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Show Tim "Golden Auk," referring to i a late speech by Gladstone, the British ; premier, says : j Then he indulged in intitule- com- ! plaecney because during eighteen years I of liberal administration the public debt of England has been diminished 1 00,000. Which is very well. Rut in two years and a halt'wo have reduced re-duced our public debt $-73, 749, SI I . Of courso Air. Gladstone is not to blaroo for his complacency. Rut if he, or any other English statesman had our facts to .stand upon, how he would make tho welkin ring ! To which Mr. Tilton might have added, that if William 1'wart Gladstone, Glad-stone, or any other Rritish statesman, had increased taxation in Eugland as it has been increased io the United States, to pay off tho public debt quicker, there would havo been such a revolution aroused as would have bathed St. Jaruos' in blood and buried tho Rritish government iu its own ruins. Witness the excitement over the attempt to impose a tax of one cent each on match boxes last session of parliament. Ova. Exchanges and the telegraph wires bring news of widely extended t-tonns, that threaten to mark the winter win-ter of 1ST 12 as not only commencing unusually early but being much more than ordinarily severe, if the great trans-continental lino continues running run-ning as successfully as it has so far done, all the iears ever entertained concerning it may be dismissed. |