REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
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The following table shows the total amount of the estimated and actual expenditure for the last sixteen years, with the difference between the calculated and real expenses, and the proportion of actual payments per head of population of the United King- dom : —
Years ended
Expenditure
Proportion
of
expenditure
per head of
population
of the
United
Kingdom
Estimated
Actual pay-
More ( + )
in the
ments out of
or less ( — )
Budgets
the Exchequer
than Budget
Net amounts
£
£
£
& s. d.
March 31, 1855
63,039,000
65,692,962
653,962
2 7 6
1856
1857
86,034,000
88,428,345
+ 2,394,345
3 3 7
2 14 4
Gross amounts
81.113,000
75,588,667
-5,524,333
1858
65,434,000
68,128.859
+ 2,694,859
2 8 3
1859
63,610,000
64,663,882
+ 1,053,882
2 6 3
1860
69,207,000
69,502,289
+ 295,289
2 9 10
1861
73.534,000
72,792,059
- 741,941
2 8 11
1862
69,875,000
71,116.485
+ 1.241,485
2 8 3
1863
70,040,000
69,302. (ins
- 737,992
2 8 4
1864
68,283,000
67,056,286
-1,226,714
2 7 9
1865
67,249,000
66,462,206
- 786,794
2 7 7
„ 1866
67,349,000
65,914,357
-1,434,643
2 5 7
1867
67,031,000
66,780,396
+ 250,604
2 6 5
„ 1868
71,287,000
71,236.242
- 50,758
2 6 2
1869
77,858,000
74,971,816
-2,885,184
2 7 9
1870
68,498,000
68,864,752
+ 366,752
2 9 3
The expenditure for 1859-60 included 858,057/. for military ope- rations in China, not provided for in the budget estimates ; and the expenditure for the seven years 1860-67 was irrespective of the amount paid for fortifications, provided for by annuities, under the Acts 23, 24, 25, and 26 Vict., and not estimated in the budget. The expenditure for the financial periods 1868 and 1869 included supplemental votes for the Abyssinian expedition to the amount of 5.600.000/., and of other services to the amount of 1,268,000/. — being a total of 6,868,000/. extraordinary disbursements.
It will be seen from the above tables that, as regards the ten last •financial periods, in each of the two years ending March 31, 1861 and 1862 respectively, there was a deficiency of revenue, the amount of such deficiency being 2,508,385/. in 1861, and 1,442,006/. in 1862, and that in each of the five subsequent years there was a large surplus — viz. 1,301,553/. in 1863, 3,152,678/. in 1864,
