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 REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

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The annual parliamentary grants to popular education in Great Britain, which amounted to 30,000/. in 1840, rose to 83,406/. in 1848 ; to 180,110/. in 1850 ; to 326,436/. in 1854; to 668,873/. in 1858 ; and to 774,743/. in 1862. In 1863, the grant was reduced to 721,386/.; in 1864, to 655,036/. ; in 1865, to 636,306/.; in 1866, to 649,006/.; in 1867, to 682,201/.; and in 1868, to 680,429/.; while in 1869 it was raised again' to 840,711/., and in 1870 to 914,721/., being an increase of 74,010/. over the vote for 1869—70. The grants for popular education in Ireland amounted to a total of 2,948,669/. in theten years 1860-69 ; in 1868, itwas 360,195/. ; and in 1869, it was 373,950/. A return stating, for the year ending August 31, 1868, the actual income of 8,937 schools. in Great Britain receiving annual grants from the Parliamentary vote, and having an average attendance of 1,197,975, shows that they re- ceived the largest item of their income, 508,772/., from the school pence; from the Government, 484,010/.; from voluntary con- tributions, the schools having 194,745 subscribers, 443,523/.; 66,820/. from endowments, and 43,008/. from various sources, bringing the whole income of the year to 1,546,933/. The expen- diture rather exceeded that amount, and averaged 1/. 5s. lie/, per scholar. As regards Ireland, during the ten years 1860-69 the sums voted for public education represented a total of 2,948,669/., the amount raised by school fees was only 360,363/., and by local sub- scriptions and from endowments, 111,437/.; the two items together amounting to but 471,801/., or less than a sixth of the sums voted by Parliament.

Revenue and Expenditure.

The following statement gives the official account of the gross and the net public revenue of the United Kingdom for the financial year ending March 31, 1870 : —

Sources of revenue

Gross receipts

Net receipts

& s. d.

& s. d.

Customs ....

23,569.892 17 6

21,449,843 4 8

Excise .....

22,605,285 3 6^

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Stamps .....

m f Land and Assessed. \ Property and Income

9,545,751 6 4^- 4.551,021 14 1H

145,799,386 4 10|

10,243,342 1 10

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Post Office ....

4.687,260 12 10j

4.671,230 H

Telegraph Service.

107,479 16 9

100,760 16 5

Crown Lands

447,723 11 4

447,723 11 4

Miscellaneous

Total ....

3,205,252 10 6

3,205.252 10 6

78,960,009 15 7|

75,674,196 8 0|