AN ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ON MARCH 31, 1880.

TERMINABLE ANNUITIES:

Annuities, per 18 Vict. c. 18, expiring April 5, 1885

Annuities, per 23 & 24 Vict. c. 109, subsequent

Acts, expiring April 5, 1885 (Fortifications) Annuity, per 26 Vict. c. 14, expiring April 5, 1885

Annuities, per 32 & 33 Vict. c. 59, and 29

Vict. c. 5, expiring at various dates in 1885 (payable yearly).

Annuities, per 35 & 36 Vict. c. 68, expiring at various dates in 1885 (payable yearly), 'The Military Forces Localisation Act' Red Sea and India Telegraph Company's Annuity, 25 & 26 Vict. c. 39, expiring August 4, 1908

Sinking Fund Annuity on New 2 per cents., per 33 & 34 Vict. c. 71 s. 69

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT, ETC.-continued.

LOANS GUARANTEED BY

Amount of
Loan

WEST INDIES:
St. Lucia

£

18,000

Jamaica

500,000
367,600

Purpose for which Loan was intended

Immigration and Public Works .

Redemption of certain Debts of the Colony
Extension of Period of Repayment of Loans
under 11 & 12 Vict. c. 130, and 17 & 18 Vict.
C. 54.

(The Debentures under 32 & 33 Vict. c. 69,
were issued in exchange for Debentures
under the former Acts, to the extent of
287,7007. 79,900l. of them are retained,
unissued; these will be applied so far as
needed in aid of the Sinking Fund for
the redemption of the outstanding bonds
issued under 17 & 18 Vict. c. 54.)

500,000 Payment of Debts due by Colony, and Purchase of Native Lands.

500,000 Expenses in connection with the New Zealand War, Immigration, and other purposes. 1,000,000 Immigration and construction of Roads, Bridges, and other Communications.

3,000,000

CANADA

300,000

TURKEY.

Construction of Railway from Rivière du Loup,
Quebec, to Truro, Nova Scotia.

Purchase of Rupert's Land from Hudson's Bay
Company.

3,000,000 Construction of Pacific Railway, and Improve-
ment of Canals.

5,000,000 Prosecution with vigour of the War with Russia (Interest guaranteed jointly and severally with France.)

Note. In addition to the Guaranteed Loans above mentioned, Great Britain took upon herself, under the Acts 55 Geo. 3, c. 115, and 2 & 3 Will. 4 c. 81, a debt of 25,000,000 florins, Dutch currency being part of a Loan contracted by Russia in Holland), in order that a suitable return might be made

to the former country for the heavy expense incurred in delivering Belgium and Holland from the of France. The amount of principal paid off on the 31st December, 1879, was 16,000,000 florins, and

STATEMENT OF UNREPAID ADVANCES MADE TO COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS FROM VOTES OF PARLIAMENT AND TREASURY CHEST FUND.

Ditto.. 1879-80 222,200 0 0 To suppress Outbreak 222,200 0 0

on the Orange

11,919 17 1

River.

A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEBTS, BUDGETS, AND NAVAL AND MILITARY EXPENDITURE OF THE VARIOUS EUROPEAN NATIONS SINCE THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE.