Hay, straw, and wood, at still higher rates.
The town dues of Lille amount to 10s.

per head on the population; those of Florence, about the same; and those of Lyons 12s.6d.

At Bologna they are 14s.2d.Observe, town dues alone.

We are already a long way from the 7s.6d.of the Golden Age! I am bound in justice to admit that the nation has not always been so hardly dealt with.

It was not till the reign of Pius IX.