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PARLIAMENTAR •'PAPERS.
136.—(Captain Jones,l9th March)--Illicit Distillation I.
in Ireland.—Return of detections and number
of persons ,
prosecuted for offences in Ireland against the haws for
he suppression of illicit distillation, in
January 5, 1844, &c. Also a return tiffrpurnbeA's'J4
persons confined in each gaol in Ireland foe offerielgi
against the laws for the suppres-sion ofillicit distillation, or(
Jan. 5,1844. In the year ending Jan. 5, 1844,thenumber
of detections was 3,571 ; the number of persons prosecuted
was 1,601, of whom 1,127 were convicted, and 36 ac-
quitted ; and 109 cases remained undecided. The num-
ber of persons confined in the several gaols in Ireland,
on January 5, 1844, was 206.
STOCK TRANSFERRED.—(NO. 125. On motion of Mr..
Baldwin, ordered by House of Commons to be printed„
15th March, 1844.)—" An acOunt of the amount of Stock
transferred from England to Ireland-, and from Ireland -
to England, from January, 1841, up to Ibe latest period
(to which) it can be made up. (In continuation of Par-
liamentary Paper, No. 362, of Session 1841)."
This is a curious document, of which the results may
be thus summarily stated :
Stock transferred in the years ending respectively Ja-
nuary 5, 1842, 1843, and 1844, and from January 5,
1844, exclusive, to February 17, 1844, inclusive:—
From England From Ireland
to Ireland; to England.

Consolidated An-
nuities, 3 percent.£l,9l2,69B 0 0 £367,522 0 0
Reduced Annuities,
3 per cent.
Annuities, 1818, 31
, ,
per cent.
Old Annuities, 33
per cent.
Reduced Annuities,
31 per cent 554,233 0 0 174,360 0 0
New Annuities, 31
per cent.
New Annuities, 5
per cent.

Total Stock, £4,213,108 0 0 £2,085,201 0 0
Long Annul deg
WLIEAT.—(No. 122. By Mr. Charles Wood. Ordered
to be printed, 15th March.)—"A return of the weekly
aggregate average Price of Wheat, by which the duty is
rzgulated from the Ist February, 1843, to the present
time."—This return exhibits the weekly averages, both
under the existing Act, 5 and 6 Victoria, c. 14, and
according to the provisions of the 9th Geo. IV., c. 60,
in separate colums. The 57 weeks upon which tho
averages are taken, ranging from 4th February, 1843,
to. 2d March, 1844, exhibit the following as the rtitrxi-
natuu`and minimum prices :
Under 5 and 6 Victors, c. 14.
Highest 'weekly average ... 58s. 4d. (26th Aug, 1843.)z
Lowest Ditto - -
Under 9 Geo. IV., c. 60. .
Highest weekly average ... 58s. 6d. (26th Aug:, 1,943.)
Lowest Ditto

YEOMANRY.—(NO. 128. By Mr. Beckett. Ordered, &c.,
15th March.)—",Return of the names of the differen-,
Regiments of Yeomanry that have been called out upon
service in aid of the civil power in the years 1840, 1841,
and 1842; and the number of days that each regiment
were kept on duty."—The return fur 1840 is nil. For
1841 the regiments returned are King's Cheshire, Sher-
wood Rangers (Notts), and Queen's Own Royal (Staf-
ford). The first of these, •10 troops ; the
second, 3 ; the third, 9. The return for 1842
gives the following militia regiments, and the number
of their troops respectively. Ayrshire (6), King's
Cheshire (10), Derby and Cheddesden (1), Redburne,
same county (1), Gloucestershire (8), Upper Ward,
Lanark (4), Duke of Lancaster's, Lancaster (3), Leices
tershire (10), Castlemarten, Pembroke (3), North Sa-
lopian (8), South Salopian (6), Ilminster, Somerset (1),
Queen's Own Royals, Stafford (T 1), Warwickshire (6),
Westmoreland [(5), Queen's Own Worcestershire (10),
Yorkshire Hussars (10), South West York (12). The
Ayrshire and the Queen's Own Worcestershire were out
in 1842, the greatest number of days (71 each) ; the
Gloucestershire and the North Salopian the smallest—
once only in each case.