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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

expenditure on English, Scottish, and Irish services met out of such revenue :

Excliequer Revenue :— Customs Exiise

Ksiate, &c. duties .Stamps

Land tax and house duty Income tax

Total from taxes

Post office Telegraphs Crown lands Interest, &c. Miscellaneous

Total non-tax revenue

Total

Local taxation revenue : — Customs Excise Estate, &c. duties

Total

Grand total

Expenditure : — From Exchequer revenue Debt, Army, Navy. Civil government. Collection of taxes. Post Office Coinage.

Total. From local taxation rev.

Grand total

Imperial

140,000 33,000

784,000 718,500

1,452,500

1,863,500

r2,000

r2,000

1,935,500

65,395,000 3,458,000

597,000 250,000

69,700,000

69,700,000

England Scotland

£

17,289,000

21,437,000

0,818,000

6,658,000

2,355,000

14,532,000

'2,089,000

10,360,000

2,563,000

387,000

805,000

14,115,000

86,204,000 10,923,500

£

2,146,000

3,882,000

852,000

602,000

135,000

1,714,000

9,331,000

1,187,000

303,000

21,000

81,500

1,592,500

Ireland

£

2,357,000

3,004,000

376,000

305,000

687,000

6,729,000

660,000

164,000

35,000

111,500

171,000 4,283,000 3,533,000

7,987,000

94,191,000

12,928,500 2,137,C00 8,945,000

24,010,500 7,911,000

20,000 540,000 391,000

951,000

11,874,500

2,078,000

367,000

1,157,000

3,602,000 980,000

31,921,500

4,582,000

970,500 ,699,500

17,000 132,000 266,000

415,000

8,114,500

4,516,500 241,000 866,000

5,623,500 511,000

Total

£

21,792,000 28,323,000 11,186,000 7,598,000 2,490,000 17,171,000

88,560,000

12,207,000

3,030,000

443,000

734,000

1,716,500

18,120,500

106,690,500

208,000 4,955,000 4,262,000

9,425,000

116,115,500

65,395,000

22,981,000

2,745,000

11,565,000

250,000

6,134,500

102,936,000 9,402,000

112,338,000

III. National Debt.

The expenditure on account of National Debt is now nearly six times the amount paid in 1775, at the beginning of the War of Independence of the United States. The total charge for interest and management was then only a little over 4^ millions sterling ; but at the end of the war it had risen to 9^ millions. The twenty-two years' warfare with France, from 1793 to 1815, added 23 millions sterling to the annual charge of the debt, making it over 32i millions, decreased by slightly more than a million in 1817, in the year of consolidation of the English and Irish exchequer. Since this date, the capital of the debt has on the wliole been steadily decreasing, excepting for the years of the Russian war. The annual charge, after increasing to nearly 30 millions in 1883, is now less than in 1857, at the close of that war, by 3,550,039Z. Moreover, the present figure (25,000,000/.) includes a large provision for re- payment of the capital of the debt, amounting in 1897-98 to 7.360,292Z.

The following table exhibits the ^growth of the debt from its origin to the year 1897. Before 1835, however, there was no calculation of the capital