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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 262 262 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 188 188 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 79 79 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 65 65 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 51 51 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 35 35 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 28 28 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 21 21 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 18 18 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 17 17 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The British National debt. (search)
ntracted to meet the wants of the famishing Irish, in 1847-'8, was wholly paid off in five years. The addition made to the debt by the Russian war was thirty-six million six hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven pounds, and of this three million five hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and five pounds have since been extinguished; but at the present rate of re-payment twenty years will be occupied in the process. Taking into account the increased taxation of 1854-'5-'6, the total cost to England of the struggle with Russia cannot be estimated at less than seventy million pounds.--Taking into consideration, however, the large imported increase of the population of Great Britain since that time, and the unparalleled expansion of trade in the same period, the actual burden of the debt is probably not so great as it was fifteen or twenty years since.--One prominent and favorable feature of the British debt is, that its stock is almost exclusively held by