Star.
London, England, 1829-12-18 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, DECEIIBER-18, 1829.

THE IMPROVEMENTS
AT CHARING-CROSS AND IN THE STRAND.

The following is an Official Statement to the sth of
January, 1829, of the Receipts and Expenditure of Mo-
nies, part of the New Street Fund, for the Improve-
ments now in progress at Charing-cross and in the
Strand

RECEIPT.
Produce of 400,000 i. Exchequer&
advanced by the ComMiadonen
the issue of Exchequer OW. up

s. d

4: s. 4.

Loan
Produce of Old Materials.. Deposits upouSales of
Estates previously
to such Sales being £ s. d.
completed .. 59,561 17
Repaid of these De-

409,179 10
3,714 0

posits
.---...

17,719 7

tid ....:111,125 19.
Ilscouot allowed up-
on Immediate Pay-
ment of Purchase
Monies

1 121,085 18
419 2

Miscellaneous Receipts ....

EXPENDITURE.
Brought forward from last Return
Amount paid for Pr- it a. d.
petty for Improve-
ments at Charing
Cross and in the

Strand...—. 475,875 1 4
Ditto Downing-street 6,485 18 0
Ditto King-street 1,340 0 0

Gratuities to Tenants atWill .......
Payment on account of Compensation
to a Lessee rebuilding at his own
expense, and agreeing to pay an in-
creased Rent to the Crown .. .
Law Charges, and Charges of Archi-
tects, Surveyors and others em-
ployed in the Valuations sod Pur-
chases, by Private Contract, by re-
ferecce to Arbitration. and by the

. .
Verdicts of Juries
Rents paid to the B s. d
Holders of Pro-
perty required for
these Improve-
ments, in cases
where the Interest
of Tenant has been
purchased in the
first instance . 10,375 9 10
Deduct—Rents re-
ceived 'from Te-
nants in the Line
of these Improve-
ments in cases
where the Inte-
rest of the Land-
lord has been pur-
chased in the first
instance... 1,008 4 6

463.678 19
4,947 10

6,068 10

553,106 1 9

3,182 17 11

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

CROWN LANDS, REVENUES, ace.
SILTH REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS.
Eassacts—Concluded from our lait.
)7111C1111 131 ISRLAND TO II AM:MCI° OR •lOLVHZD.

As sone of the functions of the officers attached to the former
a detinkratioa of the land revenue would be superseded by the
now regalations, and perhaps the maintenance of some of their
respective dikes become unnecessary, clauses were Inserted In the
Act of Parliament, whereby the Lords of the Treasury are em-
powered to abolish or reduce any office connected ,with the ma-
nagement of the Crown estates and land refenues in Ireland, and
to dbeharge the officers ailing the same, whether their appoint-
mentehallitave been by Letters Patent, Warrant under the Sign
Manual, or otherwise ; and also, to cause any records or other
mtleitoenta, beloeging to such dikes, to be removed to and pre-

-Fry"...
The Powers thus vested in the Treasury bate been, on our
suggestion, already exercised in the case of the Forfeiture Office,
to which we shall presently advert ; and there are other offices
which, with* view to public economy, and the facilitation of the
business of this department, may hereafter call for a further exer-
cise of them. But we have thought it prudent to defer any defini-
tive proceedings towards such changes, until we shall have had
sufficient practicer knowledge of the functions 'discharged by the
officers in question, to enable us to form p correct judgment on the
expediency of the alterations contemplated.
In the case of the establishment of officers in the department
called the Forfeiture Office, which appeared to be wholly unne-
cessary for any practical purpose connected with the management
of the few forfeited estates remaining vested in the Crown, we
recommended, in a report we presented to the Lords of the Trea-
sury In September last, that it should be immediately abolished,
and the custody of the records and other muniments belonging to
it transferred to the Clerk of the Quit Rents. The proposed
measures being approved of, their Lordships, in pursuance of the

powers and authority vested in them u abovementioned, formally
abolished the said office, together with the several offices com-
posing it, and discharged the officers by whom they were rupect
tively filled, from the performance of any duties theretofore con-
nected therewith. At the same time their Lordships signified to
ul, that on consideration of the nature and tenure of those offices,
and the period during which the officers had respectively enjoyed
the emoluments annexed to them, they were of opinion that the
offices were sinecure situations, the emoluments of which the pos•
sessors might reasonably expect to retain during their lives, and
therefore, that it would be just and proper that pensions should
be granted to those persons, equivalent to their salaries, abating
fractions of a pound, via.—

