THE BALANCE-SHEET.
The annual account of the public income and expenditure
has been issued. The income for the financial year ending March 31, 1865
consisted of £42,132,000 from Customs and Excise.
£20,780,000 from stamps and taxes,
£4,100,000 Post-office,
£310,000 Crown lands, and
£2,993,436 miscellaneous (including £872,750 received from
India for British troops serving there); Making a total gross income of
£70,313,436.
The expenditure comprised £26,369,398 for interest
of the debt.
£14,382,672 for the army,
£10,898,253 for the navy,
£9,160,140 for civil services, to which must be added £870,673
for the Post-office packet service, and £174,599 for the second
moiety of the Scheldt toll redemption money; £4,696,471 for the
cost of collection of the revenue (including the Post-office establishment),
brings the expenditure up to £66,462,206, leaving a surplus of £3,851,230.
In addition to this expenditure the sum of £620,000 was laid out
upon fortifications, the amount being raised by the sale of Government
annuities terminable in 1885.
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