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,