existence, amounting to 2,214,2601. This sum deducted from 4,507,500l. leaves 2,293,940l., and that identical sum was paid up, in 1825, by the Bank, who had purchased the portion abovementioned for 13,089,4191., and, prior to the year 1825, had paid up 4,624,329l. Since the year 1825, the Bank has also paid 2,165,740l., and has to pay still 4,006,110l., which will form part of the ways and means for the year ensuing. As the sums 2,214,260l. and 2,293,240l., forming 4,507,500l., will also appear in the subsequent explanation as to extra expenditure, another observation is necessary. In one part of the public accounts, 4,507,500l. appear to have been received from the trustees, and in another part 2,214,260l. appear to have been paid to the same persons; consequently 2,293,240l. was received beyond what was paid. In point of fact, the latter sum only was received; and the other sum of 2,214,260l. was neither paid over to, nor received back from, the trustees. Its insertion on both sides of the public accounts magnifies both the income and the expenditure of the country by so much above the actual amount of each. The exhibition of this, however, is necessary, in consequence of the financial opération, familiarly known by the name of the 'dead weight annuity,' created in 1822. We come now to the items forming the extra expenditure, which we stated to amount to 3,572,133l. : Paid to the Trustees of Naval and Military Pensions, as already explained to the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, in for silver for new coinage of Ireland £2,214,260 100,000 500,000 for building new churches in Scotland 50,000 to the Bank of England, for unclaimed dividends. 49,465 .£3,572,133 Making the amount of extra expenditure, as already referred to It remains to examine what was the actual income, as well as the actual expenditure, for the year 1825. From the items already given, it appears that the excess in the extra sources of income and expenditure will stand thus: Received from the Clerk of Income. Expenditure. According to the public accounts submitted in the beginning of this article, the ordinary income from taxes was Whilst it appears that the ordinary expenditure was £59,131,801 And the extraordinary expenses, as we have just shown, were So that the total actual expenditure was 1,022,334 .£60,154,135 And the difference between it and the actual income would be £167,366, as was shown in the first part of these observations. as already shown; and it is upon data, thus calculated, that the foregoing scale is formed, with as much accuracy as the limits of our work would admit. APPENDIX, B. Schedules to be filled up, showing the expenditure of workmen employed in different trades and occupations, at different periods for each trade, so as to show the effect of prosperity and adversity on the comforts of the working classes, as well as the effect of taxation in diminishing these comforts. ESTIMATE. Showing the Quantity, Price, and different kinds of Articles consumed, or expense incurred, by a Person employed as considered as a during the year highest rate and rate workman, when his average wages, per annum: the lowest rate were of wages during the year being per week. The number of persons in the family was: per week, and the One Man, whose average wages per annum, in money actually received, amounted to One Woman, who during the year contributed by her labour to the annual income Children, of whom annual income contributed by labour to the The total sum annually received as wages by persons working by the day. Or the total sum received annually, by persons working by the piece, or task-work.... £. 8. d. N.B. When work in the above occupation has been performed by the job, or piece, state the quantity of work generally done by the job, or piece, during a day, week, month, or year, by the person employed in this manner, and the sum of money received by him for for a given period, as compared with the money received by a person who worked for ordinary daily wages; thus: By the job, or piece, the workman received per day, week, month, or year, working hours daily on an average By day wages, the workman received for the same period as above, working hours a day, on an average £. s. d. Those manufactured articles, of which the raw material was imported, are marked thus*. ANNUAL EXPENDITURE. Articlés produced at home, and consumed as food, | £. s. d. £. s. d. Quantity. |