The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

ACCOCNTIS or RiteleiPTlS AND Ex PRNDITURit roe
METILOPOLITAN POLICE, superannuation fund, Red polite
courts for the year ending Dec. 31, 1846. Including a
balance of 49,7251. 13a. 6d. carried from 1445, the totals=
received under the head of metropolitan police duripg tV
past year was 381,593/. 13s. Bth. ; of this. 216 273!. 4s, tote
received from parishes; 96,7601. 12s. 4d. from the Treasury;
10,4111. 18s. 2d. fur special eervicee at various public build
inns and dock-yards; 1,9581. 19s. from public companies,
private individuals, etc., and 4221. 17s. 6d. from theatres, le.
the payments during the year amounted to 326,925/.131 sd,
thus divided: salaries, allowanoem, office-rent, and expenses,
8,094!. 10.. 5d.: law charges, 1,70-51. lbs. 3d.: pay, cloth-
ing and equipment of police force, 281,453/. 17a. 7a. In this
is included the ruin of 5,1451. 14s. 9d. salaries of nineteen
superintendents. Medical and funeral ex 2,003!.
6e. 10d.; horses and vans, 7,290/. 2s. 6+l. ; police penem
station sad
section houses, 12,3391. 6g. 4d. ; fuel end light, 9,4522
7s. 10d.; miscellaneous, 4,5861. 4s. 9d. Under the heads(
superannuation fund, the receipts were 14,0041. 19s. 6d.;
of this 7,8801. 13e. Ild. was contributed from the pay of the
police, and 2,4701. 19s. 1 Id. from fines imposed on drunkest
persons, and tor assaults. The payments amounted te
7,7831. 14s. 3d. The government stock belonging to them.
perannuation fund amounted Dec. 31,1816, to 73,334/. 17s. Id.
Under the head of police court.. the expenses during the
year were 47,2081. 17a. sd. Of this 33,656/. 7, rid. was
magistrates' ant clerks' salaries. One magistrate receiver
12601. per annum. and twenty-two 1000!. each. To meet
these expenses 10,6461. 4s. 6d. was received for fees, penal-
ties, and forfeitures, at the various metropolitan police
courts, and 36,4101. 2s. 10d. out of the consolidated fund,
according to the act of parliament. An appendix acme-
paniee this paper, giving the sums charged upon and re-
ceived from every rateable locality for the purposes of the
police during 1846, and a table showing the total number of
persona belonging to the police, which are thus divided :-
1 inspecting superintendent, 18 superintendents, 114 inspec-
tors, 493 serjeants, and 4166 constables ; total force, 4791.--
This paper is dated Jan. 29, 1847.
D18711E843 IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.-nos following
important collection+ of papers have been presented to par-
liament:-l. Correspondence from July, 1846, to January,
1847, relative to the measures for the relief of the distress in
Ireland (Board of Works series). 2. Correspondence, &c.,
dte. (Commissariat series). 3. Correspondence, &c. relative
to measures adopted for the relief of distress in Ireland
and Scotland (Fisheries series). 4. Copies of Correspond-
ence relating to the state of the union workhouses in Ireland.
5. First annual report of the Board of Supemeion for the
relief of the poor In Scotland.
NATIONAL DENT.-This paper, dated Jan. 6, 1847, gives
an account of the receipt and expenditure of 3,578,721!. Is. 3d.
in the year ending Jan. 6, 1847, for the reduction of the
national debt; by which it appears that 1,177,7871. 9s. Bth
was expended in the purchase of coneolid.steit old and sew
South Sea and 3 per cent. annuities, 2,460,000!. for exche-
quer bills, and 9331. I ls. 7d. paid for repayment to unclaimed
dividend account.
NORTHEISN LIONTROWIES.-This paper gives the 'boned
of the receipts and payments for 184.5 on account of 26 light-
houees. The receipts for duties, &c amounted to
53,5951. 3+. Id., and the parments to 42,06,5/. es. 10d. The
latter includes the sum of 2,0101. 10s. salaries of officers.
The average expenditure on each lighthouse was 5771. This
paper is dated Jan. n, 1847.

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EXCHEQUER BILLS purchased by the Bank of England
in 1846.—These amounted to 280,291/. Ba. ltd. in the
quarter ending April 5, 1846; 2,853,7991. 19s. 3d. in the
July TlFter ; 799,3441. 6s, 6d. in the October quarter; sad
727,483 i. lls. 11d. in the quarter ending Jan. 5. 1847. The
amount paid off or discharged in the year ending Jae. 5.
1847, was 4,440,9191. 6s. 6d.

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