The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-06 00:00:00

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co URT cittictJtAtt, THE REVENUE I'Olt, TI-It EA AND QUARTER ENDING APRIL 5, 1840.
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QUARTER/ 17 RA ST IE TV -No • 130. 1 r..tack et tleimt.,a4. t 'cif nis nenvery, anu nnai Mart-late . f-,-; •-•-•.-..1-t.y Ann in e, tho. , uee.n.. ?ts,-
~ ,
ge p i,-,,.. 1,. _:•_ AT, • Atac o the e in i;ce 9 1
0 b-' r 1 N.- '•- \''i kti, •-i , 1;4 I ti,
ci i,. rf ii-,6 Reic•n'it of b-reat Britt:lll,in thc Years iiii,.4 qt*ltia. rierie.lide'd'tli d April; 11839,
• r,‘ al-14A el April, 1810; shewing the Increase
- Or Decrease on each head therew.
3144fr,v.r.1, Xonoron, 1840. l with S. it Fltin Stiowd To p, a lackadaiSleai .F.ert.6f a k O'•'•.nt;'
, tc•kided Dqvine Service 19..-;
•-•-- - ..„----.--... _..-__,.-,..-..--
In ace d .--.......-:,..-- . , . i ,)ria Year ended Aprils. Quarter ended April 5.
or due., „,•qt t., i kliiv whom Jack had known add loved", d'aring the pc- terday morny4, in.tho C,hapel. Ruval, St. JaineVli. no ,
el'aie
"."--Decrease. '---------'---.-'-'lncrease. Decrease.
11144 given t ..
do taste of the - hi:. .1, '. , 1 iinci the Princess Augusta, at
QUARTERS Marl,
i ed."' ".-,
arc
i rind of his huinble career iii '•;.... "eommon sailor.
c-----"--"---------July 5, i 1 5 I Aprils, 1
ch t4‘le . . i r
gestion th, . ' pc rusa, of works treattlig lon inn:- i •net ,
~ • . . k 4•4- '''''xt from Hebrews, chap. x. verse 24. The
ThesQ
•,Sr!,4 mOll wa4,,, prilehe.. by the Bishop of Durham, who
h ''',, ?fift improbablel th 1 1 tG(' ---' '` •
, i [tents, wine- 'a-. 1 e enoug iinc r 1 , s cad b.. 1 ts:io i :,":„.,1,,. ill ;‘,......„. ~,,,,,,.'
~..,....,,,......_...„- o.lArcrEtts________Eivngt.
183 J I 18.39 UIL9 r iisi.....__ .- .:-.1,-__-....---
y the Rev. Itist 1) IC .th 1638 I '
_____ .----- -
SoK, , ,_ , pres.•ent Quarterly Rericze takes, as t0e,,,,, ~ iiessont. tivtre r Cy a infl , .
,c _ 1833 -
c. 1.1 ..3. • ,
.....
t,
....
--.,-4......
....
-
I,_ .1 CL 0! V s first
"sited vol., ;entitle, Dr. ,1' c' recently. puh- 1 „sett ...,
way, are re 'eiumsily contrived, and so inartifis44,-,,•
out
, Prayers by the Rev. Dr, Vivian ; and ,the Corninuiiien -• • , -,, -, . , .;„,' `, i. . -1-----7---'----- 9<7 ,2•3 - I 3,'?2.-,,871 4,484,752 3,90,711, ..-,;-, . ''' I
Oct. 10, I Jaii33.,l-5, , April 5, April a, 1' July a, ClSte4o. i Jan, 5, A
(1., 11,50 37a . . ,L, .' •
ler, that the reader-notwitP.tali.iiing Byron • -;- • - : (-•,i-ttans.-cohs,NiKtea f.o.ities:.,ii..;.; ~, 2051.4-;k2 I 3,9,,, . - -
...,1- • lame on " Diet and Dyspepsy" ;of which tt A. „ . , ~, ~ ,' , 1 '' Scrvice bY the, Bis,h,?p, 9f Lrdon', 11,-2 lie'v. ft Dak!ngt -,-„,i, Duty app to ConsUi,da r,--,,,1 I 045 4^2
,!9Attil, ---.- 1 ~ , - - . - -
1
.411 '.n inost tau rum that truth is stranger .aao fiction-lee 8 strongly and the Rev. dr. !iiviati. "1 he Chalon was ae Earl of .
1 31V118 I , '' -
Fund , . . 6 49. i '•"”! - •', 1:293,254 973,586 731,1 a.)
. .
re _ I
titnQ tom terms ; and at the faizie \ , . k • I, Ti • *,.. V.l . ' ' ' ' •:. i 1,479,221 1,161,3 L- -•- - 1.,_:,,•„_:•:„_:,
..-_,.,•-,.. 7.. ... ....
_________________.___-.lt
cie _
_,
161,054
avails itself of tempten to reject ti,rt. attocl-etlicr as irnpossi ic. ten Morturigten-. be re Dcum and Jubili•te in C. Boyce ; sug, DUt • i 43:i•atile to SupplieS
..r 3 • 1 ~ .”.....
13/4,,,,544, ~„, . tkie opportun t. iv of bestowino• a ,
the author's= .....•,Waner of telling. a story is against him. the. Sanctus and Responses, Arnold. 'fhe Anthem, - 1:------ ,
...._ , :PABniti2,s I isio ,I. increase.
Or
•4 F,72 6:.:1 20,601,26. 4. ~,flii!
4 854 388 4 411,569 I 1:1,50•,,..8 i 4,t111,t38%1 .50/78,0f6 4,779,3 ~ , ~ , ,
~ ~„ 737 or 6, 8,,4F5
4' 1" mention on tLe late eccentric Abernethy, 'the i 'korai CustdraS ' " - 4;769,400 5,469,271
1,c27,11., 1:841,5i 1 , ;1,9,9,772 2,570,311 4;1 1;1.59 3.427,271 )59.,11,.1'.11, I - ,y),..), _ 1.3,7,41 17,933
" father of iHe is fe•ttd of amplifyingthe merest trifles,and frequently •• Awake, put on thy strength " ( Wise), etas sung by Ek.C.E•e • ..... •- " - - 2037,1'2 4,(193,!,:5• j's9l'ics 1 0,0 253 1 6,an4,956 1,617023 1,11-10,i724 f,587,041 I'a'fl:"'s 6' 14.'r2 K•i.33 ...... 2,6 i,
dYriPqilic medicine " tvihose professional
linicrits are thus defined - ) •-.•-• :•.. :: ..................... ::: • •.• 1•699•194 1'751,',1'• '-' - ' -'•' 40 ;0.662 1,619,372 311,283 1A81,699 179,6,9 3;7,
..,,,„, f',o 1,000 '272,000
effetts a smart and facetious style of writing which sits Messrs. W. Knyvett, Hobbs., and j. B. Sale. Sit Ueofgc q',l,&'-ei:s" ... • • • .......... • ' • "''' • ' ,015 1 '-'186,") l'6, ' 3" _
o The . :.....- 11' oojqfs ,r,_ ~,,„.,,,}„ ~,2,,,,,, ~5,,,0,,,,, 3.,„!„,,,,c, 4,-,7,00) 35; ,4)bo J'...:p ,001 II ,‘,l-,,,,,;; i7..::,;•0,3
.....
si principles which Abernclity brought into vogue as awkwardly upcm him, and has just as absurd an Smart presided at the fOrgire. , Post Ottice 3,31000 4
.(imo --4p,,,i:,,,, 40.,,,,, 1.1.5,c00 , 40,000 40,000 4 0,,,, 0 :-1:,4:1212, '',,,,,;„,,
~,
~, 2,163 1,6?.5 -
Were so The Bishop of Norwich and tte Rev. J. Vane, the Crown Lands 65,, 00 4,- .
6 340 ;-,,,,;:,,,,f5 . ".,1,C1,4_9_,1,
_14,611 I 7,t151 18,F00 .s!,nu . "127 ----
they we turtle, that few could fail in comprehending them ; effect, as if tin elephant should undertake to dance a
Clerk and Deputy letit 0! the Closet, were in Waiting. llliscellaneous . - --LII-.-z-,;---•_, j
.„-
10,8,,-,,544 1.2,7 t:, 142274 ------ --
7:7 271,727 '.772,000
r. 66 134 31.5,.5a
Con, fro. universal, Bo universal, as to be shut out, in their applica- 1 bolero. One or two of his characters, however-. we
Her Majesty and t4l.nce Albert were accompanied by the -- _
Total Ordinary Revenue 64,179 1 60
Altar .rt no disease, wlyether mental nr corporeal, here- I allude chiefly to the coarser ones-are not unskilfully i.
1 roc 0,5 I 301,r.f.., 4445;6 41,cip2 , si,pff3 1 416,`3''6 ~,.,,,,,,,,, 15,030
Y or aecide • stuu
_,. 144 And lastly, they were enforced by a pourtrayed, and among the most successful we may . . -
. Hereditary ks:trace of Saxe Cobourg-Gotha. The Royal
Suite included the Marchioness of Noimanby, Hon. Miss 1 ,000,730 8,537,318 410.3,475 4 tre5....,uW5 1'4166,8'26 11,788,136 , 8,.53-,015 • i 43,844,057 ', .. ~
...... --
22°,758 4j • 193,716 12!),7P6 ()Ile'. - ' --, - "P - '''' ' •''' ' ' ' ------ -------- 097 030
ts of _kdvances ........... ...... 127,660 194024
_________l
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71 787 - ~
tk,s, ,°I personal qualities which carried away all who had mention the Portsmouth burn-boil woman, Mrs. Snotv. . '''''-----'---- .7 . i -••-• •.ts 6, 1 -101,8.- 4 •
"51" 31 S 5 % ' '.'n 90, 464 4'''' 1145 ' *7 'l9O ' 110 --f 724 151 til,,Jt'l
Anson, lion. 'Miss Paget, Earl of Listowell, Mr. Rich, Hon. l'------ !44 74' c's"" II 11 656 137 12 61: 297 12,6,1,014 , El/619, I 14_1 44,98a,16t, 1, ~ -,
19 349 9C2 8 M.l 957 , ,- ' , ,• , - , , , Deduct
Ifs.: alisPP.itiess of hearing this most originalof lecturers. drop-" Pretty Pon of the Point"-who is a remark- hme.pprae;LTaeron,dt oait:reonm, oe n eys
11,3 t7,9G2 I 12,349,075 --,- •,- , ,
,_______
i_ ,_____,,,
_e.....____
Cclonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouveric, and Mr. Francis . •_--....-....-.-----. Deduct increase.
, wakened attention by the flow and breadth of the ably good hand at fisty-euffs ; and the choleric Captain
richest Do Seymour. The Royal Party returned to Buckingham The Amount applied to the C0ma_271,787
worth of his, and he fixed it not more by the intrinsic Firebrass. As for the evangelical Admiral, Lord Qdrn. Paiace after the Service, in four of the Queen's carriages. dated Fund -
219 5' 781 703 --,.,,,,,,...-.-1,
tic _ ,
nj. statement 'than by his very uncommon drama- Advances, and to pav off Ex. 50,(t0 4'.1677 675,827 172 t 1 930,76 i 98,692 ~ , ,i
...... 6,730.9,,-2 p,641,134 9,596,403 6,009,031 I 31,997,520 f,r.02,824 9,',91,5€4 8,772,340 : 7,483,139 Z2,251,167 , Decrease.
broon, hc is a pure caricature. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager was attended by the Dictctioi ,
eqatier Bills, i,sued as Advances-. 79,150 121,c°° Deer are or.
vial imetie powers. Hii illustrations were never tri-
' often
The
anecdotes
_. prof„upa, serlewsmavuesmesnormeerammor.firmrtzgasnr-
~.......,.. . Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Miss Wheatley, and the Hon. Ditto, asyart of the Ways and Means ith,... Voartcr
yet without ostentation or mysticism. ---- -- --- --- - --- -
Mr. Ashley. The Princess Augusta was attendcd by 4,5,8,960 0,591,941 2.„ the Year. I 15 245
Illsv U°t('-'s v.ith which his lecture; abound (he almost
aYs cd GRAND DiNN •ER 7/.0 ITER MA- , , pl h ~,, -----'n
i 1 1 656 127 112 642 ',:97 12,00',018 , 8,679714 i 41,985,166 2 1:1,9o9 1
1------i 12 149 •2(3 I 8 691,9.57 , 14,741,257 , , „
______
•,,,264,249 12,017,910 4,18'10,913 3,016,9/2 5,136,c. 86 1 916,8'25 i 11,950,626 1a cease on
- - • • I A
- - . of the IT
Total _ , ~, ..., A _ _,l 1 C,lfi .......3 A-. cal. A...:1 tCt Afl
1 1,M7,i)62 1 12,349,075 _ 7,7,83°

