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THE BRITISH COLONIES. 



Hong Kong, £28,000; Labuan, £10,000 ; Governors and 

 others in the West Indies, £18,000 ; St. Helena and re- 

 tired servants of East India Company, £17,000. Total, 

 £128,000. Clergy in North America, £11,500 ; Indian 

 Department, Canada, £14,000 ; Justices or Stipendiary 

 Magistrates in the West Indies, Mauritius, &c, £41,000 ; 

 Militia and volunteers in Canada, £6,000 ; Emigration 

 department, £13,000; Colonial office, £37,000. Total, 

 £133,000. Thus, it will be seen, that the total civil 

 charges of the whole of our colonies defrayed out of the 

 home exchequer, directly or indirectly, permanently or 

 temporarily, is about a quarter of a million sterling. 



The people of British India provide the whole of the 

 civil and military charges of Hindoostan, defray annually 

 the expenses of twenty to thirty thousand of the Queen's 

 troops ; the cost of the Court of Directors of the East In- 

 dia Company in Leadenhall street, and of the India Board 

 in Westminster. The convict expenditure in Australia 

 and Bermuda, is about £225,000 a year, but this outlay 

 results from vice and crime in the United Kingdom, and is 

 not chargeable to our colonies. The total military cost for 

 the pay and commissariat of the Queen's troops in all our 

 colonies was, for the year 1847, say, £1,503,059, commis- 

 sariat, £670,142— £2,174,059. Of this sum, £603,718 

 was for the Cape of Good Hope, during the Caffre war. 

 In some of the colonies there are local corps, as in tr 



