86 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



the tailor's, and my co-bondsman under mine ; but there 

 was a little space left between my name and his, and in 

 this place they cleyerly inserted a line to the effect that if I 

 could not pay the whole 25 (in default of the tailor's doing 

 so) the other bondsman would pay his share. Of course, the 

 tailor never paid a shilling, and I had to pay the whole, or 

 within a fortnight after the date of the bill all my things 

 would have been seized. I had fortunately enough to pay. 

 I was much vexed when I reflected that a man like my- 

 self, who had seen no little of horse-dealing and turf-life, 

 should be so neatly done by a Swedish tailor. 



Law expenses are very moderate in this country as com- 

 pared with England. Nevertheless, as elsewhere, the law- 

 yers appear to live and thrive. 



There is no system of police espionage in this country, 

 as in Eussia. This sort of thing would not suit the free 

 Swedes. There is no need of government spies, where a 

 loyal feeling exists among all classes, nor does it require a 

 very severe police, to keep a nation in order, who are all 

 well disposed towards each other. Even if the country is a 

 poor one, I would ten thousand times rather be the King of 

 Sweden, and feel that I had not a real enemy among all 

 my subjects, than be the Autocrat of a land like Eussia, 

 and know that those of my subjects who did not hate me, 

 only feared me. 



The strength of the standing army of Sweden in 1868, 

 exclusive of officers, was as follows : 



Infantry. Guards . . . . 1,800 

 Of the line . . . 24,000 

 Conscription . \ . 70,950 



96,750 



Besides Gotland National Conscription, 



which, however, cannot be called on 

 active service out of that island . . . 8,500 

 Cavalry. Guards ... . 450 

 Of the line -, . . 4,450 

 Conscripts . . 3,700 



8,600 



