Forty
thousand
ships are
entered in
Lloyd's
lists. The
yield of
wheat has
gone on
from
2,000,000
quarters
in the
time of
the
Stuarts,
to
13,000,000
in 1854.
Athousand
million of
pounds
sterling
are said
to compose
the
floating
money of
commerce.
In 1848,
Lord John
Russell
stated
that the
people of
this
country
had laid
out
300,000,000
pounds of
capital in
railways,
in the
last four
years. But
a better
measure
than these
sounding
