N.B.-The Sinking-Fund is fictive, and, as it owns 58,515,236f. of Rentes, the whole annual charge of the public debt is only 327,422,311f. (say, $65,484,462). Danish-American Posses- Dutch-American Posses 0.3 sions.... 0.4 0.1 Goods, Wares, and Mer chandise. THE MORE IMPORTANT GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDISE IMPORTED. 1234567 65.2 139.8 THE MORE IMPORTANT GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDISE EXPORTED. Totals....... 1,874.1 1,926.3 Profitable as this monopoly was to the French Government, the proceeds are really a great deal of money less than England draws from the same imported article by her judicious practice of liberty. England taxes tobacco between 3 shillings and 9 shillings the pound, levying at the same time an additional tax of five per cent. Nevertheless, although she has a population one-fourth less than France, and with fewer smokers and snuffers in proportion to every hundred inhabitants than France possesses, the difference between the two nations in the revennes drawn from this source was as follows, in these years: |