MILITARY AND NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS. ebt 'arm.
THE Military and Naval Establishments are called in 'official phra- seology by the generic term of " Forces." They are subdivided into the Army, the Ordnance, and the Navy. It may be as well to state, in the outset, that offices are attached to each branch of service, charged with its control, administration, &e. These are sometimes called " Civil," and sometimes " Public Departments." We should prefer the more intelligible phrase of Departments of Management ; bat there are certain branches, in the Ordnance especially, which are neither managing nor military. We therefore adopt the term" Civil Departments," and these will always be exhibited at the commencement of the respective Service. In Government classification, the Army is distinct both from the Ord.. nance and the Commissariat : the former of the two is a separate de- partment; the latter is a part and parcel of the Treasury. We com- ment elsewhere and more appropriately on these anomalies - it is sufficient to notice them here. We may, however, observe, that this distinction without a difference reduces the real charge of the Army very considerably in appearance. Thus, judging from the Estimate, its expenditure would appear to be little more than three millions and a half, when its cost in reality is upwards of five ; as is shown in the following
TABLE OF TIIE REAL COST OF THE ARMY.
Army £3,563,040 Ordnance 1,244,593 Commissariat 315,533
£5,123,166
After these preliminary remarks, we proceed to describe in a general .way the
ORGANIZATION OF TIIE ARMY.
Subject to the direction of the Cabinet, the controlling functionary of the Army is the Secretary at War.. He fixes the number of the Forces to be kept up, the general or particular distribution of the troops, the number of men to be sent on any particular service, and acts as the directive power of the Army. The Commander in Chief, and the Adjutant and the Quarter- roaster-General, have functions nearly, we believe, if not altogether similar. Their business is with the administration of the Army; and in all matters relating to its discipline or to its internal arrangements, their authority is supreme. The titles of " Paymaster-General," " Comptrollers of Accounts," and the Legal and Medical Depart- ments, are of themselves sufficiently explanatory.
It is the business of the Staff to direct the movements of the Army. The Garrisons are military sinecures. They are said to be kept up as an economical mode of rewarding old and meritorious officers. The age is easily found. When the merit is not at hand, or there is not time to search for it, they are useful in accommodating political connexions.
By the phrase " Land Forces," is meant what is very popularly called soldiers, including, moreover, the Recruiting department. And, with this explanation, we trust the reader is in a condition to be pre- sented with the following
SUMMARY OF THE ARMY.
Voted for lOn2-3.
Civil Departments
X 104,210 Land Forces 3,182,772 Staff 117,261 Garrisons . 33,670 Volunteers and Yeomanry 99.607 Military Colleges, Asylums, 8:c . 25.520
X 3,563,040 CIVIL DEPARTMENTS OF THE ARMY.
With the exception of a few details concerning the Staff, which have to be ferreted out in another place, the Estimate merely gives the sum total for each office, as exhibited in the subjoined Table. There are consequently no means of judging either of the munber of employes, or of the rate of salaries,-though, from the scale of Superannuation Allow- ances, we are warranted in supposing them very high. Looking, how- ever, at the numerous subdivisions ; considering that the Military super- intendence of the Army is carried on at the Horse Guards-that the Accounts are controlled by one office and paid by another, and that Law and Medicine have their peculiar departments ; the cost (36,000) of the Secretary at War's Office-a mere department of general control -seems pri»ut jiicie more than double what it ought to be. A consoli- dation of some of the other offices, so as to have brandies, and not dis- tinct departments, might tend to centralize the business, and, by getting rid 'of the heads of offices, would effect a considerable saving. This remark, we believe, applies strongly to the offices of the Horse Guards, the A djutant- General, and the Quartermaster-General, whose duties are of a similar description, and might be conducted very well by one depart- ment, with a great saving in the expense of machinery.
The reader who has examined the Army Non-effective Expenditure, will have noticed the " Civil" Dead-weights of the various departments, and the general rate of retiring allowances (he may remember the two Comptrollers with their superannuations of :3,0000. We now exhibit the totals in juxtaposition with the expense for active service, to show more distinctly the system of inconsiderate and wasteful profusion that has so long prevailed. The excuse that we are now paying for services performed during the war, has been pretty well disposed of already, when we were considering the rate of payment, and the propriety of any
retiring allowances as a rule. Each individual must determine for him- self what further weight it is entitled to ; bearing in mind that the war
terminated sixteen years ago, and that if " a transition from war to peace" had been the only cause of this disparity, the difference would have exhibited itself in a more equal proportion than will be found in the following Table of
THE ARMY DEPARTMENTS OF MANAGEMENT.
