In addition to the charges made by the returning officer, the town-clerk has also, in numerous instances, sent in an account which, in the majority of cases, has been properly disallowed; in others, unwisely paid. 507 461 1,700 1,463 241 76 no contest 854 1,512 270 28 643 1,040 198 11 0 555 13 4 3,484 Nottingham, N.} 225,320 Bucks 4,189 Oxford 5,923 Rutland {120,990 5,130 302,440 (114,919 4,462 147,255 3,353 169,681 Derby, S. E.J ,, N.S Hereford Lancaster, N. Leicester, N. Lincoln Middlesex 70,337 3,848 Salop, N. S. 410,485 (118,931 8,756 7,886 129,745 3,107 (138,637 4,265 3,326 ,, 112,211 3,326 2,920 W. 107,472 486,326 3,150 2,211 81,229 2,912 2,527 272,328 107,703 3,437 2,757 51,454 2,365 REPORT ON THE VACCINE BOARD. THE practice of vaccination was introduced about the commencement of the present century; but it was not till 1808 that the maintenance and diffusion of its benefits was taken up as a matter of public concern. In that year, the National Vaccine Institution, now in Percy Street, was established by parliament, and placed under the management of a board, consisting of the president and four censors of the College of Physicians, and the master and two governors of the College of Surgeons. The objects were, that the practice of vaccination should be carried on in London under the immediate superintendence of this board; and that the vaccine lymph should also be distributed under their direction to every part of the empire. The establishment, having been supported by annual parliamentary grants, has subsisted to the present time, though the constitution of the board has undergone some modification, the number of its members having been reduced in 1826 to five; and in 1832 to three, who are the president and senior censor of the College of Physicians, and the president of the College of Surgeons. The annual grant, also, which was originally 3000l., is now only 2200l. Of late, the expediency of continuing the institution at all has begun to be questioned, on the ground that vaccination is now so completely established in this country, and the public mind so entirely made up as to the value of the discovery, that the provision of the means necessary for securing and spreading its benefits may be safely left to the exertions of individuals. In these circumstances, a select committee was last session appointed by the House of Commons to examine the subject. Their report, accompanied with minutes of evidence, has been lately printed, and is interesting as presenting the most authentic view that has been laid before the public of the present state of the practice of vaccination, and of the facts that have been ascertained with regard to its protective value. The present objects of the board are stated by the committee to be, "to observe the effects of vaccination in preventing the recurrence and spread of small-pox; to investigate cases of reputed small-pox recurring after reputed vaccination, and of cow-pox when attended with inflammation, or any eruptive disorder, or when, in any other respect, anomalous in character; to preserve, by immediately superintending the practice of vaccination in London, an authentic form of the vaccine disease, on a scale commensurate to the demands for lymph; to furnish a supply of lymph instantly on application; to inquire into the circumstances under which lymph has been obtained in cases of its failing to produce the cow-pox; to establish among medical practitioners an approved mode of vaccinating, and generally to discountenance the practice of variolous inoculation, and to encourage the practice of vaccination." The only permanent officers appointed by the board are a registrar and an inspector, each receiving a salary of 2001. a year. The members of the board have salaries of 1007. a year each. There are twelve vaccinators stationed in different parts of the metropolis, two of whom receive salaries of 150l., two of 1007., and eight of 50l. a year. But besides the national establishment, there are in Lon don two private institutions for promoting vaccination; the Small-Pox Hospital at King's Cross, St. Pancras, and the London Vaccine Institution, or Jennerian Society. The income of the former is about 11007. a year, three-fourths of which are derived from dividends on invested capital, and the remainder from the contributions of the public. The income of the latter is about 9007. per ann. derived entirely from contributions. In 1832, the number of persons vaccinated by the national establishment was 14,190; by the hospital_at King's Cross, 3701; and by the London Vaccine Institution, 5641; making 23,532 in all. "To the total number vaccinated at these institutions," says the report, "must be added the number