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The discussion in England about the objects fol taxation, bring up great many facts that inter esting, even when are not concerned about the 'axas. Take the following statement:

 'Sir John Sinclair, in his work on tbe Revenue estimates that when the land tax was first impo.ed in the reign of William the Thlrd and during ,he reign of that monarch the amount contributed o the Exchequer was "A per cent, upon lhe entire revenue being more than one-tbird of the whole taxation of the country. Mir. M'Imyre, m his "nfluence of Aria tocraces on the Destlnies of Naiious," gives nh. same estimate. Speaking of the state of Ensl,nJ in the reign of William of Orange, he says-"More than fourth of the psblic revenue was der,yed f,n the hand tax. At that time the whole of the renenue WAS about ,600, ,O00, of which the tax on hand wa about 300 900. No fact better capable of de. monstration than that, since the close of the l7b century, land has increased in the ratio of D, ,oduc tveness to greater extent than any other of properly The incomes of the landlords hays been d''bh d. trebled, quadrupled-willlIn the last haIi ce itury The sites of large towns, and the lands in ther neghborhoods, have, in several instances, in creased them twenty fod thirty told, sixty -fold- Reasoning by analngy, hand should have borie an in- crease propori to the increased revenue required ior the servic.s of the Government How stands ;be fact! In t,e year lSl2. the total amount of revenue f52 O00 QUO, tI which the lanI tax contrib,cd t ,20O,U,0 Tine lsni tax re ei-e,n-d since l7g8 o,gh, o e added tn ihis seeing the snn,a payment sod for value equal to it. 1T this be don-, the and LAX ought to be taken al about 2.000 600.