24 AUGUST 1867, Page 2

The American correspondent of the Times furnishes an account of

the taxation now levied on the inhabitants of the great cities by the Union, the State, and the Municipality. Every man in New York now pays 6/. 16s. ; of Philadelphia, 41. 17s. ; of Boston, 71. 17s. ; of Cincinnati, 5/. 4s. ; of Chicago, 4/. 18s. ; and of San Francisco, 71.13s. - These are enormously high rates, the Londoner not paying on the same plan of reckoning more than three pounds a head, two for national and one for local taxes, but they are not higher than he will have to pay if London is to be thoroughly civilized. We want 3s. a head more, or say 400,000/., for better police alone.