The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-23 00:00:00

FRENCH AND ENGLISH PUBLIC

EXPENDITURE.

(From the Money Market Review.)
The speech of M. Granier de Cassagnac contains
some interesting comparisons between the public
expenditure of France and England, which, though
not accurate, so far as our own finances are con-
cerned, may be worth reading :
Fran ce.
Civil Service £9,080,000 ..
Army 14,760,000 ..
Marine

England.
£10,000,000

24,000,000
9,760,000

£29,880,000 £43,760,000
M. Granier de Cassagnac estimates the number
of men in the French army at 400,000, and the total
of the English army at 300,000, 100,000 of whom
are employed in Great Britain, and 200,000 in
India. The interest on the national debt being
omitted in both cases, we have no means of drawing
any fair comparison, but the total amount set clown
as the expenditure of Great Britain for army,
navy, and civil service is correct. The exact
figures, according to the recent budget, were :
Army, Militia, and China War £16,500,000
Navy
11,800,000
Civil Service ........

This, although the £43,760,000
total is the same, gives a very
different complexion to our national expenditure
as compared with that of France; but as we shall
write on the French budget when M. Fould has
more fully explained the details, it is needless to
pursue the subject at present. The increase of the
national wealth of France is also worth notice.
The law of Aug. 7, 1850, prescribed the drawing
up of a decennial inventory of the land rvvenues,
which was accordingly done.
On Jan. 1, 1851, they amounted to £101,840,000
On lan. 1, 1861, they amounted to • 128,640,000

Showing an increase during the ten
years of
or a mean augmentation of £2,680,000 per annum.

LORD CANNING AND THE FREEDOM

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The sudden death of Lord Canning is an event
of greater magnitude, and of much more moment
to the affairs of this country than it has been as
yet regarded. There is something extraordinary
in the quiet manner in which be has passed away,
and we observe a general unconcern as to the event
which we cannot regard as either creditable or
natural. If we may use a common-place expression
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diedf o n tmi nogs t death,
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while
Canning cbe saidthough
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great labour of his lire was completed, and the jus-
tice of his Indian policy had been •
recognized, the
man himself had received but few tokens of national
regard, and might not have been thoroughly satis-
fied if his self-sacrifice, devotion, and patriotism
were fully appreciated, either by the Crown or the
people. The City has especial reason to take note
of the quiet passing away of this master pilot, who
steered the Indian empire through rocks and whirl-
pools to open water and benignant sky. It was
but the other day that Lord Canning was selected
for the addition of his name to the list of Honorary
Freemen of the Corporation. The " freedom," en-
closed in the customary box for preservation, had
been unanimously voted him, and the presentation
of the gift was deferred, in consequence of the bad
state of his lordship's health. The opportunity for
a graceful act of recognition by the City of Lord
Canning's services to the country and the Crown
has gone for ever. " Mors ultima linea reruns. est,"
says Horece, and it is the lesser evil that a great
man should miss a social compliment than that he
should sink in the midst of the enterprizes on which
rests the hopes of a nation and his own political
fame.—City Press.