privately vaccinated, to obtain the total vaccinated in London. The number of registered births in the metropolitan parishes, on the average of the years 1830, 1831, and 1832, was about 35,000. If from this number we deduct the number of infants who die within a few months after birth, the remainder will probably afford a result not very far exceeding the sum of those who at the vaccine institutions and in private undergo vaccination." In other words, nearly all the children born in London, and who survive for more than a few months, are probably vaccinated. The next point to which the report adverts, is the question as to the real amount of the protective power of vaccination. The doctrine that vaccination is an absolutely infallible preventive of small-pox is now abandoned; cases, it is admitted, do occasionally occur, in which it is followed by small-pox; and the latter disease, though generally of a greatly mitigated character in these circumstances, is still sometimes fatal. For a long time it was attempted to be made out, that, in all these cases, the reputed vaccination must, either from bad lymph, or the imperfect performance of the operation, have been no vaccination at all. But this notion is now generally given up. It is allowed that, from causes which cannot be detected, the operation sometimes fails to produce its usual effect, even when performed with good lymph, and with, at least, the ordinary skill and care. The facts, however, which are here stated, show that, although the proportion of these failures has not yet been exactly ascertained, it must be extremely inconsiderable. In London and its vicinity, comprehending a district the population of which, in 1831, was 1,180,075, it appears that the proportion of deaths from small-pox in every 1000 deaths was from 1770 to 1780, on an average, every year 102; from 1780 to 1790, 88; from 1790 to 1800, 92; from 1800 to 1810, 73; from 1810 to 1820, 43; from 1820 to 1830, 35; and from 1830 to 1832, inclusive, only 26. That is to say, "that the proportionate mortality from small-pox, which before 1800, when vaccination began, was about one in every ten deaths, is now reduced to about three in every 100 deaths, and is therefore only between one-third and onefourth of what it was prior to the introduction of vaccination." Judging by the London bills of mortality, we should be led to conclude that no diminution whatever in the number of deaths from small-pox was effected by the practice of inoculation. The average proportion in 1000 deaths, of deaths by small-pox from 1710 to 1720, the.period when inoculation was introduced, was 89 annually; and from 1750 to 1760, it was 94. Indeed, on comparing more distant periods, it would seem that the mortality of the disease had greatly increased, though it is not to be presumed that the increase was actually occasioned by the practice of inoculation; for in the nine years from 1701 to 1710, the annual proportion was only 49 deaths from small-pox in the whole number of 1000 deaths; and we have seen above that in the period from 1770 to 1780 it had risen to 102, or more than double. There are not of course the same means of ascertaining the proportion either of persons having undergone vaccination, who are afterwards attacked by small-pox, or of those to whom in these circumstances the disease proves fatal. In returns from the vaccinators, founded on their own experience, the number of patients vaccinated who were subsequently affected by modified small-pox, is stated variously at from 7 to 70 in the 10,000. "Considering," the committee remark, "how many cases of small-pox after vaccination must escape the notice of the vaccinator, it is probable that the real proportion of such cases is greater than the greatest proportion stated in any one of the returns in question." At the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea, where the boys and girls usually remain till they are fourteen years of age, the proportion is 100 in 10,000, or one in 100. The proportion of deaths, however, is much smaller, small-pox after vaccination being usually a comparatively very mild disease. While of 1166 patients admitted into the Small-Pox Hospital, who had not undergone vaccination, 494 died, or forty-two in the 100; of 619 cases treated there in which the disease had occurred after reputed vaccination, only forty proved fatal, or no more than six in the 100. "The mortality of six per cent.," observe the committee, I must far exceed the average mortality in small-pox after vaccination, since it is only in the worst cases of the disease, and not in the mild and modified form in which it usually appears after vaccination, that the patient would be thought to require hospital