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GREAT BRITAIN" AND IRELAND. 



The receipts and expenditures from 1874 to 

 1880 were as follows : 



The revenue for the year ending March 31, 

 1880, was as follows : 



3. Civil service : 



Public works . 



Public departments 



Administration of Justice, Police, etc 



Public Instruction, Art, Science 



Foreign Affairs 



Pensions, charity, etc 



Miscellaneous 



4. Army and Navy : 



Army services 



Army services charged on account of troops 



in India 



Expedition to Abyssinia 



War in South Africa 



Navy services 



5. Charges on the revenue : 



Customs 



Inland revenue 



Post-Office 



1,306,109 



2,207,192 



5,837,817 



8,995,298 



627,185 



1,237,861 



S3,134 



15,645,867 



1,115,050 

 634 



3,244,920 

 10,416,132 



973,842 

 1,810,475 

 8,333,000 



The expenditures were as follows : 



1. Payments out of the Exchequer for services 

 charged on the consolidated fund : 



Interest and management of debt 21,504,831 



5,717,471 

 127,134 

 651,064 

 562,919 



199,955 



Terminable annuities. , 



Interest of Exchequer bills 



New sinking fund 



Interest on loans by Bank of England. .... 



Interest and principal of Exchequer bonds 



(Suez) 



2. Other charges on the consolidated fund : 



Civil list 



Annuities 



Pensions 



Salaries, 



Courts of justice 



Miscellaneous expenses 



407,463 

 159.168 

 155,392 



158,447 



In 1775 the total charge for interest and 

 management of the debt was less than 4 mil- 

 lions sterling, but at the end of the war it had 

 risen to 9| millions. The twenty years' war- 

 fare with France, from 1793 to 1814, added 

 nearly 23,000,000 sterling to the annual 

 charge, which had risen to 32,000,000 in 

 1817, the year of the consolidation of the. Eng- 

 lish and Irish Exchequer. Since that date, the 

 capital, and the annual charge for its interest 

 and management, has steadily decreased. 



The imports and exports of merchandise from 

 1875 to 1879 were as follows : 





