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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
expenditure on English, Scottish, and Irish services met out of such revenue :
Excliequer Revenue :— Customs Exiise
Ksiate, &c. duties .Stamps
Land tax and house duty Income tax
Total from taxes
Post office Telegraphs Crown lands Interest, &c. Miscellaneous
Total non-tax revenue
Total
Local taxation revenue : — Customs Excise Estate, &c. duties
Total
Grand total
Expenditure : — From Exchequer revenue Debt, Army, Navy. Civil government . Collection of taxes . Post Office Coinage .
Total . From local taxation rev.
Grand total
Imperial
140,000 33,000
784,000 718,500
1,452,500
1,863,500
r2,000
r2,000
1,935,500
65,395,000 3,458,000
597,000 250,000
69,700,000
69,700,000
England Scotland
£
17,289,000
21,437,000
0,818,000
6,658,000
2,355,000
14,532,000
'2,089,000
10,360,000
2,563,000
387,000
805,000
14,115,000
86,204,000 10,923,500
£
2,146,000
3,882,000
852,000
602,000
135,000
1,714,000
9,331,000
1,187,000
303,000
21,000
81,500
1,592,500
Ireland
£
2,357,000
3,004,000
376,000
305,000
687,000
6,729,000
660,000
164,000
35,000
111,500
171,000 4,283,000 3,533,000
7,987,000
94,191,000
12,928,500 2,137,C00 8,945,000
24,010,500 7,911,000
20,000 540,000 391,000
951,000
11,874,500
2,078,000
367,000
1,157,000
3,602,000 980,000
31,921,500
4,582,000
970,500 ,699,500
17,000 132,000 266,000
415,000
8,114,500
4,516,500 241,000 866,000
5,623,500 511,000
Total
£
21,792,000 28,323,000 11,186,000 7,598,000 2,490,000 17,171,000
88,560,000
12,207,000
3,030,000
443,000
734,000
1,716,500
18,120,500
106,690,500
208,000 4,955,000 4,262,000
9,425,000
116,115,500
65,395,000
22,981,000
2,745,000
11,565,000
250,000
6,134,500
102,936,000 9,402,000
112,338,000
III. National Debt.
The expenditure on account of National Debt is now nearly six times the amount paid in 1775, at the beginning of the War of Independence of the United States. The total charge for interest and management was then only a little over 4^ millions sterling ; but at the end of the war it had risen to 9^ millions. The twenty-two years' warfare with France, from 1793 to 1815, added 23 millions sterling to the annual charge of the debt, making it over 32i millions, decreased by slightly more than a million in 1817, in the year of consolidation of the English and Irish exchequer. Since this date, the capital of the debt has on the wliole been steadily decreasing, excepting for the years of the Russian war. The annual charge, after increasing to nearly 30 millions in 1883, is now less than in 1857, at the close of that war, by 3,550,039Z. Moreover, the present figure (25,000,000/.) includes a large provision for re- payment of the capital of the debt, amounting in 1897-98 to 7.360,292Z.
The following table exhibits the ^growth of the debt from its origin to the year 1897. Before 1835, however, there was no calculation of the capital
