--------+-------+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+------- | |Provi- | | | | | |Number Number | Fixed | sions |Tons of|Price of|Cost of| Total |Number| of of |Capital|Wages, | Coals | Coals | Coals |Expendi-| of |Sailing Station.| re- | &c. |Yearly.|per ton.|Yearly.| ture |Steam-| Ves- |quired.|Yearly.| | | | Yearly.| ers. | sels. --------+-------+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+------- | L | L | | _s._ | L | L | | 1 | 48,000| 12,400| 8,400| 20 | 8,400| 20,800 | 2 | " 2 | 48,000| 12,400| 12,000| 25 | 15,000| 27,400 | 2 | " 3 | 48,000| 12,400| 12,000| " | 15,000| 27,400 | 2 | " 4 | 72,000| 18,600| 23,400| " | 29,250| 47,850 | 3 | " 5 | 7,000| 3,600| " | " | " | 3,600 | " | 4 6 | 96,000| 24,800| 22,200| " | 27,750| 52,550 | 4 | " 7 |157,500| 44,400| 30,000| " | 37,500| 81,900 | 6 | 9 8 | " | " | " | " | " | 11,350 | " | " |-------+-------+-------| |-------+--------+------+------- [7] |476,500|128,600|108,000| |132,900|272,850 | 19 | 13 Sub. |335,500|115,000| 38,400| | 45,900|168,500 | 8 | 26 |-------+-------+-------| |-------+--------+------+------- Diff. |141,000| 13,600| 69,600| | 87,000|104,350 | 11 | 13 --------+-------+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+------- N.B.--The latter sum shows the difference of capital and expenditure betwixt the work done by steam, and partly by steam and partly by sailing packets. The reduction in coals by the preceding estimate will be 33,250_l._; and, allowing 10 per cent. wastage on the _whole quantity_, the real reduction in the expenditure will be 20,000_l._