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 232 GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

themselves, 386, or more than one-third, were rejected as unfit for military service. Of every 1,000 applicants, 618 were labourers or servants, 317 artisans, and 65 shopmen or clerks.

The militia establishment in 1870 comprised 42 regiments in England and Wales, with 128,971 men volunteered for service and a permanent staff of 5,066 commissioned and non-commisioned officers. Lancashire contributed seven, Cheshire two, Gloucester- shire two, Kent two, Middlesex five, Yorkshire nine, Surrey three, Warwickshire two, Staffordshire three, and Norfolk two regiments. The total number of privates present at training on the day of inspection in 1870 amounted to 61,082; the numbers required to complete the regiments were 1,187 officers, 321 non-commissioned officers, and -24,529 privates. There were 16 militia regiments, including all arms, in Scotland, in 1870, and at the day of training there were present 235 officers, 435 non-commissioned officers, and 9,345 privates. In Ireland there are 48 militia regiments of all arms, numbering nominally 1,201 officers, 1,262 non-commissioned officers, and 30,710 privates ; but no training took place in the years 1867-70.

The establishments for military educational purposes comprise the Council of Military Education, *Royal Military Academy at Wool- wich, Royal Military and Staff College at Sandhurst, Royal Military Asylum and Normal School at Chelsea, Royal Hibernian Military School at Dublin, Department for Instruction of Artillery Officers, Military Medical School, and a varying number of Garrison Schools and Libraries. In the army estimates for 1870-71, the sum pro- vided for military education was 139,345/., representing a decrease of 18,825/. over the previous year. The two principal educational establishments for the army are the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, and the Loyal Military and Staff College at Sandhurst. In the army estimates of 1870-71, the cost of the Woolwich Academy is set down at 31,506/., and of the Sandhurst Colleges at 30,722/. At Sandhurst, 20 ' Queen's cadets' are educated gratuitously for the Indian army, for which 3,000/. per annum is paid out of the reve- nues of India.

2. Navy.

The government of the navy, vested originally in a Lord High Admiral, is carried on since the reign of Queen Anne — with the exception of a short period, April 1827 to September 1828, when the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV., revived the ancient title— by a Board, known as the Board of Admiralty, and the mem- bers of "which are styled ' Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High* Admiral.' The constitution of this Board has latterly undergone great modifications. It now consists of five mem-