Revenue.Expenditure. Balance.
£££
18561,691,5891,494,435197,153
18571,877,4201,645,748231,772
18581,884,4931,714,374170,119
18592,176,5902,006,363170,227
18602,350,3612,247,328103,033
18612,288,2892,131,432156,857
18622,223,9692,064,865159,104
18632,296,3052,060,849235,454
18642,346,2032,120,554225,649
18652,136,0761,976,999159,077
18662,243,0762,094,493148,583
18672,084,3932,261,440177,047[f]
18682,485,9652,313,817172,148
18692,559,6272,390,518169,109
18702,317,0162,174,672142,344
18712,092,6561,923,881168,775
18722,122,7561,953,551169,205
18732,173,3712,007,761165,610
18742,186,6632,047,899138,764
41,546,81838,630,909

[355] Deficiency.

[356] About 90,000 tons of coal are usually kept in stock at their different coaling stations, distributed somewhat in the following proportions:

Tons.
Southampton2,000
Malta5,000
Alexandria and Suez6,000
Aden20,900
Bombay8,000
Point de Galle12,000
Madras500
Calcutta4,000
Singapore8,000
Hong-Kong10,000
Shanghai6,000
Yokohama2,200
King George’s Sound4,000
Sydney1,200

[357] The dimensions of the Khedive are as follows:—Length, 380 feet; breadth, 42 feet; depth, 36 feet. Her builders’ measurement is 3329 tons; her gross register, 3742 tons; and her net register, 2092 tons. So far as regards capacity, she is fitted so as to accommodate with the space and style now required for Eastern travel (how different to the space allotted to passengers in the ships of Nearchus!) 164 first-class and 53 second-class passengers. Besides this, she has store-rooms of various kinds to hold 380 tons, rooms for mails and baggage to contain 142 tons; bunkers to hold 846 tons of coals calculated at 45 cubic feet per ton, and holds which can receive 2003 tons of cargo of 50 feet to the ton.

Her average speed is 10 knots per hour on a consumption of 32 tons of coal per diem, but “she can be driven at a much higher speed with a proportionate increase of expenditure of fuel.” The contract specifies a speed to be guaranteed on trial of not less than 13 ½ knots an hour on the measured mile, with dead weight on board of coals or cargo to the extent of 1500 tons.

Her engines are compound, “vertical direct acting,” of 600 nominal horse-power, with 4 feet 6 inches length of stroke. The diameter of her cylinders is 69 and 96 inches respectively, and that of her screw, which consists of four blades, 17 feet 6 inches; its pitch being 22 feet 6 inches and 24 feet. She has 4 boilers and 16 furnaces. The fire-bar surface is 320 square feet, and the heating and condensing surface 11,720, and 6059 square feet respectively. The loaded pressure is 55 pounds on her boilers.

[358]

Europeans. Natives.
Navigating{ Commander1
{ Officers5
{ Surgeon1
{ Carpenter1
{ Boatswain1
{ Quartermasters3
{ Carpenter’s mate (Chinese)1
{ Gig’s crew (do.)6
{ Seamen (Lascars) 43
{ Assistants of different sorts 6
Engines{ Engineers 6
{ Coal trimmers, &c.49
Cabins{ Purser1
{ Clerk, Head Steward, Cook, Baker, Butcher, Pantryman, Storekeeper, and Barman8
{ Stewards22
{ Stewardesses2
{ Purser’s department21
Total Europeans51Natives 126

[359] For fleet of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Jan. 1875, see[ Appendix No. 23, pp. 639-40].