The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

STATISTICS.

Tax llsittvxv.—An average day's work of the rail
ways of the United Kingdom in 1861 was, to carry
500,000 passengers, 288,000 tone of niinerale end mer-
chandise, 85,000 live stock, 1,100 clogs, and 740 horses.
The precise number of the travellers of the year cannot
be stated, because there is no record of the journeys of
season ticket-holders ; but it must have been more than
six times the number of the population of the United
Kingdom. The train', passenger and goods trains
added together, travelled 2,897,748 miles more in-1861
than in 1860, which is equivalent to going round the
world 116 times more last year than in the year
before. 3,881,990 trains ran in the course of the year;
that is to say, upwards of 10,600 a day, or more in a
day than seven times the number of minutes in the day.
If the trains had been equally distributed, running
night and day without ceasing, they would have
travelled among them 200 miles in every minute. The
length of the line open increased by 436 miles, and
become 10.869 miles; and the gross receipts of the
year £28,565,355, oonsiderahly exceeded the interest
of the national debt, and amounted to about Fi per cent.
on the capital. The total raised by shares and loans
increased from 348,140,127. at the end of 1860, to
£362,327,338, an increase of morn than£l4,ooo,ooolo the
year. The working expenditure rose to above 48 per
cent., and the net receipts only increased by about
£130,000, or lees than one per cent, on the interest of
capital. The net receipts were rather over four per
eent, on the capital. 284 persons were killed upon
railways in *nurse of the year, end 883 Injured, but the
amidents to passenger trains in which passengers were
killed or injured were but 43 in number, wining the
death of 46 passengers and injury to 781 wore—one
paasenger killed or injured in about 220,000. In

addition to this 14 aocidente were reported to the
Board of Trade in which no passenger was injured, and
20 passengers were killed through getting into or out of
lining' in motion, and 13 more through their own nets-
oonduct °vivant of caution. The number of passengers
killed orlniered, not through such rashnees, but from
mimes beyond Voir own control, was—in 1858,445 ; in
1859, 381; fir 130 609 ;in 1861, 827. In the latter
year the SU& df t 136,062, was paid as compensation for
personal injury. 128 servants of the companies, or of
chntrietors, were killed% Me year, 57 trespaiaers, and
'IF; persona frossing at levsl °roaming",
'NATIONAL DEBT.—The Itational debt of Great Britain
41,918,000,000 dollars. or 13355 doPare per head. The
interest and management amount to 128,000,000
dollars, or 436 dollars pee head. The national debt of
France is 2,206,000,000d0115re,0r 61'28 dollars per head,
and the Intermit 3-06 dollars per head. The national debt
of the United States is 5134,000,000 dollars, or 21'37 dollars
per head, and the interest 21,000,030 dollars, or 90
cents, per head. Aciording to i 'resent increase the
debt in July next will be 6213.000,111 dollars, or 27'22
dollars per head; and the Interest 112 dollars. From
1775 to 1783 the national debt of Great Britain increased
510,600,000 dollar.; from 1793 to 1(02, 1,409,000,000
dollar.; from 1811 to 1815, 889,000,000 dollars. In
1813, 398,000,000 dollars were added to the debt; and
daring the twenty-two year.' from 1793 to 1815,
2,988,000,000 dollars were added. During forty succes-
sive years the national debt of Great Britain increased
at the rate of 135,1500,000 dollars per annum. During
the last sixteen months the national debt of the United
States has been increasing at the rate of 333,000,000
dollars per annum.

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