The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY RETURN,

A Parliamentary return was issued yesterday
showing the charges incurred in her Majesty's
dockyards and at the Admiralty for works upon
ships' services during the year ended the 31st Marcb
last. To the acconets is prefixed a report thereon'
from the Accountant-General of the Navy, dated
the 12th of the present month. In the course of"
report the .Accountant-General, after stating that`
the stocks of timber and timber materials and storeg
in the several dockyards are to be valued on the ist
of April next, continues As a further coeiw-
quence of Mr. Stansfeid's investigations into dock-
yard accounts and economy, an extension and fj'
modification have been made in the new regulation
which have been framed for the preparation of thx
dockyard and factory accounts of expenses up
u
ships, services, and conversions, and which it isPl°:l
posed to bring into operation on the Ist of
AP
next. The chief objects sought to be obtained Irs
these regulations are to ensure iv the future prePra4
tion of these accounts that the charges should he
rendered upon a uniform principle ; that all erode
trary or percentage charges should be discontinue"'
andthe expenses exhibited in these account'
should represent either a direct or indirect charge
against the particular ship or service, and thus aff'r
upon all common points of agreement a compari°
of the expenditure for ships building and raa°llfl:+;
d
turing operations in her Majesty's dockyards
that incurred in private trade. It is further intenl
—as a consequence of the valuation of the stock
timber, timber materials, and stores in the sevela
dockyards on the Ist of April, 1864—t0 keep a can;
tinuous record of the value of the receipts and iseui.eo
of stock, so as, at the expiration of each year, t°l'o
enabled to show under certain general heads tilio
several transactions throughout the year, as theWel
the value of the remains of stock at the end of e
year. It only remains for me to observe thatitild
balance-sheets of manufacturing operations and
-a
conversions of timber at tha several dockyards 8114
steam factories at home for 1862-3 are in course ''.f
tabulation, and will be forwarded shortly to loop
Lordships for presentation to Parliament. -1%.;1t
are being abstracted in such a form, and ri,rlTpee,
such uniform classification of manufactured art`cal
as will admit of similar operations at the ses'ed
yards being compared as to general results ; °Poi
by the introduction into such balance sheets ed
the rate-book prices of the articles manufactilro
or timber converted, the cost of the convars`c;bo
at each yard, can be compared with Ito
rates at which the stores and timber are issued be
ships. The discrepancies, if any, which nvl be
apparent upon such comparison will in fatute te,
materially adjusted by the correction of the
r3tire
book, now in course of revision, and by its flit
annual revision."

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LYNN—TUESDAY. lOO
The weather since the rapid thaw of last Satu:cl:los
become open and mild. At to-day's market th r-‘,„pie:
small show of wheat, which met a fair sale--drYn; pc
at the prices of last week, and damp qualities 6d tu
40
qr:ewer. to Spring corn unaltered in value. 36; ~_ ~,5
White wheat 42s to 48s i Barley .......... :300 to ‘5,
ltf,.d .. 39s to 44s I Grinding ...... • ,o, to
,' ,
Beans .33s to 35s I Oats.. .......... •--$ -• to
New 3ss to 37s I Peas ............

HULL—TUESDAY. ;ad,
Since our last the wheat trade has continued dePre'tOtt
At to-day's market there was a fair show of Englit:re s'l3l
which held firm for last week's rates ; in foreign t ove";
nothing doing, holders not being willing to inakeot $O7
sions. Barley, beans, and peas sold slowly, 19tit 0
lower in price. Oats somewhat scarce, but limb 44s v 3
Wheat.... Old white.... per qr .. 428 Od to 0 0
Old red
I, Od to ',39, 01
New white .. ~
New red .... „
Barley.... English malting 27s od to 7',6 00
Grinding r2 ss 00 ad t°t ° 0:1 °0 3,)
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 3os Od to ,3>ti 011
Grinding,
Oats English, old 22s Od to oti
to a
120 ,131
Archangel and Riga, per st Os oe ;3
Friesland and Dutch, Oslo to 0,13,
Swedish and Danish OBl2O t°43s
Beans ....English, ....English, old, per qr
New pigeon
New tick
Egyptian 44:
,'1 0:22 sssss 0:01, to 333 1.
la i!' ; °6OOl
Peas Foreign boilers ... od to
Grinding
_32: od to 34, Oz
Tares ....Spring
3A
ss
°O
eicii tit o°° .7"-' 67
' 46, tul
Oa
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
crushing • 4O, Od -,40 0
Linseed cakes (Hull)
5 10
Foreign 8 15 oto 0
Rape cakes £9 10 00
tt
00
5(:),)
iotti 0
1 Bones

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MELTON MOWBRAY—TnESDNY• cheat,
The following were the currencies :—New stoue;:
42s Od to 46s Od ; new red, 38s Od to 42s per du as ot,0;
beans, 378 to 41s for old ; new sorts, 34s to 378 per
tr. ‘,lO
barley, 34s to 36s for malting, and 26s to 29s Pe" old)
ii;ori.2llBdsin g ; new oats, lbs. to 22s Od per 24 stone'

M ONIIIO U T lI—TUESDAY.
The local markets have been moderately
durin the week, with an average bus'ness• IV,rriacil
inquired for, and prices firm. Both malting sou grin
barley in request, and the prices of last week Wsc:.r2leidattotte:
Wheat, white.. 5s Od to 5s 9d I Barley ..... t")
Ditto red. .0s Od to Os Od I Oats ..
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COAL
'lutes of Coal per Ton a
s. d.
Bates'sWest Hartley..l4 0
Bower's West Hartley.l4
Byass's Bebside West
Hartley ...II 9
Lambert's West Hart-

altet'
the close of ra—
Walls T]ad• .16 0
Maori ........... 0
Framwellgate..."' 19 0
Haswell ........... ••••.16
Whitworth ..... •• '' IS a
South Hartlepoo. 1..• • S
" I 6
ool• . East Hartlepool • • '.IS
Trimdwa Hartlep 0
Hartlepool ...... " 6
• ' '
Kelloe ......... • • ,9
IS 0
Tunstall .• ••. • • • 1„ 0
Hetton ........ •• ' 0
South Belton ••• • • V 0
Russel's Ilettou• • • '
•.1
Gas 801) ........... • •
78 ; Bold, 49.

ley 14 6
Walker Primrose 12 3
Hastings Hartley l4 9
Wylam 17 0
Holywell
Eden Main 17 3