Four Ecclesiastical Courts : Prerogative, for Wills & Admin'ns, Doctors' Commons do. do.. Sir J. Nicholl, £3,000 a year, by fees. The number of Proctors is limited to 34. Insolvent Debtors' Court, Portugal Street.-H. R. Reynolds, Esq. Chief Com.-T. B. Bowen, Esq., J. G. Harris, Esq., W. J. Law, Esq.Salaries, £11,254.-The number discharged under the present Act, up to 1829, was 51,000; their debts 4 millions sterling; assets a farthing in the pound; expense of discharge over £25 each. About 65 in every 1,200 produce any assets. Marshalsea Court, Scotland Yard. Courts of Requests in and about the Metropolis :- County Court, Kingsgate Street, Red Lion Square, Vine Street, Piccadilly, For Debts under £5. For Debts under 40s. There are 164 places in England where the power of committing for debt exists. The number of Barristers is calculated at 1,034; Conveyancers and Pleaders, 138; London Attorneys, 9,056; Country Attorneys, 2,667. Total Lawyers in England and Wales, 12,895.-For the 9 years ending in 1829, the attorneys paid in duties on articles of clerkship, admissions, and yearly certificates, upwards of one million sterling. Barristers' fees constitute 25 per cent. of the whole expenses of law suits. ARMY. The amount of the land forces voted for the service of the year 1829 was 89,723 men, exclusive of the men employed by the East India Company. The sum voted for the whole expenses of the army, including every charge connected with it, was £6,336,231. The British army is composed of 103 battalions. About twenty of these are in the service and pay of the East India Company, and fifty-four more are disposed of in the Colonies. Four battalions, on an average, are constantly on their passage to relieve the regiments on foreign stations, leaving twenty-five battalions (exclusive of guards) for the service of the United Kingdom. The casualties in the army, according to Sir Henry Hardinge's estimate, amount to about oneeleventh or one-twelfth of the whole forces annually. The Mutiny Bill underwent an alteration in the session of 1829. The clauses, which used to amount to 163, are now condensed to 77, and the Bill is rendered more concise and plain. It enables general commanding officers in a district to order district courts-martial instead of general regimental courts-martial. The oath is the same for all members of courts-martial. Officers and Institutions connected with the Army. Staff at Head Quarters.-Commandant in Chief, Staff, Secretaries, &c. (Horse Guards), £12,167 9s. 6d. Secretary at War, Deputy, Clerks, &c. (do.), £32,808 10s. Adjutant-General do. (Horse Guards), £6,835 19s. Quarter-Master-General do. (do.) £5,905 5s. Judge-Advocate-General, do. (Upper Crown Street), £5,982 6s. Recruiting Office, (Eng. and Ireland) £56,776 9s. Army Medical Board, Berkeley Street, Piccadilly.-Director-General, Instituted 1799. Parl. Parl. allow. (with Kil Royal Hospital, Chelsea.-Gov. Sir S. Hulse. mainham Royal Hospital, Dublin, and including In and Out Pensioners), £1,325,014 6s. 1d. Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.-Command. Lieut. Col. Williamson. Parl. allow. £24,155. Garrisons at home and abroad, Parl. allow. £36,862 188. 11d. The sum of £700,000 was also granted for the extraordinary expenses of the army. NAVY. The number of men voted for the service of the Fleet for 1829, was 30,000, including 9000 marines. The sum voted for the general expenses of the Navy was £5,878,794. Officers and Institutions connected with the Navy. Admiralty, Charing Cross.-Lords Commiss. Viscount Melville, £5,000; Sir G. Cockburn, Sir H. Hotham, Sir G. Clerk, Visct. Castlereagh, £1,000 each. Sec. Rt. Hon. J. W. Croker, £3,000.-2d Sec. J. Barrow, Esq. £1,500.-Total for office, £52,976 5s. 1d. Navy Pay, Somerset Place.-Treas. Rt. Hon. W. V. Fitzgerald, £3,000.-Paymast. Capt. Huskisson, £1,200.-Total for office, £83,449 68. 7d. Navy Office, Somerset Place.-Compt. Sir T. B. Martin, £2,000.Dep. Hon. H. Legge.