The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-20 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS.

AN ACCOUNT, showing the Total Amount of the GRANTS
of PARLIAMENT for the Service of the Year ending the
Ist of April, 1841, issued and remaining to be issued on the
Bth of February, 1841, under the several heads of Army,
Navy, Ordnance, Miscellaneous, and China, respectively ;
together with an Estimate of the Demands outstanding, or
Char ges incurred under those several heads, so far as the
same can at present be ascertained.

Estimated
Amount of
Amount of Issued to the
Remaining Demands
Grant. Bth Feb.' to be issued. outstanding,
1841. or Charges
incurred.
--- -.---- --- -._
£ £ X X
Army ... 6,616,853 5,783,000 833,853 753,000
Navy
Ordnance
Canada
China ......
Miscellaneous 2,760,040 1,433,510 1.326,530 1,314,769
-- ----- - ---
X 117,622,513 13,647,759 3,974,754 1 4,277,616

R. GORDON.
Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, March 16, 1341.

COURT OF SEWERS, WEST-

MINSTER.

A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberties of Wcstmin-
and part of the County of Middlesex, was yesterday held at
the office of the Commissioners, in Greek-street, S.sho,
Thomas Donaldson, Esq., in the Chair. The minutes of
the proceedings of the last Court having been read and con-
firmed, and the usual routine business having been transacted,
a letter was read from Mr. Bicknell, the solicitor to the Chel-
sea Hospital, stating that the Commissioners of the Hospital
had had an application made to them for a Sewers-rate o
85t., which they intended not to pay without taking a judicial
decision on the question ; and therefore requesting, in order to
raise the question, that a formal distress should be made, when
the Commissioners of the Hospital would bring an action
against the person so levying the distress, which would have
the effect of raising the question. A warrant was ordered to
be prepared to be laid before the Court on Friday next, and
the clerk was directed to consult the solicitor as to the proper
form of drawing up the warrant.
Mr. BUTT, the solicitor for the parish of St. George's
Bloomsbury, applied for additional time to be afforded to that
parish before the issuing of warrants for the Sewers-rate. The
opinion of Counsel had been taken by the parish on the sub-
ject. That opinion had been referred to a Committee, many
members of which were absent on circuit, and he, not having
received any instruction, could not give an answer. He there-
:ore prayed for a further delay until the 3d May next.
Mr. CANTWELL moved that the application be granted.
Mr. BEACH seconded the motion.
Mr. LESLIE opposed it on the ground that it was contrary
to the bye-law which directed that the collector's book should
be cleared in seven months. The Court had no power to
grant it, and he should move an amendment to that effect.
The CHAIRMAN said that the bye-law was merely for
the regulation of the collectors, and that it was by no means
imperative on the Court to clear the book in seven months.
Mr. A'BECKETT objected to any further indulgence being
granted, for after Easter all the parochial officers might .be
changed.
Mr. J. Fur.r.za thought that delay would only increase the
difficulty, and the granting it in this instance would not be
fair to other parties. He seconded the a mendment.
The CHAIRMAN thought a sufficient case hail been made
out to authorise the granting of the application, and could not
see how it would affect unfairly any other parties.
Tho Court divided on Mr. Leslie's amendment, when there
appeared,
for it, 4, against it, 14. The original motion wry
then put and carried.
Several appeals and petitions having been disposed of,
The Court proceeded to consider the opinion of Dr.
Phillimore as to levying upon Churches, &c., with a view to
take such steps therein, and give such instructions in conse-
quence thereof, as may be considered necessary.
[The opinion of Dr. Phillimore has already appeared in
The Sun.]
The
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