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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

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to the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, in
repayment of a loan on account of the new street

for silver for new coinage of Ireland

£2,214,260

100,000

500,000

for building new churches in Scotland

50,000

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to the Bank of England, for unclaimed dividends.
more than received

49,465

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.£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.

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According to the public accounts submitted in the beginning of this article, the ordinary income from taxes was

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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.

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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

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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.

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Average Retail Prices of the Articles during the same year; or the highest and the lowest Prices of each Article.

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No. LXVIII., p. 514, line 32, for monster' read 'monitor.'
In this Number, p. 25, line 6, dele' while.'

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