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Updated: September 23, 2025
In the administration of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1853, the gross expenditure was $7,982,756, and the gross receipts during the same period $5,942,734, showing that the current revenue failed to meet the current expenses of the Department by the sum of $2,042,032.
A few months after all this was accomplished, in December 756, Aistulf, "that follower of the devil," as the pope called him, died. Every state that is nearing dissolution is the prey of civil discord. So it was with the Lombards. Ratchis, who had more than seven years before become a monk, claimed the throne; so did Desiderius, "mildest of men."
Order. Vital. p. 756. This great event happened on the 5th of July, in the last year of the eleventh century.
Phocas, having waded through the blood of the citizens to supreme civil power, in order to secure his position, declared Boniface III., bishop of Rome, head of the universal church. This impious public act took place in the year 606. The pope became also a temporal prince in 756.
For interest on the public debt 59,160,131.25 Total 265,408,137.54 Leaving a surplus revenue of $132,879,444.41, which, with an amount drawn from the cash balance in the Treasury of $1,299,312.55, making $134,178,756.96, was applied to the redemption Of bonds for the sinking fund $44,850,700.00 Of fractional currency for the sinking fund 46,556.96
The Bishop of Toronto was able to boast in 1842 that in his western visitation, which lasted from June till October, he had "consecrated two churches and one burial ground, confirmed 756 persons at twenty-four different stations, and travelled, including his journeys for the formation of District Branches of the Church Society, upwards of 2,500 miles."
During these sixteen years there has been also expended on public works of all kinds 5,000,000l., and there has been paid, in dividends, to the proprietors of East India stock, 10,080,000l.; making a total expenditure of 356,756,000l.
In all, I counted 2,156 souls, namely, 637 men, 756 women, and 763 children; and, making an addition for those away procuring fuel, and those at the Fort, I estimate the sum-total of residents to be 2,325, which is rather over than under the true number.
A former Director of the East India Company has, on this subject, issued a book of course, in defence of the Company. Here are two or three facts extracted from this book: From 1835 to 1851 sixteen years the entire net taxation of India has produced 340,756,000l.; the expenditure on the Government in the same period having been 341,676,000l. an amount somewhat in excess of the revenue.
The highest salaries are paid in the city of Christiania $756 for men and $434 for women. Head masters to the number of 1,992, like parsons, are furnished with houses to live in and little tracts of land, three or four acres, where they can raise vegetables for their families and keep cows; and nine hundred and ten of them add a little to their incomes by serving as parish clerks.
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