Voted for 1835-3.
Non-effective. Effective.
-X Secretary at War, his Deputy, Clerks, &c. 20,986 36,439
Paid by Fee Fund 6 1,200 .. Vote .. 35,239 £36,430
The Horse Guards. Commander-in-Chief 's Office. The Gene- ral Commanding-in-Chief:and his Personal Staff:Secretaries,
Assistants. Clerks, 8.:c 1,492 11,811 General Commanding-in-Chief, Lord Hill .63,458
4 .Aides-tle-Camp 693
Secretary 2 000 Assistant-Secretary 600 6,751 Unaccounted for 5,060 X 11,811 Adjutr....i-Genural. his D.iirity an 1 Assistants, at head-quarters 350 6,657 Adjutant-General £1,383 Allowance to ditto 500
Deputy Adjutant-General 691
Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General 346 Deputy Assistant ditto 260 3,180 Unaccounted for 3.477 £6,657 Quartermaster-General, his Deputy and Assistants, at head-
quarters 413 6,007
Quartermaster-Goner:a 1,333
Allowance to ditto 500
Deputy Quartermaster-General 691
Assistant Quartermaster-General 346
Deputy Assistant ditto 260
3,180 Unaccounted for 2,327
X 6,007
Paymaster-General, his Cashiers, Clerks, Scc 8,479 19,762 Comptrollers of the Accounts of the Army, their Secretaries, Clerks, Sze isleffical Army Departments. the Principal Officers, Secretary, Clerks, Fcc..in Great Britain 4,703 035 11,118 5,810 Ditto, Ireland
2,159
Judg,e-Advocate.General, his Deputy, Clerks, Ore., including his
Deputy in Ireland 1,200 4,447
Various Offices which appear branches of the above
1,154
Total Civil Departments of the Army £40,817 104,210 "LAND FORCES."
It is a truism, but to some readers it may be a necessary one, to say that the Army is-or rather, the " Land Forces" are-divided into Ca- valry and Infantry; and that these, in the official classification, are sub- divided into "Guards" and "Troops of the Line." The subjoined
Table shows the totals for this portion of the Forces (exclusive of troops serving in India); t xhibiting at a glauce the whole expenditure, the number of regiments, and of horses, privates, and officers, contained in the different divisions, with the respective charge for each. Other Tables follow ; exhibiting, more or less minutely, the details of this
aggregate expenditure. Numbers of Cbarre far Total of C1001114%1. c.ell-
Nen. ey. owl meal Alloo anon:.
1,311 X 07.129 5,717 191,074 7,007 33c,,e,30 75.007 2,924,350 89,012 £9,812,196
MISeELLANE0119 CIIARGEs; including various Additional Allowances to . Officers and Men, the Charges of the Recruiting Department, the Pay of Clergymen, Cost of Medicines, aed different Contingencies 375,576
£3,217,772 Deduct A pmportion of the Pay of Non-effective Men included in the above Estimate 35,000 £3,132,772
It should be observed, that the Horses in the Infantry of the Line are for the Waggon Train,* or the Cape Corps of Mounted Riflemen. The Field Officers of Infantry Regiments receive an allowance for their horses. In reality, very little, if any of the above amount, is expended upon the horses ; the forage, &c. being provided by the Commissariat, in whose Estimate it will be found. No expense is incurred by the public for the King's troops serving in India, the cost being defrayed bythe East India Company. Ms Majesty also obliges his brother sove- reigns of Leadenhall Street with a very well-appointed and expensive Staff, as an addendum to their own.
GUARDS. LINE.
Horse. Foot. Cavalry, Infantry. X Total.
Pay and Daily Allowances 66,820 159,786 205,910 1,9,0,164 2,492620 Clothing 10,382 23,121 31,696 191,298 256,427 Annual Allowances to Field
Officers, Captains, and
Riding-masters, and for
Farriery 9,034 9,692 15,291 32,951 67,018 Agency 836 1,535 3,823 19,937 26,131
07,122 191,074 336.650 3,224,350 2,842,196 • ----
3 3 21 91 118 Number of Regiments
- - - - - Number of Horses 822 - 5,240 - 300 6,362 Number of Privates 1,053 5,104 5,873 66,322 78,357 Number of Officers and Non- commissioned Officers 258 613 1,129 3,695 10.635 Total Number of Men. 1,311 5,717 7,007 75,007 89.042
TABLE SHOWING TIIE TITLE OF EACH REGIMENT, ITS COM- PLEMENT, AND COST.
