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The number of emigrants from the United Kingdom during the years 1853-1877" was as 

 follows : 



The receipts and expenditures from 1872 to 

 1878 were as follows: 



The revenue and expenditure for the year 

 ending March 31, 1877, were as follows: 



EXPENDITURES. Amount. 



1. Public debt 28,412,751 



2. Consolidated fund 1,641,585 



8. Civil service 13,982,553 



4. Army and navy 80,590,756 



5. Charges on the revenue 7,775,851 



Total ordinary receipts 82,408,496 



The public debt of Great Britain was as fol- 

 lows at each of the periods mentioned : 



The British army is filled up exclusively by 

 recruiting. The term of service is twelve years, 

 after which a soldier can serve for nine years 

 more. At the end of three years he can also 

 enter the reserve, one year in the regular army 

 being counted as three in the reserve. By the 

 reorganization of 1872, the United Kingdom is 

 divided into 68 military districts. In each dis- 

 trict there is one brigade depot of 182 men, two 

 battalions of the regular army, which alternate- 



ly serve abroad, two battalions of militia, and 

 the volunteers of the district. In 1878 the army 

 was composed as follows : 



In 1878 the army was distributed as follows: 



Besides the above, there are the following 

 organizations : In Ireland there is a police force 

 under military discipline, consisting of 13,000 

 men and 4,000 horses ; the Channel Islands have 

 a militia of 300 officers and 7,000 men, subsi- 

 dized by the British Government ; India has a 

 police force, under military discipline, of 190,- 

 000 men, the officers of which are Europeans; 

 the colonies all have a militia and a volunteer 

 corps of their own. 



The military educational institutions com- 

 prise the Council of Military Education, the 

 Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the 

 Royal Military and Staff College at Sandhurst, 



* Horses, elephants, and steers. t English officers. 



Native officers and soldiers. 



There were 6,000 native Indian soldiers stationed in 

 Cyprus, but they were soon to be sent back to India. 



