172 COLOMBO. [Part VIT. 



Ceylon is upwards of 500,000/. per annum, and is annually 

 augmenting. 



As to e.rpenditure^ one half of this sum is absorbed by 

 the salaries and contingent expenses, and the pensions of 

 the ci\al departments.^ This amount is sufficient to cover 

 the costs for the collection of revenue, the adndnistration of 

 justice, the preservation of peace and health, the mainte- 

 nance of pubhc worsliip, and the extension of education, un- 

 biassed by sectarian influences. The balance of the colonial 

 income is more than sufficient for the construction of roads, 

 the erection of pubhc buildings, the repair of fortifications, 

 and the pay and allowances of the mihtary employed in 

 the island. 



The civil service of the colony, properly so called, was 

 organised on the model of the great institution by which 

 India had so long been governed, and all the superior 

 offices comprised within its functions are reserved ex- 

 clusively for the members of the privileged body."- But 

 the result was unsatisfactory, chiefly owing to the ck- 



^ In 1857, the proportions were as follows : — 



£ s. d. 

 Civil estaLlisliments ; including that of the 



Governor and principal officer - - 119,740 17 OJ 

 Judicial ; Chief Justice, Puisne Judges, 



Queen's Advocate, &c. - _ - 39,731 11 

 Ecclesiastical; Episcopal and Presb^-terian 



Chiu-ches - - - -' - 9,921 10 



Educational ----- 8,0o4 10 



^ledical ----- 8,0:34 3 



Police ----- 9,504 4 



J'toTcr/s Establishment - - - 8,4.")3 9 



Pensions ----- 25,380 8 2 



£228,820 4 8i 



' The advocates of Administrative tion was wi-itten in 1847 : " Taken as 



Eeforni, when their laboiu\s shall have a whole, the machinery of the exe- 



been successfully closed at home, wiU cutive (lovennment is at once cum- 



fiud an inviting field for exertion in brous and embaiTassed, complicated in 



reconstructing the system on which its processes, and slow and imsatis- 



rolonial business is conducted in factoi-y in its perfonnance. It is in 



Ceylon. So far as I am aware, no reality a relic of the old Dutch sys- 



change of any importance has been tern, patched and altered by succes- 



etiected since the following descrip- sive governments to meet emergen- 



