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sky is clear, and all seems tranquil around us ? As the darkest night 

 precedes the dawn, so also does the deepest calm forbode the storm. 

 We are not pessimists, all we would urge is that we are a small hand- 

 ful of British folk in a foreign land, amongst the teeming populations 

 of which, with friendship there is mixed up hate, with fairness fanati- 

 cism, and with justice intolerance. 



It behoves us in our Mofussil stations, at least in such of them as 

 are non-military ones, to adopt all wise and necessary measures of 

 precaution and defence. Defence, not attack, will always be the role 

 of Volunteers, and, if this be so, then surely should there be places to 

 defend. At the present moment there are absolutely none. Our 

 helpless ones are at the mercy of any overwhelming force which 

 might vanquish our Volunteer soldiers in the open field. This is not 

 as it should be. At a very immaterial constructive cost, forts, such as 

 we propose, could be established at all the abovenamed stations, and 

 security with honour is cheap at whatever cost it may be purchased. We 

 offer the suggestion, and hope to see its fulfilment at no far distant day. 

 We are not sufficiently masters of the technical knowledge of the 

 craft to offer suggestions on our own account which would naturally 

 occur to a soldier on seeing the material of the Regiment and the 

 country which, were their services required, would be the probable 

 scene of their campaigns. 



We would be guilty of remissness did we pass without brief notice 

 the sister Corps of Ghazipur Volunteers, commanded by Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Rivett-Carnac. To this gentleman is due the sincere thanks of 

 the whole British Indian community for his strenuous and indefatig- 

 able efforts to promote the Volunteer movement. 



In October 1884 Mr. Rivett-Carnac submitted, at the request of 

 the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces, proposals 

 " for increasing the force of armed Europeans and Eurasians in the 

 several Provinces of India, and for working thereto a reserve of 

 native pensioned soldiers, to be employed as orderlies, &c., under the 

 civil Governments." Mr. Rivett-Carnac, after adverting to the fact 

 that there are 72,000 adult European and Eurasian males, estimated 

 as capable of bearing arms in India and British Burma, goes on to 

 show that, at the close of 1883, " there were then in India and 

 Burma 12,421 Volunteers scattered over the country, divided into 

 49 corps." He then proceeds to show the great progress of the 

 Volunteers in the North-Western Provinces, making reference to the 



