The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-14 00:00:00

MILITIA BALLOT.

Mr. PEEL gave notice he should take an early oppor-
tunity of moving that there should take place a postpone-
ment of the ballot for the Militia until the conclusion of
the Session, in order to afford time to bring in a Bill to
put the Militia, and more particularly the permanent staff
of it, on a new footing.—(Hear.)

Colonel DAVIES moved for returns of the number of
the male convicts transported, in the two preceding years,
to New South Wales and Van Dien►au's Land.—Ordered.

➢lr. MOORE gave notice he should on Monday pre-
sent the petition of the Protestants of Dublin against furaer
concession.

MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES.

Mr. DAWSON, in moving the Order of the Day for
the house resolving itself into a Committee on the Miscel-
laneous Estimates, observed, that he was happy to state,
that in the estimates of the present year there would be
found a saving of 110,000/. had accrued to the country
by the system of retrenchment which had been adopted this
year, as compared with the estimates of last year. He
should apprize the House also, that the whole of the works
which had been comprized within the superintendence of
the Lord Chamberlain's department had been transferred
this year to the department of the Surveyor-General, by
which alone a saving had been effected of 20,000/.
The House having resolved itself into a Committee,
The Hon. Member proposed a vote of 32,5001. to defray
the expences 'of Public Buildings, and for their repairs for
1809.

£7,000 for Works on the Harbour of Portratriek.
£B,OOO for same at Donaghadee.
£20,000 for same at the Harbour of George IVth, at
Kingstown, near Dublin.
£13,000 for the new buildings at the British Museum
and the Royal Library.

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£214,500 on account of alterations and repairs at
Windsor Castle, for the present year.
£5,000 in aid of expense of erecting Churches in the
West Indies.

£12,649 Holyhead and Howth Roads and Harbour.
£4,886 for the Caledonian Canal.
£38,500 salaries and allowances to the Officers of the
Houses of Lords and Commons.
£24,400 Expenses of both Houses.
£87,368 to make good the fee fund dcficiences in the
Treasury and other Departments.

£68;991 Treasury Contingencies and Messengers'
Bills; also those of the Home, Foreign, and Colonial
Offices.

£6,500 as compensation to the Commissioners ap-
pointed to inquire into the Collection of the Revenue in
Ireland.

£6,200 salaries to Officers in the Exchequer.
£9SS ss. salaries to Professors at Orford and Cam-
bridge.
£11,524 salaries to Commissioners and Clerks.
£4,660 ss. salaries to Superintendents of Aliens and
Superannuation Allowances.
£24,000 Penitentiary at Millbank.
.:£19,236 Charges of retired Allowances to Officers of
the Public Departments.
£13,770 Relief to Toulon and Corsican Emigrants,
Dutch and St. Domingo Officers, for losses sustained in
our service.

£2,500 National Vaccine Establishment.
£3,000 Refuge for the Destitute.
£4,300 for Relief of American Loyalists.
£3,700 15s. for maintaining Criminal Lunatics.
£5,812 7s. 10d. usual Allowances to Protestant Dis-
senting Ministers, French Refugee Clergy and Laity.
£45,000 Foreign and Secret Service Money.
£BO,OOO Parliamentary Printing.
£8,200 Printing Public Records.
£97,270 Stationary, Printing, and Binding in Public
Departments.
XlO,OOO Mint and Ceinage Expenses.
£6,500 Prosecutions for Coinage.
£15,000 Expence of Law Charges.
£loB'ooo Expense of Convicts at Home and Bermuda.
£lB,OOO Slave Commissioners under 58th and 59th
Geo. 111.
£28,000 Expense of Missions, Commissions, &e., to
New States of America.
£89,470 Consuls and Consuls-General.
£105,970 Consular service Abroad, and Superannua-
tion Allowances. _

On this Estimate he observed there was a saving this
year to the public of £8,400.
£120,000 for Expences of Convicts in New South
Wales and Van Dieman's Land.

£3,040 Civil Establishment of the Bahama Isles.
£10,445 Nova Scotia.
£3,600 New Brunswick.
£4,000 Bermuda Islands.
£2,820 Prince Edward's Island.
£16,828 Newfoundland and the Erection of the Go-
vernor's House.

£10,47$ ss. 10d. Sierra Leone.
£l,OOO Gold Coast, Cape Coast Castle, and Accra.
X 16,152 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
the Colonies.

£47,500 charges incident to our Settlements at New
South Wales, Sierra Leone, and Canada.
£163,000 for Improving the Water Communication be-
tween Montreal and the Ottowa, and from Lake Et ie to Lake
Ontario.

£160,000 Civil Contingencies for 1829.
£700,000 for the extraordinary Expences of the Army
for 1829.

The Chairman was ordered to report the resolutions to
the House, and the report was ordered to be received on
Monday.

Mr. DAWSON gave notice he should on Monday
move the House into a Committee on the Commissariat
Estimates.

The other Orders of the day were then read.
_ _

The Hon. Member then moved for leave to bring in
a Bill to enable parties to recover money from the Court
of Chaacery under the authority of Acts subsequ&ntly re-
pealed.

Leave was granted, and at a later period of the evening
the Hon. Member brought in the Bill.

PETTY COURTS OF LAW.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY moved for a variety of abstract
returns for the years 1826 and 1827, showing the number
of courts of law in the country, whether courts of record

br otherwise, whether invested with power to commit, the
authority of the courts, the expencrs, whether any allow-
ance was made to debtots, and by whom paid ; also an
ahstr mct of the number of suits depending in the courts of
England and Ireland, stated in classes, the number of exe-
cutions for debt, the number of debtors, &c. ; also an ab-
stract return of the number of affidavits filed in the Court
of King's Bench, in the Filazer's office, Court of Com-
mon Pleas, Palace Court, &c.
FUNDS IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY.

Mr. lIARVEY then moved for a return of the number
of causes and matters pending in the High Court of Chan-
cery, in which monies have been paid to the credit of the
suitors, the amount of the money now invested in the
Bank of England by the Court of Chancery, the interest
thereon, and the time when the causes commenced. The
Hon. Member observed, that it appeared from a return
made last Session, that the i•u•u paid into the Court of
Chancery, on behalf of suitors, amounted to 39,316,3261.;
in 1819, the sum was 33,000,0001. only, which sheaved
an increase of the suns now in the hands of the Court of
six millions sterling. The object of his motion was to in-
form the 'House where the money was placed, and the
proceedings of the cause in each case; thereby sheaving
whether the delay in that Court was attributable to the
machinery of the Court itself, or whether, as some thought,
it was to he ascribed to the persons who had the manage-
ment of the Court.