PUBLIC REVENUE and EXPENDITURE from 1822 to 1850; showing the Total Revenue in each year, deducting Drawbacks and Repayments; the Charges of Collection, and other Payments out of the Revenue, in its progress to the Exchequer; the Charge of the Public Debt, Funded and Unfunded; the amount of all other Expenditure; and the Total Expenditure for each year. The Surplus of Revenue or of Expenditure is also given for each year-the years marked s show a surplus, those marked d a deficiency-the amounts are stated below.

1822s 59,823,834 5,688,091 31,343,551 2,041,440 13,900,437 2,105,797 55,079,316 18238 58,498,157 5,742,593 29,978,454 2,140,806 14,329,471 2,006,086 54,197,410 1824s 59,829,691 5,413, 161 30,166,421 2,770,336 15,142,152 2,449,149 55,941,519 1825s 57,945,105 5,597,431 29,197,187 2,889,412 14,995,837 2,216,082 54,895,949 1826d 55,628,793 5,387,385 29,228,967 2,383,976 16,707,602 2,566,783 56,274,713 1827d 55,510,145 5,268,487 29,417,543 2,581,730 16,205,812 2,863,248 56,336,820 1828s 57,391,235 5,286,592 29,309,052 2,337,497 15,198,984 2,012,116 54,144,241 1829s 55,934,963 5,148,281 29,155,611 2,252,999 15,180,861 2,485,661 54,223,413 1830s 54,932,290 4,875,674 29,118,859 2,159,299 13,914,677 1,950,108 52,018,617 1831d 51,012,607 4,588,167 28,341,416 1,548,773 14,379,096 2,854,013 51,711,465 1832s 51,523,087 4,534,332 28,323,752 1,848,297 13,805,026 2,396,921 50,908,328 1833s 50,679,397 4,408,071 28,522,507 1,963,473 12,265,105 2,007,158 49,166,314 1834s 50,831,271 4,321,415 28,504,096 2,270,153 12,066,057 2,061,395 49,223,116 18358 50,408,579 4,364,916 28,514,610 2,106,280 11,657,486 2,144,346 48,787,638 1836s 52,949,397 4,246,743 29,243,599 2,936,685 12,112,968 2,279,310 50,819,305 1837d 50,663,353 4,188,159 29,489,571 2,411,456 12,716,897 2,513,030 51,319,113 1838d 51,375,520 4,042,061 29,260,238 2,405,159 13,220,750 2,792,540 51,720,748 1839d 51,927,495 4,082,596 29,454,062 2,410,084 14,631,076 2,862,469 53,440,287 1840d 51,850,083 4,282,517 29,81,718 2,433,526 14,822,667 2,523,625 53,444,053 1841d 52,363,949 4,279,589 29,450,145 2,568,143 15,239,781 2,927,660 54,465,318 1842d 51,244,334 4,278,704 29,428,120 2,398,262 16,159,030 2,959,757 55,223,873 1843s 56,945,043 4,362,226 29,269,160 2,389,894 14,655,273 4,525,186 55,501,739 1844s 58,459,750 4,455,997 30,495,459 2,694,012 14,366,209 3,091,968 55,103,645 1845s 57,690,704 4,630,350 28,253,872 2,598,524 15,664,169 2,726,147 53,873,062 1846s 58,429,333 4,639,195 28,077,987 2,736,807 16,864,697 3,264,339 55,583,025 1847d 56,273,730 4,727,465 28,141,531 2,713,514 18,502,147 5,145,756 59,230,413 1848d 58,194,317 4,805,600 28,563,517 2,783,834 18,745,695 4,092,090 58,990,736 1849s 57,578,785 4,627,036 28,323,961 2,794,893 15,823,537 3,911,232 55,480,659 1850s 57,517,341 4,706,661 28,091,590 2,864,460 15,392,944 3,882,880 54,938,535

NET RECEIPT of the Duties of EXCISE in the years 1844 to 1850.

Total.... £14,450,903

£14,621,701 £14,993,782 £13,907,508 £15,031,839 £14,985,865 | £15,342,207

*Game Certificates in England and Scotland are classed with assessed taxes.

+Flint Glass, duty reduced 5th July from 2d. to 2d. per lb.-Vinegar, duty repealed 4th July.-Post Horse Licences Ireland 27. 2s. and 1s. in the pound trans-
ferred from Stamps, August 6.
Auction Duty repealed April 8.-Auctioneers' Licences increased from 57. 5s. to 107.-Glass Duty and Licences repealed April 5.-Sugar Duty reduced from
24s. per cwt. and 5 per cent. to 14s. per cwt. April 2.- Spirits from the Channel Islands into England, 9s. per gallon; Scotland, 4s. 10d.; Ireland, 3s. 10d.; from
Customs, July 3.
Chemists, &c. using Stills in England to take out Licences at 10s. per annum, from August 26.

