The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-15 00:00:00

COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS.

Mr. BROWN presented a petition from Ormskirk
praying for the establishment of county financial boards.

'MINISTERS' MONEY IN IRELAND.

Mr. MONSELL presented a petition from Limerick
complaining of the impost called ministers' money.
MALT DUTY.

Mr. SOTIIERON presented a petition from Middle-
sex praying for the repeal of the malt duty.
RETURNS FROM THE BOARD OF TRADE.

Mr. DISRAELI rose to ask a question of the Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade of which he had yesterday
given notice. It related to the returns of the department
over which he presided, and he wished for some explana-
tion of the reason of the delay of the publication of the
monthly returns. At the present moment, in the middle
of the month of February, the returns for the month of
December were not yet published. There was also
another point which, if the Right Hon. Gentleman had
been in his place yesterday, he should have asked him,
and that was why the delay bad taken place in the cir-
culation of the summary, as it was cal!ed. There was
also another point on which be wished for some satis-
factory explanations. He spoke of the digested re-
turns of the Board of Trade, which were called tables
relating to the revenue and commerce of the country.
The returns which had been presented to the House re-
specting the trade and commerce cf the country only
went up to the year 1847, and he wished to know
whether the Government could adopt any means by
which returns of such great importance could be brought
up to a more recent period. Returns of the number of
spirit-shops in Dublin, c f the number of temperance
coffee-shops in London, and a series of returns of the
number of brothels in Bristol, Manchester, and other
cities bad been given, and he wished to know whether
the Government thought these of more importance than
the returns he had mentioned.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Hon. Member was
under a misapprehension in supposing that these re-
turns had been presented at a later period than usual.
Ever since 1835 they had, with only one exception, been
laid on the table of the House on the 10th February.
The presentation of the returns, besides, did not depend
entirely upon the Board of Trade, because they had to
wait until the different departments sent in the neces-
sary information to make them up. To prove that there
was no unnecessary delay at the Board of Trade, he
might mention that it was only yesterday (the 14th)
that the Excise returns, which were comprised in the
paper he had just laid on the table, were received at the
Board of Trade. The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to
ask him why the digest account of the Board of Trade
only came down to the end of the year 1847. It was
quite true that it only came down to the end of 1847, but
this] information which had now been presented to the
House of Commons for a great many years before
the statistical department of the Board of Trade was in
in existence, bad always been one year more in arrear
than it was now.—(Hear, hear.) The statistical
department of the Board of Trade, therefore, had suc-
ceeded in abridging the period at which this return was
forthcoming by one year. The Hon. Gentleman was pro-
bably aware that this return was divided into two parts,
being comprised under the heads of section A and section
B. The latter had already beendelivered; the other, which
related to the trade and finance of the country, would be
ready in a short time, perhaps it would be on the table
of the House in a fortnight, and it would bring that por-
tion of the account down to the loud of the year 1848.
The Customs and every other department of the
country had always evinced an anxious desire
to furnish these important statistics to the House
at the earliest possible moment, and the Honour-
able Gentleman and the House might rely upon the
Board of Trade delivering them in immediately after
they had had an opportunity of testing their correctness.
CONTRACTS OF SUPPLIES FOR THE

COLONIES.
Mr. SCOTT wished to inquire of the Under-Secretary
of the Treasury whether any contracts had been entered
into by the Go►ernment for the supply of the colonies,
and whether any dispatches, had been received with re-
spect to such contracts ?
Mr. HAYTER said that no such contracts had been
entered into, and that no dispatches had been received,
but that as soon as they came to hand, if such dispatches
were received, they should be laid upon the table.
LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT.

In reply to a question from Mr. CLEMENTS, it was
stated that a Bill was in preparation for the amendment
cf the laws regulating the property between landlord
and tenant.
COST OF EMIGRANTS TO NEW SOUTH

FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, WO

18th Foot—Captain William llanme,., from the 44th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Ashton, who exchanges.
Feb. 15.

23rd Foot—Corbett Holland, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, ♦ice Hughes promoted, Feb. 15.
24th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Lewis Hollo-
way, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fur-
loege, deceased, Feb. 15.

