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Hope, on the other hand, has severely felt the with- 

 drawal of the annual increase to its wealth, by the 

 alterations in the furlough regulations, which, 

 depriving the Indian services of the privileges in re- 

 gard 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 obtain- 

 ing even an approximate idea of the amount annually 

 withdrawn from India and spent in Great Britain by 

 our migrating European population. But taking all 

 things into consideration, if we set down the whole 

 amount, including 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 Englishmen had not come to India, much of this 

 capital never would have been created, and the trade 

 returns satisfactorily prove the truth of the argu- 

 ment. But the question is not whether capital has, 

 or has not been created by the English in India; but 

 whether the wealth of the nation has been pro- 

 portionately increased, whether the capital that has 

 been created, has gone to enrich the country and 

 if it be admitted that some of it has, it cannot be 

 denied that much of it has not. When therefore, 

 it is apparent that the circumstances of our 

 position necessitate so large a portion of what may 

 legitimately be called the Capital of India, being 

 spent in other countries, it obviously becomes a 

 question of some moment, not only to encourage 



