| England:— | £ |
| Privy Seal Office |
| Woods, Forests, &c., Office of | 1,800 |
| Mercantile Marine Fund, Grant in Aid | |
| Secret Service | 1,800 |
| Scotland:— | |
| Exchequer and other Offices | 600 |
| Fishery Board | 1,200 |
| Lunacy Commission | 300 |
| Registrar General's Office | 300 |
| Board of Supervision | 1,800 |
| Ireland:— | |
| Lord Lieutenant's Household | 600 |
| Chief Secretary's Office | 3,600 |
| Charitable Donations and Bequests Office | 240 |
| Local Government Board | 30,000 |
| Public Works Office | 6,000 |
| Record Office | 600 |
| Registrar General's Office | 1,800 |
| Valuation and Boundary Survey | 2,400 |
§ CLASS III.—LAW AND JUSTICE.
| England:— | |
| Law Charges | 3,000 |
| Public Prosecutor's Office | 240 |
| Chancery Division, High Court of Justice | 9,000 |
| Central Office of the Supreme Court, &c | 6,000 |
| Probate, &c. Registries, High Court of Justice | 3,000 |
| Admiralty Registry, High Court of Justice | 600 |
| Wreck Commission | 1,200 |
| Bankruptcy Court (London) | 3,600 |
| Land Registry | 600 |
| Revising Barristers, England | |
| Police Courts (London and Sheerness) | 600 |
| Metropolitan Police | 60,000 |
| County and Borough Police, Great Britain | 600 |
| Convict Establishments in England and the Colonies | 30,000 |
| Prisons, England | 42,000 |
| Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum | 1,200 |
| Scotland:— | |
| Lord Advocate, and Criminal Proceedings | 3,000 |
| Courts of Law and Justice | 6,000 |
| Register House Departments | 3,000 |
| Prisons, Scotland | 3,000 |
| Ireland:— | |
| Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions | 12,000 |
| Supreme Court of Judicature | 9,000 |
| Court of Bankruptcy | 900 |
| Admiralty Court Registry | 90 |
| Registry of Deeds | 1,800 |
| Registry of Judgments | 180 |
| Land Commission | 18,000 |
| County Court Officers, &c. | 9,000 |
| Dublin Metropolitan Police (including Police Courts) | 12,000 |
| Constabulary | 90,000 |
| Prisons, Ireland | 12,000 |
| Reformatory and Industrial Schools | |
| Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum | 300 |
§ CLASS IV.—EDUCATION, SCIENCE, AND ART.
| England:— | |
| Science and Art Department | 24,000 |
| National Gallery | 2,400 |
| National Portrait Gallery | 180 |
| Learned Societies, &c. | 2,400 |
| London University | |
| Aberyswith College | 600 |
| Deep Sea Exploring Expedition (Report) | 300 |
| Transit of Venus, 1882 |
| Scotland:— | |
| Universities, &c. | 1,200 |
| National Gallery | |
| Ireland:— | |
| Public Education | 18,000 |
| Teachers' Pension Office | 120 |
| Endowed Schools Commissioners | 60 |
| National Gallery | 360 |
| Queen's Colleges | |
| Royal Irish Academy |
§ CLASS V.—FOREIGN AND COLONIAL SERVICES.
| Suppression of the Slave Trade | 900 |
| Tonnage Bounties, &c. | 900 |
| Suez Canal (British Directors) | 180 |
| Colonies, Grants in Aid | 3,000 |
| South Africa and St. Helena | 600 |
| Subsidies to Telegraph Companies | |
| Cyprus, Grants in Aid | 25,000 |
§ CLASS VI.—NON-EFFECTIVE AND CHARI-TABLE SERVICES.
| Superannuation and Retired Allowances | 18,000 |
| Merchant Seamen's Fund Pensions, &c. | 600 |
| Pauper Lunatics, England | |
| Pauper Lunatics, Scotland | 12,000 |
| Pauper Lunatics, Ireland | 6,000 |
| Hospitals and Infirmaries, Ireland | 1,200 |
| Miscellaneous Charitable and other Allowances, Great Britain | 900 |
| Miscellaneous Charitable and other Allowances, Ireland | 120 |
§ CLASS VII.—MISCELLANEOUS.
| Temporary Commissions | 600 |
| Miscellaneous Expenses | |
| Total for Civil Services | £514,570 |
§ REVENUE DEPARTMENTS.
| Customs | 36,000 |
| Inland Revenue | 130,000 |
| Post Office | 280,000 |
| Post Office Packet Service | |
| Post Office Telegraphs | 72,000 |
| Total for Revenue Departments | 518,000 |
| Grand Total | £1,032,570 |
§ SIR JOHN HAYsaid, the Vote contained a number of items which deserved some attention. The first was the Privy Seal Office, which was particularly interesting to Scotland at this moment; £1,000 had already been granted, and there was a balance of £1,825. This item, he thought, deserved some explanation from the Government.