assistance. Were it assumed as a basis on which to calculate, that out of every 100 persons vaccinated one is attacked by small-pox, and that out of every 100 such cases five were fatal, it would follow that out of every 10,000 persons vaccinated, five only, or out of every 2,000 persons vaccinated, one only, would die of small-pox; but the real proportion is probably much less than this." It appears that out of 83,647 vaccinations, by the stationary vaccinators of the national establishment, only two cases came under their notice in which small-pox afterwards occurred attended with a fatal result; and in one of these it was doubtful whether the disease was really small-pox. 66 These statements must be considered as very highly satisfactory, placing as they do the efficacy of vaccination as a preservative in nearly all cases beyond controversy or doubt. The committee, upon the whole, are of opinion that it would not be advisable to discontinue the national establishment, the services of which they consider particularly valuable and important as maintaining a constant supply of lymph. But they recommend that, the number of members remaining as at present, all physicians and surgeons should be eligible as such-that those appointed should give their services gratuitously-that some of the present regulations should undergo revision and that it should be considered whether the number and locality of the vaccinators' stations might not advantageously admit of some alteration. The reforms which they propose would reduce the annual expense of the establishment to about 16057. It is also recommended that the hospital at King's Cross and the London Vaccine Institution should, as well as the National Institution, be allowed the privilege of receiving letters applying for lymph, and of transmitting lymph, post-free. STATISTICAL TABLES. ANOTHER Volume, or part, of the Tables of the Revenue, Population, Commerce, &c., of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies, compiled by the Board of Trade, has just appeared. It contains the accounts belonging to the year 1832, and is the first of those collections of the statistics of each year, which will henceforth be regularly published, and to which the former volume, embracing the period from 1820 to 1831 inclusive, may be considered as introductory. The present volume contains 147 tables, comprehending the subjects of finance, exports and imports, taxes, the post-office, shipping, crime, emigration, population, poor's-rates, friendly societies, savings-banks, prices, wages, colonial statistics, and a great variety of others. Such a body of information with regard to the existing state of the empire has not only never before been presented in a single volume, but could not till now have been obtained from any sources which were accessible to the public. In fact, much of the information that is here given did not exist at all before. Even the immense and unwieldly mass of the Jarliamentary papers of each session never afforded anything like so complete a view of the actual condition of all our most important public interests as we have here. Many of the tables contained in the present volume have been comfiled from returns prepared expressly for the work; and a good deal of information has also been obtained from private sources, which none of the public departments could have supplied. We hope we may anticipate, from the following strong recommendation of the editor in his preface, that it is the intention of government to institute still more effectual means for collecting the details that are necessary to make these annual expositions as complete as they ought to be: "It appears highly desirable, and even necessary, to the proper understanding of the common interests and condition of the country, that its government should be possessed of accurate information as to the actual and comparative produce of the soil, together with many other points of rural economy scarcely less important; and a great deal of anxious consideration has been given in order to The difficulties which stand in the way of accomplishing this most arrange some plan for systematically acquiring that information. desirable object have, however, been found so great, that no progress has hitherto been made with regard to it. There exists no class of public functionaries in this country qualified to institute such an inquiry, and it can hardly be hoped that private indivi duals will be found in every part of the kingdom willing to undergo the labour necessary for its satisfactory performance. It is of so much consequence, however, to acquire information upon this class of subjects, that the most strenuous efforts should be made for the