Sir Garnet Wolseley has been appointed Governor of Cyprus, on
a salary of £5,000 a year, and the island, Sir Stafford Northcote stated on Thursday, will have a garrison of 10,000 men, 7,000 of them natives of India. As these troops will be in Witish, not Indian employ, and as we have no men to spare, this means an addition of 10,000 men to the Army, and £1,000,000 a year to the military estimates. Immense sums, moreover, will have to be expended on the harbours, which wore only intended for galleys, on the roads, and on the organisation of the Civil Service. The island, when its population re- covers itself, will pay all expenses, but for about ten years it can scarcely add less than 12,000,000 a year, counting public works and barracks, to the expenses of this country. This expenditure is entirely independent of the far greater outlay which any honest attempt to redeem our guarantee, and at the same time ensure good government in Asiatic Turkey, will involve. The new empire will pay, doubtless, by-and-by, but unless we break faith either with the Turks or with our own consciences, we shall hardly escape for some years to come with less than a shilling income-tax. The Sultan has no need to waste any revenue our good management may produce upon a good army or a good fleet, but will spend it all more pleasantly upon Constantinople and himself, or borrow on the strength of it.
