| | |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.

Large as the above-mentioned sums are, still the revenues of Great Britain
and Ireland, and their Colonial dependencies in the Western World (p. 047)