3.UNITED KINGDOM. A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of the NUMBER of LETTERS (including Franks, during the Existence of the Franking Privilege,) delivered in the United Kingdom in One Week of each Calendar Month, beginning with November, 1839, and ending with the present Time. 4.-AN ACCOUNT showing the GROSS and NET POST OFFICE REVENUE, and the COST of MANAGEMENT for the United Kingdom, for each of the Years ending 5th of January 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842, excluding from the Account, whether of Gross Revenue or Cost of Management, any Advances that may have been made by the English to the Irish Post Office, and Advances to the Money Order Office. Namely, the gross receipts, after deducting the returns for " refused letters," &c. 58 + Including all payments out of the revenue, in its progress to the Exchequer, except advances to the Money Order Office. This year includes one month of the fourpenny rate. 7.-A RETURN of the NUMBER and AMOUNT of MONEY ORDERS Issued and Paid in England and Wales during the undermentioned Quarters, the Quarter to the 5th of January, 1842, being estimated. The commission on Money Orders was, on and from the 20th November, 1840, reduced as follows: THE NEW JUDGES. The following are the principal clauses in the Administration of Justice Bill (No. 2): "And whereas the business of the Court of Chancery has of late years greatly increased, and by reason of the transfer to the Court of Chancery of the equitable juris diction of the Court of Exchequer, further duties will devolve on the Court of Chancery, and it is therefore expedient, for the better administration of justice in the said Court of Chancery, that two additional judges should be appointed to assist in the discharge of the judicial functions of the Lord Chancellor; be it therefore enacted, that it shall be lawful for her Majesty to nominate and appoint, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, two fit persons, being or having been respectively barristers-at-law of fifteen years' standing at the least, to be additional Judges-Assistant to the Lord Chancellor in the discharge of the judicial functions of his office, each of such additional judges to be called Vice-Chancellor. "And be it enacted, that each or either of the Vice-Chancellors to be appointed in pursuance of this act shall sit for the Lord Chancellor whenever he shall require him so to do, and shall also, at such other times as the Lord Chancellor shall direct, sit in a separate court, whether the Lord Chancellor or the Master of the Rolls, or the Vice-Chancellor appointed in pursuance of the said act, shall be sitting or not, for which purpose the Lord Chancellor shall make such orders as to him shall appear to be proper and convenient, from time to time as occasion shall require." II-COLONIAL. JAMAICA. SPEECH OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, DEC. 22. "Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of of the session. My warmest ac the Assembly, "As I have so frequently ad dressed you on those particular points on the state of our affairs which it was my wish and duty to bring to your notice at the commencement of your proceedings, I do not propose to detain you on the present occasion by any long discourse. I cannot, however, refrain from offering to you my cordial thanks for the indefatigable zeal with which you have devoted yourselves to the important duties knowledgments are due for the readiness with which you have adopted the amendments in some of your enactments proposed by her Majesty's Ministers, and for the improvements which you have by other acts effected in the criminal code, especially by the abo lition of the sentence of death in numerous instances, and by the entire abolition, by law, of the revolting, but happily unpractised, punishment of whipping. "I entertain great hope that your amendment of the Petty Debt Act, besides being useful in other respects, will terminate vexatious misunderstandings and heartburnings regarding rents, and thereby tend to promote content and reconciliation thoughout the island. The increased liberality of the provisions in the Dissenters' Marriage Act has my hearty concurrence, as any measure will always have that is favourable to civil and religious liberty. "I forbear to dilate on other acts of the session, which are nevertheless of great importance, lest I should detain you longer than would be convenient to you at the present moment, when you are naturally anxious to proceed to your homes, and take care of those concerns which are always in some degree neglected during your attendance on your public duties here. "Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly. "I thankfully acknowledge the liberality of your grants for the public service. "Those for the erection of a penitentiary and the improvement of parochial prisons, though prudently and necessarily limited by the probable extent of our means, will I trust enable me gradually to carry into effect the arrangements considered to be most beneficial for the regulation and improvement of prison discipline. "I am happy to perceive, by the increase which you have afforded to the police, that the services of that body have given general satisfaction, a feeling in which I entirely concur. "I have great pleasure in observing that you have made many grants towards the erection and extension of churches, chapels, and schools, as well for congregations of Dissenting Christians and the Church of Rome, as for those of the Churches of England and Scotland. Such grants are honourable to yourselves, and cannot fail to be attended with benefit to the community. "I cannot pass unnoticed the rewards which you have offered to encourage the cultivation of various articles the growth of which would promote the commerce, wealth, and general prosperity, of the island. It is most gratifying to me to witness the spirit in which such measures originate. "As our expenditure, in consequence of the increase caused by the several grants which you have made, will exceed our ordinary income, you have wisely determined to raise the difference by additional taxation, rather than by having recourse to the creation of additional debt. The only sound system of finance is to keep our expenditure within the amount of our income, or to raise our revenue to the extent of our unavoidable expenses. This is the system you have evinced your resolution to adopt, and, by adhering to it, we shall, I trust, at no distant period, be able to diminish and extinguish our debt. "I shall rejoice to find that the additional taxes which you have instituted produce results corresponding with your expectations. "Gentlemen of the Council, "I congratulate you on being able to enjoy a recess without the necessity of a double session. On your return to your several parishes you will, I hope, experience a continuation of that amelioration of your prospects which I am happy to learn is generally in progress, and I am confident you will do all in your power to promote the comfort and welfare of the people, who most naturally look to you as their landlords and employers, and who will, I have no doubt, find you their friends and pro tectors. "Our meetings are so agreeable, and pass with so much harmony and cordiality, that I could not let you depart without reluctance were I not aware that it is essential for your own interests that you should revisit your properties. I will only add, that I shall have great pleasure in assembling you again at the accustomed season. I do now, in her Majesty's name, prorogue this General Assembly to the 1st day of February, 1841, and it is hereby prorogued accordingly.' NEWFOUNDLAND. SPEECH OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, JANUARY 2. "Mr. President, and Hon. Gen- "Two events of the greatest consequence to us loyal subjects have occurred since our last meeting. The first, the escape of her gracious Majesty from the furious assault of a wretched maniac; the second, the auspicious birth of the Princess Royal. "These incidents, though dissimilar in their character, are both calculated to excite deep feelings of joy and gratitude. "I have to acquaint you that of the ten acts passed in the last session, six have been left to their operation; and that respecting two others, some correspondence has passed, which shall be submitted to your inspection. I have not as yet been honoured with any commands relative to the remainder. "The despatch which I have received on the subject of a land bill is so full and explicit that in laying it before you I shall feel confident that this matter will at length be settled in a manner suit able to the circumstances of the colony. "I shall cause to be transmitted to you the last report of the geological surveyor. His researches have not been productive of any immediately practical benefit, but they are far from unimportant, and I hope before the close of the session to make some further communication in connexion with his past operations, with a view to their being rendered of permanent utility. "Her Majesty's Government having directed that such buildings in Fort William as may be required for colonial purposes shall be transferred to the colony, I would propose the appointment of a joint committee of the Council and House of Assembly, for the purpose of ascertaining how far this order can be made available for the future accommodation of the Legislature. "Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, "The estimates for the ensuing financial year shall be sent down without delay. The revenue has |