144 SIXTH REPORT — 1836. 



314. Average number daily in the prison, 270; viz. males, 1.57; 

 females, 113. 



Abstract accounts for the year ended 2nd Aug:ust 1836, 



Disbursements £2,627 17 6 



Receipts for work, &c £2,267 17 6 



Balance, being the cost to the public 

 for maintaining and keeping pri- 

 soners, including all salaries, bed 

 and body clothes, washing, furni- 

 ture, working utensils, machinery, 

 repairs on the buildings, keeping the 

 ground in order, and everything 

 else connected with the internal 

 management of the establishment. . 360 



2,627 17 6 



The deficiency of 360?. when applied to 240, the daily average num- 

 ber of inmates sentenced to labour, shows the expense of each prisoner 

 to be only 1/. 10s. per annum, 2s. 4c?. per month, or nearly Id. per day. 

 In 1828 Dr. Cleland ascertained that from 1st May 1827, to 1st May 

 1 828, there were 1 7,840 bullocks slaughtered in the city and suburbs, and 

 144,900 sheep and lambs. The value of the butcher meat in the above 

 year (details published in the Annalsof Glasgow) was 303,978/. 14s. 5d.; 

 bread, 177,266/. 10s. 8d.; milk, 67,342/. 10s. Total value of meat, bread, 

 and milk, 548,587/. 15s. Id. 



On the comparative Value of the Mineral Productions of Great Britain 

 and the rest of Europe. By John Taylor, F.R.S., S;c. 



A calculation, he said, was made by Mr. C. F. Smidt, in 1829, of the 

 value of the mineral productions of Europe, at continental prices; and, 

 from the accuracy of the statements coming within Mr. Taylor's own 

 knowledge, he was disposed to believe in the others. It should be 

 borne in mind that the continental prices differed greatly from those in 

 England, and, consequently, that the amounts were comparative, and 

 not absolute value. The value of the mineral products of Europe, in- 

 cluding Asiatic Russia, were, — gold and silver, 1,943,000 ; other metals, 

 28,515,000; salts, 7.640,000; combustibles, 18,050,000 ; making in 

 round numbers a total of about 56 millions exclusive of manganese. 

 Now to this amount Great Britain contributed considerably more than 

 one half — viz. 29 millions, in the following proportions : — silver, 28,500; 

 copper, 1,369,000; lead, 769,000; iron, 11,292,000; tin, 536,000; 

 salts, 756,250; vitriol, 33,000; alum, 33,000; coal, 13,900,000. He 

 then gave a sketch of the history of mining in Great Britain, dwelling 

 strongly on its vast increase since the introduction of the steam-engine. 



The following is Mr. Taylor's estimate of the quantity of lead raised 

 in Great Britain in the year 1835. 



Northumberland, Mines of Tons. 



Cumberland, and T. W. Beaumont, Esq. .. 9,500 Fodders 10,000 

 Durham, Manor of Alston, Green- ) 14,139Bingsof 



wich Hospital J Ore, producing 3,850 



