GROSS RECEIPTS FROM CUSTOMS AND EXCISE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1871. Rents, £ s. d. 12,490 8 1 6,644 1 10 CUSTOMS DUTIES.-continued. 413 0 0 13,723 7 7 7,486 15 11 17,277 14 7 £22,575,463 13 5 £2,336,583 18 9 Net Produce. . . . £20,238,879 14 8 501,531 16 8 Chicory 46,564 7 2 Licenses 3,237,545 18 9 Malt 6,663,227 18 8 Race Horses 9,189 19 0 506,422 14 91 11,923,304 14 21 103,359 10 71 £23,521,915 1 7 17,113 11 1 369 17 31 11,112 0 21 GROSS RECEIPTS FROM STAMPS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED THE 31ST MARCH, 1871: GROSS RECEIPTS FROM TAXES IN THE payments into the Exchequer for the financial year 1870-71 were, for Excise £1,128,000, and for Stamps £418,000 in excess of the estimate. The Income Tax realized the exact amount estimated, £6,300,000. An increase of £100,000 in the Probate Duties was chiefly owing to two large payments of £46,500 and £25,500 for properties valued respectively at £3,200,000 and £1,800,000. NATIONAL DEBT.-The following table shows the annual charge on the total amount of the Unredeemed Funded Debt for the Financial Year ended the 31st of March, 1871: Annual Charges. £ s. d. 9,000 0 0 1,533 14 101 553,887 0 0 3,799 4 6 13,328 0 0 48,128 7 0 282 18 6 662,246 8 01 £25,947,648 18 9 The following statement gives the summary of the charges on account of the National Debt for the financial year ended the 31st March, 1871 : : PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Jan. 10. Right Hon. W. Monsell; to be Postmaster General. 17. Vice Chancellor Bacon, John Maclean; Knights. Hon. C. G. Cornwallis Eliot; Groom of the Chamber to Her Majesty. Rev. B. M. Cowie; Chaplain to Her Majesty. 20. Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue; President of the Board of Trade. - 27. Lord Aveland; Deputy Chamberlain of England. E. A. C. Schalch; Attorney-General of Jamaica. 31. James Sant, R.A.; Principal Painter to Her Majesty. Feb. 3. Sir T. E. May; Under Clerk of the Parliaments. Rev. J. M. Hawker; Prebend and Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral. 7. Rev. R. Payne Smith, D.D.; Dean of Canterbury. R. F. D. Palgrave; Clerk Assistant to the House of Commons. A. J. S. Milman; Second Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons. Her Majesty. Lieutenant-Colonel C. Herbert; Consul General at Bagdad. 24. The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen ; First Lord of the Admiralty. Hon. A. H. Gordon (Governor of Mauritius), Sir R. G. McDonnell (Governor of Hong Kong); Knights Commanders of St. Michael and St. George. A. Musgrave (Governor of British Columbia), J. R. Longden (Governor of Trinidad), G. Eliott, J. H. Gray; Companions of St. Michael and St. George. The Rev. J. B. Lightfoot, D.D.; Canon of St. Paul's. March 10. The Right Hon. J. Stansfeld; Poor Law Commissioner for England. 14. Col. Sir G. J. Wolseley; C.B. Military Division. 21. Sir W. Henry Bulwer; Baron Dalling, of Dalling, co. Norfolk. Sir William R. Mansfield; Baron Sandhurst, of Sandhurst, co. Berks. James Fleming; Chancellor of the County Palatine of Durham. 24. Sir J. M. Macleod, Sir J. Stuart; Privy Councillors. W. Bailey, W. E. Currey; Inspectors of Schools in England. A. Ogilvy Barrie, Inspector of Schools in Scotland. 28. W. Boxall, R.A., George Elvey, W. Sterndale Bennett, Julius Benedict ; Knights. 31. Victor Biddulph; Page of Honour to Her Majesty. Horace Rumbold; Secretary to the Embassy at Constantinople. F. Clare Ford; Secretary to the Embassy at St. Petersburg. H. P. Turner Barron; Secretary to the Legation at Brussels. April 11. The Marquess of Normanby; Governor of Queensland. Major-Gen. Lefroy; Governor of the Bermudas. |