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London, England, 1837-12-11 00:00:00

CLASS IV,

The fourth cla4s of the Civil Litt of his late 'Majesty in-
cluded the following heads :
Royal Bounty
11.)me Secret Service
Alms and Charity

£23,200
After much consideration, your Committee have determined
to recomtnerrl that the sum of 10,0001., now charged on the
Civil List for secret set-Vice, may be transferred to the Conso-
lidated Fund by Act of Parliament, ti be applied to the same
purposes, and uncier the same authority, as heretofore.
The provision fur this class will consequmtly be reduced,
as a charge on the Civil List, to 13,200/.
Considming that the sum distributed annually as alms and
charity is applied in a manner suited rather tl ancient than
to modern times, and is attended with some expense, it may
not be inexpedient to consider whether the purposes of the
Royal kmevolence might not be more fully attained if some
other and better mode of distribution were in future adopted.

CLASS V.
The Committee approached the consideration of the pen-
sions charged on the F►fth Class of the Civil List with a full
sense of the attention which the subject has exacted. Your
Committee refer to the following pass ge in the Report of
1832

" The House must recollect that the p inciple on which the
sum is &lotted by Parliament for the purpose of the Civi! List
is as a payment for the personal advantage of the Sever, ign,
and for the support of the dignity of tha Crown, in lieu of
the hereditary revenue vihich, at the commencement of each
reign, the Sovereign sacrifices for the benefit of the public.
Some provivion ought, in all cases, to be made; for such pay-
ments, as it might be presumed the Sovereign would have
been desirous of making ha I he remained in possession of the
hereditary revenue. That one class of payments would be
pensions to those of his subjects whom he wished to favour,
cannot be doubted."

In conformity with this opinion, your Committee recom-
mend that the provision for the grant of pensions should con-
tinoe to form part of the Civil List of her Majesty.
But in order to guard against the supposition that an en-
actment founded on this principle, should in any degree inter-
fere with the inquiry into pensions, of which notice has been
given in the House of Commons (if it appears fitting th•t such
inquiry should be instituted), it is the oi,inion of your Com-
mittee thst, in the place of granting a suit of 75,000/. for
Civil List pensions, h r Majesty should be empowered to
grant in every year new pensions on the Civil List to the
amount of 1,200/., these pensions to be granted in strict con-
formity with the following Resolution of the House of Com-
mons, passed on the lith of February. 1834 : •
" That it is the bounden duty of the rosponsible advire s of
the Crown to recommend to his Majesty for grants of pen-
sions on- the Civil List such persons only as have just claims
on the Royal bectfieence, or who, by their personal services
to the Crown, by the performance of their duties to the public,
or by their useful discoveries in science, and attainments in
literature and the Arts, have m:rited the gracious consilera-
lion of their Sovereign and the gratitude of their country."
Your Committee recommend that these resolutions should
be engrafted in the Civil List Act, and that annual returns of
the pensions granted, and the names of the several parties,
should be laid before Par4ruent,

Your Committee feel it to be their duty to add, that by this
arrangement it is far from th,..ir intention to prejudge the ques-
tion which is likely to come before Parliament, or in any re-
spect to prejudice the dust claim of the p.aties in the receipt
of pensions granted by former Sovereigns. When the inquiry
is completed, your Committee feel every confidence that pro-
vision will be made for such pensions es, upon full examina-
tion, it is thought expedient to empower her Majesty to continue.
Your Committee do not, however, consider that it would be
proper to delay the settLment of the Civil List of her Maj.isty
till such inquiry shall be completed.
Your Committee e..tirely approve of the principle acted on
in all the branches of the ordinary public service, by which
sinecures of all descriptions have been abolished on the termi-
nation of the existing interests : the Committee consider this
principle to be equally applicable to the departments of the
Civil List ; they therefore express their hope, that, with the
permission of her Majesty, such enquiries may be instituted by
the Treasury to the department of the Household, and that
uch directions may be given as will enforce the application of
this salutary principle from time to time.
Her Majesty has stated in the Speech from the Throne,
that whilst her Majesty is desirous that the expenditure of
the ‘. Civil List, as of every other department of the Go-
vernment, should be kept within due limits, her Majesty is
confident that the House of Comm ms will gladly make an
adequate provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown :"
it has been in the spirit of this recommendation that your
Committee have proceeded, and that they are of opinion that
the Civil List of her Majesty be fixed according to the sub-
joined estimate, found,d on the recommendations contained in
the present Report :
Class I.—Privy Purse
Class 2.—Retired Allownnees
Class 3.—Expense of Household
Class 4.—Royal Bounty, Alms, and Special Ser-