-Total for office, £60,830 15s. Victualling Office, Somerset Place.-Chairm. of Board, Hon. G. A. C. Stapylton, £1,200.-Dep. I. Wolley, Esq. £1,000.-Total for office £180,827 118. 7d. His Majesty's Yards at home, £1,385,529 18s. Sd. His Majesty's Yards abroad, £52,141 3s. 3d. In lieu of the Board of Longitude, which was abolished in 1828, a council composed of Messrs. Young and Faraday and Captain Sabine, at £100 a year each, assists the Admiralty in matters of science. Victualling Yards, £64,356. Naval College, £3,121 88. 3d. Royal Hospital, Greenwich.-Military Department, Governor, Sir R. Keats.-Civil Department, Commissioners, V. Fitzgerald, Lord Lowther, Sir W. J. Hope, Lord Auckland, E. H. Locker, Esq.-Sec. W. H. Hooper, Esq.-Parl. allow. £250,000. Pilotage.-60,000, £64,455 13s. 5d. Marine Pay Office, 22, New Street, Spring Gardens. ORDNANCE. The sum voted for the general expenses of the Ordnance for 1829-30 was £1,728,908. Offices and Establishments connected with the Ordnance. Ordnance Office, Pall Mall and Tower.-Master-General, Viscount Beresford, £3,176.—Lieut.-Gen. Lord R. Somerset, £1,200.—SurveyorGeneral, Sir H. Fane, £1,500.-Clerk, Spencer Perceval, Esq., £1,200.— Total for office, £70,544. Constable of Tower, Duke of Wellington. Establishments at Woolwich, £8,600. Stations at home and abroad, £42,817. Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, £3,507. BANK OF ENGLAND. Samuel Drewe, Esq. Governor. J. Horsley Palmer, Esq. Dep. Gov. The charter by which this Company subsists is the eighth that has been granted to them since their incorporation. It was granted in 1800, and will expire on the first of August, 1833. On the 28th Feb. 1829 their advances to Government amounted to upwards of twenty millions and a half sterling. The balance of public money in their hands is from three to five millions on the average; and they are paid better than a quarter of a million yearly for the management of the Public Debt. The amount of their circulation in September, 1829, was £18,873,740. From the 13t Jan. 1826 to the 1st May 1828, the Bank issued £21,766,905 in sovereigns and half-sovereigns, of which £1,090,858 7s. were issued in exchange for guineas. The dividend is eight per cent. per annum on Bank Stock. £500 Bank Stock qualifies a holder for voting at a general court, if he be in possession of it for six months; £2,000 qualifies the holder for a Director; £3,000 for Deputy-Governor; and £4,000 for Governor. No proprietor can have more than one vote. [The above notices of the Judiciary, Army, Navy, and Bank of England, are taken chiefly from the Englishman's Almanac for 1830.] REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. [From the Englishman's Almanac for 1830.] In opening the budget for 1829-30, the Chancellor of the Exchequer calculated the Revenue for the year at £51,347,000. The actual produce of the two quarters ended 10th Oct. 1829 is upwards of 25 millions, so that if the other two quarters equal the preceding ones, the computation of the government will have been correct. The expenditure for the year has been settled by the House of Commons at £48,333,593, which, deducted from the expected income, yields a balance of £3,013,407 for reducing the debt. The expenditure consists of payments on account of the debt amounting to £27,903,000; for annuities payable by the Bank, £585,000; and for the fixed charge on the Consolidated Fund, £2,200,000. Then for the Army, Navy, Ordnance, Miscellaneous Services, &c. there have been voted about 18 millions, making the total expenditure as above. It was calculated in parliament last year, that the amount of government taxes each year is £50,700,000, which, with manifold local rates, voluntarily and otherwise borne by the community, is swelled to nearly 80 millions a year. Calculating the population at 20 millions, there is paid every year in this country, in the shape of taxation, at the rate of £4 each person. In France, the total taxation does not exceed the rate of £1 6s. per soul; in America it amounts to only 10s. a head. The annual average official value of our exports, from 1810 to 1820, was upwards of 36 millions sterling; from 1821 to 1826, it was upwards of 45 millions sterling; in 1827, it was £45,110,000; and in 1828, £52,049,000.