The average retail prices paid by the working-classes for food in eighty of the principal towns on March 9th and a year ago are compared in the following table issued by the President of the Board of Trade: Last Year Now _s._ _d._ _s._ _d._ Bread, per 4 lbs. 0 5-1/2 0 7-3/4 Butter, per lb. 1 3-3/4 1 4-1/2 Jam, per lb. 0 5 0 5-3/4 Cheese, per lb. 0 8-3/4 0 10-1/4 Bacon (streaky), per lb. 0 11 1 0 Beef, English, per lb. 0 9-3/4 0 11 Beef, chilled or frozen, per lb. 0 7-1/4 0 8-3/4 Mutton, English, per lb. 0 10-1/4 0 11-1/4 Mutton, frozen, per lb. 0 6-3/4 0 8-1/4 Tea, per lb. 1 6 1 9-1/4 Sugar, granulated, per lb. 0 2 0 3-1/2 A few more facts. Though the matter was constantly referred to, yet we had been at war for five months before the Government could be prevailed upon to prohibit the exportation of cocoa; with what result? In December, January, and February last our exports of cocoa to neutral countries were 16,575,017 lbs., whilst for the corresponding period for 1913 the exports were but 3,584,003 lbs.! Before the war, Holland was an _exporter_ of cocoa to this country; since the war she has been the principal _importer_; and there is a mass of indisputable evidence to show that nearly the whole of our exports of cocoa have found their way to Germany through this channel. The prohibition is now removed, so we may expect that the old game of supplying the German Army with cocoa from England will begin again! The German Army must also have tea. Let us see how we have supplied it. During the first fortnight of war, export was restricted and only 60,666 lbs. were sent out of the country, whereas for the corresponding period of the previous year 179,143 lbs. were exported. During the next three months the restrictions were removed, when no less a quantity than 15,808,628 lbs. was sent away--the greater part of it by roundabout channels to Germany--against 1,146,237 lbs. for the corresponding period in 1913. After three months a modified restriction was placed upon the export of tea, but after reckoning the whole sum it is found that _during the time we have been at war we have sent abroad over 20,000,000 lbs. of tea_, while in the corresponding period of the previous year we sent only a little over 2,000,000 lbs.! Now where has it gone? In August and September last, Germany received from Holland 16,000,000 lbs. whereas in that period of 1913 she only received 1,000,000 lbs. Tea is given as a stimulant to German troops in the field, so we see how the British Government have been tricked into _actually feeding the enemy_!