The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-11 00:00:00

REAL PROPERTY OF THE KINGDOM

According to a return made to an order of the House of
Commons, last session, it appears that the total annual value
of real property assessed to the poor-rates in England is
£59,685,412, of which £30,448,991 consisted of landed pro-
perty, £22,991,472 of dwelling-houses, and £6,244,949 of all
other kinds of property.
Middlesex, although the smallest county but one, namely,
Rutland, comprising as it does the greater part of London,
is, as might be expected, the richest county of the kingdom,
its total annual value of real property assessed amounting to
no less than £7,293,369. This sum is thus distributed :-
Landed property, £304,653 ; dwelling-houses, £6,680,202 ;
all other kinds of property, £308,514.
Yorkshire ranks next to Middlesex in point of wealth, its
total annual value of assessed property being £5,448,494,
distributed as follows : - Landed property, £3,865,496 ;
dwelling-houses, £1,817,739 ; all other kirids of property,
£; 75,259.
Lancashire comes next. The total annual value of real
property assessed in the county of Lancaster is £5,266,606,
made up as follows :-Landed property, £1,402,208 ; dwell-
ing-houses, £2,449,196 ; all other kinds of property,
£1,415,222.
Rutland, as it is the smallest, so is it also the least wealthy
county, its total annual value of real property being only
£119,184, composed as follows : Landed property, £109,119,
dwelling-houses, £9,104 ; all other kinds of property,
£3,911.
Westmoreland is the next least wealthy county, the total
annual value of its real property assessed being £266,335 ;
made up of real property, £221,054 ; dwelling-houses,
£37,374 ; all other kinds of property, £7,907.
Huntingdon is next, the total annual value of its real pro-
perty assessed being £317,718, made up as follows :-Landed
property, £236,633 ; dwelling-houses, £71,221 ; all other
kinds of property, £9,864.
The sum levied for poor-rates in England for the year
ending Lady-day, 1841, was £6,079,564. The rate in the
pound on the annual value of real property assessed in 1841
was, for the whole of England, 2s.
It is a circumstance worthy of notice, that the rates are
highest in those parts of the country which we are not ac-
customed to refer to as most distressed. The highest rated
county is Wilts, in which the rate amounts to 3s. in the
pound. In Sussex the rate is only Id. in the pound less than
in Wiltshire-namely, 2s. 11d. In Buckinghamshire, Suf-
folk, and Surrey, the rate is 2s. 9d. in the pound ; in Essex,
Dorset, Gloucester, and Southampton, it is 2s. Bd., whilst in
Yorkshire it is only Is. 11d., and in Lancashire ls. Bd.
The rate per head of annual value of real property is for
the whole kingdom £3 19s. 7d. The rate per head is high-
est in Hertfordshire-namely, £5 19s. Id., and lowest in
Cornwall-namely. £2 13s. 4d. The area of England in
English statute acres is 31,770,615. The average annual
value per acre for the whole kingdom is 19s. 2d. Middlesex
is the county in,which the value reaches the highest point-
the average value there is £1 14s. per acre. In Leicester-
shire the annual value per acre is £1 75., and in Lancashire,
£1 ss. The county in which land is of the ;lowest value is
Westmoreland, where the average annual value per acre is
only 9s. ld. ; in Northumberland it is 12s. 9d., and in Sussex
it is 13s. 6d.
The total annual value of real property in Wales assessed
to the poor-rates is £2,854,613., of which £2,206,146 con-
sists of landed property, £394,929 of dwelling-houses, and
£253,543 of all other kinds of property.
The total sum levied in Wales for poor-rates for the year
ended Lady-day, 1841, was £342,265. The average rate in
the pound for the whole country is higher than in England,
it being 2s. in the latter, and 2s. 3d. in Wales. The poor-
rates are highest in Carnarvonshire, namely, 3s. 2d. in the
pound, and lowest in Brecon, Is. 7d.
The area of Wales in English statute acres is 4,752,000.
The average annual value per acre for the whole country is
9s. 3d. Land is most valuable in Anglesea, where the ave-
rage value is 19s. ; and least valuable in Merionethshire,
where the average value is 4s. Bd.

