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GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

The following statement exhibits the official account of the gross' expenditure of the United Kingdom for the financial year ending March 31, 1870 :—

22,434,760 16

4,365,848 8

89,750

149,098 12

Debt:

Interest and Management of the Perma- nent Debt

Terminable Annuities ....

Interest of Exchequer Bonds

Interest of Exchequer Bills

Interest of Bank Advances for Deficiency

Interest of Bank Advances in aid of Ways and Means ....

Charges on Consolidated Fund :

Civil List. . _ . Annuities and Pensions Salaries and Allowances Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions Courts of Justice Miscellaneous Charges

Supply Services :

Army

Navy .....

Abyssinian Expedition Miscellaneous Civil Services Salaries, Superannuations &c. of Cus

toms and Inland Revenue Ditto ditto of Post Office

Telegraph Service Packet Service.

Total Ordinary Expenditure. Expenses of Fortifications ..... Total Expenditure (including Fortifications).

d. 8 2

7

8,874 12 10 5,227 7 9

405.941

4

6

290.405

3

10

141,711

4

5

56,096

9

5

645,398

5

190,580

18

3

. 13,565,400

. 9,757,290

1.300,000

9,303,013

16

6

s-

2.557,802

9

8


 * e 2,316.000

60.000

1,221,552

9

11

d.

27,077,529 18

1,730,133 5 5

40,221,058 16 1

68,864,751 19 6

200.000

69,064,751 19 6

It will be seen that the total gross revenue of the United Kingdom in the year ended March 31, 1870, amounted to 78,9.00,009/. lbs. l^d. The total gross expenditure was 69,064,75 11. 19s. (W., showing an excess of revenue over expenditure of 9,895,257/. 16s. lfd. The balance in the Exchequer on March 31, 1870, consisted of the sum of 8,606,647/. lis. 2d., being 3,S99,388/. 19s. lid. more than the balance at the same date of the previous year.

The following statement gives an abstract of the gross produce of the revenue of the United Kingdom, in the four quarterly periods, ended September 30, 1870, and of the year ended September, compared with the preceding year : —