GKEAT BRITAIN. 



349 



Total area and population of British Empire. 



Infantry, including the Guards, 8 regiments ; the Infantry 

 of the line, 100 regiments ; 3 West India regiments, and 

 sanitary corps: 



Commissioned officers 4,078 



Subalterns and soldiers 93,899 



Artillery, including horse and foot artillery : 



Commissioned officers 848 



Subalterns andsoldiers 20,399 



Horses 4,000 



Engineers : 



Commissioned officers 



Subalterns and soldiers 4,151 



Horses 120 



Train : 



Commissioned officers 109 



Subalterns and soldiers 1,800 



Horses 996 



Colonial Troops : 



Officers 249 



Subalterns and soldiers. 5,134 



Horses 900 



Staff Officers: 



Officers 1,043 



Attendants 1T4 



INDIAN ABUT. 



The budget of Mr. Gladstone, for the year 

 ending April 1, 1862, was as follows : 



TABLE II. FINANCES OF GREAT BRITACT. 

 Receipts. 



Customs 23,555,000 



Excise 19,463,000 



Stamps 8,460,000 



Income tax 8,150,000 



Other taxes 11,200,000 



Post-office revenue 3,500,000 



Crown lands 295,000 



Miscellaneous receipts 2,200,000 



Total 71,853.000 



Or $359,265,000 



Expenditure. 

 Interest on the floating and consolidated debt . . 26,180,000 



Charges on the consolidated funds 1,930.000 



Armr and militia 15.256.000 



Navy 12,029,000 



Coast guard 995,000 



Civilservice 7,737.000 



Cost of collection 4,780,000 



War in Australia and China , 1,000,000 



Total 69,907,000 



Or $339,535,000 



The debt of Gt. Britain was in I860 



Funded debt 742.936.057 



Unfunded debt 16.225.300 



Irish debt 43,025.903 



To which is added the Indian debt 80,453,765 



And a pledge for the capital of the old East In- 

 dia Company and railroad guaranties 12,000,000 



Total 594.644.060 



Or $4,473,220,300 



TABLE III. ENGLISH ARMY FOB lS61-'2. 

 Cavalry, including Life-Guards, Horse-Guards, and cavalry 

 of the line: 



Commissioned officers 677 



Subalterns and soldiers 11,433 



Horses 7,626 



Total of officers and men .............. 212.773 



Horses ................................ 21,904 



ia in Feb. 1861, including riflemen and artillery, in 

 Great Britain and Ireland : 



Men .................................... 1,480,000 



Besides, in Ireland, military police, Men.. 12,400 

 Horses .................................. 358 



In India-. Native military force in the 3 Presidencies : 



Men .................................... 110.400 



Marines, including the regular marine and coast-guard : 



Men .................................... 27,500 



NAVY, April, 1861. 

 Total number of vessels afloat and building. . 



893 



Of which were steam-vessels of the line, all 



screw-propellers .......................... 67 



Frigates, three of them screw, the remainder 



paddle .................................... 52 



Floating batteries, all screw-propellers ........ 8 



Gunboats, all screw-propellers .............. 4 



Corvettes, small gunboats, sloops, &cx, an, or 



nearly all, propellers ..................... 365 



Transport ships, all screw-propellers .......... 66 



Total ....................... ........... 563 



Sailing vessels, viz. : 



Ten line ships, 17 frigates, IS sloops. 1 small 

 ship, S3 sailing gunboats, in all ..... ......... 129 



Total ............................... 691 



The remaining 202 are storeships, hulks, &c., 

 unfit for service. The number of guns in the 

 whole fleet is 16,411, of which the steam vessels 

 carry 11,137, and the sailing vessels 5,274. Of 

 the whole number, 170 steam gunboats, and 

 147 sailing vessels are for port and coast-guard 

 service. 



There were, at the close of 1861, 4 iron- 

 plated ships completed, and 11 more in process 

 of construction. These were of five classes. 

 The first class were to be 400 feet long, 6,621 



