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Updated: May 31, 2025
Fees to provost marshal, in civil actions, executions, etc.: 5l. per cent. on proceeds of auctions in execution; 5l. per cent. levy money from 100l. downwards, 4l. per cent. ditto from 100l. to 500l., 3l. per cent. from 500l. to 1000l., 2 1/2 per cent. from 1000l. upwards; and for a man to keep possession, 2s. 6d. per day for five days.
The brave Sir Samuel Hood, who lost his arm, has only 500l.., whilst the late Secretary of the Admiralty retires, in full health, on a pension of 1500l.. per annum. All the superannuated admirals, captains, and lieutenants put together, have but 1012l. more than Earl Camden's sinecure alone!
To both of these last the gift was most welcome. Southey said of his: "Mr. Telford has most kindly and unexpectedly left me 500L., with a share of his residuary property, which I am told will make it amount in all to 850L. This is truly a godsend, and I am most grateful for it.
Outside the temple stands the Jadestone Market, where incredible quantities of this valuable stone change hands before ten o'clock every morning, both in its rough and its polished state. The stalls are the simplest wooden stands, and the appearance of the vendors is poor in the extreme. The contents of the stalls, however, are worth from 500l. to l,000l.
The reduction-officer and the book-keeper are rated at 500l., and the superintendent of works and the head-miner each at 240l. The pay of carpenters and other mechanics, who should know how to make small castings, would range from 180l. to 150l. The first native clerk and the store-keeper would be paid 100l.; the time-keeper, with three assistants, 70l. and 65l.
"I had a terrible long batch with Bobby this morning, after I wrote to you by Francois. He demands, as preliminaries, that Wright's bill of 500l. should be given up to him, as a prosecution had been commenced against him, which, however, he has stopped by an injunction from the Court of Chancery. This, if the transaction be as he states it, appears reasonable enough.
The whole plan, however, has not been carried out, so the proportions cannot be fairly judged of. Mr. Hope-Scott lived to finish it, and the work, I have heard, can hardly have cost him less than 10,000l. He also gave to the Jesuit Fathers at Galashiels a library of books, chiefly on civil and canon law, in value about 500l.
The result is, that when England paid the lowest ancient prices, it cost her 183,500l. for these commodities; whereas, at the common modern prices, it costs her only 108,333l. The actual saving therefore to the people of England, was not near so great as might have been expected, or as it ought to have been, from a comparison of the prices at Aleppo and in India.
Fortunately, however, he was able to settle the difficulties with Pedrarias, who for about 2,500l. gave up all claim to any of the treasures they might discover, and ceased to oppose their plans.
My first relation with Quebec was in acting as Honorary Secretary to a Committee in Manchester, which raised 7,500l. by subscription, and sent it out in money and goods to relieve the people, houseless and ruined by the great Quebec fires of May and July, 1845, when 3,015 houses were burnt down, and thousands of people were made homeless, and were starving. I also visited the city in 1851.
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