ples, is still at least three millions.[116]

4. A local expenditure growing rapidly and disproportionately to Irish
revenue; now just double the expenditure of 1893-94.

5. A net contribution to Imperial services automatically diminishing
with the growth of Irish expenditure, disappearing altogether in
1909-10, and now converted into an adverse balance against Ireland of
L1,312,500.

In Great Britain during the same seventeen years, population, taxable
capacity, revenue, expenditure, and net contribution to Imperial
services have all grown steadily, and, what is more important, in
healthy proportions to one another.

On the next page will be found the comparative figures for Ireland and
Great Britain of revenue, expenditure, and contribution for 1893-94 and
1910-11.

Let me remark at the outset _(a)_ that they and other official figures
given in this chapter are taken from the annual Treasury returns alluded
to at p. 242, "Revenue and Expenditure (England, Scotland, and Ireland)"
and "Imperial Revenue (Collection and Expenditure) (Great Britain and
Ireland)." For the current year 1910-11 the official numbers of these
Returns are 220 and 221, and the latter of the two is virtually a
continuation of the original return, No. 313 of 1894; _(b)_ that the
non-collection of a large part of the revenue of 1909-10, owing to the
delay in passing the Budget, makes the revenue figures of the last two
years, regarded in isolation, misleading; those of the first year being
abnormally low, those of the last abnormally high. I therefore give the
mean figures of the two years. Expenditure is, of course, unaffected,
_(c)_ That the Irish revenue shown as "true" is reduced by heavy
deductions from the revenue as actually collected in Ireland. At p. 244
I explained that this adjustment can be regarded only as approximately
correct, owing to the admittedly unreliable methods adopted by the
Treasury, _(d)_ That the revenue shown includes non-tax as well as tax
revenue.

Ireland. Great Britain.

1893-94. 1910-11. 1893-94. 1910-11.

Population 4,638,000 4,381,951 33,469,000 40,834,790
(estimated)

"Collected" revenue L9,650,649 L11,704,500 L88,728,428 L156,574,250
(including non-tax (mean of two (mean of two
revenue) years, 1910-