COURT CiRCULAti3
I'Te44sly and Prince Albert, the Oueen.b9"-gCr!
7enci the Princess Augusta, attekided Divine Service
terday mortri:;;g, indite Chapel. Revel, St. 'ia.ineVlr. 7.110
preeeheil. ty the Bishop of Durham, who
.teok :`eat from Hebrews, chap. x. verse 24. The
iiessons were read by the Rev. 1-1-L,siey llakins ; the
Prayers by the Rev. Dr, Vivian ; and ,the CorniaruiiiOn
Service by the Bishop of bendote ?he Re'v. ii. Eakins,
and the Rev. Dr. 'ivlati. `he Chaunt was the Earl of
Morninfseet's 'te Dcum and Jubil,te in C., Boyce;
tli-A! Sanctus and Responses, Arnold. The Anthem,
" Awake, put on thy strength " ( Wise), was sung by
Messrs. W. Kny vett, Hobbs, and J. B. Sale. Sit Geofge
Smart presided at the Orgirr.
The Bishop of Norwich and t e Rev. J. Vane, the
Clerk and Deputy Clerk Ot.' the Closet, were in Waiting.
Her Majesty Anil Pr'.nce Albert were accompanied by the
ilereditaty 1°..-Ince of Saxe Cobourg-Gotha. The Royal
Suite included the Marchioness of Nor manby, Hon. Miss
Anson, Hon. Miss Paget, Earl of Listowell, Mr. Rich, Hon.
Celonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouveric, and Mr. Francis
Seymour. The Royal Party returned to Buckingham
Palace after the Service, in four of the Queen's carriages.
Herr Majesty the Queen Dowager was attended by the
Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Miss Wheatley, and the Hon.
Mr. Ashley. The Princess Augusta was attended by
Lady Mary Pelham.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Earl and
Countesfl of Wilton, the Earl of Sheffield, and Lord
Stuart de Rotbsay, were among the Nobility in the
Chspel Royal.
The Queen had a Privy Council at two o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. It was
attended by the Lord President of the Council, the Lord
Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the three
principal Secretaries of States, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
the President of the India Board, the First Commissioner
of the Woods and Forests, the Lord Ste•aard, the Lord
Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse.
Mr. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Lint-
downe, Viscount Melbourne, and Lord Hill.
The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Norrnaaby,
Lady in Waitiag ; the Earl of Listowell, Lord in Wait-
ing ; Lard Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; and the Hon.
Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal) Equerry in Waiting.
Tne Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Hereditary Prince cf Saxe-Cobourg Gotha, took an air-
ing yeiterday afternoon, in an open barouche and four.
The Hon. Colonel Cavendish and Colonel Bouverie at-
tended her Mrijesty and Prince Albert, on horseback.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Italian
Opera House with their presence on Saturday evening.
In the Royal suite were the Marchioness of Nintinanby.
Hon. Miss Paget, Earl Listowell, Mr. Rich, Hon. Colo-
nel Cavendish, Colonel Bouvcrie, and Mr. Francis Sey-
mour.

