"Let us, then, commence with the commissioned officers. The contract under which the officers of the household corps engaged to serve Her Majesty having been annulled, the officers will be entitled, in common fairness, to be placed in the same pecuniary situation in which they stood prior to their having entered Her Majesty's service. They will accordingly require to receive back the regulated value of their respective commissions. Now, according to the scale of prices fixed by His Majesty's regulations of the 8th of April, 1824, the value of the commissions of the officers in the household brigade of cavalry, taken collectively (exclusive of the three colonels, who are general officers), amounts to the sum of 201,285_l._, and the value of the commissions of the officers in the brigade of Foot Guards, taken collectively, amounts to the sum of 610,600_l._, which two sums, being added together, form a total of 811,885_l._ But, as an appropriation in aid of the said sum to be provided, there will be the value of the commissions in the new levy of regiments of the line, which will be raised to replace the household corps. The regulated value of the commissions in three regiments of cavalry of the line amounts to 126,840_l._, and the regulated value of the commissions in six regiments of infantry of the line (which number of regiments will exceed the establishment of the brigade of Foot Guards) amounts to 242,400_l._; and these two sums being added together form a total of 369,240_l._, which total being deducted from the previous total of 811,885_l._, leaves a balance against the public of 442,645_l._ as the difference between the value of commissions to be paid for and the value of commissions to be sold. "There will then require to be raised a new levy of 6,279 men to replace the non-commissioned officers and men of the household corps who are to be discharged; the bounty money for which new levy, with expenses prior to joining (officially stated at 5_l._ 2_s._ 6_d._ per man), will amount to 31,475_l._; and this sum being added to the previous balance of 442,645_l._ will swell the amount to be provided by the public to 474,120_l._ for raising regiments of the line to serve as substitutes for our present household troops.