io THE IRIS ;M. 



Scotland or England. The cost for tl 

 ministration of justice, for police, and for in- 

 ternal administration was found in 1895 to 

 amount to : 



In England and Wales, with 30,000,000 



ibitants ... x i, 400,000 



In Scotland, with 4,100,000 inhabitants 219,000 

 In Ireland, with 4,600,000 inhabitants 2,025,000* 



The administration of Ireland lies to a large 

 extent in the hands of the Royal Irish Con- 

 stabulary, an excellently organized little army, 

 subject to the central Government. The 

 numbers of the Royal Irish Constabulary from 

 1876 to 1895 averaged about 12,000 men; the 

 yearly expenses were /i,4OO,ooo. 2 The stren 

 and organization of this constabulary an< 

 the costliness of the Irish Government pr 

 that to English administration in Ireland, 

 the feeling of perfect security is unknown. It 

 rules through the police, and in point of f 

 only makes itself noticeable in other respects by 

 travelling inspectors from the different depart- 

 ments. A number of institutions of traditionally 

 English type pursue their functions not v 

 brilliantly. The judge, whose impartiality in 

 England is raised above every doubt, is in 

 Ireland nominated, as a rule, from the political 

 adherents of the Government, and seldom 



1 Financial Relations Commission I., p. 413. The ; 

 course are an Imperial charge in Ireland, not in Great 

 Britain. 



* Financial Relations Commission II., p. 237. 



