e to colonial account. It may be taken for granted,
that at least to the amount of L.1,300,000 should be placed against
ancient foreign service, separate from colonial; whilst, for the balance,
home, foreign, and colonial service since the war may be admitted to enter
in certain proportions each. Deducting, in the first place, from the total
estimates of, say

L.6,225,000

The "dead-weight" of pensions, &c., 2,300,000
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We have, as expenditure for military force on
foot, L.3,925,000, but say-- L.4,000,000

Taking the Cobden dictum of three-fourths of
this charge for the colonies, we have in
round numbers, say-- 3,000,000
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And the incredibly absurd sum left for home
and foreign service of L.1,000,000

As we have, in our last number, established deductions from the gross sum
of L.4,500,000 put down to the colonies by Mr Cobden, to the amount of
L.1,550,000, we shall now remodel our table thus:--

To colonial account, as per Mr Cobden, of
active force,-- L.3,000,000

Add colonial proportion of half-pay,
pensions, &c., as per id., three-fourths
of L.1,000,000 750,000
---------- L.3,750,000

Deduct military and other stations, falsely
called colonial, as per former account,-- L.1,550,000

Deduct again charges for the Chinese war,
exact amount unknown, deceptively included
in colonial account--say for only 250,000
--------- 1,800,000
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Approximate, but still surcharged proportion of
army estimates for colonial service, on Mr
Cobden's absurd basis of three-fourths, L.1,950,000

This is a woful falling off from Mr Cobden's wholesale colonial invoice of
_four and a half millions sterling_! It amounts to a discount or rebate
upon his statistical ware of L.2,550,000, or say, not far short of sixty
per cent. Had the Leaguer been in the habit of dealing cotton wares to his
customers, so damaged in texture or colours as are his wares political and
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