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consumed by the Britisli working-man. Of 

 course all such statements are made without 

 reference to the facts, because not one of these 

 articles of food is necessarily consumed by the 

 foreign working-man, or by anybod}' else ; and, 

 from conversations we have had with foreigners 

 in our own country, we can only say that they 

 have expressed surprise that any Englishmen 

 should be so gullible as to believe the stories on 

 this matter which have been repeatedly told to 

 them. 



As an ounce of fact is worth a ton of fiction we 

 need only further add that our own visits to 

 France, Holland, Germany, Denmark, and 

 Sweden, do not bear out the statements of 

 opponents as above referred to; Avhilst on the 

 other hand we find by reference to the ofncial 

 Blue-Book, that the cost of food is such as to 

 entirely disprove the assertions of anti-tarifE 

 reformers. 



We have, therefore, extracted the figures, and 

 we give them in the table below; — 



The price of bread in England (London) is 

 officially stated to be 5d. per 4 lb. loaf, and it 



