THE COMPARATIVE WEALTH OF FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 98, 18 March 1876, Page 3

THE COMPARATIVE WEALTH OF FRANCE AND GERMANY.

; I Milking Testimony, tpTh e,.%auyial prosperity,of. i'panqey/jas.goniparnd .with,. th e poyorty .of. G ermany,; has: just behn given’ by - the- Zeitang -T in ! .eoiiilnhitts ll wjlidh ■ fife : present flourishing ooiiditibit of the French re Venue,' find the’’ great excess of the receipts in 1875 over those of last year,

am! ov -r <if‘ bud tret mdhiaS: s, 'I his lust-’ n.'Jjult, it. Stnt(’fs, 'i:; 'V"!: flu >‘d f" help liti’i! the astonishment leii. at !•»«* material well -1 i»■; j); <’ of I'V.i ii : 'H spit;; of u formidable 'burden of ui.v-ilioft which exceeds th;■ sum of £ I'Jf.ip'Ub'jUuU, iSiis burden, it would ap»>.*:ir, is homo with iistoni.sliiaiv ami the,national finances (,‘oiitiiiiic more and more from year to y.>;ir. Si, is to bo observed •!hiitin i/ritssi.i and its recently added provinces, wilti l uu a.p'grogaio area aml population Avo-thirds those of France. the iaco o of the - State is only .tf 1 !Ana*.<i'.H.),' or .about it third of tin- Slide -• income in ifrnnoo. The French pron]..-, therejiuv, bear a bunion of taxation double chat of Prussia, and neVi‘i - l,jii’l.people seem to find the taxes press more S'-wivly than in the case of ’France, Franc.- is, therefore, in fact, after Kne-iand, the richest conulrv :n : tic- World, and if wo [dace lire ijcnmai Km pi re in the thin I rank in VcomAih; prnspeWtv, the number of rich and well dointr .blaic:, is soon exhausted foj • besides ' one* or two small >dlutes, like BcUrinm, J loihuid, I'lejfmarlc, and F'.vit/.eri.airi, .one can-seur-v’y meulion :in>tlher rich country — whether in Urn Hasten) or Western hemisphere. An exception .nay ho made for the 'United State, which miikcs yreat steps f< »rwarJ in it economic con-, solidaii'on. Nevertheless, tie- ilinuicifil circmnotaMces of France throw- almost ;i!l the other Slate's into the shade.”. This is hj reiuarkahle' Oomplu’acni 'to.- ho paid to Fraiico by a Obn-mtui anthoiniv, while the hicrnnin triumph.-; in tin- late winch ate the subject of the compliment, db iniiy add arc 'thenisehvs so -'.veil known ms t. yo fa:' lb.soothe'tin; .amour prop Hr' : uf- Frenchmen’ on the score of of their 'labmAFaf Alt may,’be hoped,, as time; pees on. that Fivnclimeu’ will come.to roirard Unit delAiFns a pro-sin:: incident in their l»N(orv, the just retriimimn of a mistaken policy, and not any thin;? .mpiiriug.to be avenged so as to restore tile!!; preside;-";. Their rapid recovery lro;u tin; material consequences of defeat has, already, furnished, a more strilc!n':> pi'uof of the ener-e-y and vim-lity or the. nice than .oven a successful war of rcVdiipd’ could possibly pdve., ■