructed classes are not permitted to exercise the franchise, and if their interests are at the same time de- prived of the guardianship of the Crown, there must be great danger of the malversations, op- pressions, and abuses, which are notoriously in- cident to the exercise of supreme power by irre- sponsible and oligarchical bodies. If they are permitted to exercise the franchise, from their numbers they must obtain a predominating power, and there is a possibility, from their igno- rance and want of appreciation of the objects and institutions of civilized life, that those objects, and property and life itself, may be endangered. To avoid these risks on both sides, and at the same time secure to an uninstructed population some of the benefits of representative Govern- ment, it might seem peculiarly fitting that the Ministers of the Crown, responsible to Parlia- ment, and having no partial interests, should in- tervene as umpire between the represented classes and those which are incapable of being repre- sented, and for this purpose should exercise a con- trolling authority: such has practically been the system of Government which has for some years existed in Guiana, I believe with advantage to the community."

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And the following pensions have fallen in :—

Colonel Hallam

Colonel Innes

£416 17 5

404 19 3

£821 16 8

Total Saving.

£4,500 0 0 821 16

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£5,321 16

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On account of stipendiary

magistrates

Pensions

The charge for the ecclesiastical establishment

of the colony on the civil list is 9,4291. 19s. 4d. This item was not in the civil list of 1835, but was placed on that of 1841 on the suggestion of the unofficial section of the Combined Court. This amount deducted from 33,7501. Os. 8d., the actual civil list, would leave the charge for the lay civil establishment of the colony 24,3201. 1s. 4d.

Memorandum on actual Civil List Expenditure.

The expenditure on account of the civil list is at present 33,7501. 08. 84d. being 5,3211. 16s. 8d. less than the total amount of the civil list, 39,0721. 178. 4d.

The difference is to be accounted for as follows:-

On the civil list there is an item of 70001. for ten stipendiary magistrates. But the payments made by this country for that service reduce the actual charge on the civil list, so long as the pay- ments from home shall continue, to 2,500%.

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