purpose, and no exertions which I can give shall be wanting to that end; but further experience has confirmed me in the opinion which I formerly took occasion to offer to your lordships, that such a work requires a considerable time for its accomplishment, and that it is necessary to awaken the public mind to a just appreciation of the advantages of possessing accurate and extensive statistical knowledge, in order to our obtaining the co-operation of men of experience and intelligence, without winch it is vain to expect any considerable portion of success. "It is gratifying to know that this effect, which was only expected to follow the publication of several of our compilations, has already commenced; that the volume presented to Parliament during the last session has excited a very great degree of interest, particularly among commercial men; and that associations are in tantly in aid of the exertions of this department.” the course of being formed, the labours of which will come impor HOUSE OF COMMONS' OFFICES AND FEES. A SELECT committee was last session appointed by the House of Commons to take into consideration the fees, salaries, and emoluments received by the officers and public servants of the House; and their Report has been lately printed with the minutes of the evidence taken before them. In proceeding to give an abstract of this document, we shall in the first place collect from it the particulars of the actual establishment of the House. The THE SPEAKER. The present amount of the salary of the Speaker was fixed in 1790, and is 60007. This includes compensation for all former fees and allowances. Speaker has also an official residence, together with coals and candles; the cost of which amounts to about 5001. a-year. And on every new election, he receives 10007. by way of outfit, and 1,4007. to purchase plate. THE SPEAKER'S SECRETARY.-The total emoluments of this officer, including 2507. as salary of the office, which he also holds, of Secretary to the commissioners for regulating the offices of the House of Commons, and 2007. in lieu of an official house, amounted, in 1832, to 9937. 14s. 4d. of the House, to a prebendal stall either at Westminster, Canterbury, Windsor, or Christchurch. THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.-This officer, fees. THE CHAPLAIN TO THE SPEAKER.--The chaplain receives "There are many subjects which it will be necessary to include no salary or fees while he serves; but after a service of three in these volumes, before they can be considered complete as a col-years he is generally preferred by the crown, on an address lection of statistics. As to some of these subjects, it will be hardly Jossible to embrace them without the assistance of Parliament in creating the necessary machinery. This remark applies with peculiar force to the subject of population. The several inquiries made en this important question have hitherto been set on foot at the considerable interval of ten years, a circumstance alone sufficient to cause discrepancies and errors, since the inquiries must in many, it might be said in most, cases be conducted each time by a different set of functionaries, who will be without experience to guide them in a matter which peculiarly calls for a systematic method of 1oceeding. The arrangement of the returns made under the Fopulation Acts has, it is true, been confided to a gentleman, whose talents and tastes eminently qualify him for the execution of the task; but it must be manifestly impossible for any intelligence to remedy errors and incongruities which have been allowed to accompany any subject from its inception, and a course very different hom that hitherto pursued will be necessary before the perfecting of this leading branch of statistical research can be satisfactorily accomplished. “The Commissioners appointed for inquiring into the administation and operation of the poor-laws have set on foot many inquiries that bear upon the moral and physical condition of the people, and so soon as the answers to those inquiries shall have been collected together and arranged, the information they contain will be made available to our purpose. A like expectation may be entertained with reference to the labours of the Commissioners apJointed to inquire into the condition of children employed in actories, a body of information having been obtained by those gentlemen, which will throw much light upon the general cir cumstances of a numerous class of our fellow-subjects. whose proper designation is the Under Clerk of the Parliaments, and who holds his office by patent from the crown, had formerly very large emoluments, derived principally from The office was regulated in 1800, for nine years preceding