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military officers might also bear some reduc- 

 tion of salary. The allowances of the lower 

 grades I would not see touched. AVhy should 

 the British officials of Madras receive salaries 

 four or five times the amount of those per- 

 taining to similar offices under the Imperial 

 Government at Pondicherry ? Look too at the 

 satisfactory working of our own government in 

 Ceylon, where economy is studied without at 

 all impairing efficiency. I am quite aware that 

 these remarks will be very unpalatable to the 

 services, but that can't be helped, as if allow- 

 ances be diminished, expenditure must be 

 lessened, and luxuries curtailed. Hitherto we 

 appear to have neglected financial matters alto- 

 gether, and pursued a reckless course of ter- 

 ritorial annexation, although the revenues of 

 the States so annexed, do not cover the charges 

 thereby entailed, and needless and unjusti- 

 fiable wars have been undertaken, to the de- 

 triment of our finances and injury to our fair 

 fame. 



I rejoice to see that the Governor of Madras 

 has given his attention to the important sub- 

 ject of finance, and an excellent minute was not 

 long since published on the advantages that 



