The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-29 00:00:00

451,017 -

Add to which -the reduc-
tion in the Pension List 64,035

Total saving 515,053
The Chamber will see from this statement that the
Government has been most solicitous to adopt all prac-
ticable economical measures, in order to avoid as much
as possible the imposition of further burdens upon the
country. . _ _

By a Royal Decree published in the Diario of' the
18th instant, the Queen has ordered the assessment of
the decima tax for the financial year 1844-45, to be pro-
ceeded to forthwith, so as to be completed by the 31st of
May next. The decree further enjoins an inspection to
be made of all lands and houses, and a strict inquiry into
the means and incomes of all persons subject to the
payment of that impost, by the visiting Commissioners
appointed by virtue of the decree of the 7th June, 1844;
as also that any Commissioner who may show himself
deficient in zeal, activity, or intelligence, in the discharge
of his duties, shall be dismi, sed and substituted by ano-
ther and more capable person.
The project of law for the abolition of the foreign
Conservatorial Courts was voted usamimously by the
Chamber of Deputies on the 15th inst.
In the course of his speech the Minister owned that,
there had been great difficulty in inducing the British
Government to surrender the Conservatorial privilege
by the treaty of 1842, and that Lord Aberdeen had only
consented to the sacrifice on production of proof incon
trovertible of the great amelioration which had been ef-
fected in the judicial machinery of the country. Of the
improvement in question her Majesty's Minister at this
Court had soon after a taste himself, having been for the
last year or upwards involved in a suit to recover the
value of a broken-winded horse from the rogue who sold
it to him warranted sound.
An attempt is making to form an opposition company
of " Public works," under the name of the " Alliance"
with a capital of 8.000 contos, but as the projectors, at
the head of whom is Count Farrobo, are all of the anti-
Cabral party, the Government is endeavouring to
throw cold water upon it, by refusing to sanction its
code of statutes.
The Cortes have been occupied during the last few
days with a project for equalising the weights and mea-
sures throughout the country.

GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY, 36, Coleman-street,
for Allowing Annuities to Decayed Merchants, Bankers,
Professional Men, their Widows, and Clerks, and to
Single Females, the Daughters of Persons belonging to
such Classes.—Luke James Hansard, Esq., has, in a
communication full of good feeling, addressed to Mr. 11.
F. Richardson, the secretary of this charity, munificently
presented 100/. The annual festival will be preside°
over by Lord John Russell on the 30th of April. The
stewards comprise names of the highest rank of commer-
cial and professional importance.
SAVINGS' BANKS.—Under the recent Act of Par-
liament applying to savings banks, various amounts of
interest have been fixed ; and it is a curious fact that
small institutions are allowing a higher rate than larger
ones, whereas the larger ones (reaping of course a
greater profit) ought to allow the higher rate of inte-
rest. Probably those conducting larger banks are de-
sirous to produce as much " surplus as possible, but
the Government has a surplus fund enough in hand
from savings' banks. Why, then, cramp depositors' in-
terest? The highest rate which can be allowed to them
now is 3 per cent., and that they ought to receive—not
a fraction less. The Government ought not to be bene-
fited at the expense of depositors,—From a Con espondent.
It is mentioned as an extraordinary circumstance,
that the white thorn on which Lamb (who is accused of
rered y oung
the eight years that
murdering John Brill in Ruislip-wood), is said to have
man, has not grown
have
egs sixteenth ht
since
partcthe
the 7 ud
murder.
an inch
during