The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-04 00:00:00

live stovk of any sort; bread, biscuit, flour, peas, beans, po-

tatoes, wheat, rice, oats, barley, or grain of any sort; pitch,,
tar, turpentine, fruits, and seeds : Provided always, and be
it further enacted, That none of the aforesaid articles shall
be imported into the said ports, so to be specially appointed,
in foreign vessels, unless the said articles shall he of the
growth, produce, or ntannfacinre of the country to which the
tessels importing the same shall belonk.—And be it further
enacted, That it shall be lawful to re-export any of the said
articles to any of his Majesty's possessions in any British-
built ship or vessel, owned and navigated according to law.—
And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful,
in any British ship or vessel, or in any ship or ress4 belonging
to the subjects of any Sovereign or State in amity with his
Majesty, TO ExPour from the said port, so to be appointed
for that purpose, to any country belonging to any Sovereign
or State in amity with his Majesty, ANY OrieSUM, grindstones,
or other produce or manufacture of the said provinces,
and also any produce or manufacture of the United King-
dom, or of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations ii) the West
Indies, or any goods whatever which shall have been legally
imported into the said provinces: any thing in any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.—And be it further enacted, That
it shall and may 1,,e lawful for his Majesty, by and with the
advice of his Privy Council, to make such rules and regula-
tions for the importation and exportation of goods and Com-
modities as aforesaid) at the said ports, with such penalties
and forfeitures fur the breach thereof, as shall seem fit and
necessary to his Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid.—
And be it further enacted, That this Act shall continue in
fume during the space of 'years from and after the
passing of the same, and until 6 weeks after the commence-
ment of the then next Session of Parliament.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.

The Seventh:Report of the Select Committee,
iippointed by the !louse of Commons during the
last Session to inquire into the state of the In-
come and Expenditure of the Country, has been
priated.
This Report refers exclusively to the extent of
the Army Estimates for the Service- of the pre-
sent Year, a tda compares them with the Estimates
for the Year preceding. In this comparison there
appears a reduction in the present year.of about
two thousand men, which has taken place in the
Irish Establishnsent. This causes a diminution
of expellee to the amount of 74,002/. 10s. There
is also a diminution the Public Departments of
16.5571. ; in the Royal Military College, of
2.640/. ; in Corps to be reduced, of 812,1611.
These, with some further reductions, are in some
degret necessarily counterbalanced by an increase
expenditure in other items' contained in the
Estimates, leaving; eventually. however, in the
entire, a diminution of charge for 1818, as com-
pared with the former year, to the amount of
188,0271. 19s. 3d Among the items wherein the
expellee has increased, we find the halt-pay and
military allowances exceeding the charge in the
former year to the amount of 3,2131. 10s. 11d.
This increase in the halt-pay is the natural con-
sequence of the reduction in the effective strength
of the army. The charge for the half-pay and
military allowances to British Officers, fur the
present year, amounts to 682,-7631. -15 s. 40d. The
Report alludes to a wish expressed during the last
Session by the Committee, " That some means
might be devised for rendering the foreign pos-
sessions of the British Empire more efficient to-
wards defraying the expences of their own tnili-
tary protection, since their value to the parent
S,tate-must be greatly diminished by their continu-
ing a lasting drain on its resources."