The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-21
GREAT BRITAIN
 ISPROGRESS|NG Politics and Industrial Wars
 Without Effect GROUSE SH % TIN G Survivors of Charge of Light Brigade Hold Reunion-Hardwick Estate to Be Sold-No Loafers
 in St. Pauls

London. November 2o.-(SpeciaD Great industrial disturbances; desperate party politics and the high cost of living to the contrary notwithstanding Great BTU ain is going ahead in material way Tn manner which may be properly ae- scribed as satisfactory.
 The commercial department Of 'he Board of Trade has just issued its fifty- eighth statistical abstract which contains many figures calculated to make Jonn Hu,rs bosom swell with pride at his steady and healthy growth. Comparisons sre made with 1897, period of 15 years.
 Almost innumerable subjects are dealt with, and the volume shows in striking figures how the nation has progressed since 1S9s In 1s96-7 the total imperial rev enue was ZIP, ,1es,547, whereas the amount for 1s1O-11 was a2Os, ,s5O,5sS. Fifteen years ago our army and navy cost f1S,2f0,0oo and G22,17o,ooo, respectively; e27,449,OOo and e40, ,3s6,000.
 The total amount on which income tax Is received has risen from s4S7 7,95S,oo0 in 1S95-6 to s6s6,S12 104 in 1S09-10. The yield has more than doubled. having increased from s16,0oo.O0O to a370O0,0O0. Gross es- timated rental, for poor rate purposes. has increased from s1s5.0oo,o 900 in 1S65-6 in Eng land and Wales to nearly e267,0o0,000 in 1909-10. The rateable value rose from s1G2,- o0o.ooo to f215.ooO,OOO and the poor rate re- ceipts from nearly f24,ooo,o0o to nearly G35,000, GOO. The railway figures are of especial interest at the moment. The to- tai amount of the paid up capital of the railways of the United Kingdom has risen from q 1O2s. 475,o0o in 1896 to e1.31s,515,6oo in 1910
 19sG 1910. Miles of line ...... 21,27l 2SSS7 Passengers ........ 9S0, 3S9, 900 1906, 12S,OO5 Gross receipts. 2 90,11,s,122 12SJ25,56o Working expend'. 5O'19242f ,6o69.Si6 Net receipts - 39, 6,6S9 47,355, SS9
 Tramways in the United Kingdom in creased from 1909 miles in 1895 to 2562 miles in 1910; the passengers have risen in num- bers from 759,000,0 600 to 2,743,00o,000; the paid up capital of registered companies in April, 1910. was f2,17s, 619,734. The amount of money due to postoffoce savings banks depositors in 1910 was a16S, ,s90,215, an in- crease since 1896 of 96S, ,000o0o. Another in- teresting fact is that each inhabitant or the United Kingdom received in 1896 on an aNtIdEG VI 10 ltlActo ptI III 10AV he was receiving 6S. The delivery of post cards increased from 33G G000,000 in 1896 to S71.O00,0O9 in 1910. There were roughly 10, eco 900 more telegrams sent in 1910 than in 1896, the figure now being g., ,IS2, 00O. The progress of the telephone is quite TO- nance in figures. In 1910 there were sS,- 29e. There is no record of trunk calls until 1S97-S, when the number was B. 941, ,a6O; in 1909-10 there were 26,69S ,39S. The <11, D-f .faI -ca1c la act year. nearly double the number dealt with in 1896. Altogether 1t makes a pretty good showing for John Bull.
 Grouse shooting is now practically over for a year. The heaviest one day bag obtained in Scotland was that of Lord Dalkeith and his party on the Duke of Bucceleuchs Roanfell moor, i nRoxburg shire, when eight guns killed 2523 birds. In England the best one day bag was that of Due de Luynes and five other guns on Lord Strathmore's Wemmergi moors in the upper Lunedale district or Durham, 15e9 birds were killed during four drives in stormy weather.
 On the Duke of Devonshire's upper Wharfedale moors In Yorkshire 14,91S birds were killed in 22 days, all by driving, and there were usually nine guns out. The hest bag was obtained on Agust IS, when the King was Included in the party, and nine guns killed 1850 birds on the Barden and Rystone moors.
 Eleven aged men, representing the 22 survivors of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclaca. dined at the Hol- born restaurant to celebrate the fifty seventh anniversary of their world famous ride. The dinner was organized by MT. T. IT. Roberts, the founder of the Bal aclava survivors relief fund.
 A telegram was received from the King thanking the survivors of the charge for the loyal sentiments conveyed in a message to his majesty, and trusting that they would spend a pleasant even ing together.
 The youngest of the little band of sur vvors, which dwindles year by year, is T years old, and most of them are hale and hearty.
 Sir C. D. Rose, member of parliament, has decided to sell his Hardwick estate of 2500 acres. which includes $50 acres of wood sloping down to the Thames. It is