The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-04 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1862.

The new Secreiary for War has now put us in
possession of the reasons for the enormous bill which
he has laid before us for military purposes 'Luring
the year. The frightful tutal I:, upwards of
£16,250,000. Sir G. C. LT—ivis himself, new to his
office, seemed to foci that it was something like one
of the se,-
.en wonders of the world, and in his exor-
tuta he could not refrain from placing it in those
'varied lights, and giving those descriptions of the
rise
and progress of such an unparalleled expendi-
ture, 'which the historian and the essayist de-
light.
They are interesting, no doubt, but they
do nothing t alter the fact that the money is de-
manded or ,is
last fact to' the must be paid. So clear is this
House of Commons that Mr.
WHITE, and everyfinancial reformer, was left in
ludicrous minority,
Perhaps Perhaps Sir G. C. Lzwi
s thought that the army
demands were quite enough
is rather singular that he (lido'. one speech; but it
ner, making his
comparison, once allude to the
8t
which is but a part, in fact of the navy,
, of
the r
traheY,---c it is our
°
in
Aoating army, and inseparable
Island Kingdom from our whole system
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itself
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and attack. He remarked that, after Paying
twenty-six millions, the interest of our debt,
a military charge, and after adding to it the cost of
the army, sixteen millions—we had twenty-seven
or twenty-eight millions left for other purposes.
He seems to have overlooked the further reduction
to be made of twelve millions for the Navy.
Leaving as, out of the unimaginable sum of seventy
millions sterling, the comparatively modest amount
of fifteen or sixteen millions for all other purposes
of Government ! One cannot wonder that Philan-
thropists should sigh as they read the figures.
SIXTEEN' MILLIONS fur purposes of peace,
Five-roux MILLIONS ( purposes of war! The