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Show L.1Q.LOR BCSIXKSS IS GREAT BBITA1S. From an able report on the 'iquor raffic of Great Britain, by Profe-sor Levi, F. S. A., we extract a few interesting inter-esting statistics. Aecoid:ng to the es ! tiuiate of this gentleman, the capitai , employed in tbe hu-ine-'S amounts to not less thin $o&5,000 OuO, and the number of persons engaged in it one ay and another, is set duwu at 1.500.-uOO. 1.500.-uOO. Two-thirdsofibe.se are in public -aloons and hotels. lOO.OOO peo dnd employment in coopering aud bot-Oing; bot-Oing; 66.0VH) in malting and brewing; 66 OO0 in the production of hops; 12, "00 in growing and picking hop.-; 6,000 in di-til!ing and rectifying, und 2,000 in the manufacture of bottles and curi-s. There are lu.OOO drinking e.-t;iblishments of various descriptions in London, at an average annual reutul of fT.ot'O; and 160,001 in tbe province;-:i' province;-:i' $1,500. Tbe average wages of the employees in all departments, amount yearl to $;J45 000.000. To this mmi be added $35, 000,000 paid for 5.094 ieeufce granted to wine and spirit dealers, who occupy houses fur which they pay an average of SJ.500 eoch for lease and fixtures, and $4,000,000 goe othe 1 i)0.(l00 men employed in them. $120,010,000 is invented in brewing alone, and the capital used iu the mau utaciure. of beer and spirits, and the importation of foreign liquors is $392,-000,000. |