Officers &
Nomcom- CAVALRY. Bosses. Privates. inissioned
Officers. Total of Total
Newt cost 1st Regiment of Life Guards 274 351 86 437 £30,185 2d Ditto 274 351 86 437 30,185 Royal Regiment of Horse Guards 274 351 - - 86 - 437 - 26,753 922 1,053 258 1,311
X 87,123
Dasooms GUARDS AND DRAGOONS. - - - - 22.375 1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards 361 406 73 479 2d Ditto 27/ 304 59 363 17.595 10 Other Regiments of the same comple- ment and cost :-
Viz., 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Dragoon
Guards; 1st Dragoons, and 7th, 9th, 10th, 14th, and 15th LightDragoons 2,710 3,040 590 3,630 175.950 6th Dragoon Guards 271 304
59,
362 17,241 5 Other Regiments of the same comple- ment and cost :-
Viz., 26 Dragoons, and 8th, 10th, 12th
and 17th Light Dragoons 1 355 1,520
290 1,810 86,207 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons 272 304 59 363 17,282 - - 5,240 5,878 - 1,129 - 7,007 336,650
INYANTRY-Foot Guards. - -
- - X 86,306 Grenadier Regiment - 2,288
273
2,561 Coldstream Regiment ..... . - 1.408 170 1,578 53.884 Scots Fusileer Regiment - 1,408 170 1,578 53,884 5,104 - 613 5,717 £194,074 INFANTRY OF THE flosses. LINE.
Officers & Non-Com- mis.ioned Privates. Officers. 'row of Men. Total of Cost.
4th Regiment of Foot 739 96 835 £25,095 67 Other Regiments of the same comple- ment and cost :-
Viz., 5th, 8th to 12th, 14th to 19th, 21st to 30th, 326 to 37th, 426, 47th, 50th, 53d, 56th, 50114 59th, 61st, 63d, 6401 to 67th, 69th, 70th, 728 to 84th, 86th to 89111, 91st to 99th 49,513 6,432 55,945 1,691392 39th Rest. of Foot, to the 30111 Sept. 1832 - 739 96 835 12,578 7th Regiment of Royal Fusileers 739 96 835 25,278 436 Regiment of Light infantry 739 96 835 25,0-19 6 Other Regiments of the same comple- ment and cost :-
Viz., 51st, 52(1, 60th, 71st, 85th, 90th - 4,434 576 5,010 150,216 1st Regiment of Foot, 2 Battalions 1,470 191 1,669 49,757 60th Regiment, 2 Battalions 1,478 193 1,671 50,338 Rifle Brigade, 2 Battalions 1,478 193_ 1,671 50,333 Additional Assistant Surgeons for 4 com- plete Regiments on Foreign Service, and for 50 Reserve Companies of Regi- ments on Foreign Service - - 51 54 7,437
• The Waggon Train is a nondescript kind of establishment, the men of which am neither effective soldiers nor "batmen," and which as a corps of transport is unable seven to supply its own wants. Its origin was a job. to give a corps to the late General HAMILTON; and it is continued for a similar purpose.' 1- The word Men, when used by us in speaking of the Army, includes Privates, Officers, and Non-cominissioned Officers.
GUARDS.
Horses. Privates. Offict rs & Non-Corn- :Ai...loner(
Officers.
33egrenuV.Horse
822 1,053 255 3 of Poet
5,104 613
VItOorS OF 'no; LINE.
21 of Cavalry
5,210 5.378 1,129
91 or Infantry
300 66.322 8,605 118 6,362 75,357 10,685 - - 300 66,339 8,695
- - -- Ct. Britain.
MISCELLANEOCS ClIATIGES.
