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[ 1838 - 
sum of £3425 consisted of transfers from the Military 
Chest on account of postage formerly paid for by the loan 
of convict messengers. 
The whole fixed revenue during the three years ending 
with 1838 had increased at the rate of 7 per cent, only ; 
whereas, during the three years under consideration, the 
increase had been from £98,081 to £114,319, or 16 per 
cent.; that is, 4 per cent, above that of the population* 
The total revenue, which had not increased at all for the 
three former years, had during the latter three advanced 
at the rate of 64 per cent., or from £144,562 to £237,381. 
If, however, we deduct, as in fairness we ought to do, 
the balance available from former years from each of 
these sums, we shall have the increase from £127,709 
to £185,803, or at the rate of 45 per cent. One 
reason why the total revenue had increased so much more 
than the fixed or ordinary revenue is, that the amount 
derived from the sale of crown land amounted in 1841 to 
£64,070; whereas in 1838 it only reached £12,281. 
In proceeding to analyse table No. 2, it would appear 
that the expenditure has actually been diminished under 
the heads of the Civil, Judicial, and Police Establish¬ 
ments ; that a slight increase has taken place under the 
heads of the Ecclesiastical Establishment and Schools, 
absolutely called for by the extended wants of the inha¬ 
bitants ; and that the principal increase has been made 
under the head of Miscellaneous, which embraces the 
expenses chargeable on the Land Fund. In again com¬ 
paring the progress of the two periods, we shall see that 
the result is equally in favour of the latter. In the 
former, the expenditure had advanced at the rate of 29 
per cent., in the latter at only 20; although, as it has 
been above observed, the revenue had increased at the 
astonishing rate of 64 per cent, in the same three years. 
From the information furnished me for 1842, I find that 