QUARTERLY Rh: ST /E IV —No. 130.
111u.rr,er1, London, 1840.
In aecordane e 'lrAte the taste of the leuere, xelk erre
much given to tkee perusal of works treating on Indi-
g i n, the •
subj,,cr
ov., •p.reeent . Quarterly R:eric‘w takes, as the
liab d - 1 s first article, Dr. Hohand s recently pub-
e vol'ame on " Diet and Dvspepsy" ; of which it
;
Btrin.'a kit
-a most complitrieneary terms ; and at the regime
pa:, avails itself of tl'e opportunity of bestowing a
'no mention on the late eccentric Abernethy, the
"father of dyripeptic medicine," whose professional
merits are thus defined :
The principles which Abernethy brought into vogue
were ne so simple, that few could fail in comprehending them ;
they !ere Bo
tio universal, as to be shut out, in their appeca-
ditn' iro..n no disease, wkvthcr mental or corporeal, here-
sturarY or accidental. And lastly, they were enforced by a
the personal qualities which carried away all who had
lie paPPiness of hearing this most original-of lecturers.
awakened attention by the flow and breadth of the
richest
Doric, and he fixed it not more by the intrinsic
Worth
ti of his statement 'than by his very uncommon drama-
'fand mimetic powers. His illustrations were never tri-
Tah'_; often profound, yet without ostentation or mysticism.
41,2 anecdotes with which his lecture.; abound (he almost
not cdu.ced. his principles from examples), were usually
for IiVY 'very appropriate but exceedingly picturesque,
paint;
,was a great master of the art of ' word-
cunt
v 1
u i,4lP•' They teemed with knowledge of the heart ; so
giro . sides the point of scientific interest which was pro-
hitrct'atly set forth, there was a large margin for thought in
act: "clunients on human character and opinions. as seen ie,,
us on or recorded in books; to three or four of which , and
103,8 e of the highest order, he confined his reading. 'I
go
pi:,te.rne' ho used to say, ' for the feelings of hlineen nature,
Wfics.ling for its vices, Johnson for a knomeedge of the
rrcl'iro tugs of its powers, and, Shakspeare for everything.'
soibluegBh 4 keen observer on the huenoeous side of our
le , ‘alich, however, be set down with nought of malice,
Of
tPhossessed, like most men of a similar cast of mind, much
of rouser as as well as the irritable humour of that species
I er, of which Jaques is the ideel."
4n thq
terat, Hellam's Li-
eloquent and learned notice of " .
ph. reef Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Sc.
stall ','", 41 Centuries," the Reviewer, after quoting the
lin, "8 comments on Spenser, alludes incidentally to
fe,
t'Y affectation of archaisms." This stricture is per-
ii,i just. Throughout his " Fairy Queen—and
ill rejullicularly in his first book—Spenser writes, rent
ceiatl
Lino
language of his day, but in that of nearly a
stil• urY before him ; just as Sheridan noeeles, with
le
to e, as pardonable affectation, goes back far his diction
11, -tile dramatists of the Elizabethan age, Now this, as
not
Dogberry phrases it, " is mast tolerable, and
tient to be endured." Let every age have its own dis-
et etive Peculiarities, and no;, Servilely imitate the manner
.‘ its predecessor. In Spenser eve are content to oyez-
Cen this conceit, in coo-e•equence of the surpassing af-
of . :e 9f
•his genius ;but inferior spirits should beware
or gN!‘.r*ng way to it, We do not find Scott, or Byron,
their erdsworth. 'writing, in other than the language of
e • ewn daya ; and if Wilson's magnificent prose
tnr-enjoindd, '-fs at times of t.he. glowing and majestic
m; 3 '•if Jeremy Taylor, it is not so much that he
i-itat
c , ".'s him in point of style, as that he possesses a
:3-raernal imagination with that high-thoughted and
litinis,l)°Bsioned old Divine. We are aware it may be
eer 'e ageing us that Charles Lamb imitated with signal
;"",et the quaint manner of our elder writers ; but our
ePIY is, that we admire him, not in consequence of this
i'ieleolie,
ritY. but in spite of it. It is his sentiment, rather
di:4 nis style—the diamond, not the setting of the
Eklund—that we admire. " The Red Man," which is
Q criticism on some recent publications respecting the
tl-lp_erican Indians
"aif, speaks of this oppressed, and now
extinet race, ln warm terms of admiration and
' alminP4.l4. We, too, felt the same sentiments towards
amen ' but Captain Murray's Journal of his residence
our "g the Pawnee tribes has in a great measure opened
~
and eriog to the real character of these savages,, ,
I et etroyed many of our prejudices in their favour.
arr.rnalism in France" is a highly interesting article,
C,4_gives a brief biographical sketch of the late Art:med
the I,1) e,l) one of the most popular periodical wr• :
,„s that
tapern in-:rich ever possessed. The prevaili-eg tee of this
is just and liberal in a high d ,
ern i ...creee *; but surely
Iv. s some inconsistency in t',„o
14;:w coming forward to prai., /Viers,
quarterly Review
,41;411 ago, he was the obj when, not four
,'esecl and ridiculed e... 1 ti? its unleavened hostility—
'equally as a statesman and an
hostility—
hi
1. In an article, which we well remember
iiawein,eg;' entitledi `" Robespierre," and which appeared,
Tiaje- 7s`talto not, somewhere about the year 1836,
.M.
se r 4 well-known history of the French Revolution
ay ,
tkfe mneqUlliteally pronounced a failure ; now, in
lie. year 1840, the Reviewer talks of " its
the g' moving, dioramic pages." Unfortunately,
le work in question has neither life nor motion---at
fast not in any marked degree. It stands stock-still
r 'chapters together, while the historian is discussing
;rue Purely immaterial question about " assignats ;"and
-..respects life, it has no more of the salient principle than
-all 40 supplied by a smart showy style, set off by an
"eeasional earnestness of manner, which would tell bet-
greatere it not so evidently put on for effect. The
merit of the history is neither its picturesqueness
for its vivacity; but the vast amount of its facts, and
he uncommon skill and temper shown in comparing,
71n1oining, and commenting on them. As a delineator of
e4aracter, M. Thiers wants decision. He never seems
to be able to make up his mind in pourtraying his lead-
, ing-personages. We glean no definite idea from him of
the hero of his work, Denton, further than that he was
bold, inventiee, and unscrupulous, all which we knew
before ; and are at a lose to know what is his real
opinion of 'Robespierre, when we find him uniformly
praising him in his prosperity, and consigning him un-
reservedi,y to the Devil, the instant the tide of fortune
sets in eegainst him. Still, despite these blemishes, Thiers'
history is the best we have-11lignet's being purely phi-
losop/eical—and the one that may be the most safely
tell© d on. " Sueiallsni" pays far too much attention to
4 reatter which had much better be left to the good
v.:use of the community, who a ill most assuredly let it
drop into oblivion. But persecution will only, by giving
it undue importance. increase its influence. We ques-
tion whether even Mr. Owen himself has made so many
Socialists as the Bishop of Exeter, by his constant ana-
themas aaainst them in Parliament. " Primitimi,et
4eliquim' is a review of the Latin poems of the. I\
..„._
leis of Wellesley, whose compositions in this
a e
re praised no more than they deserv. -tow erect
18 the Latinity of these two stanzas, I.,,nguage
-
'..nieh occur in an
Ode to " Shame," and are penne".ll ''',a the Alcaic form,
to
ttlr ulesesthi e most varied and
1 r.iclodious of all the Latin

