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write Sift,—Mr. W. G. Brittan will find the figures he

asks for in "We rave Germany Heligoland; yet ever since that cession of the Times of December 12th and each month in that paper

for the last thirty years—Mr. Augustus Sauerbeck's "Index Number." Of the commodities Mr. Britten specifies (and some others), and for the year he mentions (1896), it would require £81 12s. to buy now what £61 would have bought then.—I am, Sir, &c., MORETON FREWEN. White's Club.