which the emoluments had amounted on an average to 82501. annually. In 1792 they amounted to 10,9127. The new arrangement did not take effect till the expiration of Mr. Hatsell's patent in 1820; up to which time, it is stated in a return appended to the report, that that gentleman and his deputy, who did the whole business, had at least 10,000l. a-year to be divided between them, and the deputy clerk had consequently a salary of at least 5000l. a-year. At present the annual emoluments of the chiefclerk amount to 3,5007.; and he has also a house which he states to be worth at least 5007. more. The chief-clerk has the appointment of the other two clerks who officiate at the table, and of all the clerks in the different offices, as well as of the Librarian and the Short-hand writer. THE CLERKS ASSISTANT.-The first of the two clerks assistant has a salary of 2,5007. a-year, and an official residence. The second has a salary of 20007., without a house. THE CLERK OF THE COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES has a salary of 1007.; and as clerk of elections, he received fees in 1832 to the amount of 155l. 4s. 5d. THE CLERK OF THE FEES, who is also agent to the treasury for the management of revenue and other public bills, derives from both appointments emoluments to the annual amount of 1,3881. 58. He has also four clerks, who receive, first clerk, 7321. 2s.; second clerk, 4477. 188.; third clerk, 2681. 78. 6d.; and fourth clerk, 2637. 118. 1d. THE CLERK OF THE JOURNALS AND PAPERS.-The present emoluments of this officer are 1,662/. 68. 4d.; those of his first clerk, 1,0817. Os. 11d.; of his second clerk, 1,070. 7s. 4d.; of his third clerk, 1,006l. 98. 6d. ; of his fourth clerk, 4907. 16s. 6d. ; of his fifth clerk, 4427. 17s. 6d.; of his sixth clerk, 113. 2s.; and of an extra clerk, 1547. 88. 10d. COMMITTEE CLERKS.-There are at present three principal committee clerks, whose offices are sinecures, and a fourth office of the same kind is vacant. Of these principal committee clerks, the emoluments of one, who is also engrossing clerk, were last year 11967. 12s. 1d.; of another, 10447. 78. 7d.; and of the third, 11687. 3s. 6d. There appears also to be eight acting clerks, whose emoluments, omitting shillings and pence, are as follows: of the first, 9847.; of the second, 10077., including 2007. for receiving and abstracting poor returns; of the third, 9907.; of the fourth, 7261.; of the fifth, 2091.; of the sixth, 2271.; of the seventh, 2531.; and of the eighth, 1667. It is stated in the report, that in this office, and also in that of the engrossing clerks, a system of charging gratuities in addition to the fees prescribed by the table of fees, and without any authority, has long been practised. We do not know whether or not the sums mentioned above include the extra emoluments thus obtained. CLERKS OF THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.-Of these there are a principal clerk receiving 7917. a-year; a second clerk receiving 3971.; a third clerk receiving 3117.; and an extra clerk receiving 2047. The emoluments of all these officers are derived from fees. CLERKS OF THE ENGROSSING OFFICE. Of these there are a first clerk with 8007. a-year; a second clerk with 5007.; and an extra clerk with 150l. The gratuities are particularly mentioned as included in these sums. THE LIBRARIAN has a salary of 500/. a-year; and the sub-librarian a salary of 150/. THE SHORT-HAND WRITER.-The payments to the shorthand writer, it is stated, are not only for his personal labour and that of his establishment, but a large proportion of the amount received by him goes to his numerous deputies, whose services are required in consequence of the number of committees sitting at the same time. His emoluments are derived from various sources, and the items vary greatly in amount in different years. For attendance in the House, in committees of the whole House, and in public committees, in the session of 1829, he received 5747. 148.; in that of 1830, 19877. 198.; in that of 1830-1, 5337. 18.; in that of 1831, 10827. 8s. ; and in that of 1831-2, 51147. 18s. 6d. These sums are paid by the Treasury. From individuals he also received in the session of 1831-2, for attendance in committees on private bills and on election petitions, and for reporting speeches in these committees, about 14657. Some of the items making up the last sum, however, had been much greater in former years. For instance, while the receipts for attendance in committees on election petitions, and reporting speeches in the same, were in 1831-2 only 767. 198., they were in the session of 1830-1, 19617. 