| Show where the gold goes la in the reign of darius D arius god gad g id was thirteen times more valuable weight for weight than bliver bliven in the time of plato it was twelve times more valuable in that of julius camar canar gold was only niue nine times more valuable owing perhaps to the enormous ous quantities captured by him in his bis wars ward it is a n batul tuai question to ask what became of the gold and silver A paper read before the polytechnic association by dr stephens recently is calculated to meet this inquiry ue he says of our annual gold product faily fally fifteen per cent is melted down ton tan manur manufacture thirty five per cent goes to europe awen twenty ty five per cent to cuba fifteen per cent to brazil five per cent direct to japan china and the indies leaving five per cent for circulation in this country of that wilch which goes to cuta ca the west indies and brazil fully five per cent finds its way to europe where after deducting a large percentage used in manufacture four fifths of the remainder is exported to india the orientals Orient ais als consume but little while their productions have been ir in demand among the western nations As mero mere recipients these nations have acquired the desire of accumulation and hoarding Z a fashion common cammon to all classe classes samong among the egyptians chinese and persians A french economist bays baya in his hid opinion the former nation alone can hide away 20 of gold and silver annually and we present emperor of morocco is reported as ad so addicted to this avaricious mania that he has filled seventeen large chambers with the precious metals the passion of princes it is not surprising that thu the same spirit is shared by their subjects c ta and it is in this predilection thac thad we discover the solution to the problem as to the ultimate dle dis disposition position of the precious metals the absorption of the eastern E astern nations has been uninterrupted ly going on since the most moat remote his period ex I 1 tim LOST losi tho tripoli was a staunch beven seven years old aud and measured 2100 tons being one of the smallest steamers in the linew bich now numbers twenty six vessels this id 14 the ret rat accident that has occurred to the cunard lino line during the last lust twenty eight y years ears in 1841 the com banys steamer columbia went ashore on the coast of nova bc scotia otia but her machinery and the hull of the vessel were saved we believe it will thus be seen that the cunard line has been a very fortunate one and thero there is not probably another instance in the history of oceanie oceanic steamship lines of so many thousands of tris trips being made without loss iosa or accident as aa exhibited by this one oae ex isz |