Additional Allowances to Captains of Infantry; having Brevet rank, to Regimental Paymasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Saba] terns, Quarter- masters, Veterinary Surgeons, Corporals, and Pri- vates, after certain periods of service ; on account Clergymen performing Divine Service to the Troops
at home Ditto. ditto, Abroad Allowances to the Troops intim' of Small. Beer upon account Increased Rates of Subsistence paid to Innkeepers and others quartering soldiers in South Britain, and Lodging money, paid to inhabitants quarter-
ing soldiers in North lhitain, upon account Allowance to the Troops whilst on a march in Ire-
latol, upon account Pay allowances and contingencies to Officers, 3:e. sta- tioned at the Deph. at Chatham £3,063 Do. du. at the Establishment at Portsmouth.. 508 Medicines and Surgical materials Recruiting Staff Establishments, &c. and expenses of Recruiting, including the expense of" Remount Horses for the Cavalry" Contingencies of every description: such as Loss of Horses, Travelling Expenses of Officers, Allow- ances of various kinds for Additional Expenses of Officers, &c. Marching-money anti Family Allow- ances for discharged Soldiers, Stationery, Fuel, and a variety of contingencies too numerous to mention 73,115 47,914 191,099
£246.926 198.747 375.573
There are one or two slight errors (most probably clerical ones) in this list, which we have no means of rectifying. The 6th Dragoon Guards, and the 10th Dragoons, for instance, are given twice. Notwithstanding the appearance of precision in the above Tables, they present but little for detailed information. We miss the number of Officers distinct from the Non-commissioned Officers, and the re- spective cost of each class, with some other particulars that would assist the economical inquirer. To supply these deficiencies, so far as we are able, we present a
TABLE SHOWING THE AVERAGE COST PER MAN OF EACH DIVISION OF THE LAND FORCES.
GUARDS. Ftegts. Men. Cost. Average per Mao.
Horse 1,311 £87.129 £66 9 1 Foot 5,717 194,071 .... 33 18 la
LINE.
Cavalry 21 .. 7.007 336,650 .... 49 0 101
Infantry 91 .. 75,007 2,224,350 .... 29 13 Do. exclusive of CO- Ion ial.Veteran,and Invalid Corps, and 39th Regiment • .. .. 69,525 2,067,724 .... 30 3 6 • The cost of the Colonial, Veteran, and Invalid Corps, is less than that of the regular troops. The "charge" of the 39th Regiment terminated on the 30th Sep- tember.
STAFF.
" AT HONS." Gen. star. Med. Staff.
Officers. Officers.
X. R. Total. R.
Great Britain 10,890 4,663 15,553 Allowance to General Staff Officers, and Officers of the Hospitals, for Lodgings, Forage, and other contingencies.. 10,000 800 10,800 Total "At Home" 20,890 5,463
26,353
-
Ireland
9,725 2,253
11,978 Allowance as to Staff in Great Britain, and in- eluding the charge of the Clerks and Officers of
the Staff at Dublin
10,000 431 10,431 Additional- Pay to Medical Officers for length of senice - 401 401
-
Total for Ireland 19,725 3,095
22,810
FOREIGN STATIONS. -
6,280 North America, Canada 1,423 7,643 Nova Scotia 33297 967 4,264 Windward and Leeward Islands 5'669 5,073 10,742 Bermudas - 136 136 Jamaica and Honduras 1,992 2,186 4,119 Gibraltar 2,369 1,514 3,003 Malta 638 784 1,429 Ionian Islands 4,107 1,405 5,512 Africa - 136 136 Cape of Good Hope 1,052 1,950 3,102 Mauritius 1,679 1,149 2,898 Ceylon 1992, 1,961 3,953 New South Wales 520 - 520 Pay and other contingent expenses of Officers on
Foreign Stations 14,000 - 14,000
Additional Pay to Chaplains, Medical Officers at home and abroad, for length of service, and
Allowance to principal Medical Officers on cer- tain foreign stations 647 6,122 6,769
-
- - 44,982 20,890 19,725 Staff at Home Staff at Ireland 24,046 5,463 3,095 69,028 26,353 99,910
485,597
32,594 118,191 Deduct
- Abatements to which Infantry Officers on full pay, who hold Staff appointments, are liable
930 Total Staff
£117,261
fl
Horses.
'Additional contingent Allowances to the
CSotains or the Service Companies of --6
50 Regiments - - - - 2.754 1st West India Regiment - 646 91 737 22,797
109" 1`t1 Lin 5,4;„ 2d Ditto - 33,032
Royal Wagg,on Train 100 09
lloyal f-4111 Cusps - 6069 2,518
3 Royal Newfontulland Veteran Companies - 300 33 335 8,91; Royal Veteran Company for service in New South Wales -- 64 5 39 l,:', - African Colonial Corps (including aug- ment al ion) - 360
- 1,600 29,194 399 l''..;-'
Ceylon Regiment 1,024
Cey Ion Invalids - 153 19 163
Cape Corps of Mounted Riflemen 200 231 35 269 Malta Fencibles - 468 66 534 11Ss,
Officers Sk Non-Cant- Totol missiored of Privates. Officers. 3".en.
