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Divided thus:
Tons.
Wrought and unwrought . . 1,059,608
Hardware and cutlery, do. . . 402,993
1,462,601
Wrought and unwrought, home use 1,059,608 at £958 = £10,151,544
Hardware and cutlery . . 302,192 at 1,136 45,780,000
Total home consumption .... 55,931,544
Total value exported . . £'7,60'7,'760
Of which to British possessions . 1,236,522
1,236,522
Leaves for foreign parts . .6,371,238
British consumption ... . ... 57,168,066
Add foreign .... . . ... 6,371,238
Value of iron trade, 1847 63,539,304
REMARKS.
The whole material is the produce of the British soil and British labor. Besides persons immediately employed in the greater branches of the manufacture (47,554 are engaged in mining), 323,681 individuals in Great Britain are engaged in different trades of which iron is the staple.
The export to the home consumption is only about one tenth. In 1846, 147 tons iron were manufactured into 300,000,000 steel pens, which, at the value of one eighth of a penny each, would amount to £166,250.
PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OF GREAT BRITAIN.
A parliamentary return has been printed, showing the public income and expenditure, the taxes imposed, repealed, or reduced, and the imports and exports, from 1822 down to 1850, both inclusive. It appears that in 1822 the revenue paid into the exchequer was £54,135,143, and the expenditures amounted to £49,891,225, leaving a surplus of £4,744,518. In 1826 the revenue was £50,241,408, and the expenditure £50,887,328, leaving a deficiency of £645,920. In 1827 there was a deficiency of £826,675; in 1831, of £698,858; in 1837, of £655,760; in 1838, £345,227; in 1839, of £1,512,793; in 1840, of £1,593,971; in 1841, of £2,101,370; and in 1842, of £3,979,539. In 1843 there was a surplus of £1,443,604; in 1844, a surplus of £3,356,105; in 1845, of £3,817,642; in 1846, of £2,846,308. In 1847 there
