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former years, contain votes of money for four classes of reserve, or auxiliary forces. The army estimates provide 720.034/. for the disembodied militia in the year 1870-71. The number to be called up for twenty-seven days' training is stated at 128,971, but a deduc- tion is made from the amount of pay required to the extent of one- fourth for cost of officers and men not enrolled or absent. The second class of auxiliary forces, the yeomanry cavalry, had 81,874/. voted to it in the army estimates of 1870-71. of which sum 43,218/. was to be expended in the payment of 7s. a day, for 8 days in the year, to 15,435 non-commissioned officers and men. The third class of auxiliary forces, the volunteers, had a vote of 412,399/. for the year 1870-71, being a decrease of 1,631/. over the preceding year. The capitation grants to the volunteers were calculated at 256,263/., distributed to. the artillery, at the rate of 30s. ; to the light horse, engineers, and rifles, at 205., with 10s. for extra effi- ciency; and at the rate of 5s. as travelling allowance for administrative battalions. The vote for the fourth and last class of reserve forces, namely the army reserve, including enrolled pensioners, was 68,020Z. for 1870-71, a decrease of 820/. over the preceding year. The capitation grants to the volunteers in 1869-70 amounted to 254,180/., or 2,083/. less than the vote for 1870-71.

The strength of the volunteer force of the United Kingdom in the year 1870 comprised 201,196 enrolled men, of whom 170,094 were efficient, and 31,102 non-efficient. The numbers, fluctuating at times, have been gradually on the increase since the year 1859, when the force Avas organised, as shown in the following tabular statement, giving the strength of the enrolled volunteers, efficient and non-efficient, in each of the years I860 to 1870 : —

Tear

Efficients

Non-Efficients

Total enrolled number

1860

105,918

12.425

118.343

1862

131.420

26.398

157,818

1863

113.511

49.424

162.935

1864

123.707

46.837

170.544

I860

] 33.848

44.636

178,484

1S66

142,S49

38,716

181.565

]867

155.216

32.648

187.864

1868

170.581

28,614

199.195

1869

174.548

28,758

199.306

1870

170,094

31,102

201,196

The volunteer corps now in existence were organised in conformitv with a notice from the War Office, dated May 12, 1859, sanctioning their formation, under the provisions of the Act Geo. III., cap. 54.

The total cost of the British army, voted by Parliament in the regular estimates for 1870-71,. was calculated at 13,093,500/.; but