90 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



The Norwegian navy consists of 146 ships, with 854 

 cannon. 



The volunteer rifle movement is going on slowly in 

 Sweden, and there is scarcely so much enthusiasm displayed 

 in the cause as I should have fancied there would have been 

 in a country so well adapted for sharp-shooters, and where 

 the rifle is decidedly a favourite weapon. 



The two naval depots are Stockholm and Carlskrona, 

 and perhaps the best fortified sea-coast town is Marstrand. 

 There is a military college, like Sandhurst, at Carlsberg, near 

 Stockholm. 



The Swedes make excellent sailors, and I have often 

 heard English captains say that they like to have a Swede 

 or two very much among their crew. Neither the wages or 

 the living are so good on board the Swedish as on the 

 British or American ships, and on this account so many 

 Swedish sailors sail under these two flags. I fancy they 

 prefer the American. 



The annual expenses of the Swedish Government in 1860 

 amounted to 26,911,710 rix-dollars. 



rqr. rmt. 



1. Head, or crown departments < 1,278,400 



2. Justiciary . . . 2,108,570 



3. Foreign . , * . 479,200 



4. Land force . . , 8,727,720 



5. Naval . - * . . 3,305,100 



6. Civil department . , 2,206,950 



7. Financial department * . . 4,270,450 



8. Ecclesiastical . ; * 3,276,400 



9. Pensions . . . . 1,168,920 



Total . . . 26,911,710 



Or about one and a half million English pounds. 



This expenditure must, however, have increased during 

 the last four years. In 1841 it amounted to little over 

 16,000,000 rix-dollars. 



The taxes are light, indeed, in comparison to England. 



