AN ESTIMATE of the Sum which will be required to provide for the Expense of the CONSULAR ESTABLISHMENTS Abroad, for the Year 1855, ending 31st March, 1856.

One Hundred and Fifty-seven Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty-nine

Pounds.

For Annual Salaries to Consuls-General, Consuls, and
Vice-Consuls, as detailed in Paper (A.).

For Contingent Expenses, Moiety of Expense for Chap-
lains, Chapels, Hospitals, and Burial-grounds; for In-
terpreters and Guards in the Levant, and on the Coast
of Barbary; for Expenses of Consular Jurisdiction in
the Levant; and for Relief to distressed British Sub-
jects Abroad (B.) .

Charges usually provided for in this Estimate For Salaries and Expenses of the Consular Establishments at the Ports open to British Trade in China, as detailed in Paper (C.).

March, 1855.

£156,865 157,669

(A.)

DETAIL of SALARIES of CONSULS-GENERAL, CONSULS, and VICE-CONSULS, for the Year 1855-56, ending the 31st of March, 1856.