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The regular army was distributed as fol- 

 lows : 



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 8,000 

 men, subsidized by the British Government ; 

 India has a native army of 140,000 men, and a 

 police force, under military discipline, of 190,- 

 000 men, the officers of both of which are Eu- 

 ropeans ; the colonies all have a militia, a vol- 

 unteer corps, of their own. The home Govern- 

 ment stations troops only at fortified places, 

 except in the Cape Colony, where peculiar cir- 

 cumstances exist, and in places where policy 

 demands it, as in Hong-Kong. 



The Navy consists of 60 iron-clads, about 

 360 steamers, and 125 sailing vessels. Of this 

 number 245 were in commission on September 

 1, 1877, 118 being at home, and 127 abroad. 

 The Navy is manned by 46,560 seamen, 14,000 

 marines, and 20,840 men belonging to the 

 Royal Navy reserve. 



In 1876 the number of schools inspected by 

 the Government inspectors was 14,875 in Eng- 

 land and "Wales, including the Isle of Man and 

 the Roman Catholic schools for Great Britain, 

 and 2,912 in Scotland, exclusive of the Roman 

 Catholic schools. These schools had accom- 

 modations for 3,483,789 children in England 

 and Wales, and 462,986 in Scotland. The 

 average attendance was 2,007,732 in England 

 and Wales, and 332,545 in Scotland. In Ire- 

 land there were, on December 31, 1875, 7,104 

 national schools, with 1,011,799 pupils en- 

 rolled, and an average daily attendance of 

 389,961. In England the number of paupers 

 relieved in 1876-'77 was 728,350. Scotland 

 in 1876 had 100,105 paupers. In Ireland the 

 number of paupers was 78,528. 



The finances, commerce, and the movement 

 of shipping of the British colonies, in 1875, 

 were as follows, according to the " Statistical 

 Abstract for the Colonial and other Posses- 

 sions of the United Kingdom, 1860-1875" 

 (London, 1877): 



The statistics of Industrial and Provident So- 

 cieties in England and Wales in 1875 were given 

 in a Parliamentary Blue Book issued in June, 

 1877, as follows. They were 926 in number, 

 and the amount insured was 2,524,401. The 

 number of members at the end of the year was 



420,024, admitted during the year 73,454, and 

 withdrawn during the year 36,700. Of share 

 capital the amount at the end of the year was 

 4,477,938; the amount credited during the 

 year was 1,812,522 ; the amount debited 

 during the year, 1,388,975. The loan capital 