_.01••••
GRAND DiNNER 7eo VIM MA-
JESTY'S MINISTERS AT Tin MANSION.
HOUSE,

aural
I I 1,347,tni2 11"•6,,,,,,
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No. 11.--Jficome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth April, 1839, and the sth April, 1840.
___---- ------
--
Quarters ended Aprils. 1 i Quarters ended .tlyit:;,
/„......--..---...----....".
INCOME. CHARGE. I ,---....--.1--.".'"....'N
leal 1810 i 1 1839 1610
--------, i--..-.
Customs.-Consolidated Duties 3,4i r,
~,, 30,9
,3•29
,P,erma,nent Deb, . . •
. .•
••
3,Z.3•11,Pe8 I 3,511,6:,11
Sugar appllcable to the lenninable Annuities 1 !f,5..7,140 1,395,!,3.2
Consolidated Fund 493,323 310,135 1 Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund i it,;37i 22,v6i)
---.-- Sinking Fund 1
Total Customs 3,991,146 3,339,464 The Civil List 94i10 i 96,601
Other charges on the Consolidated Fund
Excise
Stamps 1,649,253 1,658.1'8 ...----H-...
Taxes .
176,410 179,0„,,5'3 Total Charge , 5,787,645 ! 5,6C6,955
Post Ottice
Crown Lands 40,00)
40,,1001—.--.1-..---
Miscellaneous
355;5 , 8,59,472 8,11P;771
linprest and other Monies 31,,53 31,1113
Repayment of Advances 125,786 110,756
...-------_ The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter eitiled Jan. 5, 16:0 [
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The Amount issued in the Quarter ended April 5, 1810, in part of the sinns granted by Parliament out of the COristAi •
To Cash brought to this Account dated Fund tbr Supply Services
to be applied to pay oft' Deficiency The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Aprils, 1810 ' ! ‘2., ;?.g.,.•116 1,60'2,991
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------- The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Ouarter ended
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The annual entertainrrenT her Majesty's Ministers
was given on Saturday last by tLe Lord Mayor with the
(-Atoms), splendour, although, in tOnsequence of the
Queen Dowager's banquet on the same day, there was not
so numerous an attendance,of members of tho Cabinet as
has been ustlal upon „:tell occasions. The Ministers pre-
sent were Lori .Ikielbourne, Lord Morpeth, and Mr. La-
boucherc. The banquet was likewise graced with the
presence of the Vs' e-Chaneellor and several distinguised
individuals, besides sixteen of the Aldermen, the Recor-
der, and the principal City Officers. Mrs. Huth, in the
absence of her mother from indisposition, presided as Lady
Mayoress, supported by the ladies of the Sheriffs, and
members of her own family, and we must say that we
have never seen the honours of tho Mansion-house sus-
tained With more dignity, tempered with more urbanity,
or graced with more bca‘tty, than was displayed upon this
occasion.

The healths of " Her Majesty the Queen," " Prince Al-
bert," " the Queen Dowager," and the several remaining
members of the Royal Family," were proposed, and re-
ceived with hearty good wishes ; after which
The LORD MAYOR proposed " Lord Melbourne and her
Majesty's Ministers." His Lcrdship said, that it had been
an ancient custom of the City to expect at this season of
the year the honour of a visit from the Ministers for the
time being, without reference to the political party then ht
power, or to the political prepossessions of the individual
who might fill the chair he bad then the honour to occupy.
—( Hear.) lie felt great pleasure in proposing the toast
he had just given, as, independent of the respect he bore
the Noble Premier and his colleagues in their official sta-
tion, his Lordship bad secured the esteem and confidence
of the Corporation of London on the last occasion, at a
time when the right of self-government in the manage-
ment of the police was in danger, by giving an assurance
that the charter of the City should not be invaded,—
( Cheers.)
Lord MELBOURNE heartily returned thanks for the
honour conferred upon himself and colleagues, tle could
assure the company that they were most anxious to con-
tinue to enjoy the good opinion of the citizens, and to
maintain in their pristine vigour and integrity all their
most valuable institutions; he could not go quite so far as
the Lord Mayor had suggested, but as, in reference to the
particular measure then alluded to, there was now no ques-
tion agitated in Parliament or elsewhere, perhaps the best
thing he could do was to be silent upon the subject—
( Applause.)
The LORD Mayoa proposed " The health of Lord
Normanby," with whom, as the Secretary
Home Department, it became the •L of State for the
Duty the Chief Ma-
gistrate of the City of Lon,'
_ upon so many occasions to
communicate ;
he bear testimony to the anxious at-
tention of his
urdie
• Op to the important duties of his high
station. -end to the ready support he gave to those upon
.am the duty devolved of maintaining the peace of the
metropolis.—( Hear.)
The RECORDER, in a speech of great length, expressed
his hearty concurrence in the observations made by the
Lord Mayor. It was his fortune to differ upon political
subjects from the noble individual whose health they were
about to drink, and in another place it was not his prac-
tice to restrain the expression of his opinion upon those
subjectik; but he felt it the more incumbent upon him on
that account to Say, that upon no previous occasion had
be experienced a more ready attention to his representa-
tios's upon the numerous important matters which, as Res
corder of London, he had occasion to bring under the con-
sideration of the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment than was uniformly shown by the Noble Lord
who now filled that exalted station.—(Cheers.)
" Lord Morpeth and Ould Ireland' " was the next
toast given, to which his Lordship briefly responded.
The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of the
Sheriffs of London. He seas glad to see them
again present amongst their fellow•citizens. A deep
sympathy had been manifested towards them for
the sufferings they had been called upon to undergo
for their obedience to the law in the execution of its
process. His Lordship trusted that their firmness and
rconstancy would not alone be rewarded by the public
expect with which they were everywhere received, but by
the conviction that the course of conduct they felt it
their duty to pursue had led to a better definition of the
law and to the placing the rights and liberties of the people
upon a more solid and secure foundation,—( Hear.)
The SHERIFFS severally returned thanks.
The Vice-Chancellor's health was next proposed.
His LORDSHIP returned thanks, and expressed his ear.
nest hope that the time would never arrive when Judges
would he deterred from pronouncing, or its ministers from
executing, the decrees of the law, by the interposition of
any other authority.
Lord MELBOORNE proposed the health of the Lord
Mayor, who shortly replied.
preLluod M
dre tooonnreeTvvishiscahidh,
he should
ultdhehalvaest
thtoeashtonwoausr atofigttitg
The hospitality of the Mansion-house had been distri-
buted by a lady who, uniting all that was fair in form
with all that was elevated in position, had thrown a grace
and charm over the entertainment which had greatly added
to the delight of her guests. He proposed the health
of the Lady Mayoress, which was received with great ap-
plause.
The LORD MAYOR next proposed the healths of Sir
Thomas Phillips, the Aldermen, the Recorder, &c., which
forth several appropriate speeches, and at eleven
".icloelt the company separated.

GENERAL iIEPORT OF COMMIS-
MISSIONERS FOR INQUIRY INTO NAVAL
AND MILITARY PROMOTIONS AND RE-
TIREMENT.

damp rather than improve those energies upon which the
efficiency of all entirely depend.
In the alterations, therefore, which we shall venture to
suggest for you► Majesty's consideration, we have been
governed more particularly by a reference to the especial
claim of each particular branch of the service, to its duties,
to its hopes of distinction, and to its constitution as a se-
parate and distinct force.

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ventured to suggest to your Majesty's consideration, will

ff c!tually remove.
With regard to the propostior, of tutalterns to a com-
pany, which is shown to have been four during the whole
war, and as far back as 1779, we consider the reduction to
two subalterns a company. which was effected in 1125, as
calculated materially to improve the prospect of promotion
now open to the junior officers, and we are induced to hope
that it will prove not only amply sufficient for all the duties
of the service, but also to afford a due encouragement of
promo. ion.
The third ground of complaint upon which the crlittcrs of
Marines praying for inquiry into their condition, wag, thet
there was an unequal distribution of brevet rank, and of
other distinctions and rewards for service, and an unjust
9partienment of prize-money, in reference t, correspond-
ing ranks in other services.
With regard to the first of those grievances—viz., the
withholding of brevet rank for distinguished and gallant
conduct, it would appear that the officers of Royal Ma-
rines labour under some misapprehension, which it will be

