Ardent Spirits Consumed Annually in British Empire

The following is the amount of ardent spirits consumed annually in the British Empire. We have copied it from the returns:

England.
Population, 13,897,187
G. of spirits, 12,341,238

Ireland.
Population, 7,767,401
G. of spirits, 12,293,464

Scotland.
Population, 2,365,114
G. of spirits, 6,767,715

On calculating, we find that this return of spirits leave seven pints and one-ninth to each and every individual in England; thirteen pints to every inhabitant of Ireland, and twenty-three pints to each religious, moral, enlightened, sagacious, and cautious citizen in Scotland!!! On the supposition that only one-sixth of the quantity is consumed in Scotland is drunk by the women and children, who certainly constitute three-fourths of the population, what a fearful quantity of liquid fire must fall to the share of the men.

[Montreal Herald.