National Debt

,—three hundred and thirty-one millions of pounds sterling, which is increasing every day, and with it, as we are told, our happiness and prosperity. To give some idea of this sum, if it was laid down in guineas close together in a line, it would extend upwards of six thousand miles in length. If it was laid down in shillings it would extend upwards of five times round the world, and would require seventy thousand horses to draw it, at the rate of fifteen hundred weight each horse.