148. The remaining offices form what is called the establishment of the SERGEANT-AT-ARMS, by whom all the appointments are made, and who is himself appointed by letters patent under the great seal, for life. He has a salary of 20007. a-year, and 3007. more as an allowance for a house. The deputy sergeant has a salary of 8007., and 2001. as allowance for a house. THE DELIVERER OF VOTES AND PRINTED PAPERS has annual emoluments to the amount of 18247. 14s., chiefly derived from fees; and his deputy has a salary of 6001. There are also in the Vote Office three clerks and ten office porters, to whom there appears to be paid the sum of 10947. 12s. 6d., including a retired allowance to a late assistant. a-y car. THE DEPUTY HOUSEKEEPER's emoluments amount to 6417. 198., out of which he pays to an assistant and to other persons employed in the care of the House 2121. 14s. 6d.; leaving 4297. 4s. 6d. THE DOOR-KEEPERS. Of these there are two, the first eceiving 8927. 148., of which last year 6317. 88. 6d. was de rived from gratuities; and the second, 8087. 4s., including last year gratuities to the amount of 5847. 88. 6d. There is also a lower door-keeper, whose emoluments were 5587. 78. 4d., including 3607. 18. 6d. of gratuities, THE MESSENGERS.-The emoluments of two of the four messengers were last year 587. 108. 1d., and of the other two 5857. 88. Id. each. Each derived 3507. of his income from gratuities. There are also two supernumerary messengers, having each 1117. 118. The other attendants with their respective emoluments are, a messenger to the library at 1517. 118.; an extra doorkeeper at 1017. 11s.; a person having the care of the ventilators and stove at 1057; two night watchmen, and two day porters, each at 377. 108.; a fire-lighter at 507.; and an assistant fire-lighter at 457. The total amount of emoluments in the department of the sergeant-at arms is stated at 13,2027. 11s. 2d. Besides what they receive in money, a great many of the officers both in the department of the chief clerk, and in that of the sergeant-at-arms, are entitled to stationary, sets of the journals, votes, and printed papers, &c. The first door-keeper has, besides, fifty copies of the private acts. Many of these officers appear to the committee to be too highly paid, and they propose that when existing interests shall have expired, the emoluments of those who are so circumstanced shall be subjected to a greater or less reduction. The salary of the speaker they recommend should be reduced to 5,000l., together with the official residence free from taxes; and without any other allowance than 1,0007. by way of outfit on his first election only. They propose that in lieu of the present allowance for plate, a sum not exceeding 6,0007. should be expended in the purchase of a service of plate for the use of the speaker for the time being, which shall remain the property of the public, and be attached to his official residence. The speaker's secretary they propose should be paid by, a salary of 500l. a-year, and his chaplain by a sum of 2007. for every session. Under the arrangement recommended, if adopted, the chief clerk will have 2,000l. a-year with a house; the clerk assistant,; 1,5007.; and the second clerk assistant, 1,000l. ayear. Reductions will also be made in the emoluments of most of the other clerks. The sergeant-at-arms will have a salary of 1,500l., without a house. On the whole, the reductions which it is proposed to make will produce, it is calculated, an annual saving of about 18,500l. The annual expense will be brought down from near 50,000l. to not much more than 30,000l. From a paper which is printed in the Appendix to the Report, it appears that, in the session of 1832, the fees paid on private bills to the different officers of the House of Commons, amounted in all to 14,5167. 16s. 5d. The number of bills on which this sum was paid, was 153. The committee propose to reduce most of these fees very considerably; but we cannot here detail the particular heads into which these deductions are distributed. ABSTRACTS OF PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS. Diplomatic Charges.-The charges of the several diplomatic missions, during the year ending 5th of January, 1832, were as follows:-France, 11,8787.; Russia, 9,8187.; Austria, 11,285.; Netherlands, 5,8477.; Ottoman Porte, 5,8937.; Spain, 7,3007.; Prussia, 7,4847.; Portugal, 2,000/.; United States, Brazil, 4,4977.; Two Sicilies, 7,501.; 4,6587.; Sweden, 4,500.; Denmark, 4,500/.; Bavaria, 4,6897.; Sardinia, 4,725.; Tuscany, 3,0967.; Wurtemburg, 2,700l.; Saxony, 2,1917.; Frankfort, 3,5007.; Swiss Cantons, 3,397.; Greece, 2,6007.; Belgium, 5007,; Columbia, 4,9007.; Mexico, 2,654.; Buenos Ayres, 3,2187; Albania, 1,0007.