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 554 THE ECONOMIC JOURN_aL with 1890, we find the rate of increase to be on an average if it is allowable to strike an average between items so heterogeneous as sheep and lambs, pigs and cowe about 5 per cent. The number of sheep and lambs is 28,732,558. If the inhabitants of England and Wales were to appropriate all the live stock of Great Britain, there would be very nearly a sheep or lamb for each inhabitant, but only a tenth of a pig. The number of cattle in Great Britain is less easily remembered --viz., 6,852,821. Agricultural Produce Statistics of Great Britain, with abstract Returns for the United Kingdom 1890 (C. 6298). THIS is the annual statement issued by the Board of Agriculture showing the estimated agricultural produce of the United Kingdom. It appears from the summary tables that the estimated total produce of wheat in the United Kingdom in 1890 amounted to 75,998,883 bushels as compared with 75,833,611 bushels in the preceding year. The extent of land under wheat cultivation amounted to 2,478,677 and 2,539,099 acres respectively, and the estimated yield per acre was 80'66 bushels in 1890 and 29'89 bushels in 1889. Corresponding details are given for barley, oats, &c. Bankruptcy. Eighth teport by the Board of Trade uder Sction 131 of the Bankruptcy Act 1883 (C--6462). Tins publication contains in addition to the report by the Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade, of proceedings under the Bankruptcy Act of 1883, appendices containing the report of the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy, on the general working of the Act of 1883; tables of Bankruptcy Statistics; comparative tables for a series of years, and a report by the Solicitor to the Board of Trade upon legal proceedings conducted by him under the Bankruptcy Acts 1883 and 189.0. A .comparison of the years 1888, 1889 and 1890 shows that the total number of cases under the Bankruptcy Act 1883, and the Deeds of Arrangement Act 1887 fell from 8,321 in the former year to 7,108 in the latter, while liabilities were 11,914,429, in 1888, and 10493,222 in 1890. The estimated loss to creditors was 544,985 less in 1890 than in the preceding year. British India. and _oreign (C--6841). Statement of the Trade with British Possession, Countries for the five years 1885--86 to 1889--90 TIlE total value of the trade was as follows: Exclusive of Government transactions merchandise inported in 1889 90, 65,560,121 Rx., treasure 17,459,301 Rx. The corresponding figures for