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London Brewery of Strong Beer-The following is the statement of the quantity of strong beer brewed by the twelve principal houses in London, between the 5th July, 1810, and the 5th

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Statement of the Emoluments of the Lord Chancellor, appears from the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons upon the emoluments of the Lord Chancellor, &c. that his acknowledged income in his jurisdiction as Chancellor for the year ending the 5th of April, 1811, was 15,5321. 138.; and as Speaker of the House of Lords, for the last year, 6,8447. 158. making together an annual sum of 22,3771. 88. being an increase of about 7000l. a-year within the last ten years. The produce as Chancellor was, last year, almost 3,5001. greater than the preceding year, owing to the extraordinary increase of bankruptcies !!

Statement of Balances of Money and Securities of the Suitora in the Court of Chancery, in the different periods undermentioned; as represented by the Lord Chancellor to the Committee of the House of Lords.

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Suitors money deposited in the high court of admiralty and court of appeals for prizes on the 1st. January 1810, 461,7647. In 1811, 400,750l. In 1812, 262,460/.

List of Theatres in London 1812. Covent Garden will hold 3000, persons. Drury Lane 2800. Opera house 3500. Pantheon 3000. Haymarket or little theatre 1800. Lyceum 2000. Surrey Theatre 2500. Astley's Olympic Theatre 1500. Astley's Amphitheatre 2500. Sadler's Wells 2200. Sans Pareil 1500. Regency theatre 1600. Royalty Theatre 1600. In all about 30,000 Spectators. The population to support these, amounts in round numbers to one mil lion of Souls.

The following is a return of the number of persons charged with criminal offences, who were committed to the different gaols in England and Wales for trial, at the assizes and sessions held for the several counties and places therein, in the year 1811; and the total for seven years, from 1805 to 1811,

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Collected from Sir Fred. Morton Eden's pamphlet, On the po licy and expediency of Insurance charters. London, 1806. General view of property insurable in Great Britain.

Houses. (This head of items, must of course be taken from the preceding Census of 1801. T. C.)

Inhabited houses in England and Wales, 1,575,923.

In Scotland 294,553. In all 1,870,476. Uninhabited and building in England, 57,476. Scotland 9,537. Rental of houses, warehouses and manufacto. ries, according to the estimate of Mr. Pitt, in his view of the income tax, six millions sterling; according to Dr. Beeke in his observations on that tax ten millions. (Dr. Beeke's observations on the income tax, is a book of great merit. T. C.) This at 20 years purchase, will be 200 millions. Add for machinery 40 millions, and the gross amount of insurable property of this description in Great Britain, will be 240 millions. Add for Scotland 30 millions, and the amount for Great Britain will be Furniture. England 120 millions. Scotland 15 millions. For the articles of cloaths, plate, books, jewels, houses, carriages, &c. in England and Wales 50 millions; in Scotland 5 millions. Furniture of Great Britain. Agricultural Stock. Wheat consumed in Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, and Gibraltar. 8 millions of quarters (64 millions of bushels) at 408.-Rye and Barley, (of which the distilleries take 500,000 quarters) 5 millions of quarters at 248.

Oats and Beans, the produce of about 34 millions of acres, 12 millions of quarters at 168. 8d. Hay, Pease, Hops, Rape seed, &c. about 10 mil

lions of acres.

Sheep from 32 to 38 millions in number in Great

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190,000,000

32,500,000

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Oxen about 3 millions. Horses about 1,100,000.

British Manufactures: home consumption

Exportation (real value), too low. T. C.

76,000,000 40,000,000

The items under this head, are thus noticed:
Woollens in 1800, consumed at home 11; exported

8 millions of pounds.

Cotton goods, consumed at home about 6 millions;
exports on an average of 3 years in 1799,
4,175,2311.

Import of raw cotton about 30 millions of pounds.
Leather goods 12 millions.

Flax (Linen goods) Scotland, England and Wales
about 2 millions.

Hemp 2: paper 1: pottery 2: glass 2: silk 3

hardware 6 millions.

Beer 200 Millions of gallons at is. or 10 million sterling.

Spirits 10 millions of gallons at 88. or 4 millions

sterling. This is the produce of half a millions quarters (4 millions of bushels) of grain, as appears by a report of the committee of the House of Commons, of 31 Dec. 1800.

Soap, consumed in 2,260,802 families in Great Britain 1 million.

Salt, 46,000 tons at 40 bushels each. Duty 108. per bushel, 1 million.

Candles, 2 millions. Miscellanies 10 millions.
Foreign Merchandize. Imports in 1799, 32 mil-
lions; real value, 48 millions: of which East In-
dia goods amounted to 8 millions :

Works of Taste, Pictures, statues, &c. 10 millions
Shipping, worth 23 millions, of which insurable

while in port

Sundries, Boats, coals, and other minerals, arsenals, &c. &c.

Total

40,000,000

10,000,000

5,750,000

10,000,000

674,250,000

Of all the above species of property, there is now actually insured (1806) two hundred and sixty millions. This appears from the taxes laid on the Insurance of property in 1797, 1802, and 1804, amounting to 28. 6d. per pound. In 1785 the gross amount of property insured was 125 millions sterling. In Ireland about 10 mil lions is insured.

State of the Business transacted at the different Fire Insurance Offices.

Account of sums paid for duty by the principal Fire Offices for the Michaelmas quarter to Christmas, 1809.

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WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE.

CALCULATION OF SOUTH DOWN WOOL.

[By a Manufacturer]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE.

August 5th 1809.

SIR, HAVING lately read a very excellent speech of my Lord Shef. field's to the wool growers and dealers, at Lewes fair, on the 24th ult. wherein the sum of 3s. per lb. is stated to be a fair price for best South Down wools, and perceiving a calculation of a yard of broad cloath underneath, made from such wool, which is wholly founded in error, and calculated to mislead the public, as well as to do a serious injury to the whole woollen trade, I beg to annex what will be found a more correct statement of its value, supposing it to be made of the best South Down wool purchased of the growers, in the fleece, at the price quoted :

I will allow the manufacturer's expences as stated
Fleece wool purchased at 38. per lb. of the grower can-

not be rendered (the best not fit to make the cloth
alluded to) for less than 6s. 6d. per lb. of which it
will require at least 2 lbs.
Dying a drab colour, as stated, at 31d. per lb.

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Which will leave but a very moderate profit even for the manufac< turers at 288. per yard.

I should not have troubled you with the above, had I not seen so many misrepresentations in nearly all the public prints, which have done more injury to the woollen trade than most of the at tempts of our enemies.

I am, Sir, your very humble servant,

A MANUFACTURER OF BRADFORD, WILTS.

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