-Total, 126,3947. In 1830 the total was 152,9527.; and 134,0567. in 1831. But this amount is more nearly trebled than doubled by the following additional heads of charge, which, however, include the consular establishments, the details of which we have given separately. Extraordinary and incidental expenses of every kind. Dragomans attached to the Embassy at the Porte, (formerly Outfit and equipage paid by the Levant Company) Special Missions Commissions under treaties with foreign powers Consular establishment Pensions to retired ministers Superanuation allowances to consuls Grand total of diplomatic and consular charges. £13,041 16,570 3,100 15,668 21,619 80,763 51,852 6,639 £335,646 WINES : In 1830, the amount was 361,454., and 325,6187. in 1831. | dealers and retailers in England, distinguishing London The following table exhibits-1. the number of British from the country, in the year 1832. consuls and vice-consuls in foreign countries;-2. the amount received by them in salaries and fees;-3. the number of vessels, under the British flag, which arrived and departed in the year 1832, so far as reported ;-and 4. the number of the vice-consuls appointed by the consuls, and not paid by his Majesty's government. Countries. Russia Sweden Country SPIRITS: French. 36,235 119,851 Not French, Cape. 1,744,508 143,098 1,903,896 153,331 Totals 361 52 12 618 The salaries of the consuls at several ports are not exhibited in the returns; and at some the number of vessels is not reported. But another paper states the expense of the consular establishment to have been 98,9577. in 180; 92,2217. in 1831; and 80,7637. in 1832, exclusive of 6,6397. in superannuation allowances to retired consuls. Of the consuls appointed and paid by government all except twentyfour are known to be British subjects; and forty-two are not allowed to trade. Of the vice-consuls, appointed by the consuls, only fifty-six are British subjects. The quantity of wheat and other corn, and of wheat-flour, imported into the United Kingdom from the North American Colonies, in the year 1832, amounted to 104,515 qrs.: of this quantity 89,748 qrs. was in wheat, and 13,951 qrs. in wheat, meal, and flour. This amount is greater than in any preceding year since 1813, except in 1831, when it amounted to 226,386 qrs. The amount paid, during the last session, on account of Commons, was 55501. The number of witnesses 367, and the under-mentioned select committees of the House of the average expense of each witness 157. 2s. 6d. The folThe number of officers promoted to the rank of lieutenant- of witnesses called by each. Committee on the Borough of lowing was the expense of each committee, with the number colonel unattached, from the year 1815 to July 1st, 1833, Hertford 217., witnesses 3. has been-with purchase 192, without purchase 72, total 4807., witnesses 34. On the Borough of Warwick 7751., witOn the Borough of Stafford 264. The same in the corps of cavalry, infantry, artillery, and engineers;-with purchase, cavalry 33, infantry 88; nesses 85. On the Borough of Carrickfergus 10577., witwithout purchase, cavalry 18, infantry 91, artillery 77, ennesses 34. On the Borough of Liverpool 10997., witnesses gineers 18, total 3421. The same in the several corps of foot-Beer Shops 1147., witnesses 17. On agriculture 534/., witOn Municipal Corporations 5627., witnesses 38. On guards-with purchase 54; without purchase 20, total 74. Grand total 680. nesses 27. On British Channel fisheries 117., witnesses 15. On the Cinque Port pilots 997., witnesses 22. On On the Dublin and Kingston Canal 3117., witnesses 13. manufactures, commerce, and shipping 4097., witnesses 27. The total cost of the Coast Guard Service and Revenue Cruisers in the year 1832, is thus stated. ENGLAND:Coast Guard 246,9807., Revenue Cruisers 120,4127., total 367,392/. IRELAND: Coast Guard 116,047., Revenue Cruisers 98607., total 125,9071. SCOTLAND:-Coast Guard 19,4677., Revenue Cruisers 15,6227., total 35,0877. Grand total 528,3871. The amount of the droits of the crown and perquisites of Admiralty, received from the commencement of the present reign to May, 1833, has been 10247. Expenditure 8677. Balance available on this account 1577. The number of commissions of lunacy issued in 1830 was 39; in 1831, 46; in 1832, 29; in 1833, (six months,) 19. The amount received in fees by the Secretary of Lunatics to the Lord Chancellor in the several years, was 21417. in 1830; 23217. in 1831; 20667. in 1832; and 14821. in the first six months of 1833. Of these sums, about 10237. has been annually disbursed in the expenses of the oflice, and the remainder has formed the net income of the secretary. The official value of goods warehoused, in the port of London, in the years 1831 and 1832, was 19,974,5317. in 1831, and 18,588,2117. in 1832. |