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MISORE. III offence of some sort to every 697 of the population. The number of prisoners in jail at the end of 1883 was 1309, of whom 68 were females. I'rior to 1863, little attention was paid to jail discipline, the convicts being employed in gangs in the construction of roads; but all labour is now, with rare exceptions, intramural. A first-class prison, on the panopticon principle, was in that year erected at Bangalore, the convicts being taught various manufactures, such as making carpets, tents, blankets for horses, besides articles required for jail purposes, and also printing, lithography, carpentry, etc. The dry earth system for sewage has been introduced with great success, the refuse being used in the prison garden. The total cost of the jails in 1880 was £19,850. The net cost of maintaining the convicts averages £6, 1os. per head annually. Police.-- The police force consisted till a recent period of the ancient village watchmen, and of the kandachiir peons, who were the remains of the armed militia of the country. Though they had a good knowledge of the criminal classes in their several beats, they had no special training or organization. In 1866, the kandachárs were superseded in Bangalore District by a constabulary, under a European officer. Steps have been taken, while preserving on an improved basis the village police, to introduce a superior class of men into the regular police, by giving them better pay. A police assistant in each District has the management of the local police. In 1880–81, the force consisted of 510 officers and 4061 men, employed in the rural Districts and in municipal towns and cantonments. The cost was £59,997, of which £52,494 was paid from the general revenue and £7503 from municipal funds. These figures show i policeman to every 916 of the population and to every 5'4 square miles of the area. Military: -Mysore pays a yearly subsidy to the British Government of £245,000, eventually to be raised to £350,000, for the maintenance of a force for the defence of its territory. The existing strength of this force is the head-quarters and a battery of horse artillery, and 2 field batteries ; a regiment of European cavalry; a regiment of European infantry; the head-quarters and 4 companies of sappers ; a regiment of Madras cavalry; and 3 regiments of Madras Native Infantry, ---all stationed in the civil and military station of Bangalore. Before the rendition of the State, troops were stationed at French Rocks, near Seringa patam, as well as at Bangalore. The local force in 1880-81 consisted of 1206 (in 1883, 1160) horsemen called silladírs, divided into 2 regiments; and 3 regiments of foot, called bár, numbering 1831 in 1880–81 (1908 in 1883-84). The silladárs have at various periods done good service. In 1807 they were a strong body of 4000 men, but their efficiency gradually declined. A few years ago, considerable reductions were made in their strength,