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facturing purposes. The total amount received for water rate by the 

 Metropolitan Water Companies is about 1,400,000L a year, which gives a 

 proportion of 7s. 3d. per head. Assuming only 5s. per head on 20,000,000 

 of urban population the expenditure would be 5,000,000Z., or 4,000, OOOZ. 

 net, or in the proportion of 0-09d. as the gross, and 0-07d. as the net ex- 

 penditure per day per head. 



Total House Expenditure. 



The_ total expenditure connected with the dwelling-houses of the 

 population would appear to be as follows : — 



House-rent 



Furniture 



Coal . 



Gas 



AV^ater . , 



Gross Expenditure 

 £ 

 77,000,000 

 11,000,000 

 15,000,000 

 13,700,000 

 5,000,000 



Net Expenditure 



£ 



72,500,000 



9,000,000 



12,000,000 



11,000,000 



4,000,000 



£108,500,000 



£121,700,000 



The proportion being 2 -2 7c?. per head per day among the whole popu- 

 lation as the gross expenditure, and 2-Oltl. as the net, viz.: — 



House-rent 

 Furniture . 

 Coal . 

 Gas . 

 AVater 



Gross 

 d. 



1-44 

 0-20 

 029 

 0-25 

 009 



2-27(1. 



Net 

 d. 

 1-36 

 016 

 0-22 

 0-20 

 007 



2-Old. 



Tobacco. 



Another branch of expenditure is tobacco, extensively consumed and 

 highly taxed. In the year ended March 31, 1880, the quantity of tobacco 

 entered for home consumption was, unmanufactured, 48,191,000 lbs. ; 

 manufactured cigars, 1,1.50,000 lbs. ; other sorts, 1.53,000 lbs. ; valued at 

 2,877,000Z. ; and the amount of duty was 8,78o,-554Z., making a total of 

 11,661,000Z. Add 20 per cent, to the quantity of unmanufactured tobacco 

 for other ingredients used in the process of manufacture, and calculate 

 the whole at 4s. Od. per lb. for tobacco and 12s. per lb. for foreign manu- 

 facture, and the amount paid will be 13,176,000Z., the proportion being 

 0-24cZ. as the gross, and 0-05d. as the net expenditure per head per day 

 for each individual. 



Education and Church. 



Education, 



_ The expenditure on education is partly of a public and partly of a 

 private character. The income for elementary education in the year 

 1879-80 was, in England and Wales, 5,078,000Z. ; Scotland, 848,000Z. ; 

 and Ireland, 772,000Z. Total, 6,698,0OOZ. This amount, representing the 

 cost of 3,590,000 children in attendance in the three kingdoms, is in the 

 proportion of 11. 17s. per child. Taking the Public Elementary Schools 

 to cover three-fourths of- the" children of school age, there are at least 

 900,000 children not included in the above, which, at 31. per pupil, will 

 give 2,700,000Z. To these there m'ust be added the income of the 

 Grammar and other Endowed Schools, given by the Commissioners at 



