--------+-------+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+------- | |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-| Pack- |quired.|Yearly.| | | | Yearly.| ers. | ets. --------+-------+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+------- | L | L | | _s._ | L | L | | 1 | 48,000| 12,400| 8,400| 20 | 8,400| 20,800| 2 | " 2 | 19,000| 8,400| " | " | " | 8,400| " | 2 3 | 19,000| 8,400| " | " | " | 8,400| " | 2 4 | 47,500| 21,000| " | " | " | 21,000| " | 5 5 | 7,000| 3,600| " | " | " | 3,600| " | 4 6 | 38,000| 16,800| " | " | " | 16,800| " | 4 7 |157,000| 44,400| 30,000| 25 | 37,500| 81,900| 6 | 9 8 | " | " | " | " | " | 7,600| " | " |-------+-------+-------| |-------+--------+------+------- |335,500|115,000| 38,400| | 45,900| 168,500| 8 | 26 --------+-------+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+------- Subject on the total expenditure to reduction in coals to the amount of 11,475_l._; less, however, 10 percent, or 4,590_l._ for wastage; giving the real reduction to be 6,885_l._ GENERAL REMARKS. The mails conveyed from Great Britain by steam to the quarters mentioned would in their courses be due:-- London to Halifax, Quebec, and New York, forty-six days; from Halifax to West Indies, according to the distance of the island or place; Havannah, twenty-two days; Jamaica, thirty-one days; Barbadoes, fifty days, &c., &c. London to Rio de Janeiro, sixty-five days, and Buenos Ayres, fifteen days more; London to Madeira and Teneriffe, thirty-four days; London to Barbadoes, and all the West Indies, from Demerara to Havannah, and Chagres inclusive, sixty-five days, and to Honduras, Vera Cruz, and Tampico, fifteen days more. If the mails are conveyed by sailing packets on the four great lines from Fayal, then the time for all would be fifteen days additional.