§ The Excise produced Exchequer receipts of £29,200.000, an increase of £250,000 over my estimate, and of £900,000 over last year. Of this, beer produced an increase of £247,000, rather less than my Estimate. Spirits produced an increase of £036,000, being £260,000 more than my estimate. That was a purely exceptional rate of increase for spirits, as compared with the previous year. It was due, I think, mainly to the falling off in foreign spirits, to which I have already alluded; but partly also, I hope, to the restrictions on grogging which the House enacted last year.