text: " Having ascertained upon bases laid down by Mr Cobden himself but without adopting his slashing unproved totals the extent to which colonial trade is criminally accessory to the financial burdens of the United Kingdom (not by the way of the empire of which they form a component part ) it behoves us now to establish the proportion in which we are taxed for foreign trade for there is clearly more than one vulture preying upon the vitals of this unhappy land