text: 50 000 only--we have a gross sum of above three quarters of a million sterling as the cost of a fortress whose sole utility in peace or in war is the favour and protection of foreign trade--of the trade of the Mediterranean of which it is the key; and the nation is saddled with this cost for among others the special behoof of that economical and disinterested patriot Mr Cobden himself who trades to the shores laved by the waters of that sea the Levant and the Dardanelles if not the Black Sea