The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-07 00:00:00

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1863 to £172,357-or on an average of those four yes .re to
£194,400. Taking the last year, the sum derived from rents
and quit rents alone amounted to £104,401 10s 5d from_
fines on the renewal of leases, £2,929 4s 8d; from m arkets,
£14,696 18s lid; and from duties, £16,250 12s. 7 :be re- 1
mainder of the receipts was chiefly made up of b 4 :quests,
£145 13s:4d ; brokers' rents and fines, £4,906; jt .sticiary
fees, £1,248 lOs 10d ; interest cn Government securities,
£4,181 Os 103 ; reimbursements on account of prisons,
£4,877 lie 10d ; and of criminal prosecutions, . £3,520 8s
5d ; officers' surplus fees and profits, £8,324 17s 3d ; sundry
items, £2,825 Is 41d. Leadenhall-market yielded £3,078 2s
7d ; Newgate, £4,50016s lid ; Farringdon, £1,03 ") 17s 7d ;
Smithfield £252 lls Bd, and Billingsgate £5,834 lOs 2d.
From the metage of corn £13,709 bks 4d was receit ad, from
the groundage of corn £143 8s 2d, and from the ntetage of
fruit £1,995 is 3d. On the expenditure side of the account
the charges on the Corporation estates in respect of collec-
tion and management, and including rent charges, rates,
and other obligations, amounted to £8,169 lOs 3d, on markets
£4,860 14, 4d, on duties to £1,358 2s 2d, and on brokers'
rents and tines to £lOl 4s 11d. The expenses in respect of
the Metropolitan Cattle Market were £5,78711s 110-of the
magistracy £6,762-the police, 12,942-the various prisons,
£17,980-the administration of criminal justice, £9,440 193
-the office of Coroner, £1,260 13,-the civil government,
£24,413 17s-the improvement of Guildhall, £2,820--eheri •
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£7lO 108 6d-the new Pauper Lunacy Asylum, £20,963 12s
-the reception of the Princess Alexandra, £23,644145-the
present to her Royal Highness, £lO,OOO-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 £84,919
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 defray the cost of raising Holborn
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 this joint fund £175,868 odd was paid.
within the year to the credit of the Lords of the Treasury,
pursuant to Act of Parliament, to the account of the Thames
Embankment and Metropolis Improvement Fluid, to which
it is now chiefly applicable. The Bridge-house estates
realized within the year £39,471, of which £24,747 odd
was applied towards liquidating the cost of rebuilding Lon-
don-bridge and of the repairs of that of Blackfriars. The
cost of the new bridge at Blackfriars and of the temporary
structure there will be borne by the Bridge-house estates,
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 hes been dictated by public
spirit and with the view to public improvements, end that
the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, while deprecating
excess in this direction, have invariably said the genera!
condition of the corporate revenues was on the whole satin.
factory.