The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

OAT Or THE INDIAN WAR. 'The year of mutiny
1857-sff cost the empire in round numbers nine and a
half millions sterling. Tliat at least is the official state-
meet, but 110 extraordinary are mime of the items of
the account that we are tempted to disbelieve even •
blue-book. It will he perceived that the ileeresae in the I
land revenue is just C 2,001000, being £200.000 more I
than the actual bow on the land revenue of the North- ,
West, which i aiiituounted to 11:1.$011.000. This awl the '
loss on the salt in the Nallle presidency formed the only
IC revenue Mosses of the year, and 50 per cent, even
of the ow are made up from the increameil profit on opium.
A fact inure indicative of the strength of our revenue
system we have rarely Well. lie a COIIVIII/110111111C11 as has
seldom been recorded in biatury, with the North-West
Provinces " actually lost" the revenue declined by A KUM ,
iCM than 7 per cent. upon the Krona income of the State, I
lesa by hundreds of thomomils than the revenue loss i'ro•
duces' iii Engleiel by the recent monetary panic ! l'he
fact is • pleasant 'one for the holders of Indian funds.
The revenue which 'missed almost umscathed through i
11457 will scarcely be affected by anything short of our 1
expulsion. It is fortunate that it is so, for the ex-
penditure shows four greet items of increaae. The civil
expenditure ilea increimed by a million end • half, ,
principally from carrying tel that amount the £1,174,649,
the cash actually taken Fri the mutineer's from the
treasuries. The military expenditure, notwithstanding
I. the disappearance of the old army and the old pension
hail bvn enlarged by four millions and a quarter,
the omit of military buildings by half a million, and the
home expenditure by two million' and a half. The '
total of excess over hod year, after 'denying public
work., in seven million'. Nor can this represent the
whole truth. No outlay had in this year been made
for property destroyed, for oompenaation, or for thenew
police corps, three most serious stein.. The expenditure ,
for police. indeed, lead 'scarcely increased a pound. Nor
apparently hail the transport bill been paid. The whole I
charge it put down at E 770,000, or about I:19a head—an
imposaibility. Even if part of the costof transport were I
paid out of the next item, " Permute on account of
Majesty's troops serving in India, .C1,175,(100," the '
total will not be in excess of the truth. Taking the
whole account, however, ass it stands ma • fair repreaenta-
tion of the fact, it justifies the foreboding of inir cor-
respondent •• We lost last year nine millions and •
half. This year we have as much to lose, miens the
cash stolen, but phis the pay of about 70,000 new levies
and police. pins *fine 600 new staff appointment'', piss
the rehabilimtion of nearly exhauated arsenals. There
ia ten more millions added to the former. Add at least
live million* for property to be renewed, for isoinpensa-
tion, and for accounts left unadjusted, and the mutiny,
even if it ends this cold weather, lean added 25 millions
to the debt. Thetis. at 5 per cent., £1,250,000 added to
the permanent burden. Acid the cost of 4/5 extra bat-
talions of Europeans, or "ay, with our new maims of
English cavalry, not lead than odsuo.ooo a year. Add
the 000,000 of the old deficit in 1557, and we have
increased interest of debt, £1,2150,000 ; increased mili-
tary oust. ir.1.600,0iA) ; old deficit, £900,000; total,
£1i,6.50.000. In other words, a iwrinanent deficit of
Ave millions and • half, to be met by the surplus of
Ouile, when it conies, and the profits of the half -dozen
jagliirra and pensions forfeited before Lord Stanley
restured