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Show : ... c Consumption of Liquor in Gkeat iitatn. Lord John Russell, in a eech made at the conference of the itional Union for the supressiqn of temperance, over which he presided, id that during the; five years ending th 1B70, the temperate British peo-e peo-e spent for intoxicating liquors the ;e little sum of 512,842, 315 pounds ;rling about twenty-fivo hundred iilion dollars.-- The amount is about reo limes as large as tho annual some of all the railways of the nited Kingdom; twice as large as the pital of ail the savings banks; half largo again as the national revenues r tho whole time, and fifty times as rge as the collective income of all the j ( ligious and philanthropic societies in e country. We arc sorry to add, on e authority of the same competent itness, that the working classes pay -r the greater share of this enormous I m. The calculations given are made am tho amount of liquors which pay ity: i |