English Gossip.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 21, 30 July 1887, Page 3

English Gossip.

(Curvntos most ox Exotics Socrerr Pa»bb.) . Dismay and bewilderment are reigning riitnpant at the Admiralty offices. Places, pensions, and gratitudes are in danger. Coaxing their Lordships, squabbling among themselves, and shuffling subordinates, are now the principal occupations of chief clerks. This terrifying scare is due to the anticipated result of the labours of the committee now sifting our Civil Service scandals. That drastic reform is urgently needed the Admiralty offices fully prove. We have previously called attention to a few of them. Altogether they cost this year the enormous sum of £211,300. The citadel of this jobbing stronghold is the Accountant-General’s office. Other lavish departments are merely snips and parings compared with this one. Below are some snug things. An Accountant-General pockets £1,500; aDepnty Accountant-General absorbs £1,200; two Assistant Ac-countants-General swallow up £2,000, and a redundant gentleman, styled Acting Assistant Accountant-General, engulfs another £l,OOO. Thus five Scribblative Generals receive £5,700. Nine Principal and Superintending Clerks trouser £6,819, or £757 a piece. Twenty-eight other Scribblers in this division are rewarded with £15,311, or £546 each, while in the lower division—those who do the work—--155 quill driving gentlemen receive £34,632, an average of £228, altogether £63,557, or an increase th s year of £2,807, which is paid by the taxpayers in maintaining this hotbed of extravagance and gigantic system of public spoliation.