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.—The forces in consist of the British  on the n establishment and the   with its dependent local s, feudatories, contingents, &c. In addition there is a force of an and Eurasian volunteers, drawn largely from. The consists of battalions of infantry, regiments of cavalry, mountain batteries, garrison artillery company, sapper and miner companies ( companies included). The proportion between British and troops observed since the  is roughly one British to two native, the  being about  men. In addition the army includes supply and transport corps, the medical service, and the veterinary service,  in the higher ranks by officers of the A.S.C, R.A.M.C. and A.V.C. respectively.

Forces of the .— and in  paid visits of inspection to  and  in connexion with the reorganization by the local governments of their military forces, and a beginning was made of a common organization of the forces of the  in the colonial military conference of. Without infringement of local autonomy and local conditions, a common system of drill, equipment, training and administration was agreed on as essential, and to that end the general  in  was to evolve into an &ldquo; general .&rdquo; The object to be attained as laid down was twofold; (a) complete organization of the territorial forces of each dominion or ; (b) evolution of contingents of  general-service troops with which the dominion governments might assist the army of Great Britain in wars outside the immediate borders of each dominion. (See; ; .)  UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, or, and English Nonconformist community formed in 1907 by the union of the Methodist New Connexion (1797), the Bible Christians (1815), and the United Methodist Free Churches (1857). The act of parliament which enabled this amalgamation received the royal assent on the 26th of July 1907, and authorized the union “to deal with real and personal property belonging to the said three churches or denominations, to provide for the vesting of the said property in trust for the United Church so formed and for the assimilation of the trusts thereof, and for other purposes.” The union was completed on the 16th of September 1907 in Wesley's Chapel, City Road, London. The Church gives power of speech and vote in its meetings to every member of 18 years of age and upwards. Its principal courts are constituted of an equal number of ministers and laymen. The Church had theological colleges at Manchester and Sheffield, boys' schools at Shebbear, in Devonshire, and at Harrogate, and a girls' school at Bideford. It issues a weekly and two monthly journals. In 1908 its statistics showed 2343 chapels with accommodation for 714,793 persons, 848 ministers and 5621 local preachers, 165,463 church members and 332,756 Sunday scholars; there were 55 foreign missionaries, and about 30,000 church members and probationers in the foreign field.  UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCHES, an English Nonconformist community merged since 1907 in the (q.v.). The organization was itself formed in 1857 by the amalgamation of the “Wesleyan Association” (which had in 1836 largely absorbed the Protestant Methodists of 1828) and the “Wesleyan Reformers” (dating frorn 1849, when a number of Wesleyan Methodist ministers were expelled on a charge of insubordination).  UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (of Scotland). This Presbyterian organization, merged since 1900 in the (see above), was formed in 1847 by the union of the United Secession and Relief Churches.

The general causes which led to the first great secession from the Church of Scotland, as by law established in 1688, are

indicated in the article. Its immediate occasion rose out of an act of assembly of 1732, which abolished the last remnant of popular election by enacting that, in cases where patrons