To Dugald Campbell, Esq. Register of Forfeited Estates in
Ireland it 276
Mr. Charles Taylor, Clerk of the Forfeiture Office, Ireland 75
Robert Reeves, Esq. Solicitor for Forfeited Estates in
Ireland 92
And we were accordingly authorized to pay to them respectively
such pensions out of the revenues under our management.
These measures took effect from the 10th of October last. A few
days afterwards, Mr. Taylor, the late Clerk, died, and the pension
allowed to him ceased.
Besides the Solicitor for Forfeited Estates, we found another
Law Officer, called the Solicitor for King's Rents, placed on the
establishment for the Management of the Land Revenue. Being
further informed that several years had elapsed since the last settle-
ment of that officer's accounts, in the course of which period con-
siderable sums had been paid to him on account of the Revenue ;
and adverting to those parts of the Report of the Coatnaissioners of
Inquiry, in which they bad taken notice of the proceedings in that
Department, and likewise to a schedule of suits for the recovery
of rents in wear, and other causes relating to the Crown Estates,
which had been loos depending at the period of our own inquiries;
we requested the Commissioners of Excise, in Aug. 1827, to re-
quire the said solicitor forthwith to state and render his accounts
for the business transacted by him under their authority, up to the
end of the lest preceding term, in order that they might be duly
examined and settled by them; and we thought it expedient, in
the meantime, to suspend his proceedings in the suits he haticons•
*scowl until we could investigate the matters to which they re-
lated, and ascertain whether it would be proper to prosecute them.
Some of those causes have since been brought to a satisfactory con-
clusion, without further expense to the Crown, by the ordinary
course of official communication with the parties; but we have
hitherto been unable to come to any decision on the greater nuns-
ber of them, for want of full information of the state of the pro-
feedings, the documents and papers relating to them being still re-
' Soloed by the Solicitor, to enable him to prepare his billr of costs,
mid to he exhibited to the proper using officer as vouchers and
astborices for the business therein stated to have been transacted
b him. We are however quite satisfied that the office in question
is an unnecessary appendage to this Department, and attended with
useless expense to the Revenue; and therefore we propose to re-
commend that it be abolished, as soon as the accounts of the pre-
sent officer shall be finally examined and settled, and the muniments,
eproceedings, in his keeping delivered over to us, and which,
we are informed, may sow be expected to be shortly effected.
MODS Or COLLIDE'S* LAND INVIDOZ IN IaILAIND
AU the Land Revenue of the Crown were anciently collected by
the respective Sheriffs of the Counties in which the premises were
situated, who accounted for the same, on oath. to the Courts of
Exchequer. In Ireland, this mode of coUectioo was changed in
the year 1669, when the whole of the hereditary revenues of that
kingdom we. e put in farm, and the farmers divided the country
into a certain number of districts, to each of which they appointed
a collector of the rent payable to the Crown. The Collectors were
' all subordinate to a Principal Clerk, called The Clerk of the Qait
Seats, who made out the rentals, or charge (as the proceeding was'
deemed in the technical language of the Excisequerjand to another
Clerk, called The Accountant-General, before whom the Col-
lectors accounted. The Officers were permanently stationed atl
Dublin ; and they respectively made out their charge and settled
their accounts by the records in the King's Auditor-General's
Office, to which the farmers by their patents bad free access.
On the determination of the farms in the reign of James 11.
It was judged expedient to adhere to the course of collections es-
tablished by the farmers, and accordingly new officers were ap•
pointed, under the same titles of Clerk of the Quit Rents and Ac•
mutant-General; and the rents were put In charge with the Col-
lectors of the other Revenues, all of whom were permanent officers,
subject to the control and directions of the Commi.sioners of the
.Revenue, whose accounts of the several Revenues under their ma-
pogneeent were examined by the Avditor-General, and, on his
allowance, passed in the Court of Exchequer.
On the abolition of the General Board of Revenues and dis-
tributions of their function among the new and distinct officers
then created, the management of the land revenue devolved On.
the Commissioners of Excise, by whose officers the rents were
collected. The fficial regulations for the transaction
of the business have been occasionally altered ; but the mode
of collection, and the establishments of 'Officers intrusted with
the immediate superiatendeom of it, and with the conduct of
the proceedings relating to the demised estates of the CroWn..re-
mained nearly on the same.footing from ihe'perieds at wilds they
wets first placed under the control of the General Commissioners
of Revenue.

