Miscellaneous Source: Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Oct., 1842), pp. 308-314 Published by: Wiley for the Royal Statistical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2337935 . Accessed: 16/05/2014 00:41 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Wiley and Royal Statistical Society are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the Statistical Society of London. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 194.29.185.139 on Fri, 16 May 2014 00:41:13 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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MiscellaneousSource: Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Oct., 1842), pp. 308-314Published by: Wiley for the Royal Statistical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2337935 .
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ciples and best methods of elementary instruction, of school discipline and management, can only be attracted into this branch of employment by liberal salaries and a due social consideration.
Of the sum entrusted to the Committee of Council during the last year, 27,6551. was assigned to the various applicants, and accepted by them, chiefly in aid of buildings which they proposed to erect. Of this sum, 1501. went to a Roman Catholic school; 11701. to schools con- nected with the British and Foreign Society; 9801. to schools in Scot- land; and 25,3551. to schools connected with the Established Church. The large proportion of the total sum assigned, which thus appears to have been placed at the disposal of the Church, is a proof of the exer- tions now in progress among her mernbers in this direction, and of the large amount of local contributions (much more than double that of the sum assigned from the public grant), which have been called forth towards the erection of new buildings for school purposes.
Among the total number of applicants, 122, or upwards of one-third, stated that they had secured play-grounds adjoininjg the school build- ings: a provision, the importance of which in aid of the moral disci- pliiie, as well as of the health and cheerfulness of the school, especially in large towns, is apparently beginning to be more generally recognized.
The only remaining point which these tables present, requiring notice in this place, is the tabular arrangement of the various classes of persons proposing themselves as trustees for these intended schools. In addition to the respective columns for the clergy, ministers, the gentry, profes- sional men, merchants, and manufacturers, there appear three also for farmers, shopkeepers, and working men: and of these three last classes, 42 schools have trustees selected also from the firgt, in conjuinction with individuals of the preceding classes; 24 from the second; and one. only, a Scotch school, from the third. It is much to be desired that these indications of a disposition to extend through all the gradationis of society the bonds of sympathy and co-operation, in a cause and at a period pre-eminently standing in need of both, may receive further encouragement; and that future statistical tables of the Committee'of Council on Education may exhibit a larger and a gradually increasing proportion of working men, shopkeepers, and farmers, willing and capa- ble of.taking an efficient part in the important task of aiding to dissemi- nate useful learning' and religious education throughout the entire mass of her Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects.
MISCELLANEOUS. BESIDES the Papers which are contained in the present Number of the Journal, there were read before the Statistical Section of the British Association at Manchester, one on the Statistics of Plymnouth, by H. Woolcombe, Esq.; one on the Commerce of France, irl 1840, by the Rev. Mr. Jones; a Report on the Vital Statistics of Manchester, by a Committee of the Statistical Society of Maiichester; and a Report On the Vital Statistics of Five Towns in Scotland, by a Committee of the Statistical Section of the British Association. The first of these is almost exclusively of local interest; the second and third were pre- sented to the Section in a printed form, and, being already published, require only a notice of their principal results, which will appear in the next Number of -the Journal. The latter also demands a special
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notice; but, beinig the Report of a Committee of the British Associa- tion, it will be published at length with the other Papers of that body.
The following Income-tax memoranda are derived from Willich's In- come-tax Tables, with the approbation of their Author. Income taxes have been levied, since the commencement of the present century, by the following statutes and at the rates under-stated
Income Taxes.
Statutes. Per Cent. Schedules and Rates in the Pound.
A. B. C. D. E. 1803. 43 Geo. III., c. 122 . . 5 ls. 9d. ls. ls. Is. 1805. 45 Geo. IIl., c. 15 . . 64 One-fourth increase on the above. 1806. 46 Geo. I1I., c. 65 . . 10 2s. Is. 6d. 2s. 2s. 2s. 1842. 5 aiid 6 Vic., c. 35 . . 3 7d. 31d. 7d. 7d. 7d.
It will be seen that the rates paid under schedule (B), which taxes the income of the farmers in proportion- to their rent, was formerly three-fourths'of the other rates, but is now otnly one-half, and for Scot- land it is only 21d. in the pound; while tenants paying less thani 3001. a-year are wholly exempt.
Sources of Income formerly add now Assessed.
Sir R. Peel's Estimate, a Amounts March 11, 1814.
Sources of Income. Assessed X in 1814. Amounts Produce of
Assessed. Tax.
A. Property derived from Land: 1. Rent of Land . .39,400,000 39,400,000 2. Rent of Houses .. . 16,260,000 25,000,000 3. Titlies . . . . . . . . 3,500,010
Dividends of Railway Companies, Canals, 4,70,000 3,429,000 .. and pr-operty of similar description. . ,47, O .2. ..
Mines and Iron Works . . . . . . . 1,500,000
A. Total .. 60,130,000 72,829,o00 1,600,000 B. Rent of Lan(t in respect of occupathun. . . 38,396,000 26,000.,000 150,000 C. Income derived from Public Funds and
similar. securities (sum on which Assess- 30,000,000 30,000,000 646,000 ment made) . . . . . . .
D. Profits of Tr ades and Professions . . . 38,310,000 E6,000,000 1,220,000 E. Income of Public Officers. 11,744,000 7,000,000 155,000
Under the former tax, incomes under 601. a-year, derived from trades and professions, alone were exempt, though those between 601. and 1501. were subjected to only a reduced scale of charge; the total amount upon which this was assessed being, in 1812, 13,136,0141., in schedule (D), while the larger incomes in the same schedule, which are -now also assessed, amounted to 21,247,6211.; making a total, in that schedule, of 34,383,6351. Fuinded property held by foreigners was formerly exempt, but is now charged.
Average Prices of Corn per Imperial Quarter in England and Wales, with the Rate of Duty on Foreign WhAeat, during each week from the Com- mencement of the NVew Duties to thte 24th September, 1842; also during each Month of the same peri'od; and durin~g the Quartersa ended Midsum- mer and Michaelmas, 1842. (Continued from p. 231.)
An Acrount of the Quantities of Foreign and Colonial Wheat and Wheat- Flour Imported. Paid Duty, and Remaining in Warehouse, in each of the zMonths ending 5th July, August, and September, 1842.-(Continued from p. 233.)
WHEAT. WHEAT-FLOUR.
Remaining Remainiing Months ended Imported. Paid Duty. in Warelhouise Imported. Paid in "arehouis at the end of Duty. at the end of
Quarterly Averagfe of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, in the Quarters ending 16th July, 1 3th August, and I 0th Sep- tember, 1812; and'in the corresponding Quarters of the preceding Year. -( Continued from p. 2313.)
Aggregate Amount of Notes circulated in the United Kingdom, distin- guishing those of Private and Joint- Stock Bankls, with the Amount of Bullion in the Bank of England, during the Four Weeks preceding the 23r-d July, 20th August, and 17th September, 1842.-(Continued from p. 233.)
During Four Weeks preceding Description of Notes.- _____-_______
An Abstract of the NVet Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in each of the Years and Quarters ended the loth of October, 1841 and 1842.- (Continued from p. 312.)
An Analysis of Bankruptcies in England and Wales, showing the Counties and Trades in which they have occurred, during each of the Months of June, July, August, and September, 1842-(Conlinued from p. 234.)
