The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-02-24 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

TELE ARMY ESTIMATES EXPLAINED. INTERVIEWING MR. GLADSTONE. ; Mr. Cardwell mentioned at the eutset of his speech The New York World has had a startling triumph. last session that" fully one million of the expenditure Its London correspondent has not exactly "interwas, Niewed " Mr. Gladstone; but he has contrived to do di kind which will never occur in ordinary years." We thigheexpect, therefore, the estimate's for the cornwhat is quite as good and nearly as effective—to lug year to be reduced by at least that sum, and such, elicit from Mr. Gladstone a long autograph letter for in fact, is the net result of the figures before us. The the especial benefit of the leading New York demoestimates of 1870 were £12,975,000. those of 1871 rose °ratio organ. On the 6th inst. Mr. Gladstone declared to £15,851,700; and those of 1872 have fallen to in Parliament that our reading of the treaty was "the £14,824,500, showing a net decrease of 21,027,200. The meaning and the only meaning—that is the only ratronal meaning;* thrilireetlYamifiancrinreanirig-greater part; moreover,- 4:5T llair-Mreirs'ing saved on the very item to which Mr. Cardwell then referred. whether tested by sense, by policy, or ,by any other The stores and supplies of- the army had, as -usual standard. And on the 7th be further said that during peace, been allowed to. falLbeloix-thoneceasities .the.treaV.Mas " tinajabi, r "the right" of the ArneglAtip and *qt.!' ja.l.t. thtgait d li o, of a thoroughly efficient force, and it was determined, yet admitte the title' pnce,for all, to raise them to ,the 'requisite standard. rican Government to form a different judgment. This year, accordingly, the expenditure under the According to a London correspondent of the World head of Control Establishments and Services is diini; the said gentleman who recently interviewed Mr. nished:by £746,600-, and that under the head of Works Bradlaughwrites to Mr. - Gladstone, asking him and Buildings by £128,800. The chief remaining de.: whether he had really .said that " every rational mind" crease is an amount of £173,600, under the head of must see bUt one meaning in the - treaty; and Mr. ," General Staff and Regimental Pay, Allowances, and Gladstone, in effect, replies that while .he himself Charges ;" but since £61,000 of' this sum represents a believes the treaty to be "clear and unambiguous,"- saving on the purchase of horses, it may be Probably and is willing to sustain his position in argument,b4 1 regarded as one of the same character as the other yet holds that "every other person is equally entitled 't savings just mentioned. Another £50,000 is saved to differ from him, although he "trusts ',; that "upon under this head by the absence of a provision a close examination" no one "will see any cause to made in the previous year for the pay of two do so." An evening contemporary opines that "there regiments of Native Indian troops for service in is a touch of nature—of Anglo-Saxon nature—abont China and the Straits Settlements. The sole it, which will make the people of the United ' States more sensible of our kinship." We hope it may baau. important increase to be set against these reductions is a sum of £48,700 for the augmented "Cost of provisions." It will be seen, therefore, that the few items we have indicated account at once for nearly the whole of the decrease, and it follows that our establishments  are to be maintained on substantially the same scale as that of last year. There appear, indeed, under mast of the heads ef expen,diture small savings of a few thousand pounds, which may be presumed to indicate the exercise of- a careful economy throughout the administration of the army. But the estimates are not framed on a principle of immediate retrenchment.' Times.  On Wednesday morning, Charles Thomas and Patrick Leonard, young men, were charged at the Bradfordßorough Court, with the murder and robbery of James Hudson,. at Manningham, on the morning of Friday last. Thomas had pledged deceased's trousers, and Leonard had taken them off his person for this purpose. The trousers were identified by Mr. Blakey, as those purchased there by deceased. Both prisoners are bad characters.. Another man is in custody elsewhere, supposed to be implicated. The case was remanded. The prisoners were appinhended by Shuttleviorth and Whittaker. .1