text:  In the absence of those authentic data which would warrant the construction of approximate estimates we are willing however as before to accept the basis of Mr Cobden's--not calculations but--rough guesses; and as the colonial share of army navy and ordnance estimates altogether he taxes in "from five to six millions " of which four and a half millions according to a previous statement of his were for the army alone we arrive at the simple fact that the navy and ordnance are rated rather widely at a cost ranging from half a million to one million and a half sterling per annum