The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS.

We beg, in conclusion, to subjoin a summary
of the principal regulations which we have felt
it to b our duty, in the present stage of our in-
vestigation, to submit for your Lordships' con-
sideration : they refer more immediately to the
departments intrusted with the application of the
Public Funds, those employed in the collection
of the Revenue having been reserved by us (we
trust it will be deemed upon good grounds when
the magnitude of our undertaking is duly con-
sidered) for a separate scrutiny and Report.
Ist. The introduction of a regular uniform
system of account, under the following specific
arrangements :

A —Cash Book, specially devised for the busi-
ness of the Public Offices, is to be kept upon
one and the same plan in all the Public Offices.
The Cash entries are to be entered at large
into the Ledger, without being previously trans-
cribed in the Journal.

The Journal is to include a detail of all the
cash transactions at home and abroad, except
those entered in the Cash Book.

The Ledger Accounts are to be balanced by
double entries, the entries to be more full and
circumstantial than under the Italian plan of
book-keeping : the Ledger Accounts are to con-
sist principally of those forming heads of the
estimates and accounts with Sub-accountants—
the accounts with Contractors, Officers on full
and half-ray, and other persons not Sub-
accountants, being included in the Subsidiary
Books.

The Journal and Ledger appropriated for the
business of each year are to be kept open until
all the transactions of that }•ear at home and
abroad are included therein.

The Principal Books are to include only ac-
tual Receipts and Payments.

241. The least possible delay is to take place
in bringing to account the entire transactions of
the department ; with this view, the cash entries
are to be carried into the Ledger at the begin-
ning of each week ; all home Sub-accountants
are to render their accounts weekly, and all Ac-
countants abroad monthly ; and the accounts are
o be examined immediately upon their receipt,
entered in the Journal, and thence posted into►
the Ledger.
3d. A Balance-sheet, with explanatory docu-
ments, to be transmitted to the Treasury at the
commencement of each quarter.
4th. A separate Journal and Ledger to be
kept for ascertaining the cost of articles manu-
factured by the departments from raw and other
materials ; and an annual valuation is to be made
of the stock of important articles remaining in
the stores.

sth. The Principal Books and Accounts of
the great Public Departments to be annually re-
vised in the respective Offices, by Inspectors
acting under the immediate directions of the
Treasury.
6th. The Cash and Store Accounts of the se-
x eral Commissariat Accountants to be examined
and audited simultaneous by one and the same
Board of Audit.

7th. Those accounts being rendered monthly,
are to be audited in detail immediately upon
their receipt in this country; and during the
process of audit, books are to be used by the ex-
aminers for recording the Cash transactions of
the Commissaries: every unnecessary impedi-
ment to the early transmission of the accounts to
be removed, and the mode of stating theni in the
Audit Office to be reduced to the simplest forms
possible.

Bth. The repayments in this country on ac-
count of Army Extraordinaries, in respect of
sums deposited in the Military Chest abroad, or
advances therefrom for Ordinary Services, or to
the Agents of the Ordnance, Naval, and Victu-
alling Departments, are to be regulated under
the special superintendence of the Board in-
trusted with the audit of the Commissariat Ac-
counts.

9th. A second revision to be made of the
Accounts of the Departments, including those
of Scotland and Ireland, after the New General
System of Account has been established, for the
purpose of clearing away all the old books and
accounts that will then have become unnecessary,
and of regulating upon a permanent footing the
whole of the Subsidiary Books, both Cash and
Store, which it may be proper to retain in the
executive branches, depots, &c.
Of the contemplated improvements, the most
important are the introduction of a complete
system of official Book-keeping, and the rapid
rendering, incorporation, and auditing of the en-
tire accounts of the Departments.

(Signed) T. C. BROOKSBANK.
Treasury Chambers, SAMUEL BELTZ,
Feb. 9, 1829.

The walks in Kensington-gardens arc no
1%-inkof green, but a+ brown as a torrid bun and the tread of
flOOO Ivo tvery day can wake thew,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(LAST NIGHT.)

Mr. Crafer, from the Treasury, presented a Copy
of an Order of the Lords of the Treasury for an al-
teration of the plan of London Bridge, agreeable
to the Aa of 4th Geo. 4 cap, 5; which on the
motion of the Dube of WELLrNGTON, was ordered to
beyrnded_,_

Robinson prfsented the Annual Report of the
Commissioners of Holyhead Roth

On the motion of the Earl of MALMESBI RY
the accotmtn rtiative to the wool trade, delivered it

cn the 12th instant, were ordered to be printed.

SLAVE TRADE

The Eail of SHAFTEStURY, by his Ma-
jesty's command, presented Copies of all the Orders
intfeti by his Majesty's Government, relative to the
amelioration of the condition of the Slaves in the
West Indies, in the Colonies of Southern Africa,
and in the Mauritius.
COUNTY RATES.

The Earl of MALMESBURY moved for cer-
tain Accounts relative to the amount of all monies
levied as County Rates, the manlier in which the
sum is assessed and appropriated, from 1813 to
1829.