One of the objects desired to be obtained by the transfer of
the Alanagentent of the -Land Revenues to this Board, was to
relieve the Excise Department from the ditty of collecting them,
which the Commissioners of Revenue blitry bad represeoted to
Ale. attended with • material impediments-to • the due mention of
. the more important serekes entrusted to the Collectors of Emile
• is Ireland. and tom aselmilladoit W rely dude. with thosent the"
"Me dale it laclia ig! are ntitrlecred otherwise prodective.ti
much Inconvenience mit graimilen Milne branch of the PuSllc
nevennec
To•obviste them may memo impawrred by the Act of Parlia-
meM to appoint as many parsons as shall be necessary collect

PRICS SBVIINPENC F;

and receive the Crown rents, under the like regulation,. as are in
force in England But after our discovery of the imperfect con-
dition of the Crown rentals, to which we have already adverted,
and mature consideration of other Circumstances bearing on a due
collection of this revenue, we felt doubtful of the ,expediency of an
immediate appointment of such Receivers, and therefore ou our
suggestion a clause was introduced into the BiU, autht;rizing the
Collectors of Excise t. continue to receive the mita arising within
their respective districts, under the regulations in that behalf con-
tained in the Acr, until we should appoint prosper receivers of the
same. Further inquiry confirmed us in the opittlun that it would
be advisable to defer an exercise of the power of appointment, until
we should be put in possession of the perfect and authentic rent-
roll and particular of the Crown possessions, in course of compila-
tion under the directions of the Commissioners of Public Record,,
and also be enabled to mate such new (Adsl arrangements as
would be necessary to assure the performance of the duties re-
quired to be executed by the Receivers ; otherwise, it appeared to
us, however diligently and zealously those officers might endeavour
to collect the rents now 19 regular course of payment, advantage
would very generally DE /taken of their want of information as to
the earn and re% kiet;zte witlfibenttyrbich it
'to to Vaili as ort ;Jo%

Mere
should require ; and, there would consequently arise a new and
Large smear, involving not only an immediate loas of Reverse, but
also ultimately expensive legal proceedings, to enforce the payment
of such part of it u might be found recoverable.
Do the passing of the Act, therefore, we entered into an arrange-
ment with the Commissioners of Excise, for the continued collee•
tion of the rents by their officers, until receivers should be appointed
by us • and by maintaining the same channel and form of coin mu-
nicatisn with the Excise Collectors as were formerly used, and for
subjecting alt new and special instructions to those officers, relating
to the Land Revenue, to the previous inspection and unction of
the Local Board of Excise, we have effectually precluded the in-
convenience which might have resulted from a distinct exercise (3s
would otherwise have been occasionally necessary,) of the puwt rs
of control and direction over those officers now vested in the res-
pective Boards.
Under this temporary arrangement, the rents continue to be col-
lected by the Local Officers of Excite; and by the unremitted
zealous exercise of the Clerk of the Quit Rents (Mr. But Ile) a
considerable amount of long outstanding has been lately re-
covered, and the accounts In that Department are brought into a
more regular state than they appear to have been during a lung
series of years previously.

