ment of every year, be taken out for the use of them instead. The present immense material prosperity of the country is evidenced by the fact that the revenue from the various sources above enumerated amounted, during the twelve months ending March 31st, 1873, to £76,608,700, or five millions more than its amount had been estimated at in the budget of 1872. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE SHOWING AT INTERVALS THE DATES OF THE SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT ACCORD ING TO THE CORRESPONDING YEARS OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA, AND OF THE REIGNS OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS, AND THE DATES OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE REIGNS FROM A.D. 1216. * It must be borne in mind that under the old style until 1751 inclusive, the year was reckoned as beginning on the 25th of March. (See 24 Geo. 2, c. 23.) 1679, 1684 (5), * Feb. 6, 1694, 1700-1, |