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MA..
JESTY.
We, your Majesty's Commissioners, appointed by your
Majesty's Commission, bearing date the Third day of
May, in the First year of your Majesty's reign, whose
hands and seals arc hereunto set, do humbly certify
to your Majesty—That
We have entered upon the inquiry which your Majesty
was graciously pleased to entrust to our charge, with a full
sense of the responsible nature of our duties, viewing them
either in relation to the individual interests, present and
prospective, which might be affected by the result of our
examination, or in relation to that important national con-
sideration, the maintenance of efficiency in the officers of
your Majesty's Army and Navy, whose comparative situa-
tion and prospects of promotion and retirement we were
instructed to investigate.
To assist in our inquiry, your Majesty bad desired that
we should summon before us those who might possess any
information on the subjects into which we were to examine,
and, acting upon that authority, we have received evidence
from officers of every branch of the Military and Naval
service. We have availed ourselves also of the resources
of every department connected with the Army and the
Navy to supply such details as would exhibit the exact
condition of the officers with reference to their age, and
consequent efficiency for service, the duties they had to
discharge, their present remuneration, and the prospects
open to them of promotion or retirement.
In the course of our proceedings, as your Majesty will
not fail to observe, various proposals, some of them com-
prising great and important alterations, and emanating
from officers of high character and distinction, have been
submitted to us. To all of these we have given our best
consideration, but recollecting that the results of a war un-
exampled in its duration, as in the extent of the services
your Majesty's sea and land forces had to perform, afford
ample testimony in favour of the general efficiency of the
existing systems in both Navy and Army, we have rather
endeavoured to amend where we thought amendment was
required, than ventured to propose the adoption of mate-
rial changes (however plausible the arguments by which
they were supported), the effects of which we were appre-
hensive might not realise the hopes and expectations of
the projectors • and this we have done, under the full im-
pression that the existing constitution of each branch of
the service, with the alterations we have suggested, should
they meet your Majesty's approval, is auch as will enable
it readily and effectively to meet any demands that may
hereafter be made on it either in peace or in war.
The present state of efficiency of the officers of your
Majesty's Forces is best shown by the returns for which
we called immediately on our assembling; although it will
be seen, that in the higher ranks there are many of an
advanced age, we are still happy in having it in our power
to report that they arc for the most part competent to
the duties of their several stations, and moreover that there
exists, both in your Majesty's Navy and Army, ample
means of extending and organizing either Force to any
amount that may be necessary.
Upon one great principle we immediately concurred,
that it is for the interest of the individuals whose claims
we have had under consideration, as it is undoubtedly for
the interest of the country, that the expense should be as
much as possible kept down, and that the pay should be
regulated on a moderate scale.
The reason we have to submit for this opinion is briefly
this. It is the natural interest and should be the object of
every officer in either the Military or Naval service, that
the force to which he belongs should be as effective as
possible, that it should be of sufficient strength and energy
to discharge the duties intrusted to it, and to discharge
them in a satisfactory manner. But from the moment that
this service sh suld become burthensome to the country, or
that a prejudice should be created against it on account of
the high scale of its pay, its efficiency would be reduced,
its strength curtailed, its capacity to render service to the
country annihilated, the opportunities of acquiring reputa-
tion and honour reduced in number, or no longer afforded,
and it would languish from wanting that popular support
which is essential not only to its vigour and efficiency, but
to its very',,existence. Reduction would follow upon re-
duction, and the non-effective establishment would be in-
creased, while the duty to be discharged, not being cor-
respondingly diminished, would become incessant and irk-
some to the smaller establishment maintained to dis-
charge
'1 he great object to be kept constantly in view is, that
the service should be performed not only well but cheer-
fully; this, however, cannot be accomplished if the seve-
rity of the duty should harass or overtask the energies of
those employed in the performance of it, or if they should
be led to consider the continuance of that employment of
a temporary aid uncertain character.
In a small establishment, which would be the necessary
consequence of a highly paid service, the hope of promo-
tion, which should be the first incentive to good conduct,
might be materially diminished; and there can be no con-
dition of affairs more to be deplored than that which
would place a number of efficient officers, with strong attach-
ment to the services in which they may have been brought
up, in a position where they would be without hope of em-
ployment, and consequently without hope of promotion.
In a fluctuating and uncertain establishment, the con-
tinued fear of reduction would equally operate to check
the energies of those holding employment therein, as their
anxieties might be more directed to their individual posi-
tion than to a satisfactory discharge of their duties.
Steady and certain employment for the efficient, with a
due encouragement of promotion, and sufficient reward for
those who may be worn out in the service, form the best
foundation upon which the Military and Naval Establish..
merits of this country should be framed ; but neither of
these could be secured if, by an undue liberality, the re-
muneration for service were fixed at too high a scale.
While, however we endeavour to press upon your Ma-
jesty's consideration the propriety of limiting the pay for
service to such a moderate amount as may not render the
maintenance of any particular branch of it a burthensome
charge upon the public revenues, it is equally our duty to
submit to your Majesty the expediency of fixing the scale
of service-pay in all classes at such rates as to make em-
ployment beneficial for the officer, when compared with his
position on half-pay.
Our inquiry has shown that, under the existing
of systav em,
this is not the case in regard t n
o sonic classes nal
sitively occur that ail officer,
officers ; bat that it may po
when summoned to serve under the commission he holds,
lower rate than the daily al.
may receive full pay at a
so trifling as
lowance of his half-pay, or that the advantage to be
gained by service may be comparatively
to afford him no remuneration for the necessary expense
of his outfit.
In that division of our Report which has reference to
the Navy, we venture to submit certain propositions tend-
the which we beg your Ma-
lug to remove this anomta.
jesty's gracious consideratiho:
discussion of the several ser-
Before we enter upone.xarnintion of their claims in detail, we
vices, and the
ermission to record our opinion
request your Majc, y
upon one particular PosinPt in the instructions with which
we were honoured.
bran ch of
as we
NavalwNi e a j understande
as
ntd sAri
certain the comparative situa-
e
We were directed to as
tion of the officers of each
vice, the object of that inquiry
it, to compare the relative
ranksboeifngth.
their pay and the prospects
tary Aervices with reference to
open to them full investigated and considered this
of promotion or retirement.
But, after having A.' .
when employed on
part of the subject, we feel it our duty expressly to state
that, from various causes,
rsPecialain advantages of each
impossible to attempt to s •
a sl-
active service, it would be
milate generally the relative pay
service. 'red for cacti arm of the service is
The education required
alle ur
as different as the service it irn.
ris eon is to
pert exacted a degree
From the engineer or the artlled
by r.o means essential to the
of mathematical knowledge
l or an infantry
qualification of a marine, or a canva ry,offi.
l establish h
cer, while the sea lieutenant Tactica .oniy e
d is claim
of peducation to uhich
to that rank by a course
niust
all the energies of his mind and body for years be
directed. But it is not only in
education or qualification
that the services essentially differ.
In
.iffer. their duties, and
in their opportunities of obtaining distinction, the varia-
tion between them is no less remark able. The ono may
be involved in an extent of in responsibility which
can never be imposed upon the other, who, in his turn,
renders service valuable in its degree, but not leading to
that subsequent distinction which he of more responsibility
may acquire.
standard of a for all scr-
To establish one unvarying PY
have a manifest tendency to
vices, would, in our opinion,

