REDUCTIONS proposed by Mr. Hume, and others, in the ESTIMATES this Session. To reduce 20,000 men, household troops and colonies...... By reducing 93 regiments of 650 men, to 75 regiments of 800 each Barracks, England Commissariat, England and Ireland Military Staff, Great Britain and Colonies.... Irish Staff.. Commander in Chief's office War office..... Adjutant General's office.. Ditto, Scotland Quartermaster General Judge Advocate General. Ditto, Scotland .... Comptroller's office.......... Public departments, Ireland .... Volunteers and Yeomanry, England Military College 351 15,000 622 2,180 £.753,955 300,000 1,053,955 211,000 .£. 80,000 40,000 120,000 115,000 900 4,692 922 5,180 650 650 Kilmainham and Chelsea Hospital Establishments Retired Allowances ..... Total for the Army NAVY. Navy establishments £. 1,225,629 one-fourth of £.925,629 .. £.251,407 Building Ships........ 1,094,540.. In the miscellaneous items of £.2,444,100, might be saved Taxes proposed to be repealed, on the reductions being made, in order to afford immediate relief to the country. Annual produce for the year ending the 5th April 1821. And leave a surplus of one million, exclusive of the surplus of four millious stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. BANK OF ENGLAND. AN ACCOUNT of the Total Weekly Amount of BANK NOTES and BANK POST BILLS in Circulation, from the 19th June last; distinguishing the Bank Post Bills, and the Amount of Notes under Five Pounds; and stating the aggregate Amount of the Whole. [See also Chronicle p. 101.] Amount of Dividends due at the Bank, and not demanded on 5th £.1,226,239 12 10 24,060 16 0 1,250,300 8 10 275,896 17 2 1,152,635 17 11 97,664 10 11 Remained in the hands of the Bank........................................ PRICES OF COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY. CIRCULAR. London, September 29th, 1821. SIR;-In pursuance of the commands of his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, we have the honour to transmit for your information and guidance, the following Copy of a Memorandum, which has received the sanction of his Majesty, relative to the increase of the Prices of Commissions in the Army, together with the alterations in the differences between Full and Half Pay. (COPY) August 1st, 1821. Memorandum of the PRICES of COMMISSIONS in the ARMY, and alterations in the difference between Full and Half Pay. Difference in Value between Full and Half-Pay Commissions. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS, Passed in the SECOND Session of the SEVENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.—1 and 2 GEO. IV. 1821. I. AN Act for enabling his majesty to make provision for her majesty the queen. II. An Act to amend an act, of the fifty-eighth year of his late majesty, for more effectually discovering the longitude at sea, and encouraging attempts to find a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole. III. An Act for continuing to his majesty certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco and snuff, foreign spirits, and sweets, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates, in England; for the service of the year 1821. IV. An Act for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1821. V. An Act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for certain of those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of March, 1822; and to permit such persons in Great Britain, as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first day of Hilary Term, 1822, and to allow persons to make and file such affidavits, although the persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their annual certificates. VI. An Act to continue for two years from the passing thereof, to the end of the then next session of parlia ment, the several acts for the transportation of offenders from Great Britain. VII. An Act to make perpetual an act of the fifty-eighth year of his late majesty, to allow the importation into certain ports in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, of certain enumerated articles, and the re-exportation thereof from such ports. VIII. An Act to continue, until the first day of January, 1823, an act of the fifty-ninth year of his late majesty, for staying proceedings against any governor or other persons concerned in imposing and levying duties in New South Wales; for continuing certain duties; and for empowering the said governor to levy a duty on spirits made in the said colony. IX. An Act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. X. An Act for the regulating of his majesty's royal marine forces while on shore XI. An Act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1824, the bounties on the exportation of certain silk manufactures, and the duties on the importation of buck wheat. XII. An Act to continue, until the 25th day of July, 1822,an act of the twenty-third year of his late majesty, for the more effectual encouragement of the manufacture of flax and cotton in Great Britain. XIII. An Act to continue, until the 25th day of July, 1824, an act of the fifty-ninth year of his late majesty, to continue certain laws of excise with regard to crown glass, and flint and phial glass, and to alter certain laws with regard to flint glass. XIV. An Act to revive and continue, until the 25th day of March, 1824, an act of the seventh year of king George the 2nd, for the free importation of cochineal and indigo. XV. An Act to authorize the transfer of stocks, and payment of dividends, of lunatics residing out of England. XVI. An Act for further facilitating the despatch of business in the Court of King's-bench. XVII. An Act to explain and amend an act of the parliament of Ireland, passed in the seventh year of the reign of his majesty king George the 2nd, for better regulating the payment of fees of attornies and solicitors, and other purposes therein mentioned. XVIII. An Act to repeal an act, made in the parliament of Ireland in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, against witchcraft and sorcery. XIX. An Act to permit the removal of certain goods from Great Britain to Ireland, and from Ireland to Great Britain, by cocket, certificate, let pass, or transire. XX. An Act to continue, until the 5th day of April, 1823, several acts of his late majesty, for reducing the duties payable on horses used for the purposes therein mentioned. XXI. An Act to indemnify persons who shall give evidence before the lords spiritual and temporal on the bill to exclude the borough of Grampound, in the county of Cornwall, from sending burgesses to serve in parliament; and to enable the borough of Leeds, in the county of York, to send two burgesses to serve in parliament in lieu thereof. XXII. An Act for altering and amending the laws of excise for securing the payment of the duties on beer and ale brewed in Great Britain. XXIII. An Act to amend the law respecting the inclosing of open fields, pastures, moors, commons, and waste lands, in England. XXIV. An Act to extend certain provisions of an act of king William the 3rd. intituled, An Act for regu. lating of trials in cases of treason and misprision of treason, to that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. XXV. An Act for fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers. XXVI. An Act for making further provision for the gradual resumption of payments in cash by the Bank of England. XXVII. An Act for making further provision for the gradual resumption of payments in cash by the Bank of Ireland. XXVIII. An Act for abolishing the African company, and transferring to and vesting in his majesty all the forts, possessions, and property now belonging to, or held by them. XXIX. An Act to remove doubts on the allowances of the duty paid on Irish starch imported into Great Britain, payable on such starch consumed in preparing manufactures of flax or cotton in Great Britain, and for regulating the importation thereof. XXX. An Act for further improving the roads between London and Holyhead, by Coventry, Birmingham, and Shrewsbury. XXXI. An Act for removing doubts as to the continuance of the hereditary revenue in Scotland. XXXII. An Act for declaring valid certain indentures of apprenticeship, and certificates of settlements of poor persons, in England. XXXIII. An Act to make more effectual provision for the establishment of asylums for the lunatic poor, and for the custody of insane persons charged with offences, in Ireland. XXXIV. An Act to repeal so much of two acts, made in the parliament of Ireland, in the ninth year of queen Anne, and in the seventeenth year of king George the 2nd, as inflicts capital punishment on persons guilty of stealing to the amount of five shillings out of or from shops, warehouses, and other outbuildings and places, and to provide more suitable and effectual punishment for such offences. XXXV. An Act for applying a certain sum of money out of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the purpose of building a bridge over the river Conway, in the county of Carnarvon, and for imposing additional rates of postage on letters and packets conveyed over the said bridge. XXXVI. An Act for the better regulation of the public notaries in Ireland. XXXVII. An Act to repeal the duties of customs on the importation into Great Britain of certain sorts of wood and timber, and certain drawbacks or allowances in respect of such duties, and to grant other duties and drawbacks in lieu thereof. XXXVIII. An Act for establishing regulations respecting certain parts |