75,0(j7 X2,224,312
52,000 20,000 72,000
2,200 1,900 4,13) 3,650 .3.654 40,000 31,500 71500
19,000 - 19,lie0
- 5,000 5,010)
3.571 - 3571
10,000 2,000 19,000 43,290 20,433 63,723
In Great Britain
In Ireland Garrisen Appointments in North A r.forica, the Bermudas, Gibraltar,
Cape of finod Hope, Sierra Leone, Van Diemen's Land, and
Heligoland Total of Garrisons
Iretaid.
-E33,670 Total.
X.
VOLUNTEER CORPS.
Gt. Britain.
Pay mid Forge All:malice of Adjutants and Ser- gefint;Mapws 5.E75
clothing eff!I t',)1!t I _;.•11: lilite neo 23,633 Etipen,ie of Gory when for Jr dal, or in aid or the Civil ii daily awl Travelling 1:::pmises uf lnsioet-
ing Field Officers • 50,000
04,203
l'ay of e.rps of Yeomanry
13,933
Daily Allowance and Travelling Ilxpon!„es trf Officers em- ployed to inspect. the Yeomanry
1,000
General Agent-, including the charge of his Office
461
15,299 Total of Volunteer Corps and Yeomanry
£90,007
MILITARY COLLEGES, ASYLUMS,
The following is a summary of the expenditure for Military Colleges and Asylums, Szc.
Royal 711nary Collegc 2.1712 Royal Nlilitary :1qylum
17.47
Iliberniau Military :School 5,393
Total of Military Colleges and Asylums
£33,590
The total expenditure for the Royal Military College is 18,447/. The comparative smallness of the amount required to be voted, arises from the " Gentlemen Cadets" paying a certain sum for their mainte- nance and education. Trivial as this expenditure is, a portion of it would seem to be unnecessary. Under a proper system, there is little doubt that the College could nearly maintain itself; for besides liberal salaries (as teachers are remunerated) to 22 professors and instructors of various descriptions, independent of military teachers, we see that at Woolwich the same sort of service costs 1,500/. less.
Governor 1,000/., and Forage 139/ At Sandhurst. At Woolwich.
4'1,139 ....
Lieutenant-Governor 363/., and Forage 69/ 452 .... 400 1 Inspector
—
264 2 Captains of Companies .
Surgeon. 253 .... —
Assistant ditto
136 ....
£2.240 £664
— —
The amount is unimportant ; though it is perhaps wiser for a nation as for an individual, to "abridge petty charges, than to stoop as we do in taxation to petty gettings." At the same time, the fact illustrates the system. The following exhibition of the cost of the Non- effective and the Effective service is edifying:— Non-effective. Effective.
Royal Military College .... £3,337 .... £2,638
The following accounts exhibit the details, so far as we have data to give them, of the expenditure for the Royal Military Asylum and the Hibernian Military School. The number of children is not stated in the latter; an improper omission.
ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM.
Pay of Officers, Wages, Clothing. and Maintenance of Attendants, anti £ Clothing and Maintenance of 650 boys, in the Asylum at Chelsea.. 13,257 Ditto ditto, and Clothing and Maintenance of 200 Girls, including 50
Infants, in the branch at Southampton 3,942 Rent and Insurance of the Infirmary (seven houses) at Chelsea 283 Total of Royal Military Asylum £17,487 IIIDERVIAN MILITARY SCHOOL. Salaries, Wages, and Allowances to Officers and Servants £1,965 Provisions_ 2,175 Clothing 573 Furniture, Sledding. 8rc 100 Coals, Candles, and Soap 419 Stationery, School-books, 8:c 100 Infirmary Expenses 70 Repair, &re. of Buildings 170 Miscellaneous Expenses 100 5,675 ARMY RETRENCHMENT.
