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London, England, 1858-02-16 00:00:00

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ZONDON, TUBSDAT, 711310427 16.

The Navy and Army Estimates just promoted to
Parliament show a proposed augmented earpeadi-
tare of

Navy .C 932,601
Any 96,152

Total ismer, he 1158-9 .. £1,027,763

Now, considering that we have a great rebellion
raging in India; a war, censured by the House of
Commons, still prosecuted in China; a state of re-
lations not of the most agreeable character with
the Government of France —an increase of
one million sterling for the Navy and the Army
is perhaps lees than most people expected; and
will not in itself, it may be presumed, interfere with
that gradual subsidence of taxation which, if not
interrupted, ought to give very substantial relief to
taxpayers and the Treasury in 1880.

But, although much greater simplicity and unity
have been introduced into these estimates of late years,
it is to be observed that the Army Estimates do not, as
now framed, include what at present is a heavy item
of our military expenditure, the charge for the Militia
daring 1838-9. The reason of course is the consti-
tutional one,that the Militia being a Parliamentary,
and not a Royal force, the Estimates for the Militia
are nominally prepared by a committee of the
House of Commons, not by the Minister of the
Crown. Legally and formally this is the case; but
substantially and practically the Militia Estimates
are as much the work of the War-office as the Army
Estimate* ; and, until the country is made acquainted
with the intentions of the Government as to the
Militia, and until the House of Commons has bad
laid before it the proposed expenditure on that force,
we have not the advantage of knowing the full
military policy of the Cabinet, which may, after all,
involve the nation in a much greater increase of ex-
penditure on our land !brae than that which appears
on the Army Estimates, via., 93,1621. We must
wait until we have the Militia Estimate before we
can speak with any certainty on that point.
In the year 1868-9 Lord PALMERSTON'S Govern-
ment proposes that the British people should, by its
representatives in the House of Commons, grant
the Crown—

For the Navy £9,140,127
Far the Army, eidosive of Militia 11,638,387

For Nary sad Army £20,678,514
An immense sum ; but not all. For the Militia can
hardly cost much lees next year than another mil-
lion. So that we shall not probably be far wrong
in speaking of the Military Expenditure of 1868-9,
payable out of British taxation, as 21,600,0004
Of this enormous expenditure, part is for effective,
part for non-effective services. The figures repre-
senting this important distinction stand thus:

Iffectlva Non-Bimini
Sorrier. Sordoni.
Army
Nary

These two great branches of the service, there-
fore, impose a dead weight oa the public resources
next year of 3,574,6881.; and the tendency of a war-
like policy is of coons to increase in a permanent
form this heavy item ; for while peace enables the
Goverumeat to propose diminished effective ser-
vices, it has no each influence on the Army and
Navy deed weight.

Well, then, what is it we are to get for this immense
expenditure of 20,878,5141. io the year 1858-9? Let
nee take the Army first ; for in that berries the
country just now most deeply eaneenied.
The Estimate for it is 11,638,3871. Now,
in the current year, the Rome of Com-
mons was asked for and voted 118,796 men,
of which 8,700 consisted of West India Regiments
and Colonial corps. For the service of next year the
Home %hi be asked to vote 130,135 men. The pro-
posed increase of the Army to be paid for by the
British people is, therefore, only some 3,000. Of
this increase, 1,200 belong to the Cavalry of the
Line, 600 to the Foot Artillery, and 700 to the Foot
Oneida. The Line will remain mach the same in
nominal strength in 1868-9 that it did in the Esti-
mates for the year 1837-B—namely, 78,504 of all
ranks.

It must not, however, for a moment be supposed
that the Quern's Land Forces in 1838-9 are in-
tended to consist of only 130,133 men of all ranks.
That ie only the number which the House of Com-
mas will be asked to vote, and which, if voted, the
British people will have to pay for. That number
is Azad on by the Cabinet as necessary for domestic,
colonial, and imperial purposes, and for the preser-
vation of the balance of European power, without
rehrence to the necessities of India. To it we must
add the Qc sues Forms in India, which are not
voted by Parliament, and which are not paid for by
the British people, before we can get at the proposed
strength of the Royal Army for 1838-9.
In the &donates for 1837.8 the number of Quzzo's
beep en the East lodise Establishment was 30,197
af all ranks, and 2,612 hones. In the Estimates for
1838-9 it is proposed that that force shall be 92,730
men of all rank', and 10,181 hones, Here, then, we
hare an aagmentsd toes of 61433 nisei and 7,369
hones, for which Indian, act English, taxation will
Aare to provide. New, if we add the number of the
Quzz6's troops proposed to be kept in India in
18369 to the slumber which Parliament wil► be
asked to vote, the nal strength of the Qtrzait's Lim
Flrfai mattered. wet the whole unpin (92,736 ja