APPENDIX. 
A CRIMEAN WAR BUDGET, 1855. 
Income, 
Exsenditure, 
F 
Customs kn Wr 
xcise nö v 
5Stamps we. ... 
Land and assessed 
taxes vH 0 3,225,12I1 
Income tax... „4. 10,922,266 
Post-office ... .. 2,635,336 
Miscellaneous vw. 1,115,335 
Total ... „64,091, 567 
21,991,675 
17,042,295 
7,150,5230 
[nterest on national 
debt, etc. ... Wu. 
Navy gen - 
Army and ordnance 
Civil list and civil 
services ... w.. 
Miscellaneous = 
27,864,533 
14,490, 105 
13,831,601 
7,706,721 
5,242,020 
Total ... £69, 134,986 
A deficit of £5,000,000 to be made up by borrowing, in spite of a 
heavily increased income tax, raised from 7d, to Is, 44. on the £. The 
war has swelled the naval and military expenses by £10,000,000, 
A MODERN BUDGET, 1898. 
IHCcOME. 
Expendilure. 
L 
Customs en ps 
Excise Kr = 
Stamps (including 
death duties, etc.) 
Land and assessed 
taxes w 
Income tax... 
Post-office 
Telegraphs ... 
Miscellaneous 
21,798,000 
28, 300,000 
18,750,000 
2,430,000 
17,250,000 
12,170,000 
3,010,000 
2,986,004 
Total ... £106,694,004 
[nterest on national 
debt, etc, ... v.. 
Navy ... vum w.. 
Army ... ws ver 
Civil list and civil 
services .., a 
Miscellaneous ... 
25,000,000 
20,852,000 
19,330,000 
22,818,003 
14,935,9091 
Total ... £102,935,994 
Customs, owing to huge remissions of taxation since 1860, remain low. 
* Stamps ” are enormously increased, largely owing to new death-duties, 
The Post-office brings in almost five times its yield of 1855. Telegraphs, 
now a Government monopoly, are a new hending, Income tax, at 8d, 
in the pound, yields half as much again as it did at 1s. 44. in 1855, Civil 
service expenditure has increased at an even greater rale than military 
and naval. The national debt shrinks every year,