400 = 154 Taxation as affecting the Agricultural Interest. 
Taxed Articles 
Consumed. 
Average 
Consumption 
per Family 
per Annum. 
Eate of Tax. 
Total Taxes. 1 
Tea 
1-1 lbs. 
a. 
0 Ci 
£ 6\ d. 
0 7 0 
Beer 
40 galls. 
0 2 
0 6 S 
Tobacco .. 
51 lbs. 
3 3 
t 
0 17 0 
Total family taxation .. .. 1 10 8 
Spirits in no case appears as a sufficiently large item in thea' 
returns materially to affect the calculation, and coffee has to 
limited a consumption to be included in it. These figures sho* 
an average burden of no more than 3 J per cent, expended by th 
rural labourer in taxes on consumption, and practically thes 
taxes alone affect him. This payment is only one-half of tha 
attributed to the wage-earning classes generally, and no mor 
than 5s. 5fZ. per head per annum. It is here worth}- of note, th? 
when Mr. Baxter wrote, the average charge upon these familic 
exceeded 21. each. A reduction of one-fourth of their tofc 
taxation has thus apparently been effected in the last ten yeai 
by the abolition of duties then existing, especially that on suga 
It mav be interesting to contrast with this estimate one shov 
ing the ordinary taxes on consumption paid by urban workmei 
Based, like the above statement, on some of the data of M 
Baxter's returns, the following figures represent an average of tl 
expenditure on taxed commodities by eleven families in Yorl 
shire, and in the north, south, and east of London, the trad 
pursued being those of carpenters, shoemakers, ironworkers, &( 
the numbers in family about equal to those already given, ar 
the average familv income 68/. — 
Taxed Articles 
Consumed. 
Averase 
Consumption 
per Family. 
Rate of Tax.. 
Total Taxes. 
Tea 
19 lbs. 
)■■. 
0 
d. 
G 
£ «. d. 
0 10 (J 
Coffee .. ,. 
7 lbs. 
0 
2 
0 12 
Tobacco .. 
GJ lbs. 
3 
3 
112 
Beer 
86 galls. 
0 
2 
0 14 4 
Spirits . . 
IJ gall. 
7 
9 
0 11 8 
Total foiuily taxation 
2 18 10 
