The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-28 00:00:00

59 regiments at home and in
the colonies, at 740 rank
and file each .

103 regiments

43,660

57,660

rank and file, 1813-44

Reductinns of rank and file for 1833-34

88,660

The total estimated amount to be provided for the army
services for the year beginning on the Ist of April next, is
£6,225,103. This amount Compared with that estimated for
the year ending on the 31st of March, shows a decrease of
money to be provided of £139,393, this amount being £94,836
less than 1842-3 for the effective services,. and £44,287 less
than the present financial year for the non-effective services.
The charge of the land forces at home and abroad for the
ensuing year is £4,601,706. From this sum is to be deducted
the expenses of four regiments of cavalry and 23 of infantry,
employed in the East Indies ; and the expenses of the East
India
.depots at Maidstone and Chatham. This charge,
amounting to £909,208, is defrayed by the East India Com-
pany. There is also 'a deduction of £73,181. being appropri-
ations in aid. This leaves the sum of X 3,619,327 to be pro-
pided for her Majesty's land forces at home and abroad,
exclusive of India.

TRAVELLING.—The Aerial Transit Company
Bill, introduced into the House of Commons on Friday
night, is officially de,,,cribed as a " Bill to authorize the trans-
fer to more than 12 persons of a certain patent granted to
William Samuel Henson, relating to locomotive apparatua
and machinery, and for the establishment of a company for
carrying out the objects of the said patent." The bill was
read a first time on Friday, and is " to be read a second
time ;" but no day is yet fixed for such further stage in its
progress.

AERIAL

A QUEER Ftsir —7Some fishermen out at sea on Monday,
the 13th instant, were quite in a state of astonishment and
wonder at the appearance of a singular looking animal swim-
ming at a short distance from them, which proved to be a
stag that had on that day been turned out before Lord
Ossulston's stag-bounds from ChiHingham Park, and after a

severe run had- positively taken to the open sea. He had
been as afraid of the fishermen as they were of liqn, and left
the tract he had taken, and took to the ` Lowe," between
the main land and Holy Island, and latterly sought refuge
upon this very isolated part of his fatherland.-=Sunderland
paper.

EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING FEAT.—Nor the past week
the shooting world have been on the qui vive. from the extra-
ordinary announcement of a person being backed to hit 495
pieces out of 500 shots. The event came off on Thursday,
at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at Day's cricket-ground, in
the presence of a numerous company assembled to witness
this novel feat, when Mr. Hurst (a well-known shot) shot at
500, and hit every piece, thus winning the wager, and per-
forming one of the most unequal feats on record. He shot
from time guns, and, although it took him five hours and
ten minutes to accomplish it, being at the rate of 100 shots
per hour, he did not appear in the least fatigued.—Salopian
Journal.

ComP EmtoN.—Duriug:the free-trade exhibition at Drury-
lane on Wednesday last, Mr. Villiers, with the most exqui-
site simplicity, addressed to his enlightened auditory the fol-
lowing observations :—you are well aware of all the sufferings
which surround you. How many of the working cluases are

eir labour

.n inadequate reward for ti . —now is
wasted from the accumulated stores of goods,

the produce of the industry of the country—how are t _
:limed and worn down by competition !" How are men r

duced and worn down by competition! A striking truth--
ler yet the less striking, because uttered by a rampant free
by an upholder of a scheme of industrial production
"competition is the distinctive essence ! Coin.
etition" is the moving principle of the free trade system.
- nf " nnmnot;t;nn _

whlct)

an the great
if the free traders—ch
"eapness—be attained. It be.
cause our corn laws prevent competition" between English
and foreign corn-growers that our corn laws are denounced
by Mr. Villiers and his associates ! Yet Mr. Villiers, in the
midst of an elaborate dissertation in praise of free trade, de-
nnunces "competition."—John Melt