The expenses are, yearly:

Ducats.
Civil List of the prince 50,000
The Ottoman Porte for tribute 30,000
Salaries of officials 150,000
Troops, 4000 men 100,000
Ten quarantine stations on the Danube 20,000
Hospitals 5,000
Schools 12,000
Post 30,000
Repair of roads 8,000
Total 405,000

The capital of Wallachia is Bucharest, containing 12,000 houses and 80,000 inhabitants, of whom 10,000 are strangers.

There is one metropolitan, who lives at Bucharest, and has a revenue of 10,000 ducats; and three bishops, of Rimnik, Argessi, and Buzeo, who have 8000 each. The salary of the first minister is 3600 ducats yearly. There are three ranks of nobles. The highest consists of sixty individuals, who have the right of electing the prince; the second numbers 300, and the third 440. The prime minister is called the bano; the commander-in-chief, spathar; the minister of the interior, the great dvornic; the minister of justice, the great logothete. The greatest family is that of Brancovano, the revenue of its chief being 12,000 ducats. The titles of the great officers of state, and the principal people about the court of the Hospodar, are derived from the institutions of the Byzantine emperors. These nobles are divided into three classes. The following is the order of their precedence:

1st Class.

1. Bano Marshal of the Palace.
2. Dvornic Lord Chamberlain.
3. Spathar Commander-in-Chief.
4. Logothete Chief Secretary.
5. Postemic Foreign Minister.
6. Aga Inspector of Police.

2d Class.

1. Clochiar Commissary General.
2. Paharme Cup-bearer.

3d Class.

1. Serdar Commander of 1000 men.
2. Pitar Inspector of the Ovens.
3. Consepist Registrar General.