Xii.—: Proportion of Churchmen and Dissenters, Xiii.—: Obituary and Corrections.

Abstract of Accounts of the sums actually expended in each year, for the Militia and for the Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January, 1816, to 1st January, 1834.

(From the Congregational Magazine, Dec. 1, 1834.)

A comparative view of the Hearers, Communicants, and Scholars, belonging to Churchmen, Dissenters, and Wesleyan Methodists, in 203 towns and villages of England; compiled from local returns transmitted to the Congregational Union.

Since the publication of the last edition of The Black Book in 1832, the following deaths have occurred in the List of Placemen, Pensioners, and Sinecurists.

N.B.—The hon. Charles Bathurst and James Moore, Esq., have resigned their pensions on the civil list.

Church of Ireland.—The reforms introduced and projected in the Irish church since the publication of the last edition of the Black Book, have been noticed at page 6 of this Appendix.

Court of Chancery.—By 2 and 3 Will. IV., c. 3, the offices of clerk or keeper of the hanaper, the patentee of the subpœna office, the registrar of affidavits, the clerk of the crown in chancery, the clerk of the patents, the clerk of the custodies of lunatics and idiots, the prothonotary of the court of chancery, the chaff wax, the sealer, the clerk of the presentations, the clerk of inrollments in bankruptcy, (subsequently reappointed,) the clerk of dispensations and faculties, and the patentee for the execution of the laws and statutes concerning bankruptcy were to cease and determine from August 20th, 1833.

By the same Act, and in lieu of the loss of patronage thereby occasioned, the retiring pension of the Lord Chancellor is augmented to £5000 per annum. For other reforms in the offices of the Court of Chancery, see 3 and 4 Will. IV. cap. 84 and cap. 94.

House of Commons.—By 4 and 5 Will. IV. cap. 70, the salary of the present speaker is continued at £6000, but on the appointment of a new speaker, salary reduced to £5000. Future secretary of the speaker to receive £500. Clerk of the House of Commons to receive £2000; clerk assistant £1500; second clerk assistant £1000; sergeant-at-arms £1500; deputy sergeant-at-arms £800. The sinecure offices of committee clerk and engrossing clerk are abolished.

Dead Weight.—The total amount of Reduced Allowances for 1833 for the Army, Navy, Ordnance, and Civil Departments, is £5,194,576 : 17 : 10.—Parl. Pap. No. 563, Sess. 1834.