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take in the first year of the tax ; but as far as the
figures for subsequent years enable us to judge, the
amount so erroneously entered cannot have been
large.

Before quitting Schedule A, we may mention
that in the year 1856 the number of persons exempt
under this schedule N: as, in England 501,035, and
in Scotland 61,788. The aggregate amount of their
income was only £8,587,229, giving to each indivi-
dual " landlord' an average revenue of somewhat
more than £l5 sterling.
Passing over two intermediate schedules, we
come to Schedule D, and it will be well to give ill
the first place the actual figures, which are as fol-
lows, taking the net amounts assessed :-
1801 (Estimated at about) .. £16,000,000
1803 34,80,000
1815 ..
1843 37,772,847
• 67,663,496
•• •• •• •
••
1860 84,373,090
• •• ••
It must, however, be borne in mind that the
' figures for 1803 and 1815 include all incomes ex-
ceeding £5O, while those for 1843 include only in:
comes amounting to £l5O, and those for 1860 all
which amount to £lOO. It is probable that, in
order to make the comparison a fair one, we should
have to deduct at least £5,000,000 from the return,
of 1851, so that the increase in the trade incomes",
persons receiving more than £lOO annually between
that year and the present date cannot be less than
£50,000,000. The amount brought in by the ex-
tension of 1853 is known to have been between
£9,000,000 and £10,000,000, so that the amount due
to the expansion of trade and commerce since 184'
appears to be about £17,000,000.
In the figures which follow we are unable to
make the proper deduction from the older return,
and the increase of trade incomes is consequentl9
underrated. Taking all the counties from which
the return of 1860 amounted to £1,000,000 and up'
wards, we have the following list :--- .
1815. 1860.
Middlesex .. £15,255,245 .. £26,256,187
Lancashire .. 2,292,080 .. 14,410,307
York .. .. 1,719,886 .. 6,147,149
Kent .. 1,626,229 .. 1,554,510
Surrey.. .. 1,564,533 2,905.951
Somerset 1,3'49,266 .. 1,773,791
Southampton .. 923,714 •1,025,777
Devon .. 757,444 1,011.546
Warwick .. 669,370 .. 2,305,746
Stafford 516,720 .. 1,910,620
Northumberland 436,404 .. 1,004,714
Che,tor.. 289,307 .. 1,190,515
Durham .. 253,631 1,035,398
The trade income of the city of London has increased
from £8,397,500 to £14,853,397 and that of West-
minster from £2,740,206 to £3,635,913.
The English counties in which the increase has
been greaten are—Lancashire, 529 per cent.;
Cheshire, 312, Durham, 308 ' • Staffordshire, 270 ;
Yorkshire, 257; Monmouth, 256; Warwick, 244;
Derby, 207. In 12 other counties the amount of
trade income has more than doubled ; in the same
number it has been less than 50 per cent. ' • and in
only one (Kent) has there been an actual decline.
The accounts to which we have referred do not
enable us to give the corresponding particulars for
the Welsh counties ; but the aggregate, which hi
1815 was only £300,008, is now £1,226,769, of
which £527,116 are contributed by Glamorgan
alone.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NORWICH-AFRIL 13.

At this market to-day wheat was in fair supply, with
a slow sale, and last week's rates receded is to 2s per qr.
The supply of barley limited, and prices were the same ttil
last week.
White wheat 58s to 62s J Red wheat 54s to 68;
Malting barley....4ss to 47s Chevalier barley 41s to 440
Distilling d0......31s to 34s Oats.. 26s to 300
Flour, 43s to 43s 6d per sack from the miller.

OXFORD—APRIL 13.
Tho market was well attended, but little business doing,
am! for most descriptions of grain prices were supported.
Barley quite a drug on the market. Flour was 46s per

—A 13.
The supply of wheat scarcely anPRIL average one, and prieee
maintained. A fair trade. White wheat, from 74s to 780
—red, 65s to 72s per 36 stone; a rather slsw demand for
barley, grinding, 30s to 31s ; malting, 36s to 40s per qr.;
oats, 32s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 66s to 580;
new, 388 to 40s per 38 stone.
Fine flour, 50s I Seconds, 47s I Thirds, 45s per 20 stone.

YORK-- APRIL 13.
The trade was dull and wheat in tolerable supply; sales
at a reduction of Is per qr.
Wheat, red 45s to 56s I Oats.... 27s to 291
White do .58s to 6451 Beans 48s to .58s
Barley .38s to 42s i Peas
Malt, 70s to 72s per qr. ; rye. 36s per qr 7.11--oBurt,o Z:
to bOs per sack.

NORTHAMPTON—Arum 13.
At this corn-market the wheat supply was middling, and
a moderate business—prices ranging from 65s to 69s for
old, and 42s to 62s for new. In barley a steady business,
malting 38s to 435, grinding 29s to 32s per qr. Oats in
moderate show, and priess as before—quoted at 22s to 388
per 24 stone. Beans, old, 51s to 565; peas, 40s to 50e.
Rye, 37s to 425; malt, GBs to 72s ; flour, 33s to 34s per
sack