1300.) On the Public Brewery. ZI

million quarters of malt is 199,900 quarters, It is true the grains remain better for the food of catile; but, if we ſubtra&t half the loſs, it ſtill remains conſiderable.

XLI. Malt always coſts the private conſumer more than the public brewer. The difference is from 1s to 6d per buſhel. Take gd the average. If this 9d were clear gain to che malter, the public wealth would not(by ſuch transfer) be leſſened. But the trouble of retail accounts, the chance of bad debts, and above all, the expence of carrying out the malt, fully(#) countervails the additional 9d per buſhel, On a million quarters here is 300,000I1. ſunk in diverted induſtry,

AIE«Much: labour is allo waſted in the at of brewing, The proceſs is never completed under two days attendance; it is true, it does not form the whole occupation of two days, búc not leſs than, one day may be fairly reckoned, If a day’s labour be valued at Is(g); and ſix brewings per annum reckonèd‘to each private brewery, the amount is 90,0001. Of this at leaſt eight-ninths is clear los; ſince the convenient apparatus, and dexterity of babit in a public brewery, muſt enable the ſame labour to produce nine times the beer in any given ſpace of time,

ALLIL The fuel is another, article frm which much ſub- traction would be made; and as wood is as generally uſed in the private as coal is in the public brewery, the additionäl coal yrould ſomewhat augment thé revenue; while the wood ſaved would ſomewhat Tower that article in thoſe inland ſituations, where ic is almoſt a neceſlary of life,

XLIV. If we add together the national loſs on the private brewery, the account will-ſand thus:—Four millions and a half of fixtures irrecoverable.- Intereſt of 1,500,000l(h) recovered, at 5 per cent., 75,000l.- Annual repairs, 300,000l. Waſte of malt, 50,000 quarters, at(217355,- 87 bo0L Additional price charged to private brewer, 300,000]. Waſte labour in brewing, 80,000). If additional fu-1 be charged at 22d per brewing, the amount is above(#) 20,000l. The total amounc is no leſs than 86 3,000l, which the demolition of the private brewery would(/) add to the national income. This aggregate ſum may perhaps appear ſomewhat enormous, but a lictle conlideration may per- haps prove the eſtimate too low.

ALV. It is certain that from ſome cauíe, the private brewery cannot be ſo profitable, as the exemption from a heavy duty ſeems

(Ff)‘Since the malter’s trade is not uncommonly profitable.

(gs) T ſuppoſe. the private brewery in general woman's labour.

(5) This article would not have its full eÆ& for fome time. It would only be a transfer of dead ſtock, till the decay of old utéenhils brought theſe all into aQivity.

(7) Without the daty: which is not waſted capital,

(&) 1,800,900 brewings at 22d is 20,6061.

0)«A pénny ſaved is a penny got.”“Net, Prob,

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