tier Majesty the Quiten Dowager and the Duchess of
Kent attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in the
Chapel Royal St. James's. Lady Anna Maria Dawson
was in Waiting on the Royal Duchess,
The Princess Augusta Visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Royal
tlisir,heetS on Saturday at Buckingham Palace,
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager rude on horseback on
Saturday attended by the Countess of Sheffield. Hon.
Miss Hudson, Earl of Denbigh, and Captain Curzon.
The Duchess and• the Princess Augusta of Cambridge
attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor
Chapel ; Miss Kerr emi its Whiting on the Royal Duchess.
Bareness Moine, the lady of the Danish Minister, had
an audience of the Duchess of Kent.
The Duke of Sussex arid the Duchess of Inverness
visited the Princess Augusta at Clarence House, St.
James'j.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert and Suite honoured
the establishment of Messrs. Hodgson and Graves, her
Majesty's printsellers, with a visit on Saturday to see Mr.
Hayter's large historical picture of the Coronation, of
which his Royal Highness expressed the highest admira-
tion. His Royal Highness was also pleased to inspect many
of the works of art in progress of engraving.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent did Mr.
Hayter the honour to sit for the picture of the Royal mar-
riage on Saturday.
Sir William Newton was honoured with the Queen's
commands on Saturday to take the Coronation picture,
which he is painting upon ivory, to Buckingham Palace,
for her Majesty's inspection. Sir William at the same
time submitted a whole length portrait, in miniature, of
Lady Seymour, painted in the evening costume, as the
Queen of Beauty, of which her Majesty was graciously
pleased to express her approbation.
The names of the Marquis of Anglesey and other mem-
bers of his family were erroneously included in the list of
those present at Lansdowne House on Thursday evening,
they beitig prevented attending in consequence of the
death of the Earl of Enniskillen.
After the Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, the Mi-
nisters attended a Cabinet Council at the Foreign-office.
The Council sat until past five o'clock.
The Comm issioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt had their Quarterly Meeting on Saturday, at the
Treasury. There were present, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls, the Governor of the
Bank of England, and the Deputy-Governor of the Bank
of England. Mr. Higham, the Secretary, attended the
meeting.
The Queen's Advocate had an interview with Viscount
Palmerston on Friday, at the Foreign Office.
Dr. Montgomery and Mr. Hall, had interviews with the
Marquis of Normanby on Saturday, at the Home Office.
Captain Pelly, Deputy Master of the Trinity House,
transacted business un Saturday, at the Board of Trade.

REPORT OF MARINES.
The service to which our attention was first directed was
the corps of Royal Marines, as your Majesty's Commis-
sion had been instituted in consequence of representations
from the officers of that force, that they were denied those
advantages in pay and promotion which were granted to
corresponding ranks in other branches of your Majesty's
service, and upon that representation your Majesty thought
it expedient to direct an inquiry to be made into the con-
dition of the officers of every arm of the service, military
or naval.
To assist us in our inquiries, your Majesty was pleased
to appoint Col. Sir Richard Williams to be a member of
the Commission.
His long and meritorious services in the corps enabled
him to afford us the most valuable assistance in the prose-
cution of our inquiry, and although we were deprived of
his zealous aid, end your Majesty lost the benefit of the
further services of this gallant and distinguished officer, in
consequence of his death occurring before our labours were
completed, we have had the satisfaction of placing his
suggestions upon the records of our proceedings, and have
given full consideration to them in the conclusions at which
we have arrived.
The complaints which the officers of your Majesty's
Royal Marine forces preferred were,
let. Taat the number of Field-Officers allowed to the
corps was insufficient :
231 y. That the promotion was unually slow :
331 y: That there was an unequal distribution of brevet
rank, and also an unequal apport►onment prize-money,
as compared with corresponding ranks in other military

our duty to remove.
From the nature of marine scrvic', which is generally
rendered in small detachments under captains ar,el sub-
alterns, and the recognised absence of Field-Officers from
gea duty or foreign service during the war, it frequently
happened that the senior officer of Marines in a great natal
engagement held no higher rank than that of captain, and
he is eligible for no higher reward than a step of brevet-
rank for the particular engagement.
As a❑ instance of the sparing manner in which this re-
ward was bestowed, it was stated by Captain Willes that,
for Trafalgar, where 3.000 marinea served in the fleet,
one brevet only of major was given.
The fact is, that this was an anticipation of the practice,
which was not adopted in the army till 1811, of giving a
step of brevet rank for service in action ; and we have no
doubt whatever that similar distinctiorn will be fully earned
and abtained by the officers of Royal Marines, if similar

occasions should again require their services.
Tha same observation will a'so apply to the distinction of
the Order of the Bath, which was not placed on its present
enlarged establishment till 1815.
We are fully 'disposed to recognize the justice of that
complaint which was preferred by the Marine Officers,
and more especially by Sir Richard Williams, that in the
apportionment ofprizc-money the due gradation of rank
should be preserved, and we humbly recommend to your
Majesty that so much of the Royal Proclamation of 3d
February 1836, as places Field-Officers of Marines on a
par with sea Lieutenants and Captains of their own corps
should be rescinded, and that they should be entitled to
share prize-money with Officers of corresponding rank in

corps : and
4:hly. That the captains of Marines were paid at a
lower rate than the captains of the Army or the Ordnance.
NNith regard to the first of these complaints, the insuf-
ficient number of Field-Officers, we thought it our
duty to institute the strictest inquiries, with a view to as •
certain whether, on grounds connected with the efficiency
of this valuable corps, it would be expedient to recommend
to your Majesty to make any addition to the establishment
authorized by the Order in Council of June 1837 ; and
with this view the question was repeatedly pressed upon
the several witnesses who advocated the necessity of
increasing the number of Field-Officers, how they pro-
posed to employ these additional officers; and they were
required also to state whether they knew any instances
of the employment of Field-Officers on foreign service.
The general recommendation as to the employment of
the additional Field-Officers was that they should be
placed at the several foreign stations, to inspect and keep
in order the different detachments of Marines under the
Admiral commanding on the station, or in the different gar-
risons—Gibraltar, for instance; and to the second ques-
tion, whether they knew any instances of the employment
of Field-Officers abroad, the answers were, that the em-
ployment of such officers on foreign service had been ex-
tremely rare.
Col. Tremenheere, an officer of 59 years' service, stated
that there have not been many Field-Officers sent abroad,
but for several years past (alluding, probably, to recent
employments in Spain and the Mediterranean) there hale
been some.
Col. Owen stated that "our Field-Officers did not often
go on service during the war."
Col. Wright believed that Sir Richard Williams was the
only Field-Officer of Marines that ever commanded a bat-
talion abroad during the last war.
Capt. Burton stated that Field-Officers were supposed
to he exempt from sea-duty or foreign service, and could
only recollect one instance of a Held-Officer having been
so detached on service, which was to Holland towards the
close of the war.
In fact, It appeared that a Field-Officer had only been
detached on foreign service occasionally, and then with re-
ference to some contemplated employment ,af the Marines
as a battalion on shore.
The station of Field-Officer on board ship was also ad-
mitted to be a matter of difficulty.
In the case where Lieut.-Col. Wright actually embarked
as a Field-Officer of Marines for the Lisbon station, he
stated that he was three times removed from ship to ship,
as the Admiral's ship had not accommodation for the Field.
Officer of Marines.
Captain Burton admitted that a flag-ship only would
I be able to afford accommodation for a Field-Officer, and
that, in a two-decker, additional cabins must be built
for them; and Captain Willes.thought that the presence
of a Field-Officer on board ship might produce some
inconvenience.
Even with reference to the stations were Field. Officers
might be employed in the duties of inspection with ad-
vantage, there was a difference of opinion materially affect-
in, the question.
'Lieut.-Colonel Owen specified only the Mediterranaen,
the East Indies, and the West Indies.
Lieut. - C9lonel Wright limited their employment to
stations where the Marines amount to more than 400 ; and
did not consider it necessary to place them at all on
stations where the squadron is much detached. He con-
sidered the East India station to be one where it would
not be necessary to have a Field-Officer. He applied the
same remark to the Cape, the West Indies, and the
Pacific. In fact, where a squadron is much dispersed, he
considered that a Field-Officer would be in the way.
Captain Willes did not think a Field-Officer necessary
with the squadrons at the Cape, in India, at the Brazils,
or in the Pacific.
The result of this evidence was to confirm us in the
opinion that Field-Officers were not essentially required for
ordinary sea-service, and that the existing establishment of
the corps furnished sufficient numbers for home duties, or
for those extraordinary occasions where it might be neces-
sary to employ any body of Marines ashore.
But we arc nevertheless prepared to admit the force of
Colonel Owen's argument, that the Marines had a title to
an additional number of officers of the higher ranks to give
them "a fair proportion of promotion with the other
branches of the service," and as it was shown to us that
this additional number was not needed on the effective list,
we are disposed to recommend to your Majesty an addition
of two Lieutenant-Colonels to the retired full-pay esta-
blishment, making the numbers of that rank to whom
retired full-pay may be granted six instead of four.
We are also disposed to recommend that retirement on
full-pay in those corps, in which promotion is acquired by
seniority only, shall be no bar to an officer's receiving
further brevet promotion in cases where the retirement
shall have been caused by ill health, and when, before
retiring, he shall have obtained the regimental rank kaf
Field-Officer ; but the only increased charge we content-
plate in this respect, as regards the Marines, is that the
retired full-pay officer who has held the commission of a
regimental Field-Officer, should have his retired pay in-
creased to 4001. a-year upon becoming a Major-General.
In furtherance of the object we had in view, of increas-
ing the number of promotions to the rank of Field-Officer,
we would suggest that two Lieutenant-Colonels of the
Royal Marines should be allowed to retire upon half-pay
annually, as a permanent provision.
We are of opinion that these arrangements will tend
to facilitate the promotion of the officers of the corps to
an extent equal to that which would_result from the ap-
pointment of additional Field-Officers on the effective
establishment.
With regard to the second ground of complaint, that the
promotion in the corps had been unusually slow as com-
pared with other seniority services, we find that in the
Order in Council of 21st June, 1837, which fixed the new
establishment of the Alarines, this was fully admitted; but
we are of opinion that the promotions which he followed
upon that order, have effected a very material
improve-
ment in this respect.
we find that all the existing Colonels-Commandant,
dant
By Returns which we have obtainedif:rocmotnhime Aanddmanirta,ltayll,
the Colonels- Second- Comm= , all the Lieutenant-
th the Ca
veep t
obtained
naendd
theirone-
present rank since that date.
half nearly of the First Lieutenants,
Colonels, one-third nearly
f al
l
ortion of the corps, were important steps
so large a prop
It must he admitted that any.arrangements:which promo-
tedtowards removing the disadvantages under which they had
previously laboured.
ges are attributable to various causes,
These disadvanta
but the most material perhaps were an insufficient retired
establishment, and an unusually large proportion of sub-
alterns to a company.
The first of these disadvantages, we consider that the
establishment of retired full-pay, authorized by the Order
in Council of 21st June, 1837, with the additions we have

