The rate of eight per cent. has not been charged by the Bank of England before for upwards of a century and a quarter. [8] Report of the Glasgow Poor Inspector, 28th November, 1847. [9] Mr Newdegate's Speech in Parliament, December 2, 1847. [10] TO OCTOBER 10 IN EACH YEAR. 1845. 1846. 1847. Machinery, £644,839 £897,442 £942,533 Iron and steel, 2,854,048 3,374,335 4,096,367 ----------- ----------- ----------- £3,498,887 £4,271,777 £5,038,900 [11] AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE IMPORTED FROM JANUARY 5 TO OCTOBER 10. | 1845. | 1846. | 1847. | |----------+----------+----------| |Live animals, | 19,593 | 85,542 | 172,355 | |Provisions, beef, pork, &c. cwts.,| 109,550 | 206,455 | 403,877 | |Butter, cwts., | 189,056 | 177,165 | 243,140 | |Cheese, do., | 183,891 | 216,191 | 243,601 | |Grain in quarters, |1,336,739 |2,635,218 |7,905,419 | |Grain in flour and meal, cwts., | 394,908 |2,631,341 |7,900,880 | The grain imported in nine months measured in quarters will stand thus:-- In quarters, 7,905,419 In flour and meal, cwts., 2,650,263 ---------- In nine months, quarters, 10,555,682 The greatest import in any one year before was in 1841, when it was 4,772,641 quarters. [12] The sum invested in railways from 1841 to 1845, was £154,716,937; of which £114,513,035 was subscribed capital, and £46,203,902 authorised to be borrowed. See _Parl. Returns_, Nos. 159, 1844; and 637, 1845. Since that time it has at least risen to £200,000,000, of which _half_ may be considered productive. [13] See _Parl. Debates_, xxviii. 66, 67. [14] Viz. England, £85,000,000 Scotland, about 5,000,000 Ireland, 16,000,000 ----------- £105,000,000 [15] _Lords' Report on Real Property_, pp. 8, 9. In our last Number we stated the amount of heritable property at £63,000,000, from a desire to be within rather than beyond the truth. But the latter figure was taken from the Poors' Rate return, which, as the Lords' Report justly states, is always below the truth; and their own report of £85,000,000 is taken from the rating for the property tax, founded on the returns by the occupants.--See _Lords' Report on Real Property_, p. ix. [16] RATE OF DISCOUNT OF FIRST-CLASS BILLS AT THE UNDERMENTIONED PERIODS.