28th Foot—Joseph Gubbins, Gent., to bo Ensign, by
purchase. vice Bourne, promoted, Feb. 15.
29th Foot—Ensign George Henry Nevill to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Smith, daceased, Nov.
30, 1849; Ensign Henry William Somerville Carew,
from the 14th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Neville, Feb. 15.
34th Foot—Lieutentant Charles Wilson Randolph to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Packe, who retires, Feb. 15.
Ensign Henry Dalton Probyn to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Randolph ; James Anthony Gardner,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Puget, promoted,
Feb. 15.

George Percy Barnard, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Campbell, promoted, Feb. 16. John O'lleg,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Weathead, pro-
moted, Feb. 17.

:35th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Randolph Ralph Ad-
derley, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Warren, promoted, Feb. 15.
39th Foot—Ensign Thomas Carpendale Baird, from
67th Foot, to be Ensign; Charles Cunningham Boycott,
Gent., to be Ensign, by pucAsse, vice Harrison, who re-
tires, Feb. 15.
42d Foot—Major Charles Dunsmure to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase. vice Macdougall, who retires ;
Captain George Burrell Cumberland to be Major, by
purchase, vice Dunsmure, Feb. 15.
Lieutenant Augustus Paterson to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Cumberland; Ensign James William Bal-
four to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Paterson,
Feb. 15.

44th Foot—Captain Thomas Henry Ashton, from the
18th Foot, to be Captain, vice Hanmer, who exchanges,
Feb. 15.

46th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Edward James Frank-
lyn, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Wool-
house, who resigns, Feb. 15.
41th Foot—Henry Richmond Hoghton Gale, Gent,
to be Ensign, by purchase. vice Colthurst, promoted,
Feb. 15.

56th Foot—James Paton, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Walter Bourke, whose appointment has
been cancelled, Feb. 15.

631 Foot—Paulyn Reginald Serlo: Marquis of Hast-
ings, to be Ensign, by purchase, Tic° Carey, promotod,
Feb. 15.

64th Foot—Alfred John Tuk9, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Moultrie, promoted, Feb. 15.
67th Foot—Thomas Carpendale Baird, gent. to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Hunt, promoted, Fab. 15.
73d Foot—Francis Freeman White, gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice M'Creery, who retires, Feb. 15.
74th Foot—Quartermaster Fergusson Dunbar to be
Paymaster, vice Thomas Eyre Lambert, who reverts to
his former half-pay as a Lieutenant, Feb. 15.
Quartermaster Charles Daine3, from half-pay 26th
Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Dunbar, appointed Pay-
master, Feb. 15.

1178th Foot—Major Walter Hamilton to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, ♦ice Douglas, deceased ;
Brevet-Major Thomas John Taylor to be Major, vice
Hamilton, Oct. 2.

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Lieutenant Thomas Molyneux Keogh to b© Captain,
vice Taylor, Dec. 31.

Ensign Horatio Gillmore to be Lieutenant, vice
Keogh, Dec. 31.

Ensign Andrew Cathcart Bogle, from the I'2d Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Gillmore, Feb. 15.
84th Foot—Ensign and Adjutant Jamos Pope, from
the 44th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Young, appointed to
the 22d Foot, Feb. 15.

91st Foot—John Bruce, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Rae, promoted, Feb. 15.
Rifle Brigade—Charles Cholmeley Hale, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Drummond, pro-
moted, Feb. 15.

Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Alexander Bravo
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tittie, who retires;
William Arnold Arnold Wallinger, Gent., to bo Ensign,
by purchase, vice Godden, promoted, Feb. 15; William
Mansel Tayler, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice
Bravo, Feb. 16.

BREVET.—Captain Stephen John Hill, of the 2d West
India Regiment, to be Major in the Army, Feb. 15.
UNATTAcriED.—Lieutenant Humphrey Gray, from
the 39th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Feb. 15.
HosPITAL STAFF.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Horatio
George Martelli, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces,
vice Holloway, appointed to the 24th Foot, Feb. 15.
MEMORANDUM.—Surgeon George Roche Smith, of
the 2d Foot, has been placed at the bottom of the list
of Surgeons i❑ the Army, on the I2th December, 1849;
the date of his commission is therefore altered to 12th
December, 1849.

The commission of Captain H. W. Hartley Graham,
of the 3d West India Regiment, has been ante-dated
to 2d November 1849.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 9.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Barley Hol-
royde, of Halifax, in the county of York, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
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WHITEHALL,—FEn. 12.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis Brown,
of Market Deeping, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to
be a Master Extracrdinary in the High Court of
Chancery.