Duties on Railway Passengers, 5 per cent.; Stage Carriages, 14d. per mile; Hackney Carriages, 10s. per week; Stage Carriage Licences, 37. 3s. per annum ;
Supplementary Licences, 5s. each; Hackney Carriage Licences, 57. each; transferred from Stamps, Sept. 5.

Additional Licence for retailing Foreign Liqueurs from October 10, 27. 2s.

** Brick Duty repealed March 16.-Sugar Duty reduced to 11s. per cwt, August 14,

NET RECEIPT of the Duties of STAMPS in the Years 1844 to 1850.

Allowance to Assay Offices reduced to 11. per cent.; Discount on Medicine Stamps to 51. per cent.; Discount on Receipt Stamps reduced to 17. 10s. per cent.; Discount on Deeds or other Stamps limited to 11. 10s. per cent. on Stamps under 104., Oct. 10.

Stamps on Agreements, Bonds, Conveyances, Leases, Mortgages, Settlements, Warrants of Attorney, and a few other legal instruments, reduced Oct. 10. Discount on Receipt Samps increased to 7. 10s. per cent., Oct. 10.

The NET PRODUCE of the Revenue in Ireland for the year ending January 5, 1851, was--Customs, 1,827,2891.; Excise, 1,312,1237.; Stamps, 462,6921.; Post Office, nothing, the income having fallen short of the expenditure by 43,6477., which was made good by the Post Office of Great Britain; Miscellaneous, 492,5491.;--Total, 4,094,6531. The total Expenditure in the same period was 4,499,7521.

DUCHY OF LANCASTER.-The total income for the year ending Michaelmas 1850, amounted to 37,1241. The items consist chiefly of rents for lands or manorial rights and privileges. The chief items of expenditure are for salaries and allowances to the officers of the duchy (including law-officers), 7,345l.; to receivers and agents for collection of rents, 1951.; to stewards and bailiffs, &c., 3811.; retired allowances, 8487.; donations and charities, 1,2507.; law charges, 1,519.; surveys, repairs, and improvements, 1,5571.; labourers' wages, rents, insurances, audit expenses, stationery, &c., 3,772.; purchase of stock, 1,6737.; payment to her Majesty's Privy Purse, 12,000l.

DUCHY OF CORNWALL.--The total income for the year 1850 was 60,0521. The payment to the Prince of Wales's use was 38,6757.; the salaries and retired allowances to officers were 8,7521.

PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX.-The amount of property assessed under schedule A at the following periods, was:

Under schedules D and E there were, in the year ending April 5,

1849, the following persons assessed :

50,000 and above

19

The amount collected under schedule A was 2,656,7967.; under sche

dule D 1,529,398/.; under schedule E 348,4597.

5,605,5327.

The total amount was

WINDOW DUTY.--The amount of duty received from this source in the year ended April 5, 1850, was 1,832,6847. The number of houses

charged was 489,034.

II.--Currency.

STATEMENT of the AFFAIRS of the BANK of ENGLAND, from the Weekly Returns of the undermentioned dates in 1850 and 1851.

14,553,000 14,553,000 14,553,000 14,553,000 14,553,000 3,111,393 3,273,872 3,139,966 3,192,194 3,147,472 6,594,381 7,617,014 6,017,417 4,319,348 5,396,169 9,932,226 9,497,519 8,921,477 10,440,830 10,339,401 1,379,907 1,062,436 1,077,668 1,175,054 1,268,108

35,570,907 36,003,841 33,709,528 33,680,426 34,704,150

14,228,901 14,145,696 13,590,988 13,464,021 18,241,768
11,038,486 12,135,618 11,887,695 12,389,725 13,083,883
9,703,145
7,579,520 7,259,180 7,782,265
651,325 565,500 596,234

600,375

9,049,07
673, 5

35,570,907 36,003,841 33,709,528 33,680,426 34,704,150

NOTE CIRCULATION of the UNITED KINGDOM for the Months ending at the following dates 1850 and 1851.

F MINT. In 1850, 150.000l. was advanced from the Consolidated Fund for the purchase of worn silver coin for re-coinage. The amount paid into the Bank in repayment of the advance was 120,000l.