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London, England, 1855-04-06 00:00:00

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tractation as they bad not taken the noir oa tliiitViiik:6;l:i
ry
to volunteers for foreign service. This tep* the---rit :4
of so large a proportion of the regiment---haslbi •ii-.:›
completely destroyed its efficiency, but ilelifppe,ABll:94.44v
are being taken to recruit the strength of the norpli:
The 21 West York Militia, now at Sheffield, which;
to the number of 600, have volunteered for foreign sere
vice, has received its route to proceed to Portsmouth
for embarkation for the Mediterranean.
On Wednesday evening 370 of the Cambridgeshire
Militia left Dublin by the steamer Princess, for their rei
spective homes, their time of service having expired.
SEP.

'TEN2,TIAL TITHE COMMUTATION
AVERAGES.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In The Sun of the 9th January you published 3
letter from me, stating the value of each 1001. of
tithe commutation rent charge for the year 1855 to be
89/. 15s. Bid., founded on the septennial average prices
published in the London, Gazette of the sth January last
—viz. :

Wheat
Barley
Oats
The perfect accuracy of this statement I now beg td
confirm for the satisfaction of your readers, as it has
been called in question in a letter published in the Re..
cord, of the 26th ult., signed by the Rev. W. M. Rind,
of Staplehill Vicarage, Burton-on-Trent, who states that,
by a strict valuation, the septennial average prices
should be—for
Wheat 6s. 0 47.56 d. per imperial bushel.
Barley 3s. 7 27-28 d. ditto.
Oats 2s. 6 3-14 d. ditto.
making, in the valuation of 100/. of rent charge, a differ*
once of Bs. Oid. The Rev. W. M. Hind, in his letter,
alludes to this difference as an error of computation,
whereas the difference is really in the septennial average
prices, over which the authority of Parliament alone has
control. The omission of small decimal quantities in
the average prices from time to time during the seven
years, or of the fractional parts of a farthing in the
price per bushel, clearly tend to diminish the valuation
lispedto htatthle
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a Commutationndtt the
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till:teznhe the annexed
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tables.—Yours, &c.,

CHARLES M. WILLEM,
Actuary, University Life-office,
25, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, April 5, 1855.
TITHE COMMUTATION ACT, 6TH AND 7TH WM. IV., C. 71,
Clause 56.—" And be it enacted that, immediately after
the passing of this act, and also in the month of January
in every year, the comptroller of corn returns for the time
being, or such other person as may from time to time be
in that behalf authorised by the Privy Council, shall cause
an advertisement to be inserted in the London Gazette,
statinc, what has been, during seven years ending on the
Thursday next before Christmas-day then next preceding,
the average price of an imperial bushel of British wheat,
barley, and oats, computed from the weekly averages of
the corn returns.
Clause 67.—* * * " and every Ist day of January
the sum of money thenceforth payable in respect of such
rent charge shall vary, so as always to consist of the price
of the same number of bushels and decimal parts of a
bushel of wheat, barley, and oats respectively, according to
the prices ascertained by the then preceding advertise.
ment."