Having reached the end of the Army Expenditure, we proceed to con- sider the most efficient mode of accomplishing a reduction in its amount ; and, premising that most of our observations on Military and Naval Retrenchments suppose the continuance of peace, we shall offer some suggestions upon the subject,—first, as to savings that may be effected without impairing the efficiency of the Forces ; second, as to reductions in their number.
By comparing the cost (the Table of Averages furnishes the data) of the cheapest Cavalry regiment—the 1st Dragoon Guards—with the average cost of the " Guards," and with that of the other regiments of Cavalry, it will be seen that the expense of the dearer regiments is nearly 35,0001. more than would be the case if they were all on the same footing as the 1st Dragoon Guards. By adopting the same pro- cess with regard to the Infantry (omitting the Colonial, Veteran, and Invalid corps), and comparing the cost of the cheapest (the 1st) re- giment with that of the others both Guards and Line, it will give a prznta facie useless expenditure of nearly 120,000/. in the Infantry; and this supposing that the expenditure of both regiments is at the lowest pos- sible. scale. Some small part of this 155,000/. may arise from the different stations of the troops,—as the Guards receive higher pay on account of their constant residence in London,—but the greater part is solely attributable to unnecessary expenses of various kinds, to useless appoint- ments, splendid clothing and accoutrements, R:c. So much for the .ob-vious test of the average; but it may be well to 02.040
4,399 7,251
Deduct
Average Income arising from Interest on Government Stock and Ind- dental Receipts Total of Hibernian Military School 280 X5,395
allnde to a few of the circumstances which cause the difference, Os it exhibits a principle which is more or less at work throughout the whole of our expenditure—and that is, the influence of the Aris- tocracy. The number of Colonels and General Officers (who, how- ever, are not included in this Estimate) is greater in the British Army, when compared with its number, than that of any other service in Europe. Another evil is, the overlinded Subaltern ranks through- out the Army,—as in the " Line," it Captain, a Lieutenant, and an Ensign to severity men ; and in the Cavalry, the same number of officers to fifty men. The " Unattached Conunissions" are another abase, which has caused the loss of thousands yearly to the country. When the extravagance of the war was checked, the Duke of Irona invented this plan, by which an old and worn-ont gentleman, Nvho had been enjoying half-pay for half a century, was allowed to sell his rank as Lieutenant-Colonel, and the continuance of his pay, to a young life : the youth in time becomes a Gereral Officer, without ever troubling himself with the service, unless he have interest enough to warrant his pushing for a regiment of 1,0001. a year. This system has also been most detrimental to the service, by the advantage it has given to money and interest over the officer who had nothing but merit to recommend him. By such means, numbers of the young connexions of the Aris- tocracy, who were not in the service in ISIS, have been thrust forward, whilst the veterans of the Peninsula still occupy the same rank they held at the close of the war.
The privileges of the " Guards" also contribute to swell the num- ber of the General Officers. It is asserted that the battalion of Foot Guards has furnished one-third of the Generals in the Army. But to return to inefficient expenditure.
The payment of the troops is performed by the Paymasters of Regiments,—an able and efficient class of men. The only public utility of the Army Agents, " is to receive money from the Paymas- ters of the Forces, and with it to pity the drafts of the Regimental Paymasters." So many facilities exist for the gratuitous transaction of this very simple business, that the cost of 30,000/. (including the Ordnance and Non-Effective service) for Agency, might easily be saved. Some reduction might also be made in the Staff; and the Garrisons are notoriously useless for any military purpose. In addi- tion to these items, the " Miscellaneous Charges" probably admit of retrenchment, as well as the Civil Departments. :If we add all these matters together, it appears that, without impairing the efficiency of the Army, a reduction of nearly a quarter of a million might be made.! As regards the number of troops, every one will form his own conclu- sion. Should the present warlike omens disappear, no one, surely, could scruple immediately to replace the Army on the footing it was left in by the Duke of WELLINGTON. The extra cost of the last addition to the Forces MIS nearly 700,000/. If we take the reduction at 600,000/. (to allow for our averages), this would give a total saving of very near a million upon the Army. To render the subject as complete as possible, we add a Table of the respective distribution of the " Rank and File." There is a discre- pancy between the totals in this Table and our former one ; which arises from " Troops on their passage home," and some difference be- tween " Supernumeraries" and " Wanting to complete." We presume there is also at times some leetle variation between the muster-roll and the actual complement—the difference between paper and practice.
Great Britain. Ireland. Colonies. Total.
Rank and File 25,636 20,415 30,437 76,488
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