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London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

NAVY ESTIMATES.

Colonel CHATTERTON asked the First Lord of the
Admiralty, seeing the sum of 538,6421. charge} in
the Navy estimates for the years 1849-50, under the
head of " Victuals for Seamen and Marines," what
portion of that sum had been; paid, or now 'remains
due, to houses in England, Ireland, and foreign houses
in the provision trade, for the supply of beet and pork
for her Majesty's nary.
Sir F. BARING said it would be difficult and inju-
dicious to apportion the sums among the different houses
in England and Ireland.
DUTY ON WHEAT.

In answer to a queattion from Mr. NEWDEGATE,
who complained of certain inaccuracies in the returns
presented to Parliament of the duty received on the im-
portation of wheat,
Mr. LABOUCHERE said he was sorry to say that
the Hon. Gentleman had fallen into error in the method
of his calculations. It would require a more detailed
statement than he could at present lay before the House
to explain them, but he would just mention one instance.
The accounts which the Hon. Gentleman alluded to were
from the sth of January to the sth of February, and
nut from the first of the month, as he had stated. Of
those, up to the 31st of January, corn entered at 10s.,
and the remainder at Is. duty.
After a ehort conversation, the matter was allowed to
drop, Mr. LABOUCHERE expressing a perfect confi-
dence that the Hon. Gentleman would find that the re-
turns were correct after he had perused the statement
which ho would lay on the table of the House.
PREROGATIVE COURT—OFFICE OF
REGIST RAR.
Sir B. HALL rose to put a question to the Noble
Lord at the head of the Government with reference to
the office of the registrar of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, which he said was a sinecure office, the emo-
luments of which amounted to 12,000/ per annum. The
Archbishop of Canterbury had the power of appointing
to the office, and also of nominating two others in re-
version. Archbishop Moore had appointed his two
sons, Thomas and Robert Moore, the latter of whom now
held it, having succeeded his brother in 1845.
Along with the registrarship ho believed that gentle-
man also held a prebend stall, and two rectories, having
a net income of 14,0001. per annum. Dr. Manners
Sutton, while he was Archbishop, had appointed the
present Viscount Canterbury, his grandson, then twelve
years old,
to the revisionary interest, while the late Arch-
bishop, Dr. Howley, had declined on conscientious grounds
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the name of the son of the present Bishop of Winchester,
and what the age of that son was; and, also, whether it
was the intention of the Government, in conformity with
the provisions of an Act passed in 1847, to introduce any
measure for the purpose of revising those appointments?
Lord J. RUSSELL said, as the Right Hon. Baronet
had given notice of his question, he had obtained in-
formation on the subject to which it referred, and ho
found that Mr. John Moore was appointed to the office
by the late Archbishop Moore, and that Robert Moore
was appointed to hold it in reversion after the death of
his brother. It appeared, as the Right Honourable
Baronety did he
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sell) could not say whether the Archbishop made any
communication to her Majesty's Government on thr:
subject, but ho remembered perfectly well that in
a coeversatien which he had had with him,
the Archbishop mentioned that an office had
become vacan', to which he did not intend to make an
appointment, but he did not state the nature of the office

If lippeared likewise that the second reversion of
441 p `argce had since been given by the present Arch-
bishop- t 8 his nephew, Mr. Sumner, who was a young
man no* studying at the Temple. (A laugh.)
With respect to the existing law, as it effected
that appointment, he might state, a Bill was introduced
and passed into a law in 1847, which provided that all
appointments subsequently made in the Ecclesiastical
Courts, should be taken subject to any regulations which
might afterwards be made by Parliament, either as to
their alteration cr abolition.—(Hear, hear.) The
nature of the office in question was at present under-
going inquiry by a Select Committee of the House
and it appeared to him (Lord J. Russell) to Le one of
those offices which, when Parliament dealt with the sub-
ject, would either be abolished, or so altered that the
person holding it should perform efficient duties.—
(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him, likewise, that the
enormous salary mentioned by the Right Honourable
Baronet must be abolished, and by the provisions of
the Act to which he alluded, the person holding the
office in reversion would be entitled to no compensation
whatever.

Sir B. HALL then gave notice that on Thursday nest
he would move for certain returns connected with the
ofgcers of the ecclesiastical courts in England and
Wales.

Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that on the same (lay be
would put a question to the Noble Lord (Lord J. Km-
sell) respecting the purchase, by the Ecclesisaical Com-
mission, of the Bishop of Gloucester's interest in the
estate of Hawfield (a 9 we understood).
DRAINAGE BILL

In reply to Mr. DISRAELI,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said tbo
Bill which he had mentioned in his financial statement
respecting drainage wuuld bo laid on the table of the
House in two or three days.
OFFICIAL SALARIES.

Mr. HENLEY then rose to move Shit an humble ad-
dress be presented to her Majesty, humbly to request
that she would be graciously pleased to direct that a
careful revision be made of the salaries and wages paid
in every department of the public service, with a view
to a just and adequate reduction thereof, due regard being
had to the efficient performance of the several duties.
He believed this subject had not been to the fullest ex-
tent brought under revision since the year 1821.1 This
House then voted an address to the Throne en the then
circumstances, calling for a revision cf the salaries paid
to all members of the service, and praying for a re-
duction of the numbers emplot el. That motion
was afterwards referred, by minutes of the Trea-
sury, to the heads of the various departments, and
more alterations and reductions took place in conse-
quence. That measure tti as afterwards followed up by a
Committee of the House, whifla had referred to its consi-
deration the salaries paid the officials who held seats
either in that or in the other House of Parliament whiefi
was :somewhat :analagous to the Committee: which was
appointed a short time ago. Another Committee
appointed in the same year took cognizance of the
various officers who had heretofore been paid out of the
Civil List, and who from that time were thrown upon
the Consolidated Fund. These Committees led to re-
ductions, but not of a 'great extent, and since that
time there had been no further dealing with the sub-
ject. It would, however, be in the recollection of the
House that about two years ago the present Government
thought it right to refer the expenditure of the two
great branches of the public service to the consideration
of a Committee of this House, and he thought that of
itself was a pretty strong indication that there was some-
thing special in the times to induce the Government of the
country to take so very unusual a course. It chanced to
hire to have the honour of sitting in one of those Com-
mittees, but while the report of the Committee on the
army estimates recommended reductions in the heads of
departments, that of the Navy Committee was altogether
silent on the subject, that brought them down
to what took place the other day, when the
Noble Lord at' the head of the Govern-
ment brought forward a motion which was carried
to refer certain limited branches of the service to a
Select Cornmito a. With what view the Noble Lotd
made that motion ho did not know. He did not know
whether the Noble Lord thought any increase or any
reduction were necessary, because the Noble Lord did
not tell them ; but lie could hardly suppose that the
Noble Lord had any other object but a reduction
in view. But, however, that might be, he would state
shortly to the House the branches of the public service
which the Noble Lord selected in the consideration of
this Committee. They were first the offices held by
gentlemen who held scats either is this, or the other
House of Parliament, then there was the diplomatic
corps ; and, lastly, there where what were
called judicial offices. Now, he was prepared to show
that each of these separate branches stand upon sieseial
grounds, which some other branches did not. He would
take first on order the judicial salaries, now
since reference must be had to the remunera-
tion received :by eminent men- practising in
the same precession of equal dignity. That
was an important element which must enter into
the consideration of the question of what ought to be
paid to an eminent advocate on undertaking a
judicial office, and therefore he maintained that
this branch of the public service stood upon grounds
of its own.—(Hear, hear.) He now came to the diplo-
matic service. Of course a sedarate element which must
enter into the consideration of that question must be
the restricted :circle of men of ability from
it they could select individuals to fill the office. They
mill also take into account the expences which an
A.mbdesador was necessarily expected to incur in the
various :countries where the public service required
than to goS—(Elear.) Therefore they stand upon sepa-
rate ground-from all other branches of the public ser-
vice.—(Hear.) He came next to the official gentleman
who held seats either in that or the other House
of Parliament. who, he thought, he 'should be able to
show stood altogether upon grounds apart from the
great body of public servants who held perma-
nent offices in- the various departments.—(flear.)
In the first place those gentlemen were only in and out
of office, and subject to a change by a thousand circum-
stances. But there was this peculiarity attached to teeir
office, that while other servants of the Government were
only required to work by day, the servants of the
Crown in this and the ether House of Parliament were
called upon to work by night as well as by day. Therefore
both on the ground of not having permanent possession
of their office, and of having to work by day and by
night, he did draw a distinct line between those gentle-
men and all the other branches of the public service. If
it was thought that the three branches of the public
service, the army, navy, and ordnance, stood in need of
revision, he wanted to know why it was that larger
amounts of the public expenditure, which ho should
bring before their notice, were not also to be subject
to revision and economy, if economy was proper. With
respect to the army, navy, and ordnance, those estimates
had been annually under the revision of Parliament itself
With respect to judicial offices and official salaries in
this and the other Houses of Parliament, those had been
recently submitted to more recent discussion than the
larger mass to which he should call their attention.
Now, he knew there was a very large number
of gentlemen, not only in this House, but out
of it, who had lain down the almost categori-
cal opinion that no economy could be practised
and no saving could be made except in the warlike estab-
lishments of the country. Great countenance had been
given to that opinion, not only by the Noble Lord the
First Lord of the Treasury, but also by the
late First Lord of the Treasury in his financial state-
ment in 1845. He (Mr. Henley) could not but think
there was a deal of error in that state-
ment. When it was considered how large
the expenditure of the country was, which never
came under the review of Parliament at all, he thought
it would be very difficult to show that if that large ex-
penditure were carefully looked into some cor.-
siderable saving might not be efreeted. He
found that under the head of Customs, Ex-
cise, stamps and taxes, pest-offices and Crown lands,
according to a financial return for 1848 to 1849, the
amount paid under the head of salaries and wages was
no less than 2,818,0001. He found also by the
same return the sum paid in various salaries to Com-
missionerso,ooo and the salarieswas27l,ooo4the o
fofficersdiplomatic
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salaries were
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justice amounted to no less than 1,970,9241.;
making altogether the sum of 4,327,000/. odd ; not one
farthing of which ever came under the review of Paris-
ment.—(Hear.) Then in the navy, army, army, and
ordnance, the return of salaries and wages of
persons who had - nothing to do with fighting
men showed a sum of 1,500,0001.; for salaries in the
commissariat 100,0001.; salaries in miscellaneous esti-
mates, 1,131,0004 So that there was of sala-
ries which came under the annual revision of
Parliament a sum of about 2,647,0001. They had in
addition large sums paid in salaries under the control of
Government, though not paid out of the public Exchequer.
Taking the expenses of all the courts of law they
amounted to 500,0001. per annum, thus making a total
amount of 7,000,0004 in civil salaries. He wished to
call the attention of the House to the amount of what
was paid to the army, navy, and ordnance. The whole
sum paid in round numbers was 6,500,00001., so that at
least one million more was paid for civil salaries than to
the army, navy, and ordnance. And yet they were
told that it was quite impossible to save anything out
of the civil expenses, and that the only way was to go
to the warlike expenditure.
(LEFT sPEASING.)

