GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



Expedition to Abyssinia 17,886 



War In South Africa. 1.500,000 



Navy services 11,1*62,816 



Chargim on the revenue : 



962,722 



Inluinl n venue I,b2.447 



Post-oUie 8,273,000 



TVbmph service * 1,109,000 



Post-oOlce packet service 777,600 



Total ordinary expenditure . 85,407,789 



Localization of the military forces 450,000 



ifh Hospital and School 145,120 



,:KT bonds paid off. 4,250,000 



Other expenses 83,468,966 



Total 128,721,866 



The public debt of Great Britain was as fol- 

 lows at each of the periods mentioned : 



last-mentioned forces, was composed as fol- 

 lows : 



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 al- 

 ternately serve abroad, two battalions of militia, 

 and the volunteers of the district. Besides 

 these 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 

 800 officers and 7,000 men, subsidized 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. In 1878 the army, excepting the 



In 1878 the army was distributed as follows : 



The navy consists of 68 ironclads, about 360 

 steamers, and 120 sailing vessels. Of this num- 

 ber 254 were in commission on September 1, 

 1879, 122 being at home, and 132 abroad. The 

 navy is manned by 45,800 seamen, 13,000 ma- 

 rines, and 21,420 men belonging to the Royal 

 Navy reserve. 



The imports and exports of merchandise 

 from 1874 to 1878 were as follows: 



The declared value of the imports and exports of precious metals, coined and in bars, in the 

 same period, was as follows : 



' Horses, elephants, and steers. 



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t English officers. 



$ Native officers and soldiers. 



