ertions of labour and machinery, detailed in the foregoing pages, combined with the no less prodigious aggregate capital of 3,575,700,000Z.! produce and property are annually raised and created in the United Kingdom, to the amount of 514,823,0597.!! (Table XV.) The stupendous machinery employed in several manufactories, is powerful enough to raise, in a few hours, and several yards from the ground, the largest Pyramid of Egypt; in the construction of which, according to Herodotus, 100,000 men were employed for twenty years; and the weight of which is calculated to be 10,401,000 tons! TABLE I. An ACCOUNT of the PRICES of different Articles of PROVISIONS Supplied to the ROYAL HOSPITAL, Chelsea, from 1818. REMARKS. From the year 1818 to 1824, referred to in the second column, the ration for each person, consisted of 1 lb. of Bread daily 18 oz. of Beef and Mutton per day, for five days in each week, lb. Cheese and lb. of Butter per day, and 2 oz. of Butter on two banyan days in each week; the Contractor also supplied with the rations 4 bushels of Oatmeal and 4 ditto of Salt per month, for Soup. From the Year 1825 to the present time, the ration has been as follows:-1 lb. of Bread per day, 13 oz. of Meat, ib. of Cheese, 2 oz. of Butter, per week; the Contractor also supplied with the ration 4 bushels or 4 cwt. of Salt, and 4 bushels or 4 cwt. of Oatmeal, per month, for Soup. From the year 1825, the Pensioners are allowed Potatoes, but they do not form part of the ration contracted for. In 1826 the Commissioners made an experiment, with a view of ascertaining whether it would not be more advantageous to the Public to contract separately for each article composing the rations; but in comparing the prices contained in the tender for separate articles, it was found that the latter was the least expensive mode, and it was accordingly ordered to be continued. RICHARD NEAVE, SECRETARY. Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 19th June, 1832. TABLE II. A RETURN of the PRICES of the following Articles,-(viz. WHEAT, BEEF and MUTTON, at Smithfield Market, COALS, IRON, LEATHER, WOOL, CHEESE, BUTTER, and LINEN), in the Years 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832. English Beef. Mutton. Bara. Pigs. Cheshire. Gloucester per Firkin Cork, p.cwt. Butts. Backs. " " " " 3. d. s. d. 38 6 to 47 0 32 6,, 39 3 33 0 ,, 43 6 32 6,, 39 0 36 3, 43 6 30 0,, 41 6 38 6 41 9 30 6 38 9 39 0 50 0 35 0, 42 6 37 6, 45 0 31 6,, 42 6 29 6,, 40 6 34 9, 39 0 40 0 32 3 » 24 6,, 32 3 26 0,, 34 0 28 6,, 36 0 32 3 36 0 27 6, 33 0 27 0 36 0 26 6 30 0 32 0 37 0 30 0 35 0 33 0 37 9 24 6 29 0 25 0, 31 0 per ton. 5 0,5 15 40,, 70 ,,5 15 5. 4 15 to 5 0 78 to 100 74 to 94 none 78, " 52,, 70 53 70 " 52 54 70 " 76 40.. 70 38,, 66 ditto 945. nominal ditto TABLE III. An ACCOUNT of the PRICES of SUGAR, COFFEE, COTTON, HEMP, FLOUR, TALLOW, WHALE OIL, DEALS, TIMBER, and TOBACCO, in the Months of January and July in each Year, from 1819 to the present Time. THOMAS LACK. MEM. The Records of the Board of Trade do not furnish the means of supplying the prices of English Flour. Office of Trade, 18th June, 1832. |