42 mounted rifles, 152,173 rifle volunteers, in all 196,938 men, at 30s. each, £295,407; travelling allowance, for attendance at united drill or gun practice, £29,978; special capitation allowance of £2, 10s. for proficient officers and sergeants, £43,215), £368,600; miscellaneous charges for volunteer corps, £45,900. The Navy Estimates.-The number of officers, seamen, boys, and marines proposed to be voted for the service of Her Majesty's Navy for the year ending 31st March 1882, was 58,100 (or 56,900, deducting 1200, the number of the officers and crews of Indian troop ships), viz., 45,100 officers, seamen, and boys for the fleet and coastguard service, and 13,000 marines. The estimated charge was £10,829,919, made up as follows:-For effective services, £8,434,553; for non-effective, £2,062,916; for conveyance of troops, £228,450 (including £83,000 to meet expenditure for the Transvaal); with £170,000 additional, per supplementary estimate, for extraordinary transport services in connexion with the war in the Transvaal. From this was to be deducted estimated extra receipts and repayments into the Exchequer, £162,370, making the net estimated charge for the navy, in the year 1881-82, £10,733,549. On the 1st December 1880, the number of ships in commission effective for general service was 110, (viz., 5 line-of-battle ships, first class, and 6 line-of-battle ships, second class, and 3 cruisers, first class, all armour-plated; 28 frigates or corvettes (1 first class, 1 second class, 3 third class, and 23 fourth class) not armourplated; and 68 sloops and small vessels not armour-plated, of which 62 were steamers and 6 were sailing vessels. There were also in commission 9 first reserve ships (all armour-plated, and all steamers). Of gunnery and training ships, stationary, receiving, and depôt ships (including royal yachts), surveying vessels, troop ships, store ships, and drill ships for the royal naval reserve, there were 47 (30 sailing vessels and 17 steamers), exclusive of Indian troop ships; and of tenders (including late coastguard cruisers) there were 77 (34 sailing vessels and 43 steamers). There were in all 243 vessels (70 sailing vessels and 173 steamers, 23 of the latter being armour-plated) in commission. The Colonies and Army Expenditure.-The amount included in the Army Estimates for 1881-82 for military purposes in the Colonies was £2,539,475. In the previous financial year it had been £2,049,396. These sums, however, do not include the cost of arms, accoutrements, stores, etc., nor any proportion of recruiting and administrative expenses and non-effective charges. The amount of Colonial contributions in aid of military expenditure to be received in 1881-82 was estimated at £224,000; viz., Honduras, £5000; Cape of Good Hope, £10,000; Natal, £4000; Mauritius, £20,000; Hong Kong, £20,000; Ceylon, £110,000; Straits Settlement, £50,000; Malta, £5000. The Militia. The militia force of the United Kingdom at the time of the training in 1880 consisted of 3290 officers, exclusive of the permanent staff; the permanent staff consisting of 158 adjutants, 145 quartermasters, 3433 sergeants, and 1216 drummers; and 2214 sergeants, 4694 corporals, and 115,181 privates-or 130,331 of all ranks. The numbers present at the training of 1880 were 2866 officers, exclusive of the permanent staff; 155 adjutants, 141 quartermasters, 3382 sergeants, and 1202 drummers of the permanent staff; and 2122 sergeants, 4445 corporals, and 100.994 privates-or 115,307 men of all ranks. There were 9513 men of all ranks (including 307 officers) wanting to complete the establishment of the regiments as authorized by army circulars of 1880; and there were 731 men of all ranks (including 18 officers) supernumeraries in certain regiments. Of the numbers enrolled of all ranks, 17,076 men were in artillery regiments (7989 in English, 2867 in Scotch, and 6220 in Irish regiments); 1319 in regiments of engineers (all in England); and 111,936 in infantry regiments (76,315 in English, 11,326 in Scotch, and 24,295 in Irish regiments). There were 85,623 men in English, 14,193 in Scotch, and 30,515 in Irish regiments. The total number of men of the militia reserve effective at inspection, and included in the foregoing numbers, was 28,666, viz., in England 18,731, in Scotland 3206, in Ire land 6729; 3888 were in artillery regiments, 253 in engineer regiments, and 24,525 in infantry regiments. The number of men enrolled for the militia. reserve during the year was 7227. Grants in Aid of Local Taxation.-The grants in aid of local taxation and charges transferred from local to imperial funds, for which provision was made in the Civil Service Estimates for the year 1881-82, amounted, for England and Wales, to £2,972,451; for Scotland, to £465,726; for Ireland, to £1,832,021; for the United Kingdom, to £5,270,198-an increase upon the provision made in the previous financial year of £149,454. The grants proposed for Scotland for 1881-82 were as follows:Payments and contributions in lieu of rates on Government property, £8000; rates on telegraph wires, etc., £6; medical relief-proportion of the expense in the various parishes, £10,000; vaccine lymph (excluding salary, etc., of medical officer in charge), £100; contribution in aid of maintenance of pauper lunatics, £76,588; criminal proceedings-Sheriff's accounts and criminal prosecutions, etc., in Sheriff Courts, £27,000; Procurators-fiscalsalaries, £24,735; contributions towards the charge of pay and clothing of police forces, £132,000; prisons, exclusive of cost of the Prisons Commissioners office, but including cost of county prisoners confined in Perth General Prison, and the cost of removal of convicts from local prisons, £110,678; ditto for pensions, £359; for stationery, £500; maintenance of children in Reformatory Schools, £17,500; maintenance of children in Industrial Schools £54,850; grants to School Boards under 35 and 36 Vict. c. 62, sec. 67, £3410. The largest items in the list of grants proposed for Ireland were the following:- Dublin Metropolitan Police, excluding salaries, etc., of police courts (£56,000 to be recovered from local sources), £126,152; Irish Constabulary, £1,192,355; prisons, £97,385; and pauper lunatics, £87,922. The largest items in the list of grants proposed for England were, similarly-contribution towards the charge of pay and clothing of police forces, £779,000; contributions towards the cost of the Metropolitan Police Force, £460,402; prisons, reformatories, etc., £640,314; and pauper lunatics, £427,000. Land Tax, Cess, or Trade Stent in Royal Burghs in Scotland.-A return procured by Sir David Wedderburn (dated 4th September 1880) states the annual amount of land tax, cess, or trade stent paid by royal burghs in Scotland at £7467, 9s. 11d., and the annual amount of the surpluses paid by certain of the royal burghs beyond the quotas payable by them (applicable under 24 and 25 Vict. c. 91 to the redemption of the tax) at £1038,.68. 8d. The annual estimated expense incurred by the Inland Revenue in levying and collecting the foregoing amounts was £681, 2s. 5d. Parliamentary Constituencies.-The total number of Parliamentary electors in England and Wales in 1881 (previous to the revisal of the register for the year) was 2,537,810; viz., in counties 932,860, in boroughs 1,591,451, in the universities 13,499. The number in Ireland was 229,461; viz., in counties 168,217, in boroughs 57,497, in the Dublin University 3747. The number in Scotland was 310,218; viz., in counties 96,570, in burghs 201,529, in the universities 12,119. Crime in the Three Kingdoms.