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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...intoxicating liquor for the six years ending 1801, was as follows: --Of ardent spirits, 7,200,338 gals, (old wine measure), beer, 4,735,574 barrels, or rather less than 154,000,000 gals, (this was the actual, not average consumption of beer in 1801), of wine, for the five years ending 1795, 7,000,000 gals, (old wine measure). In 1831, the population of the United Kingdom had increased to 24,000,000. The consumption of intoxicating liquor was as follows: --The annual average of ardent spirits for the six years ending 1831, was 25,652,428 gals, (old wine measure), of wine, about 7,500,000 gals, (old wine measure). The number of gallons of strong malt liquors brewed by publicans and brewers during the eight years preceding 1830, was in England alone, about 230,000,000, (of this quantity only 20,000,000 were exported.) But throwing it in as the amount consumed in Ireland and Scotland, what have we? Why, the number of gallons of intoxicating liquors of all sorts, consumed in 1801, with a population of 16,000,000, was 168,200,338; or rather more than 10 gals, per head of the population. In 1831, with a population of 24,000,000, the consumption had increased to 263,152,428 gals, or close upon 11 gals, per head of the population. In other words, whilst the population had increased during that term of years at the rate of 50 per cent., the consumption of intoxicating liquor had increased at the rate of 56 per cent. Hence, we see, in 1831 we were a more drunken people than in 1801; and a still more drunken people in 1868 than in 1849. It is a remarkable Fact that the drink market has never yet been Glutted. In other commodities, such as corn, cotton, and woollen goods, etc., should the supply pass beyond certain limits, we have a glutted market, and a depreciatio..