COURSE OF EXCHJ
Amster,lam .......... 12 2
Ditto, three months.. 12 3Y,
Rotterdam .......... 12 3%
Antwerp .• . • ••••••• •• 25 80
Brussels • • • • .. 25 10
Ilemburgh • Di.l3 • 13 133 e
&tons • • ........ • • ....
3 days'sight . • 25 60
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 SO
Marseilles 25 80
Beurdeaux......... •
Frankfort on Maine.... 121%
Berlin
Vienna, effec. tio •••• •• 12 7
Trieste, ditto.— .... 12 8
Petcreburgh, Sil. Rble •• 37%
Madrid ••.. • • ........ 49%
Cadiz •• .• •• •• • • •• •• •• 49%
Barcelona
derille • • •• ••

LNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.... .• . .
Leghorn ••••• • • • • • •••• 30 75
Genoa . • •• 26 10
gaples •• • •••• • • •• 40%
Palermo, per0z........ 12214
Messina • .• 12434
Lisbon... • 31.‘
Oporto .• .. • • .... • • • • 533
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Ayres
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia
raicks Or BULLION, PLZ OZ,
Foreign Gold in bars .. 43 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .... •• S 4 10%
Silver in bars ...• •• 0 4 11%

GREENOCE.—DARING AND SUCCESSFUL INTRE-
i,IDITY.—I'Ve have to record an accident of a most alarming
character, but from which happily no serious consequence
resulted. On the morning of Friday se'nnight which, it
will be recollected, was stormy, a small boat, taking men off
to her Majesty's steamer Greenock, at present lying at the
Tail of the Bank, was suddenly caught in a squall when
alongside the ship, and upset, precipitating sixteen men into
the river, and placing them in the most imminent peril.
Captain James Brown, the officer in command of the ship,
having heard a violent screaming from his berth, leaped un-
dressed through a port in his cabin into a boat the sailors
were in the act of lowering, and by his energy, we are ;sappy
to say, all hands were rescued from a watery grave, he him-
self having with his own hands pulled five men into the
boat—Edinburgh Courant.

