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the peculiarity of our position in India, it com< 

 to be a matter of considerable importance to take 

 advantage of every possible means to compensate 

 for the drain on the Capital of the country that 

 it necessitates. The Home charges now amount to- 

 no less a sum than nine millions sterling, hard 

 Rupees, which are withdrawn from India, to be 

 expended in England. Last year, it is true, that 

 this amount, or nearly so, being required for Railway 

 expenditure, it was simply transferred on paper; 

 yet had it not been required, an equal amount 

 of Railway Capital, must have been sent into 

 India. But taking the annual Home charges for 

 salaries, pensions, payment of troops &c. at four 

 millions sterling, it is clear that during the cur- 

 rent century, an amount of capital, not less than 

 248,000,000, has been collected from the ryots 

 of India, and spent in England. We have to add, 

 moreover, to this very large sum, the amount 

 represented by the accumulated savings of all 

 the civil, military, and other servants of Govern- 

 ment, the wealthy merchants, tradesmen, planters, 

 barristers and Englishmen of all grades, who come 

 to India to make money, not to spend in it, but 

 to take out of it. The influx of capital thus 

 acquired and saved in India, has already had an 

 appreciable effect throughout Scotland. Tyburnia 

 in London shows outward and visible signs of having 

 benefitted by India's capital. The Cape of Goo<l 



