ONE OF ENGLAND’S GLORIES.
Loitb John Russell, in a speech made at the conference of the National Union for the Suppression of Intempercnce, over which he presided, said that during the five years ending with 1870, the temperate British people spent for intoxicating liquor the nice little sum of 514,842,345 pounds sterling,—about 2,500,000,000 dollars. This amount is about three times as large as the annual income of all the railways of the United Kingdom ; twice as large as the capital of all the savings banks ; half as large again as the national revenues for the whole time, and fifty times as large as the collective income of all the religious and philanthropic societies in the country.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 50, 4 December 1871, Page 3
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116ONE OF ENGLAND’S GLORIES. Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 50, 4 December 1871, Page 3
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