2l6
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 : —