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Colchester llO 220 55 no
Harwich
Leigh 432 40 31
Maldon 648 16 356 130 105 500
HADDINGTON, Aran. 26.—The following are the prices of

grain at our market to-day:—
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans.
First ... ... 39s Od 24s Oil 19s Od 28s Od
Second ... ... 35s 10d 22s 6d 17s 4d 23s 8d
Third ... .. 32s Od 21s Od 14s Od 224 Od
Total quantity of Wheat in market 408 qrs., 386 sold
Do. Barley do. 235 qrs., 152 sold
Do. Oats do. 298 qrs., 255 sold
Do. Beans do. 175 qrs., 172 sold
KIRKALDY, APRIL 27.—The following are the quotations
up to this date :
Wheat. :Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas.:
1 First 40s Od 22, Od 19s Od —s Od I—s Od
Second 33s Od ]9s Od 18s Od —s Od —s Od
Third 32 Is
Od 16s 6d 14s 6d —s Od —s Od

Oatmeal, ner bagof 2801 tis imperial, 24s to Os Od. _
GLASGOW, APRIL 24.—Provisions—Cheese, 00s to 00s Od
per cwt ; retail, Od to Od per lb. Skim milk, Os Od to Os per
cwt. Country fresh butter, 10d to lOid per lb. Irish pow-
dered, in lumps, 9d to Od; country powdered, wholesale, Bid
to 9d. Country eggs, 8d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 4s 10d
per , 20, or 6d per dozen. Hens, 3s Od per pair ; Ducks,
2s 6d.

STIRLuca, APRIL 26.—Wheat, foreign, 20s to 23s ; ditto,
home, Os to Os • ditto ditto new, 16s 6d to 20s Od; barley, per
boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 14s 3d to 18s Od.
Oats, common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, lOs Od to 12s 3d;
ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt,
distillers, 32s Od to 34s ; ditto brewers, 35s Od to 36s ; beans
per boll, Os 6d to Os Od ; ditto new, lls Od to 13s 6d ; pease
13s to OQs; flour, new per sack, 31s ed to 32s 6d; ditto common
ditto, 20s Od to 22s d; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od ;
ditto new 23s 6d to 25s 6d ; ditto per peck of 71bs, 7d to 8d ;
fresh butter per lb, Od to Od; eggs per dozen, Id to 8d;
hay per ton, Os to Os.
XxLso, APRIL U.—Wheat, old, Os to Os; ditto, new, 24s
to 29s Od ; barley, new, 12s to 16s Od ; ditto old, Os to Os ;
potato oats, OOs to 003 ; ditto new, lOs to 13s Od ; common
oats 06, to OOs Od ; ditto new, 00s to 00s Od ; peas, las Od
to 00s Od ; beans, 183 to 00s per boll of six imperial bushels.
PERTH, APRIL 26.—Wheat, 34s Od to 313 s Od ; barley, 17s
Od to 19s Od ; oats, 14s to 16s ; peas and beans, 20s Od to 24s
per quarter. , Oatmeal, per sack, 22: to 245.
BERWICK, APRIL 25.—Wheat, 33s ; barley, 18s 10id ;
oats, 13s 6id ; rye, COs Od ; beans, 24s Od ; peas, 00s Od
average per imperial quarter.
Far.xxxx, APRIL 25.—The supply of grain in this day's
market was 388,bolls; wheat at 16s 9d to les Od per bell. ;
barley, 16s Od to 18s Od ; oats, 12s 6d to 13s 6d; beans, 12s 6d
to 14s 6d per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load.

COAL MARKE'
Carr'e Hartley
Holywell
Tanfield Moor
rantield Moor Butes— 13s 0,1
Walker's Primrose
West Hartley
Wylam .
Wall's End, &c. _

.-YESTERDAY.

Belmont l6s Gd
Haswell l7s 6d
Lumley lss 6s
Whitwell
Heugh Hall
South Hartlepool
Whitworth l3s 3d
Maclean's Tees 13.3 6d
Seymour Tees
Elsicar Steam
Hartley
Huuwick Coke 2os Gd
Sidney's Hartley
Ships at market, 136.

Acorn Close
Brown's
Bewicke and Co.
Brown's Gas
Gibson
Original Gibson
Riddell's ..... ...... 14s 3d

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of New South IYales.