The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-16 00:00:00

MALT DUTY.

A RETURN of the NUMBER of PROSECUTIONS under the MALT
LAWS in each of the Three Kingdoms, in each of the last Four Years.
Number of Prosecutions under the Malt Laws in
ENGLAND. SCOTLAND. IRELAND.

Years ended Total number of
sth January
"lota]. Total. Total. Pro,ectitions,
United Kingdom.
1832 2:0 141 rfl niii
18 13 r'49 403 36 688
1834 807 423 :8 F1:0
1835 038 185 6l 684
G. A. COTTRELL, First Assistant General Accountant.
Excise Office, London, March 7,1835.

A RETURN of the TOTAL NUMBER of MALTSTERS in England,
Scotland, and Ireland, reapectmely.
England .,,, 12,503
Scotland
Ireland 383

The United Kingdom 14,J :15
G. A. C9TTRELL, First General Acountant.
Excite (Ace, London, March 7,18:35.

A RETURN of the TOTAL NUMBER of and EXPENSES of the
OFFICERS employed in the Collection of the MALT DUTY,
and of the'ToTAL AmouNr of SAYING which could be ef-
fected in the event of the Repeal of that Duty.
No separate Return of the Number and Expenses of the of-
ficers employed in the collection of the Malt Duty can be
given, as the Surveys are so arranged as to comprehend the
charging of Duty under several heads ; and with regard to
the possible saving to be effected in the vent of the repeal of
the Malt Duty, no Estimate on this subject can be relied on as
altogether correct.
In order, however, to comply with the terms of the Order
as closely as possible, as Estimate has been attempted; and
supposing that the Survey on Brewers (which is continued as
a protection to the Malt Duty,) were at the same time wholly
abandoned, the repeal of the Malt Duty might possibly admit
of the discontinuance of
107 Supervisors at £2OO £ 21,400
1,250 Officers at £IOO

£146,400
by enlarging the remaining Districts and Rides, making a
saving in Salaries of £146,000 per annum ; but as this in-
creased size of the remaining Districts, &c. would neces-
sarily very largely increase the Expenses of the Supervisors,
some corresponding extra allowance would be called for, which
would go to diminish the amount of saving obtained from the
discontinuance of Salaries.

It is to be observed, that the immediate saving would not
amount to the above sum, as an allowance of Half-pay to the
Officers dropped must be granted to them until they could be
absorbed into the other Branches of the Service as vacancies
occur.

The Half-pay would amount to £73,2.00.
G. A. COTTRELL, First Gen. Acct.
Excise Office, March 7, 1835.

RATHCORiIiAC.

COPY of a LETTER from Major-General Lord Fitz-Roy
Somerset to Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Sir R.
H. Vivian, Bart. (Prepared, pursuant to an Order of the
House of Commons, dated 6th March, 1835.)
Horse Guards, Jan. 8, 1835.
SIR—In reference to your several letters, and the papers
which they contained, relative to the late melancholy collision
at Gurtroe and Rathcormac, I have received the General
Commanding-in-Chief's directions to request that you will
convoy to the officers and men employed on the occasions re-
ferred to, the satisfaction with which he has learnt that their
conduct, under circumstanoes the most trying, was such as to
call forth the most unqualified approbation on the part of the
Magistrates.—l have, &c.
(Signed) FITZROY SOMERSET.
Lieut.-Gen. the Right Hon. Sir R. H. Vivian, Bart.,
K. C. 8., &c., Dublin.