-The number of criminal offenders committed for trial in the year 1880 was, in England and Wales, 14,770 (11,943 males and 2827 females); in Scotland, 2583 (2097 males and 486 females), in Ireland, 4716 (3936 males and 780 females). The numbers convicted were, in England and Wales, 11,214; in Scotland (exclusive of those outlawed), 2046; and in Ireland, 2383. The numbers acquitted (including those discharged without trial, but exclusive of persons found and detained as insane) were, in England and Wales, 3516; in Scotland, 541; and in Ireland, 2319. SECTION VI.-CHRONOLOGY. SOVEREIGNS OF ENGLAND (1066-1707), OF GREAT BRITAIN (1707-1801), AND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (SINCE 1801). SOVEREIGNS OF SCOTLAND, FROM A.D. 1057 TO THE UNION. 25 First. 20 Union with England IMPERIAL PARLIAMENTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Assembled. Dissolved. Assembled. Dissolved. June 29, 1802 Twelfth... Feb. 19, 1835 July 17, 1837 Second.. Nov. 16, 1802 Oct. 24, 1806 Thirteenth Nov. 15, 1837 June 23, 1841 Third.. Dec. 15, 1806 April 29, 1807 Fourteenth Aug. 19, 1841 July 23, 1847 Fourth.. June 22, 1807 Sept. 29, 1812 Fifteenth.. Nov. 18, 1847 July 1, 1852 Fifth... Nov. 24, 1812 June 10, 1818 Sixteenth.. Nov. 4, 1852 Mar. 21, 1857 Sixth.. Jan. 14, 1819 Feb. 29, 182 Seventeenth April 30, 1857 April 23, 1859 Seventh April 21, 1820 June 2, 182 Eighteenth May 31, 1859 July 6, 1865 Eighth.. Nov. 14, 1826 July 24, 183 Nineteenth Feb. 1, 1866 Nov. 11, 1868 Ninth... Oct. 26, 1830 April 23, 183) Twentieth.. Dec. 10, 1868 Jan. 26, 1874 Tenth.. June 14, 1831 Dec. 3, 1832 Twenty-first Mar. 5, 1874 Mar. 24, 1880 Eleventh Jan. 29, 1833 Dec. 30, 1834 Twenty-seed. April 29, 1886 FIRST LORDS OF THE TREASURY SINCE THE UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND IN 1707. Appointed 1702, May 8. Lord Godolphin 1710, Aug. 10. Earl Poulett 1766, Aug. 1770, Feb. 1865, Nov. 1782, April 1. Marq. of Rockingham 1868, Feb. 1868, Dec. 26. Right Hon. W. Pitt. 1874, Feb. 1880, April 24. Viscount Palmerston 29. Right Hon. B. Disraeli 20. Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) 23. Right Hon. W. Ewart Gladstone LORDS HIGH CHANCELLORS OF GREAT BRITAIN SINCE 1801. 1801. John Scott-Lord Eldon 1834. J. S. Copley-Lord Lyndhurst 1836. C. C. Pepys-Lord Cottenham 1841. J. S. Copley-Lord Lyndhurst 1846. C. C. Pepys-Lord Cottenham 1850. In Commission 1850. Thomas Wilde-Lord Truro CHANCELLORS OF THE 1834. Lord Denman, pro tempore 1852. E. B. Sugden-Lord St Leonards HOME SECRETARIES SINCE 1801. 1801. Duke of Portland 1803. Right Hon. Chas. Philip Yorke [pool) 1841. Right Hon. Sir James Robert 1846. Right Hon. Sir Geo. Grey, bart. 1804. Earl Camden 1805. Viscount Castlereagh 1806. Right Hon. William Wyndham 1807. Viscount Castlereagh 1812. Earl of Liverpool 1812. Earl Bathurst 1827. Viscount Goderich 1827. Right Hon. William Huskisson 1833. Right Hon. Lord Stanley 1834. Earl of Aberdeen 1845. Right Hon. Wm. Ewart Glad stone 1846. Earl Grey 1852. Rt. Hon. Sir John S. Pakington 1853. Duke of Newcastle 1854. Right Hon. Sir Geo. Grey, bart. 1855. Right Hon. Lord John Russell 1855. Right Hon. Sir W. Molesworth 1855. Right Hon. Henry Labouchere 1858. Right Hon. Lord Stanley 1858. Right Hon. Sir E. B. Lytton, bt. 1864. Right Hon. Edward Cardwell 1835. Right Hon. Charles Grant (Lord 1868. Earl Granville Glenelg) 1839. Marquess of Normanby 1839. Right Hon. Lord John Russell 1841. Right Hon. Lord Stanley (Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe) 1870. Earl of Kimberley 1874. Earl of Carnarvon 1878. Right Hon. Sir M. E. HicksBeach, bart. 1880. Earl of Kimberley |