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GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

Years 18C8-G3.

Officers

Non-commis- sioned officers, trumpeters,

and drummers

Rank and file

Recapitulation : Total, general and departmental staff „ regiments .... „ depots of Indian regiments. „ recruiting and teaching establish-^ ments .... J ,, training schools and factories.

Total force, officers and men, the cost of ~\ which is defrayed from Army Grants/

1,239

5,037

227

23

59

11,197 454

85

331

90,593 5,513

62

17

6,585

12,267

96,185

. —

—

115,037

As a supplement to the regular army estimates, enumerated above, the House of Commons granted, on the 2nd August, 1870, supplies for raising ' a further number of land forces not exceeding 20,000 men, during the war in Europe.' Excepting this supplementary- vote, the army estimates of 1870-71 showed a decrease of 12,329 men over the previous year, and of 28,654 over 1868-G9. The number of men provided for in the estimates of 1868-69 was 138,691, while in the estimates of 1869-70 the number was 127,366. The decrease embraced chiefly the royal artillery, infantry of the line, and colonial corps. Three previously existing branches of the army, the Military Train, the Commissariat Staff Corps, and Store Staff Corps were abolished in 1870, and for them was substituted the Army Service Corps.

The British forces in India, exclusive of depots at home, comprise the following troops, granted by Parliament for the year 1870-71 :—

Troops

Officers

Non-commis- sioned officers, trumpeters, and drummers

Rank and file

Royal horse artillery Cavalry of the line. Royal artillery and engineers Infantry of the line.

Total.

200

225

1,016

1.500

253

424

795

3.262

2,680

3,672

7,936

41,000

2,941

4,734

62,963

The total force of the British army in India amounted, conse- quently, to 62,963 men in the estimates of 1870-71. The number iu the year 1868-9 was 64,466, while in the year 1869-70 it was 63,707.

The troops here enumerated do not constitute the whole army of the United Kingdom ; but the army estimates for 1870-71, as well as