vices
Class s.—Pensions (her Majesty to be empowered to grant
Pensions in every year to the extent of 1,200/.
per annum. )
UnapproFriated moneys

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SMITHFIELD CATTLE CLUB SHOW.

This annual show, which excites so mucl, interest among the
agricultural community, and is really of so much benefit to the
manufacturing population, in consequence of tho improved
breed of cattle which has emanated therefrom, took place yes-
terday, today, and will continue open until Monday ni,;ht,
at the Repository 'Van], Gosn•ell-street. We a-c happy to an-
nounce that, interesti:ig as this show generally is, it this year
exceeds in quantity and quality those f ,r many years past,
The judges on this occasion are Mr. Edward Franklin, or
Ascot, near Tetsworth ; Mr. Ralph Oldacre, Clipstone, near
Market liarborough ; and Nfr. John Jeilicoe, Bigiierton, near
Shipwell. After these gentlemen lead handled and examined
the cattle, the following were the prizes were awarded
CLASS I.

The first premium of twenty sovereigns in this class for oxen
and steers of any breed under five years of ap, withlut dis-
tinction as to feeding, be adjugcd to Bolin Thomas Smith,
Esq., of Po,tlands, near Crowland, Lineol..shire, for h's four
year and ten months old Hereford ox, bled by Mr. Hewer, cf
t[a.npton Ledge near Ilere&rd,, fed on earrot,, oil-oak •, and
hay. also bean flower, from the Ist of October, 1837. ra-
velled to the show by caravan 182 miles. A °rex. medal was
awarded to Mr. John Hewer as thotreedt.r thereof.
The second premium n sovereigns in the above class
was
.adj_tldge'l to th 2 [tight Hon. the Earl of Leicester,
for his Lordship's four-year old Devon ox, bred by his Lord-
ship, and fed on Swede turnips, mangel-wurzel, linseed cake,
corn, hay, green clover, and vetches ; travelled by caravan
120 miles.

The following oxen in this class were commended :—Mr.
Giblett's steer of the Devonshire breed was highly commended
as an extraordinary animal of his age. Mr. R. Lovell's was
highly commended. Commended—Captain Spencer's Dur-
ham ox ; Mr. R. Smith's short horned' ox ; Mr. S. Slater's,
ditto; and the Hon. C. Arbuthnot's Durham ox.

• CLASS 11.
That the first premium of thif tysov,reigns, in Class 2, for oxen
or steers of any breed, under six years of age, weight 90 stone
and upwards, that shall not have had corn, cake, meal, seeds,
grains, or distiller's wash, twelve months previous to the Ist of
August, 1837, be adjudged to J. T. Senior, Esq., of Bough-
ton House, near Aylesbury, Bucks, for his four-years and ten
months Hereford ox, bred by Mr. M. J. Stollard, of Red
Marling, near Gloucester, fed on grass, hay, 880 lbs. of oil-
cake; travelled by boat 40 miles to tho shows That a silver
medal be awarded to Mr. Stollard as the breeder of the above.
That the second preMium of fifteei sovereigns in this class
be adjudged to U. Lovell, Esq., of Edgeote Lodge, near 8.n.-
bury, Northamptonshire, four years old and four months Dur-
ham ox, bred by himself, and fed on turnips, potatoes, 1,8201b5.
of oil cake, 2,0801b5.- of corn. Travel'ed by boat and taggon
72 miles.