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Capitalist Production.

Wales, and Scotland, amounted in 1864 to £95,844,2292, in 1865 to £105,435,579.[1] The number of persons taxed were in 1864, 308,416, out of a population of 23,891,009; in 1865, 332,431 out of a population of 24,127,003. The following table shows the distribution of these incomes in the two years:

Year ending April 5th, 1864.Year ending April 5th, 1865.

Income from profits. Persons. Income from Profits. Persons.
Total Income £95,844,222 308,416 Total Income £105,435,738 332,431
of these 57,028,289 23,334 of these 64,554,297 24,265
of these 36,415,225 3,619 of these 42,535,576 4,021
of these 22,809,781 832 of these 27,555,313 973
of these 8,744,762 91 of these 11,077,238 107

In 1855 there were produced in the United Kingdom 61,453,079 tons of coal, of value £16,113,167; in 1864, 92,187,873 tons, of value £23,197,968; in 1855, 3,218,154 tons of pig-iron, of value £8,045,385; 1864, 4,767,951 tons, of value £11,919,877. In 1854 the length of the railroads worked in the United Kingdom was 8054 miles, with a paid-up capital of £286,068,794; in 1864 the length was 12,789 miles, with capital paid up of £425,719,613. In 1854 the total sum of the exports and imports of the United Kingdom was £268,210,145; in 1865, £489,923,285. The following table shows the movement of the exports:

1846 £58,842,377
1849   68,596,052
1856 115,826,948
1860 185,842,817
1865 165,862,402
1866 188,917,563[2]
  1. These are the net incomes after certain legally authorized abatements.
  2. At this moment, March, 1867, the Indian and Chinese market is again overstocked by the consignments of the British cotton manufacturers. In 1866 a re-