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Show The Bhtish parliament has just decided tint the expenses cf the Afghan war Bhall be met out of the Indian revenues. Just how this can be accomplished without applying the rulea of nocroruaucy to finance it is hard to understand. The avernge expenditures ex-penditures of the British Indian government during late yeara, has been about $55,000,000, and the annual receipts amount to little more than $35,000,000; that is, the empire spends about $20,000,000 more a year than it receives. Tho total debt of India is over $G71,000,0j0,and the war eipen63 will incre-isa it thirty or I forty millions. |