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1863 to £172,357-or on an average of those four years to
£194,400. Taking the last year, the s ton derived from rents
and quit rents alone amounted to £ 104,401 "103 5d ; from
fines on the renewal of leases, £2,929 is 8d; Strom markets,
£14,696 -18 s lld ; and from duties, £1 '6,250 12s. The re-
mainder of the receipts was chiefly m. sde tip of bequests,
£145 13s;4d ; brokers' rents and fines, £4,906; justiciary
foes, £1,248 lOs 10d ; interest cn Gove tz merit securities,
£4,181 6s 104 ; reimbursements on acctet int of prisons,
£4,877 Ils 10d ; and of criminal prosecut ions, £3,529 88
sd; officers' surplus fees and profits, £8,324 17s 3d; sundry
items, £2,825 Is 41d. Leadenhall-market y. ielded £3,078 2s
id ; Newgate, £4,50016s lld ; Farringdon, £1,030 17s 7d ;
Smithfield £252 Ils Bd, and Billingsgate £5,831 lOs 2d.
From the metage of corn £13,709 Ils 4d was received, from
the groundage of corn £143 8s 25, and from the metage of
fruit £1,995 7s 3d. On the expenditure side of the account
the charges on the Corporation estates in resp,act of collec-
tion and management, and including not charges, rates,
and other obligations, amounted to £8,169 10s 3 5, on markets
£1,860 14s 45, on duties to £1,358 2s 2d, and on brokers'
rents and fines to £lOl 4s 11d. The expenses in respect of
the Metropolitan Cattle Market were £5,787 Its lle-of the
magistracy £G,702-the police, 12,942-the various prisons,
£17,980-the administration of criminal justice, £9,440 19a
-the offioe of Coroner, £1,260 13,-tho civil government,
£24 413 176-the improvement of Guildhall, £2,820--chari •
table tmnacions, pensions, and honorary rewards, £5,374 58
-education, £1,250 15,-sculpture for the Mansion-house,
£1,650-rniscellaneous subjects, £8,306 10s-tha city library,
£7lO lOs 6d-the new Pauper Lunacy Asylum, L 20,963 12 4
-the reception of the Princess Alexandra, £23,644 14s-tlis
present to her Royal Highness, £ i 0,000-and the entertain-
ment to the Prince and Princess of Wales, £16,690-mak-,
ing the whole expenditure during the year £193,498 is 2d
leaving a balance in hand of £13,283 12s Bd. The Corpora-
tion, besides, is intrusted with the management of various
trust funds for public objects, one of .the most important of
which is that raised by the coal duties, which until lately
formed part of the ordinary revenue of the Corporation,
but which are now applicable to certain specific purposes
under the operation of Acts of Parliament. The duty
of 4d a ton on coals yielded last year in gross £84,019
13s 4d. For some years past the principal charge on it has
been the interest on loans to the amount of £540,000,
borrowed for the Cannon-street improvements. The interest
last year amounted to £19,493 14s Bd, and £40,708 of the
fund was expended in meeting bonds falling due within the
year. From 1872 to 1882 the fund will be applied, under
express legislation, to defruy tha mat of rniginp: Ilolborn
Valley. It remains applicable until 1872 to the liquidation
of the debt in respect of the Cannon-street improvements.
Again, the ninepenny coal duty yielded last year a gross
sum of £191,069, less a drawback of £22,135, and the duty
on wine £10,262. Of thls joint fund £175,868 odd was paid.

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within the year to the credit of the Lords of the Treasury
pursuant to Act of Parliament, to the account of the Tham es
Embankment and Metropolis Improvement Fund, to whi,cl2
it is now chiefly applicable. The Bridge-house estat
realized within the year £39,471, of which £24,747 odd
was applied towards liquidating the cost of rebuilding L 3n-
don-bridge and of the repairs of that of Blackfriars, 'The
cost of the new bridge at Blackfriars and of the tempo rary
structure there will be borne by the Bridge-house est ates,
the annual rental of which amounts to about £40,000.
It is but fair to add that nearly all the excessive expendi-
ture by the Corporation of late has been dictated by publio
spirit and with the view to public improvements, and that
the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, while deprecating
excess in this direction, have invariably said the general
condition of the corporate revenues was on the whole satis-
factory.