The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-07 00:00:00

PUBLIC INCOME AND BIPILVDITTIRE.

This morning was issued, in the form of a return
to parliament, "en aroma of the gran public income and
expenditure in the year ended the 30th Sept., 1867, toistier
with the balance In the Exchequer et the ocanneencement
end at the termination of the year, and the amount of funded
and unfunded debt created or redeemed in the said
The income of the year,
mounting to 71,178,0321. 2a. 4c1.,
was derived from the following sorrow, vie. :-Cnetome,
23,108,5101. b. Bd.; E noir, 17,519,0001. ; stamps, 7,340,2281.
10s. 6d. ; taxes (lend and areased), 3,099,0201. de. 9d. ;
property tax, 15,753,0231. ss. sd. ; Part.offiee, 2,980,0001. ;
crown bulb, 277,6641. 44. ld. Ificallaneons:-Produee of
the sale of old area and other extra receipts, 691,1561.
12.. 44.; money received from the East India Company,
60,0001. ; miscellaneous receipts, including impreat and other
moneys, 408,9401. 16.. Id.; unclaimed dividends received,
87,1341. 6s. 7d. On the other band, the expenditure
was 70,694,3251. 19a, thereby showing en excess
of income over expenditure for the year of 484,3361.
3a. 4d. The Items comprising the expenditure are
as follows Integer sad management of • permanent
debt, 23,633,7961. lls. ltd.; unclaimed dividends paid,
90,4451. Ils. 64.; terminable annuities, 3,978,1311. Bs. Bd.;
interest of Exchequer Bonds, 1854 and 1855, 245,0001.; in-
terest of Exchequer Bills, supply, 778,8101.6 a. Bd. Charges
on ooesolidated fund: Civil list, 401,3811. 2s. 3d.; annuities
end prior, 338,082.. 14e. 24.; salaries and allowances,
157,7871. 16.. 44.; diplomatic salaries and pardons,
153,0071. 19a. 10d. ; courts of justice, 657,8411. 16e. ; miscel-
laneous charges on the consolidated fund, 180,4791.45. 4d.;
compensation to the King of Denmark for abolition of the
&and Dues, 1,125,2061. Supply services: Army,
14,336,5561. 15s. 6d. ; navy, 10,666,0001.; Persian expedi-
tion, 900,0001.; rolsoellaneons civil services, 6,848,3161.6e.84.
salaries, &a of revenue &pertinent", 4,394,4821.6.. 2d. ; for
redemption of Exchequer Bonds, 2,000,0001. The acconnt
of the balances shows that on the 30th Sept. 1854, there was
a balance of 6,169,2791. 9s. 4d. in the English exchequer,
and 916,4831. 16e. 24. in Ireland. No money was raised in
the year on account of the funded debt, but 21,695,8001. was
relied on Exchequer Bills. From the other side it ap•
peers that the trues of the year Irmo as fol-
low.:-Interest on donations and bowman 20,8971. 10a. 9d. ;
redemption of hereditary pensions, 91,1811. 17s. 74. ; to the
Feminist-General, in Exchequer bills, to exchange supply
bills, 20,695,8001. ; to the Paymeater-General, in money,
out of ways end means grants to pay off supply tills,
348,7001. advances for Local work.% /cc., under various acts
of Parliament, including loan to Sardinia, of 500,0001.-
1,596,869/. 94. ; lees repayments of ditto, 1,451,6851. 24.34.
The balances in the Exchequer on the 30th September, 1857,
were 6,810,8671.2 a. 64. in England, and 1,152,1481. 13..
in Ireland.

METROPOLITAN ELECTORS.—A return we, issuea
this morning showing the number of electors in each of the
metropolitan boroughs and the City of Westminster on the
Register of 1866, and also the number of houses in each
borough rated to the relief of the poor. The total number of
electors in the various boroughs is as follows:—In Finsbury,
20,626; In Greenwich, 7,888; in Lambeth, 20,012; in
Marylebone, 20,851; in Southwark, 10,170; to the Tower
Hamlets, 27,980; in Westminster, 13,182; tasking
a gross total of 120,709 electors. The total num-
ber of houses rated as aforesaid is —ln Fins-
bury, 39,801; in Getenwhich, 20,306: in Lambeth,
47,266; in St. Idaryleboes, 43,883; in Southwark, 26,644;
in the Tower Hamlets, 88,327; and in Weetzeinster,
26,646 ; making the total number of houses 291,862.
SEAMEN IN WORKTIOESES.—A return one issued
this morning, showing the number of seamen at the pseud
data who are inmates of the se►eal poor-law onions or
workhouses in England, and also of those who are in receipt
of out-door relief from the ruse, together with the weekly
cost of their maintenance. It appears that the total number
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a: seeress in England who are In the workhouses is 671, at
an average weekly nest of 31. 611.; while the number of
seamen receiving out-door radii 851.
THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL...--DONA-
TION PROW Till Parses OP WALLS.—The governor and
committee at this institution have received a communication
from J. R. Gardiner, Esq., the stewardof the Duchy of
Cornwall, from which the following is an extract :—" I have
now to acquaint you, for the information of the society, that
having regard to the charitable objects of the institution, the
council have great pleasure in relieving them from payment
of the sum of 3504. referred to, which they will be enabled
to appropriate u • contribution Gum His Royal Higbee"'
the Prince of Wales, in aid of the object which the society
have in view." A special meeting of the committee was
held at the Mks in Pleet-etreet, on Thursday, the
26th ult., to receive the foregoing intelligence, and the
following resolution was carried unanimously .—Reeolved—
" That the dutiful thank" of this committee be humbly pre-
sented to his Royal Highness the. Prince of Wales for his
munificent donation of 3501. in aid of the fond of enfran-
chising the school estate." It wee farther resolved .—" That
a copy of the above resolution be transmitted to the Council
of the Duchy of Cornwall, accompanied by a letter from the
secretary of the society, conveying the most grateful thanks
of the governor and committee, and explaining the prominent
poeition which his roysl highness will hold at the mining
election of thirty additional children into the school, on Wed-
nesday, the 10th of March next, in being entitled to the un-
precedented number of 9,930 votes."
MEETING OT MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES —At a
meeting of the magistracy of Middlesex, held on Thursday,
at Clerkenwull, Kr. Pownall in the chair, the reports of
various committees were disposed of. The court granted
20,0001. towards, the cost of works of improvement and
enlargement now going on at Criney-hatch Asylum. It
wee resolved that the plans before the court, for the en-
largement of the Howe of Correction, Coldhatit-lids,
whereby ft Is proposed to provide additional sceoluesdation
for 600 primers, be approved, and that the Clerk of the
Peace be directed to transmit the said plans to the esentery
of State for his approval, and that, subject to a calitioate at
such approval being received, the visiting justices of the rid
House of Correction be authorised to carry such plane into
execution at a cost not exceeding 46,6001. The motion wee
carried. A menierad wee presented from the widow of a
warder, named Woedhoue, who wee murdered iu Coldbath-
fields prison 1848, for the oommiesion of which crime a
primmer, semi Hessen, was hawed at Newest'. The
wart granted the peer woman 501., it having been shown
that she was in great Water.