I do declare I am the most hampered man in the world, as
he wine-merchant's porter said to the burthen upon his
shoulder.

THE NEWCASTLE FESTIVAL.—The receipts of this festi-
val realized a sum of £2,015, and the expenses amount to
£2,66s—thus leaving a deficiency of £650. The charities
will, therefore, derive no benefit from the festival whatever.
The losses of the corn specu:ators in England, this harvest,
are estimated at £2,000,000 sterling.

GRACE DARLING.—Some distant papers state, that as her
Majesty was passing the Fern Islands, o❑ her return from
Scotland, she was told that Grace Darling was dead. We
feel that we can take upon ourselves to contradict the report.
Some weeks ago it was announced she was unwell, but there
is not the slightest account of her being in a worse state.—
Tyne Mercury.

The O'Connell Tribute has lost a plumper of £lOO a-year,
by the death of the late Master of the Rolls. This sum was
regularly paid into thefund, with the signature " Anonymous '
attached. —Limerick Chronicle.

RENT OF A LORD MAYOR'S HOUSE.—lnithe year 1275
George Rokersley, lord Mayor of London, occupied a house
in Milk-street, Cheapside, for which he paid the enormous
rent of 20s. per annum.

A BlTE.—Talking of alligators, the mate of a vessel bound
for Liverpool had bought one, about four feet long, to take
home with him, and tied it somewhere on deck. In the
night it got loose, and sought more comfortable quarters in
the cabin. The mate was under a musquito-bar on the floor,
and thought he felt the cat rubbing alongside of him. " Pussy,
pussy !" said he. putting out his hand to pat his feline fa.
vourite, when such a row was instantaneously kicked up in
the cabin as made the sailors in the forecastle jump out of
their berths like chestnuts off a hot shovel. The mate caught
considerably of a bite, but was not seriously injured.

FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S MODESTY.--This outrageousboas-
ter, whom the most ignorant now perceive to be a mere
charlatan, if not something worse, thus writes in last week's
Star—" How proud must I be to find the whole nation once
more rallying around me as their prop and mainstay ; laugh-
ing at the attempts of the wicked, and smiling treason out of
countenance." And thus O'Connor writes; while O'Brien,
at least his equal in authority, is denouncing him as a coward
and a traitor ; while he reciprocates the compliment by cal-
ling O'Brien "a starved viper.
BANK of MANCHESTER,—The directors of this establish-
ment have made a call upon the proprietors of £2 per share.
We understand that yesterday there was a meeting of the di-
rectors and some of the principal shareholders, to whom was
submitted the present position of the bank ; when it was
unanimously agreed to recommend to then
eneral meeting of
proprietors on Friday next, Op winding pof the affairs of
the company. With this view, we have reason to believe
the directors have made arrangements which will enable them
to meet engagements in the most prompt and satisfactory
manner.—Manchester Guardian.
THE LATE MARQUIS WDLLESLEY.—The following re.
markable passage, regarding the classic attainments of this
much-esteemed nobleman, is extracted from the evidence of
the Rev. Joseph Goodall, p.p., Provost of Eton College,
before a committee of the House of Commons on education :
" I should be sorry to detract from the merit of such a man
as Professor Porson, whom I loved, esteemed, and admired ;
but I would name the' Marquis Wellesley as infinitely superior
to him in composition. The marquis, as a genuine Greek
classic scholar, exhibits the exquisite style and manner of
Xenophon."
LUNACY IN FLEAS.—A descendant and namesake of the
great philosophical author of the inductive system, recently
puzzled a modern man of science by asking him if he had
read Dr. Von Shieamycher'e treatise on the cause of lunacy
in fleas. " No," replied the hoaxee, " but it is a very inter.
esting subject, and it must be curious to trace the disease
among the lower insect tribes. But, (added he, after a
solemn pause,) how has it been ascertained that fleas are lia-
ble to insanity ?" " Oh, ,very, easily," rejoined 8., " since
so many of them die cracked !