coulik or

OF SIMI

According to the Excise Regulation, the Collectors remitted
the Crown rents, with the Excise Duties collected by them,
periodically to the Receiver-General of Customs and Excise in
Dublin: by whom the particular amount of the stems arisen front
Land Revenue was ascertained, and then paid into the Bank of
Ireland, where it was placed to the credit of the proper Ex-
chequer account. The same course of proceeding was continued
until • few months ago, when the Office of Receiver General
was abolished, and a new mode of remittance of the Excise
Revenue, through the Agents of the Provincial Bank of Ire-
land, was established ; and it therefore became immediately ne-
cessary to provide for the general receipt of the Land Revenue.
We accordingly instructed our Chief Clerk In this department'
who was then in Dublin, to ascertain whether it might not be
practicable, with due regard to the security of the revenue, to
dispense with the services of an intermediate receiver, by the
adoption of the same mode of remittance as die Board of Excise
had sanctioned, or by some other means ecinolly eligible, and, if
so, to make the requisite official arrangements for carrying the
same into effect. In the Report and Cerfespoodenat of that Of-
ficer it will be seen that, by the arrangement made with the Bank
of Ireland, and confirmed by us, the sums received by the Col-
lectors on account of the Land Revenue are forthwith paid over to
the authorised Provincial Agents of the Bank Company, in the
districts where received, or, in the absence of such agencies, remit.
tcd by post directly to the Bank in DublitT;witere the amount is
placed to the credit of the account of " The Woods and Forties
Fund." It may therefore be observed that, under the official
regulations we have established, the inisapplic-ition of any portion
of the Irish Land Revenue in course of collection, whether ac-
cruing from the yearly rents, or from the purchase monies for
property contracted to be sold, is precluded as effectually as pos-
sible; and that all the monies received become available to the
public service almost immediately on the payment of them by Ulf
subject. The only deductions to be made from the sums so depo-
sited in the Bank of Ireland, will be the amount of the postage. on
the correspondence between the Collectors and the Bank (which
however will have previousfy been acc..unted for in the accruing
Revenue of the Post Office, and therefore will not constitute an
actual charge on the public), and a commission charge of one
quarter per cent. on the amount of the subsequent transfen to our
public account at the Bank of England.
With respect to that Commission charge, It may be proper to
state that, for the more convenient transaction and despatch of the
business of the department, and the accommodation of the public,
we judged it expedient, immediately after the passing of the Act of
Parliament, and conformably with its provisions, to open an ac-
count at the Bank of Ireland for " The Woods and Forests Fund."
into which all payments of Land Revenue Monies, by persons re-
sident in that country, might be made. The services, however, to
which the Consolidated Land revenues are appropriated, require
that the sums so paid is Ireland should be remitted to London, and
such remittances were for some time made without charge, by
transfers to the credit of our public account at the Bank of
bind ; but in the month of September last, the Governors and
Directors of the Bank of Ireland communicated to us, by letter,
that as all their transactions with the link of England were subject
to a charge of commission there, their cash minters to our account
at that Bank would thenceforth be charged with a commission
of one quarter per cent. The total yearly amount of the charge
will probably be about .f 175; and having regard to the perfect
security and accommodation afforded to this Revenue by the
agency of the Bank, under the existing arrangements with it,
and to the reason assigned by the Company, we do not see any
reasonable ground of objeolon to the charge for the service in
question.
WOODS AND FORESTS.
WNSTNNA LS. AND aeLCCT IPOSIS7I.

Under an Act passed in the Sib of Gest. IV. c. 99, for dividing
and inclosing a parr of Whittlewood Forest, in the county of
Northampton, there has been allotted to his Majesty, in severalty,
about 490 acres, in compensation for intermixed and qualified rights
over 1,419 acres, which have been disaffurested by the operation of
that Act : and under a like Act, of 6th Geu. IV. with respect to
Sakey Forest, in the counties of Buckingham and Northampton,
about 1,900 acres have been acquired, in severalty, by allotment
and exchange, in lieu of the undivided rights of his Majesty over
the whole Forest, containing 1,847 acres.
With the exception of two small detached parts in Whittewood
Forest, containing about us acres, with a lodge and some.buildings.
which have been sold for the sum of £9117 Os. 54. the whole of the
before-mentioned allotments have been inclosed, and are in the
(course of being planted.

/O.IIIM ream.
In the New Forest, inclosures which bad been taken in front
the was:e and planted about the year 1777, and in which the young
trees were, In general put danger of browsing by deer and cattle,
hove been thrown open ; and portions of two inclosures, formedtn
the years 1809 and 1810, and since found not to be adapted to the
growth- of oak timber have been restored to the waste of the
Forest • and a Commission has issued under the IC:chewier Seal.
asithodsing new Inclosures to be made to the extent of these,4brown
Nopdb, the same hying 753 acres. The whole of these procgedings
are according to the provisions of the Acts of 9tb and loth Wii-
uam 111. e. 16, and 41th Geo. 111. c. 74, by which the quantity
which Cu be krpt inclosed against deer and commonable cattle at
one and the vine time is limited to 6,000 acres. .
PA NZ NOW.? FoRMIT.
It has also been determined t.. plant about 2.50 acres, part of
Parking Forest, in the bleat Wight, which, a: the time wgen the
general inclosure of that Forest took place, in the ;car 1112, was
illsrrved for the encampment or exorcise of troops ;.bur.baving
leaver *lnce been used for that purpose, and the land finibig lain
waste. and nearly unproductive, 'rethink it advisible drat It should
ne longer continue is that stele,. e stun should be added to the
want*, of Forest Land already appropriated to the growth of
By these mea.urea,oearlys,7oo acres, esbicb have not heretofore
',seduced any revenue whiesser to the Crews, will be added to the
I • icy of land already sprepriated to the growtli.of ropey limber.
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W. DACRES DA MS.
HENRY DAWKIIsTS.
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