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which the complete establishment of the system would provide In the meantime, perhaps the following account, referring exclusively to the three Revenue Departments, viz. the Customs, the Inland Eevenue, and the Post Office, may be useful in connection with the statistics given in the subsequent Paper.
1. The number of such situations is—
| London. | Other parts of England. |
Scotland | Ireland. | Total. | |
| In the Customs | 734 | 724* | 141* | 99* | 1698 |
| „Inland Revenue. | 572 | 68 | 45 | 685 | |
| „Post Office | 566 | 632 | 128 | 139 | 1465 |
| Total | 3228 | 337 | 283 | 3848 | |
*The "Estimates" do not distinguish the different classes of offices, except in London. These figures are therefore taken from a Parliamentary Return upon Superannuation (No. 414 Sess. 1856) and relate to 1st of Jan. 1856.
These figures represent the entire number of such clerkships in each of these departments; but each department is split up into a number of subordinate departments, each distinct from each; and the officers of these sub-departments are divided into a variety of grades or classes, of varying numbers and scales of salary. Thus, in the Customs at London there are 17 sub-departments; in the Inland Revenue 11; and in the Post Office 6. The number of classes in each sub-department varies from two, which is the smallest, to eight, which is the greatest, number. Every newly appointed clerk, enters, of course, the lowest class. The number of clerks required to fill all the lowest classes in each department is—
| In the Customs | 562 |
| „Inland Revenue | 244 |
| „Post Office (about) | 726 |
| 1532 |
