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Comparative View of Oil and Coal Gas, [May, 



Table of the Prices at which Gas is charged per 1000 Feet, calcu- 

 latedfrom the Rates of various Places, taking the large Argand 

 Burner until 10 o'Clock as the Standard, and reckoning the 

 Consumption of Gas at Jive Cubic Feet per Hour for such 

 Burner, and the Number of Hours in one Year to be 1 100, or 

 3^, on the Average for 313 Dai/s. 



Leeds . . . . 

 Edinburgh 

 Newcastle 



Bath 



Worcester 

 Chorley . . . 

 Preston . . . 

 London . . . 

 Liverpool . 

 Bristol . . . . 

 Chester . . 

 Oxford . . . 



Annual charge. 



Cube feet consumed 

 in a year. 



^ s. 

 4 



4 

 4 

 10 

 12 

 14 

 14 

 16 

 16 

 16 

 16 

 12 



d. 

 



S} 





 



i} 



U 



o) 







5600 



RateperlOOa 

 cube feet. 



£ s~. 

 14 6 



15 3 



16 4 

 16 8 



17 2 



17 5 



1 4 



The average charge for 1000 cube feet of the 12 towns is I65. lOd, 



P.S. — Since writing the above, I have been successful in 

 obtaining a Sheffield rate card. Calculating on the same scale as 

 the others have been done, I find the cost of gas is 175. per 1000 

 cube feet instead of 12^. as stated by your correspondent. The 

 highest discount which they allowed is 20 per cent, on large 

 payments : this, taking the medium, would average the gas at 

 Ids. '2d. instead of lOs. 6d.: the quantity sold by the meter at any 

 of the works is so small, I understand, that no calculation can 

 be made from that mode of charging. The difficulty which my 

 friends have had in procuring me the rate cards has made me 

 'so late in transmitting this paper to you ; and this last, of Shef- 

 field, the most important of sdl, I have only obtained this morn- 

 'ng. \ am aware that the time of your receiving communications 

 has elapsed ; I cannot any longer encroach upon your indul- 

 gence ; and instead of rewriting the paper altogether, which I 

 should not be able to do for this month's insertion, I must 

 request you will insert this as a postscript. Although I enter- 

 tained some very considerable doubts of your correspondent's 

 correctness, I did not like to express them till I had satisfactory- 

 proofs instead of mere surmise ; these are furnished by the rate 

 table before me ; and the charge which your correspondent 



