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represented by the accumulated savings of all the 

 civil ; military, and other servants of Government, 

 the wealthy merchants, tradesmen, planters, barris- 

 ters and Englishmen of all grades, who come to 

 India to make money, not to spend in the country, 

 but to take out of it. The influx of capital thus ac- 

 quired and saved in India, has already had an ap- 

 preciable effect throughout Scotland. Tyburnia, or 

 the Asia Minor of London, shows outward and 

 visible signs of having benefited by India's capital. 

 The Cape of Good Hope, on the other hand, has se- 

 verely felt the withdrawal of the annual increase to 

 its wealth, by the alterations in the furlough regula- 

 tions, which, depriving the Indian services of the 

 privileges in regard to pay and service they enjoyed 

 when on leave in the Eastern Seas, induces them to 

 spend their leaves in Europe. We have no means 

 of obtaining even an approximate idea of the amount 

 annually withdrawn from India and spent in Great 

 Britain and other places by our migrating European 

 population. But, taking all things into considera- 

 tion, if we set down the whole amount. inclu-\ 

 ding the Home charges, for the present century at 

 300,000,000, we shall probably not very much 

 ( over estimate it. It may be argued that if English- 

 men had not come to India, much of this capital 

 never would have been created, and the trade returns 

 satisfactorily prove the truth of the argument. But 

 the question is not whether capital has, or has not 

 been created by the English in India ; but whether 