§ SIR JOHN HAYsaid, the Vote contained in the first line "Privy Seal Office."
§ SIR JOHN HAYsaid, he saw there was no amount set down; but it was stated that £1,000 had been granted, and it was as to the appropriation of that amount that he wished for an explanation. There was no amount put down; but the matter was before the Committee, by the statement that £1,000 had already been voted; and, as he understood, he had a right to ask a question of the Government with reference to the appropriation of that amount. They had been informed that there was no person holding this particular Office, and that the money voted for that purpose was to be devoted to local government in Scotland.
THE CHAIRMANThe right hon. and gallant Baronet is in error. It is not proposed to vote any sum at this moment on account of the Privy Seal Office; and, therefore, the right lion. and gallant Baronet will be out of Order in discussing the Privy Seal Office, which was not included in any way.
§ SIR JOHN HAYsaid, he should not dispute the Chairman's ruling; but he had always understood that when a sum had been voted, as in this case, remarks were allowed upon it, and that questions might be asked with reference to the appropriation of the money.
THE CHAIRMANThe right hon. and gallant Baronet is in error. There is no sum in the Vote now for the Privy Seal Office, and the right hon. and gallant Baronet will not be in Order in discussing it.
§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, whether, at that hour of the morning, he proposed to go on with the Police Bill? Nearly every item in this Vote was contested. There was 671 the Lord Lieutenant's Household, the Chief Secretary's Household, the Local Government Board, the Public Works Board, the Land Commissioners, the Registrar General's Office, the Dublin Police, the Constabulary, Prisons and Reformatories, and other Votes; and upon all these, he, and his hon. Friends, wished to speak. As this was only a Vote on Account, they did not wish to give the Government too much trouble, and if the Government would postpone the Irish Police Bill, they would endeavour to meet the Government in the same spirit. They wished to know what was the substance of the extraordinary Bill which the Chief Secretary for Ireland proposed to bring in? But lie would suggest that the right hon. Gentleman should postpone the important statement he would have to make upon that Bill, to a more reasonable hour.
§ MR. TREVELYANsaid, the hon. Member for Monaghan (Mr. Healy) seemed to consider that he was making a concession in agreeing to pass the Vote on Account for the administration of several Offices in Ireland which were generally largely discussed; but he was not quite justified in drawing certain deductions in reference to the Motion which lie (Mr. Trevelyan) was about to make later. Even, at an earlier period of the Session, it was considered not only legitimate, but according to the Rules of the House, at any hour of the evening, to allow such Motions to be made, and he should be very unwilling to recognize the propriety of postponing this Motion upon any account. If the Bill he proposed to introduce was a Bill of enormous importance—one of the two or throe principal Bills of the Session—he could imagine that hon. Members might object to giving leave to introduce it at that hour; but it was a Bill which, however important, was still very moderate in bulk and compass. He could explain, in a few sentences, the nature of the Bill; and, according to the Rules of the House, although it was not technically a Money Bill, it could be taken for second reading after half-past 12, and, therefore, hon. Members would have an opportunity of discussing it. Certainly, at that period of the Session, lie should be very unwilling to forego the right to ask leave to introduce the Bill, even at that hour of the evening; and if the hon. Member wished for in- 672 formation upon it now, he should be glad to give it.
MR. O'BRIENsaid, he was sorry the right hon. Gentleman had not seen his way to making a more satisfactory reply to the hon. Member for Monaghan (Mr. Healy), and he objected to the Committee being asked to go on with a Bill, at that hour of the night, which would make radical and permanent changes in the whole police system of Ireland.
THE CHAIRMANI must point out that the whole conversation is irregular. I did not like to stop the hon. Member for Monaghan (Mr. Healy); but it is quite out of Order, upon this Vote, to enter into a discussion upon a Motion which is down later on the Paper. Any remarks made must be on the Vote now before the Committee.
§ MR. HEALYrose to Order, and said, that, although it was not competent to the. Committee to discuss a Bill still to come before the House, he thought it was competent to them to discuss a Vote for the Constabulary, and, therefore, it was open to his hon. Friend to make remarks with reference to the Constabulary.
THE CHAIRMANThat would be perfectly in Order; but I understood the hon. Member to be discussing the provisions of a Bill not before the House.
MR. O'BRIENsaid, he would net continuo the discussion further than to say that he understood it was probable that this matter might occupy considerable time; and, under those circumstances, he hoped the right hon. Gentleman the Chief Secretary for Ireland would not ask leave to bring in the Bill that night, but would endeavour to bring it in to-morrow.
Vote agreed to.
House resumed.
Resolutions to be reported To-morrow, at Two of the clock.
Committee to sit again To-morrow.