other services.
We feel justified in the recommendation we make in this
respect, from the circumstance that during the whole war
when Field-Officers of 51arines did share prize-money, it

The Earl and Countess of Wilton entertained
the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Earl of Chesterfield, Count
D'Orsay, Lady Augusta Somerset, Count Esterhazy, Hon.
Captain Macdonald, Sir Robert Gordon, Hon. Col. Dawson
Darner, and a select party to dinner, on Thursday evening, at

their residence in Grosvenor-square.
NELSON'S .MONUMENT.—The sub-committee,
consisting of the Marquis of Northampton, Lord Colborne,
Sir Robert Inglis, Sir John Barrow, and Sir Peter Laurie,
(Sir George Cockburn being in the chair), met on Friday at
the Royal Academy, and contracted with Messrs. Gri sell arid
Peto for the erection of the Nelson Pillar in Trafalgar-square.
Their tender was the lowest. The erection is to be of granite,
and is to he finished in two years. The Committee have post-
poned deciding on the statue to be placed on the top of the
pillar, for six weeks, expecting in the meantime a very con-
siderable addition to the funds, which is required to finish this
deserved memorial to the most admired of our naval heroes.
The pillar is to be fifty feet higher than the Duke of York's
Column, and the figure of Nelson will be without a cloak.
The Commissioners of Woods and Forests intend to complete
the square in a stylebecoming the site of this splendid monument.
SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS'
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—This Society has received an appli-
cation to relieve the surviving relatives of the sufferers by a
storm which occurred on the Yorkshire coast on the 20th ult.
The morning was extremely fine, and a great number of fish-
ing-boats from Staithes, Redcar, Hartlepool, and the neighbour-
ing stations, put to sea. About noon the wind increased to a
strong gale, and the sea became most boisterous, so that it was
with difficulty any of the boats reached the shore. Eight cobles,
with their crews, belonging to Redcar ; a lugger and a coble,
with their crews, belonging to Staithes ; and a coble and its
crew belonging to Hartlepool, were all lost. Thus by this me-
lancholy occurrence eight and thirty persons have met an un-
timely death. Several of the fishermen who have perished have
left numerous relatives who depended on them for support ; one
of them had eleven children, and other families of five and six

Sceretus
torde Nocentium,
Curas et atres exacuis motus,
Soolusque furtivum scquaci
Exi.gitas face certus ultor.

At Innocenti gratior assides
Menti magister ; gaudet enim tune
e ease Pares tutelm, vigetque
Voce tua stabilita Virtus."
Th
twril wort,hy of
, anil flexibility, and grace of the above lines
Vincent Bourne, the most accomplished
ot,er 0E Latin verse that modern times have known.
td,."_Trc.se Affairs' is penned in a bolder and more libe-
vic, ql, t.t than we were prepared to expect. The Re-
, wer Justifies the intertetence of the British Govern-
tnt ; and even proposes to go the whole hog with the
1. rnperor of China, in case he refuse to concede to our
eilsru,ble demands. The " Privilege Question" is
PrlnciPally devoted to chaunting the praises of the Con-
servative party, and is somewhat prolix and sophistical.
7

each
The bodies of Elizabeth Tomkins, aged 101,
and Richard Mathews, aged 85, were buried at the same time,
on Saturday evening last, at Whittington' in this county.
The above is the old lady who walked from her home in No-
vember last to Oswestry, on the celebration of the coming of
age of the Viscount Clive, and after witnessing the festivities
returned in the evening. Mr. Mathews, butcher, was a perse-
vering man, and well known in that neighbourhood.— Chester
Chronicle.
FLOGGING.-I.le Irish Papers are teeming at
present, much to their credit, with remonstrances against the
odious and revived custom of flogging in the army, and the
Tories are, as usual, labouring in their vineyard of advocated
abuse by deprecating the testimony of Mr. W. Dudley, who
has just furnished some painful details on the subject.
We regret to learn that the Earl of Coventry is
labouring under severe indisposition, at his seat, Severn Bank.
iforcester Journal.
SIR DAVID WILKIE'S PORTRAIT OF HER
MAJESTY.—On Saturday a private view of the portrait of her
Majesty, just finished, by Sir David Wilkie. R. A.. was afforded
to the members of the Royal Family, and a select party of
Nobility, &e., at the residence of the talented artist, Vicarage-
place, Church-street, Kensington. The portrait, which is a
full-length one, is we understand an exact counterpart of that
which was presented by the Queen to her Illustrious Consort,
Prince Albert of Saxe-Gotha, on his return from his travels,
previous to the announcement of their intended nuptials.
Among the members of the Royal Family who honoured the
view with their presence, were his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert. her Majesty the Queen Dowaer, her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, and their Royal Highnesses the Duchess
of Cambridge and Princess Augusta.
tine following is the house list of the Governors
and Directors of the Bank of England, for the year ensuing
FOR GOVERNORS.
Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., Governor.
John Henry Pelly, Esq., Deputy Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Sheffield Neave, Esq.
George Warde Norman, Esq.
John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
James Pattison, Esq.
Chi istopher Pearse, Esq.
Henry James Prescott, Esq.
Charles Pole, Esq..
Thos. Charles Smith, Esq.
William Thompson, Esq. and
Alderman.
T. Matthias Weguelin, Esq.

NE BRITISH FARMER'S MAGAZINE,
(NEW SERIES.