-The number of factories in Manchester, in 1820, was 54, and their value as assessed to the poor's rates, £16,806. In 1823, the number was 56; value, £18,293. In 1826 the number was 72; value, £24,034. In 1823 the number was 73, value, £25,245.-The import of cotton in the year 1824, was 147,000,000 lbs. In 1827 it was 268,000,000 lbs. The average quantity of cotton wool imported annually is about 197,000,000 lbs. weight. Of this quantity, 151,000,000 lbs. are imported from the United States of America; 17,000,000 from Brazil; Egypt, 7,000,000; West Indies, 12,000,000; and the rest from the East Indies. The duty on British woollen cloth imported into the United States of America, after June 1829, is, on coarse texture, 45 per cent.; on finer cloths, 50 per cent. NET PRODUCE of the Revenue of Unredeemed FUNDED DEBT, and CHARGE thereof. [Companion to the British Almanac, 1830.] Debt. Charge Customs, £16,358.170 £15,961,206 G. Britain,£741,089,836 £26,436,359 William Astell, Chairman of the Directors. This Company was incorporated in 1700; but their present charter was granted in 1813; and it will expire in 1834. The proprietors of East India Stock consist of about 3,000 persons. A proprietor of £1,000 stock is entitled to one vote; of £2,000, to 2 votes; of £3,000, to 3 votes; of £10,000 and upwards, to 4 votes. The dividend is 10 per cent. per annum. The produce of the Company's trade with India, in 1828, was £5,891,000; the value of their exports to China (of which they have the monopoly), was £863,494. The Receipts, Territorial and Commercial, (exclusive of the duty on Tea), for the year ending May, 1829, were £9,371,230 12 6 Expenditure, Balance, 8,298,667 95 £1,081,563 31 The gross produce of the Tea sold in 1828, was £4,254,000. From 1814 to 1826, there were sent out to India, 3,174 cadets; in the year 1828, 77 writers, 357 cadets, and 59 assistant surgeons. [Englishman's Almanac.] BENGAL. Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General of India. Earl of Dalhousie, Sir Charles Grey, John M. Turner, D. D. Commander-in-Chief. Chief Justice. Bishop of Calcutta. The number of Newspapers published in London, in 1829, has been stated at 55; in other parts of England, 158; in Scotland, 38; in Ireland, 74:— total, 325. The number of Newspapers and Periodical Journals, in the United States, in 1828, according to the statement in the first volume of this Almanac (see p. 229), was 802. The present number is not far from 1,000. The following statement exhibits the number of stamps issued for some of the principal London Newspapers, in 1829, and the amount of duty received for them. Times and Evening Mail Morn'g Chron., Observer, Bell's Life in L., and Englishman Standard, St. James's Chronicle, London Packet, and Lon The following remarks are from "The Englishman's Almanac" for 1830. There are printed in London 50 newspapers; in the country parts of England, 155. These consume 25 millions of stamps in the year. The principal London papers are the Times, Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, Morning Post, Morning Journal, Morning Advertiser, and Ledger, morning papers: the Courier, Globe, Standard, British Traveller, Sun, and Star, evening papers. Most of these journals are conducted with amazing ability. Articles almost daily appear in the Times, which, for rhetorical merit, would adorn some of the most illustrious names in our literature. The subscription to the Morning Papers is £2. 6s. per quarter.-The charge for advertising is 7s. for each advertisement at and under seven lines, and at the rate of 6d. a line afterwards." |