1821.] [ 573 ] 



METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 



Resulting from daily observations made on, the southern vet ge oj the Metropolis, from 

 May 24, to Jane Zi, 1S21. 



Barometer 

 Thermom. 



Maxi 

 mum 



30-32 



Days. 



30 May 

 t5 June. 



NE. 



W. 



Mini- 

 Ill um. 



29-58 



34 



Days. 



8 June 

 1 1 June 



NE. 



30-04 

 Day I Night 

 61-2" 43-4° 



Range 



38° 



Greateit 

 Varia- 

 tion in 

 ii hourc 



0-32 



28° 



Days. 



8 Juue 

 HJune 



Number of dn} s ? 

 occujiied by eacli ^ 



Prevailing Wiu.ls. 

 N. NE. E. SE. S. SW. W. NW. 

 1 16 2 2 2 4 4 3 



The total qunntily of rain 1-97 inch 



Character of the Clouds. 



Numberof (layson whiclipadi^ Cirrus. Cirro-stratus. Cirro-cumulus. Cumulu"!, Cumulo-stratus. Nimbus, 

 descrijition lias occurred. ) 8 10 6 ]2 19 9 



The low temperature of the month be- three days, with nearly conlinual, and oiwi- 



comes more marked since the last register ; 

 from the 27th of May (the wind .shifting be- 

 tv-eeu NE. aud SE.) u p^radual ri.?e of ther- 

 mometer. On June 1st, the wind came to 

 S. with a temperature of 70\ This improve- 

 ment remained with liitle variation or decline, 

 till the fetb, the maximum 72°, being on the 

 5th ; the wind, now W., remained so during 



sionally heavT, rain ; from this time, the 

 wind traversing by W. during four or five 

 days, with daily rain, settled in NE.on the 

 nth, where it has remained with little varia- 

 tion, the highest temperature of the day being 

 reduced, on the average of the remaining pe- 

 riod of the register, 12° from the maximum. 



POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN MAY. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



ON the 1st of Juue, the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer stated the Bud- 

 get of the year : — 



He observed that the house had already 

 sanctioned estimates for the army amount- 

 ing to 8,750,0001.: in the last year they 

 were 9,443,0001. The estimates for the 

 NAVY this year were 6,176,7001., and were 

 last year 6,586,6951. The estimates for 

 the Ordnance in the present year were 

 1,195,1001., and last year they amounted to 

 1,199,6501. The estimates for miscella- 

 neous SERVICES amounted to 1,900,0001., 

 while in the last they had risen to 2,444,1001. 

 The total amount, therefore, for the differ- 

 ent services tliis year was 18,0'21,8001. 

 and for those of the last had been 19,673,6881 . 

 It was, therefore, obvious that if the house 

 should give its sanction to the full extent 

 of the estimates proposed this year, a re- 

 duction of expenditure would be effected 

 to the amount of 1,631,8881. The sum of 

 1,000,0001. had been taken for interest on 

 exchequer bills both iu 1820 and 1R21. 

 The sinking fund on exchequer bills this 

 year had been 290,000l., and last year 

 410,0001.; so that the who'e expenditure 

 was 19,311,8001. for 1821, and 21,083,6881. 

 for 1820, being an entire saving not much 

 uhort of 1,800,0001. The ways and means 

 were the gi-ant of the annual taxes, and 

 credit had been taken upon them to the 

 extent of four, instead of three, millions. 

 In the present year he also proposed to take 

 a credit of 1,. 500,0001. on the temporary 



Monthly Mao. No. 335. 



excise duties granted during the war, in- 

 stead of 2,500,0001. taken in the preceding 

 year*. The amount taken altogether was 

 5,500,0001. as in the last year. The pro- 

 duce of the Lottery he calculated at 

 200,0001. The accounts upon old stores 

 shewed that ministers were entitled to take 

 credit to the amount of 163,4001. Last year 

 they had produced 260,0001. The next 

 item was the probable surplus of the pe- 

 cuniary indemnity payable by France under 

 the treaty of peace, amounting to 300,0001. 

 and which was applicable to the public 

 service. The next was the re-payment of 

 exchequer bills, advanced for the execution 

 of public works under the act of 1819. In 

 the last year it bad been 198,0001, and in 

 the present year it appeared that the re- 

 payments were likely to amount to 125,0001. 

 The only remaining item furnished by the 

 resources of the present year, independent 

 of a loan, was the surplus of the ways and 

 means for 1820, the amount of which was 

 81,6301. The total, therefore, of what 

 what migiit be called the ready money pro- 

 duce of the resources of the year was 

 6,570,0301. To make this sum 20,018,2001. 

 the amount of the expenditure, it had been 

 necessary to contract a loan from the sink- 

 ing fund of 13,000,0001.; 12,500,0001. for 

 England, and 500,0001. for Ireland. The 

 totalamount of supply had been 18,021,8t)01. 

 and interest of Exchequer bills 1,290,0001., 

 making together 19,311,8001. To this sum 

 was to be added 500,0001. Irish Ti-easury 

 bills, which would be paid off, aud 206,4001. 

 4C due 



