10. TAXES IMPOSED, REPEALED, OR RHDUCED.-In 1862 the excise duty on hops was repealed, estimated at 250,000l., and the customs duty, estimated at 98,6717.; and certain stamps were reduced to the amount of 5,000l. Brewers' licences were increased to the estimated amount of 230,000l.; victuallers' licences and the duty on chicory by 2,0col.; and stamps, various, increased or imposed, to the amount of 20,500l. The taxes removed amounting to 353,671l.; and those added to 252,500l. II. NATIONAL DEBT.-On March 31, 1862, the national debt amounted to 800,770,2381., of which 784,252,3381. were funded, and 16,517,900l. unfunded. On March 31, 1863, the funded debt was 783,306,7397., the unfunded 16,495,400l., and the total 799,802,1397. 12. LOCAL TAXATION.-The annual account of the county rates of England and Wales shows that in 1862 they were assessed on 73,975,962l. This amount increases year by year; four years before it was but 65,207,2867. The sum of 1,322,156l. was raised by county and police rates in the year ending at Michaelmas last; the Treasury allowance was 239,4727.; other receipts amounted to 276,2751. The expenditure on rural police was 573,1741.; on gaols, 341,0527.; on prosecutions, 130,709l.; on conveyance of prisoners and transports, 21,5941; on shire halls, &c., 20,805l.; on lunatic asylums (including building), 107,6637.; on the maintenance of pauper lunatics, 35,567%.; on county bridges, 54,6417.; clerks of the peace, 45,654.; coroners, 55,6437.; inspectors of weights, &c., 9,8391. II.-CURRENCY. 13. STATEMENT of the AFFAIRS of the BANK of ENGLAND from the Weekly Returns of the undermentioned dates in 1862 and 1863. .14,553,000 14,553,000 14,553,000 14,553,000 14,553,000 3,093,658 3,365,439 3,119,537 3,303,461 3,726,845 6.928,047 6,952,808 7,241,739 5,386,948 8,291,491 14,738,147 13,596,356 13,122,087 14,675,625 12,859,580 780,715 613,404 603,014 627,307 761,706 40,093,567 39,081,007 38,639,377 38,546,341 40,192,622 Total 14. NOTE CIRCULATION of the UNITED KINGDOM for the Months ending at the following dates in 1862 and 1863. But the real cost of the silver w 159,9481. 2s. 6d., and that of the bronze was 203,389.; and in the year there wen 425,591 ounces of worn silver purchased of the nominal value of 135,000l., and recoined, upon which there was a loss of 17,9621. § 16. BULLION.-In the year 1862 there w imported and registered gold to the value of 19,903,704., and silver to the value of 11,752,772.; and there was exported in the same year gold to the value of 16,011,96% and silver to the value of 13,314,2287. The greatest quantity of gold imported w from the United States, 9.731,4341.; and the next from Australia, 6,704,7530.; of silver the greatest amount received was from Mexico and South America, 6,242,068. C the exports, the greatest amount of gult 6,356,200l., was exported to France; and d silver, 10,710,200l., to Egypt, chiefly intended for China and the East Indies, III.-TRADE. 17. IMPORTS and CONSUMPTION of the PRINCIPAL ARTICLES of FOREIGN and COLONIAL MERCHANDISE into the United Kingdom in the Year ended December 31, 1862, with the CONSUMPTION of ARTICLES paying Duty. |