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Show John Bull's Load. The figures of the British national revenue for the financial year which has closed amount to 203,850,000. In addition to collecting about 204,000,-000 204,000,-000 for public supplies, they yearly raise, in England and Wales alone another an-other 100,000,000, which is spent by local authorities, who have incurred besides a debt of nearly 500,000,000. To these figures must be added the local lo-cal debts and expenditures of Scotland and Ireland. A British paper says: "It is quite wrong to calculate, as statisticians do, how much this vast oppressive sum comes to per head of the population. The weight of it is not spread throughout through-out the entire people. It falls lightly on Borne thousands of rich men, and very heavily on a few million hardworking hard-working bread-winners." |