HOME ACCOUNTS OF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 857, 5 September 1871, Page 3

HOME ACCOUNTS OF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT.

The estimated account of the disbursements of the Government of India in Great Britain, connected with the revenue of ludia, in the year 187071, thows paymenta amounting to £12,606,678. Among them are £4,352,713, for guaranteed interest on the capital of railway and other companies, £3,526,277 for the army, and £2,349,524 for interest on the debt. The following are among the miscellaneous payments : —£54,954 on account of contracts for the construction of two ironclad Monitors for Bombay, £63,256 contribution towards the expenses of Her Majesty's ships employed in the Indian Seas, £19,336 to his Highness Maharajah Duleep Sing, £58,390 for the Indian Civil Engineering College—viz., for the purpose of the buildings and for alterations and additions; also £1,406 for salary of the president, wages of servants, &c. ; £46,102 for the Royal India Lunatic Asylum, Ealing, being chiefly for purchase, adaptation, and furniture; £1,600 payments on account of scholarships founded by the Government of India to enable natives to complete their education in India; £1,555 for passage home and allowances of two officers appointed to attend his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinbureh in India, and baiance of sums due for cost and freight of presens; £794,794 for superannuation, retired and compassionate allowances; £12,000 for mission to the Court of Persia, and £5,545 for special mission of Major-General Goldmsmid to Persia; £44,962 for her Majesty's establishments in China. The year's charge for salaries and allowances of tho establishment of the Secretary of State in Council for India is stated at £131,519, the number of persons being 447.