The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-08 00:00:00

CHAPLAINS.

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* The Lieutenants holding the rank of Retired• Com-
mander under his Majesty's Order in Council of the Ist of
November, 1830, are on the hall-pay of 7s. per diem.
The Royal naval force of Great Britain consists of 600
sail, including vessels from 140 guns down to surveying
vessels carrying no more than two guns. A great por-
tion of them are employed on foreign and home stations,
also for conveying foreign mails and specie.
The number of sailors engaged on board this large fleet
amounts to 20,000, besides 9,000 Royal marines.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GAR

There was a great supply for t
market, but the trade was dull,
the prices of this day se'imight,
which met with a depr:ssien of I
s d. s. d.
Potatoes (cwt.) 3 Oto6 0
Cabbages (12 heads) 0 9 2 0
Ditto Red
Horse Itadish(bundle) Ii 0 12 0
Celery 0 9 1 6
Turnips bunches) 2 0 3 0
Carrots '1 6 7 0
Coleworts or Greens 1 9 3 0
Leeks 1 3 191
New Oranges (100) 5 0 10 0
Lemons 8 0 14 0'
English Walnuts

IEN MARKET.

the time of year at this morning's
, at little if any variation from
with the exception of Celery,
from 3d. to 6d. per bundle.

s.d
Spillage (half-sieve) 0 6 too 9
Apples 26 5
Pears 3 0 7 0
Large Onions 3 0 5
Span. Chesnuts (peck) 6 0 10 0
French ditto
Spanish Flazlenuts
French Walnuts 4 0 6 0
Eng. Grapes (per 1 0 3 0
Foreign 0 S 1 0
Pine Apples (lb.)
Filbercs (121 b.)

HAY MA lIKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay X. 0 to £2 5
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 2 5 3 10
Eine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15
Clover Hay 2 15 5 5
Oat Straw Xll2to£l 14 I Wheat Straw... 114 IIS

Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary.
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 lh
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 4 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 10
Clover Hay (extra fine).....C5 10... Generally
Oat Straw £ l Sto £1 10 I Wheat Straw 1 12 1 16
A moderately good supply, and a steady trade; prices as last
quoted.

A Commission was appointed in June last to
inquire into the revenue and expenditure of the different
colonies and foreign possessions under the Crown, with
the view of suggesting improvements in the regulations
for collecting the former, and advisable reductions in the
amount of the latter. The Commissioners were,—the
CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHKQUER, Lord Rosnrst, the
Knight of Kerry, Lord ELIOT, and Sir JAMES Wir.-
LouGitnv Gortnow. The Commission seems to have
addressed itself toss-its task with considerable zeal, and to
have continued its labours with great perseverance, thougk
it has advanced only a small way towards the ultimate
object of its appointment. Its first three reports have
been presented to the House of Commons, and printed in
one volume. They embrace Malta, Gibraltar, and our
Australian colonies, or penal possessions of New South
'Wales and Van Dieman's Land. We have not room at
present to detail at length the obervations which a pe-
rusal of these reports has suggested to our minds ; but we
shall now insert a summary of the revenue and expenditure
of each of the colonies, together with the savings proposed
by the Commissioners, and on a future occasion shall re-
cur to the subject.
Rever ue of Malta, 1329, was £103,072
Expenditure of Malta, 1829, including
Maltese Fencibles, 11,1541 103,610
Amount of savings as proposed by Commissioners £15,000
Revenue of Gibraltar, 1929, including
arrears, 11,4981~ was
Expenditure of Gibraltar, 1829
Amount of savings as proposed by Commissioners 12,000
Revenue of New South Wales, 1823
Expenditure, civil and c0nvict...£240,435
Military and commissariat
Transport of convicts 750/07

--- 401,281
Amount of savings as proposed by Commissioners 5,426
Revenue of Van Dieman's Land, 18'28 45,989
Expenditure of every sort, 18•'.3`
Amount of savings as proposed by Commissioners 2,813
Expenditure of Swan River, 1829

Total amount of savings -----
Expellee paid by Great Britain for— £35,239
Malta, 1529 £101,133
Gibraltar, 1829
Australia, 1528
Total expellee paid by Great Britain for
these colonies, in addition to the Colo
nial revenue 3 above stated £73o,Blo—[Times.]

THE PERSIAN ADVENTURER.—Of this
animated Chronicle of Persian History, decidedly the best
production from the pen of its clever author, Mr. J. B.
FRAZER, a contemporary Journal thus speaks The
morals, the manners, the scenery of the East, are all pic-
tured from living images in the Author's mind. He has
a vivid and familiar conception of Eastern character; his
mind is imbued with it ; his pencil dips as freely into
Oriental colouring, as his pen does into his ink—such are
the romances we read with pleasure."