Heads of Expenditure in England. |
Year ended 31st March. 1885. |
|
£ |
Interest on Debt and other obligations |
2,612,657 |
Management of Debt (Payments to the Banks of England and Ireland) |
29,326 |
Charges on account of Departments in India— |
Post Office (Mail Service between England and India, and between Bussora and Bagdad) |
72,170 |
Telegraphs (Indo-European; Red Sea Moiety of Annuity; Absentee Allowances and Passage Money of Officers of Telegraph Department) |
47,745 |
Political (Diplomatic Charges) |
30,807 |
Other Charges (Land Revenue; Forest; Mint; Law and Justice; Education; Ecclesiastical; Medical; Scientific, &c., and Miscellaneous) |
30,492 |
Railways:—East Indian (Interest and Annuity) |
1,573,909 |
Guaranteed Lines (Interest) |
3,217,240 |
Subsidized Lines (Interest) |
30,395 |
Public Works (Furlough, Absentee Allowances, and Passage Money of Officers) |
40,422 |
Marine Charges |
97,081 |
Military Charges:— |
Effective:—Payments to Her Majesty's Exchequer for British Forces, &c. |
533,269 |
Furlough Allowances |
233,802 |
Troop Service and Passage Money |
358,517 |
Special Charges (Afghanistan, Egypt, &c.) |
933 |
Other Charges |
25,240 |
Non-Effective:—Payments to Her Majesty's Exchequer (Retired Pay, Pensions, dc., if British Forces) |
800,000 |
Pensions to Indian Officers, &c. |
1,458,199 |
Pensions to Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers |
21,274 |
Pensions to Widows and Families, &c |
80,811 |
Civil Charges:— |
Secretary of States Establishment, including the Auditor and His Staff, but excluding the Store Department (shown below) |
115,287 |
Postage and Telegrams |
11,842 |
Contingencies (Rates, Taxes, Coals, &c., &c.) |
10,651 |
Royal Indian Engineering College (Establishment, Passage Money of Officers, &c.) |
24,860 |
Miscellaneous Home Charges |
4,774 |
Civil Furlough and Allowances:— |
Covenanted Service |
94,202 |
Military Officers in Civil Employ |
67,333 |
Uncovenanted and Pilot Service |
36,740 |
Pensions and Allowances:—Political |
28,874 |
East India Company's Establishments abolished |
30,908 |
Home Establishment Officers |
40,144 |
Home Establishment Widows and Families from Funds |
22,142 |
Indian Officers for Distinguished Services, Judges and others |
132,941 |
Compassionate and other Allowances |
11,203 |
Indian Service Funds (Annuities, Pensions, &c.) |
1,164,248 |
Donations, Gratuities, and Charities |
5,156 |
Miscellaneous Charges |
16,245 |
Stores:—Director General's Department and Depot at Lambeth (Salaries, Wages, Rent, Taxes, &c.) |
53,019 |
Supply of, for India: Stationery and Printing for all Departments in India |
125,830 |
Civil Departments |
117,801 |
Marine Stores |
57,575 |
Public Works (including Telegraph Stores) |
138,870 |
Military (including Stores for Frontier Railways) |
462,378 |
Miscellaneous Charges in connection with Supplies for India |
15,670 |
Total Expenditure in England |
£14,100,982 |
Exchange |
3,426,424 |
The above, however, represents only a portion of the resources of India expended in England. The pay of the English troops in India—officers and men—is, part of it, sent "home;" the pay of civilians is, to a large extent, similarly dealt with.
From a Parliamentary return moved for by Mr. John Bright, which has not yet been published though it has been laid upon the table of the House of Commons, the following facts relating to the number, and salaries, pensions, and other allowances to persons in the employ of the Government of India, who are resident and non-resident in India, are taken:—
Resident.
Number. |
Salaries or Otherwise. |
Amount. |
|
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
17,093 |
Salaries |
6,811,422 |
15 |
0 |
1,725 |
Pensions |
679,079 |
16 |
0 |
430 |
Gratuities and Absentee Allowances |
149,070 |
8 |
3 |
Total |
|
£7,640,172 |
19 |
3 |
Non-Resident.
Number. |
Salaries or Otherwise |
Amount. |
|
|
£ |
s. |
d |
7,060 |
Annuities, Furlough Pay, &c. |
3,069,565 |
0 |
0 |
865 |
Home Establishment and Miscellaneous |
403,800 |
0 |
0 |
Total |
|
£3,473,365 |
0 |
0 |
Combined Totals, £11,013,537 19s. 3d., nearly the whole of which is paid to Europeans and Eurasians, and only a small portion to natives of India.