Ridgway and Sons.
The -arst article on " Manures," though not the most
delicate. topic for discussion, must command the atten-
tion of the farmer from the importance of the subject,
4114 tbt knowledge which the writer evidently possesses
t,r, tire practice in . foreign countries. Sir Humphrey
4-Iravy strongly recommended the use of the particular
Manure of which the article treats, and at the same time
showed how its noxious effects might he neutralized.
Were some general plan like that recommended carried
Into effect, the best results might be expected, not only
°Y turning to advantage what in many districts is a great
7 asaneo, but by removing matter which pollutes running
streams and the very air which the inhabitants are
i4liged to breathe. Another article headed " Smith-
' tir &0., strangely contrasts with the preceding, and if
it° writer is not actually afflicted with madness he feigns
°f the
He vents his rage chiefly against a man
' the name of Smith, who, we imagined at first, had
tseen an accomplice with Frost in the Monmouth rebel-
,,;-"n: from these words, " and six and twenty of these
..'"ed Chartists and Smithites, it is said, fell
14 this ho:-rid theoretic cause." Ile then indites
atnle strong language about the drivel nonsene of
'ls fellow—this modern Jack Cade-whom hes sets
(
04n as the ringleader in the Newport rebellion, in
4eking Birmingham, and setting fire to corn and hay
tf,ni:rkiisLt•ed Feeling surprised that such a villain should have
,lle'lped we were induced to go through.. the story, when
"' found that the object of his dire hatred was the ye-
Adam Smith, the immortal author of the
Judgment
of Moral SAitiments." So touch for the calm
of'" Simon Gray, of Mornington Crescent."

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Bowden, Esq.
Edward Henry Chapman, Esq.
Wm. Cotton, Esq.
Timothy Abr. Curtis, Esq.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq..
Abel Lewes Gower, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq.
J. Oliver Hansen. Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq.
Kirkman 1). Hodgson, Esq.
H. St. John Mildmay, Esq.,
J. Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq.
The election fur Governor and Deputy-Governor will be
held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 7th of April, and for Di-
rectors on Wednesday, the Bth of April, from ten o'clock in
the forenoon till four in the afternoon.
COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.-SUMMER
EXCU RSION.-On Saturday, Deputy Corney moved that the
resolution of a former Court, to the effect of interdicting the
sum of 7501. from being expended in summer excursions by
the Corporation, should be rescinded. Mr. Wells had brought
forward the subject when the Court was very thinly attended,
and carried by a majority of one. He considered that the reso-
lution was a very bad compliment to the ladies of the Corpora-
tion, who looked upon the summer excursion as a sort of recom-
pence for the loss of the society of their husbands when en-
gaged in the toilsome duties of the Corporation. He observed
that another motion stood upon the paper for breaking up the
" Maria Wood" barge, but he was convinced that the Court
would dispose of that motion as it deserved to be disposed of.
Mr. Bedford seconded the motion. Mr. Morris opposed it,
upon the ground that the Court were not justified in spending
the City ea.ll in such a manner. Mr. Wells said that the
citizens all felt gratification at finding that he had carried his
resolution, and he trusted that the Court would not be guilty of
the absurdity otil rendering it useless. Mr. Lawrence said the
motion to do away with the summer excursion was a mere clap-
trap affair, and those who did the business of the Corporation
deserved the recreation. The motion was carried by a majority
of 39, the numbers being—Affirmative, 68 ; Negative, 29.
Mr. Wells's motion to break up the Maria Wood was negatived
1 by a large majority.

was on expeditions in which they were joined with officers
Vf the land forces ; and on these occasions, the proportion
allotted to them was at the same rate as that granted to
an Officer of corresponding rank in the army.
There appear to be other distinctions in the position oh
the superior officers of Marines, which we are also dis-
posed to recommend to your Majesty should be abolished,
one having reference to the grant of pensions for good set.•
vices, and another to the retired pay of the officer removed
from the Marines, on promotion to the rank of General
Officer.
By the Order in Council of 3d July, 1837, regulating
the grant of pensions for good services, the general officers
of Marines were placed on a footing with the flag officers
of your Majesty's fleet, whereas the pensions which have
been granted to Generals of Marines have been fixed at the
scale which that Order in Council would give to Captains
of the Navy.
We would suggest that the scale of pension should be
that of the Flag-Officer as sanctioned by the Order in
Council. • 10
With reference to the position of the officer removed
from the Marines on promotion to be a Major-General, it
appears that under the existing regulations, that officer
would be allowed unattached pay at the rate of 1/. ss.
a-day only; whereas if he had retired as a Colonel-Com-
mandant, he would have received 1/. 181. 6d. a-day. In
this respect, therefore, the officer who has remained longest
on duty may obtain a lower rate of pension than one of
much shorter service, and possibly of inferior claims. The
regulations of the Army allow every General Officer, re-
moved from the effective service by his promotion, the full
pay of his last regimental commission. For these reasons
we would suggest for your Majesty's consideration, that all
officers, who may retain efficiently their commission in the
Marines until they shall be removed by promotion to the
rank of General should be allowed, on that removal, the
full pay of their last regimental appointment.
We are persuaded that any regulations in this respect,
which shall be so arranged as to prevent the possibility of
the divisions of Marines falling into inefficient hands, will
have a happy effect in satisfying those officers, who have
passed a long and meritorious service in the corps, that
their pensions for good service, and their pay as General
Officers, are granted upon principles perfectly analogous
to those which regulate other services.
There is but one more alleged grievance in the case of
the Royal Marines, on which we shall feel it necessary to
offer any suggestion for your Majesty's consideration. It
is that the Captains of Marines arc receiving a lower daily
pay than the Captains of the Line.
The origin of this distinction between the pay of the
two services we have ascertained to be this :—A part of
the emoluments of an Infantry Captain consisted of an
annual allowance of 201., which was issued to him under
the title of " Non-effective Allowance," it being the ad-
mitted profit which the Captains of the Army foi manly
derived from the maintenance of a certain number of non-
effective or non-existent men on the establishment of a
regiment whose pay formed a fund to elver the expenses
of recruiting. In 1825 this annual allowance was, for
official convenience, converted into an addition of Is. Id.
to the daily pay of the Infantry Captain. While it had
been issued as an annual allowance, the claim of the
Marine Captain to the same advantage was less apparent,
inasmuch as the Act of 1783, which recognised the claim
of the Infantry Captains to this portion of the non-eifec.
live allowance as a personal profit, did not extend to the
Marines; but when the change into an addition to the
daily pay took place, the Marines, resting their claims
upon the uniformity of their pay with that of the Infantry
in all other ranks, preferred an application for the same
increase to the pay of then: Captains; and it formed one
of the representations which they addressed to your Corn-
missioners.
Upon general grounds, as we have already ventured to
submit to your Majesty, we arc by no means prepared to
advocate the propriety of regulating the pay of one service
by the standard of another ; but we are not disposed to
deny the justice of the complaint which the Captains of
Maiines prefer, that when doing precisely similar duty to
the line, and when actually on service with Line Regi-
ments, they are paid, in one rank only, at a rate lower
than that which their comrades on the same service are re-
ceiving. This distinction we see no sufficient grounds for
maintaining; and we submit that
it would be expedient
that the pay of the Captains of Marines, when serving
ashore, should be issued at the same daily rate as that of
Captains of Infantry.
We limit our recommendation to service ashore, because
we have ascertained that at sea the Marine officer teeeives
free rations, which may be considered as a compensation
for the difference of pay.
There now only remains for us to submit to your Ma-
jesty the conclusions which, in our judgment, result from
the evidence we have received respecting the Marines.
I. That it is expedient that officers should not be con-
tinued in command of divisions when no longer equal to
the active duties of the service.
2. That every officer of Marines removed from the
corps, on becoming a General Officer, should receive the
full pay of his last regimental commission, or 4001. a-year
when the pay of his last regimental commission is not of
that amount.
3 That, upon full consideration whether, in consequence
of the proposed alteration with respect to the pay of the
officers of Marines removed from the corps as Major-
Generals, it would be proper to diminish the number of
Colonels-Commandant allowed to retire upon full pay, it
has appeared to your Majesty's Commissioners that it
would be inexpedient to offer any such recommendation,
because the number of retirements allowed to Colonels-
Commandant need not be filled up by the Board of Ad-
miralty unless it should be thought necessary, while it
might be inconvenient to diminish the means now afforded,
by the retirement on full pay of Colotielt-Commandant, of
removing from the corps officers who, from ill-healtb or
from other causes, have become inefficient.
4 The Commission deem it right to recommend to
your Majesty that the present number o f Lieutenant-
Colonels of Royal Marines allowed to retire on full-pay
should be increased from four to six, on the same ground,