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LONDON FRIDAY, JULY 91.

A DOUBLE NUMBER of the " EXPRESS "
will be published TO-MORROW.

Hownexacomposedtheßengalarmymay hereafter
be, two things are tertian : that the number of Euro-
pean cams, permanently on duty, in the Native
regiments, mast be increased 1 and that the number
of European regiments must be largely and perma-
nently segmented—augmented to that point of
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strait h which will restore complete confidence in the
witaciency and stability of our authority. A simple
fact will show to what extent the Native regiments
have of late years been stripped of their European
°Eons. In the year 1844—and things have not
greatly improved since—the Native Army was com-
posed of 212,300 men. To command and train this
great force there were nominally 4,480 English
officers. Bet of these there were absent on the
General Staff, Political Service, Own Duties, &e., no
fewer than 2229. There were consequently left
only 2,233 English oaken to tabs charge of 212,300
native troops, and a large proportion of that number
were mere boys. Substantially this is still the state
of the Indian Army.

Mr. Vareetre Berm indeed referred to the excel-
lent validities of the Irregular regiments, in each of
which there are only four European officers. But
the reference, unless explained, is only calculated to
snake embalm waive coatounded. Formerly we
had only a captain and two lieutenants in all
our regiments. But that was in the days
when in reality the regiments were officered and
commanded by natives, when native officers felt
their rank to be an elevated one, when our service
was attractive to the native gentry of India. The
reverse is thecae now, both in the regular cavalry and
line. We have abandoned the old system of native
officers, and substituted a system of European officers-
But we have not given the change fair play. Either
we ought to bare an effective native or an effective
European staff of officers. In the Bengal army we
have neither. The native Akers are nonentities, who
have been swept away berate the first storm ; one half
the European officers areaway from their regimemb;
and one-third of those on duty are little better then
mere boys taught to despise their men.
The Irregular regiments, on the contrary, are a
return to something like oar older system. They
have freedom and prestige, and are attractive to
youthful bravery and ambition, which the regular
regiments are not. But no human being would pro-
pose to raise a native army of 230,000 men, or even,
as Lord Joint RCS, ELL proposes, of 100,000 men,
and divide it into irregular regiments of 1,000 men,
with only four European officers in each. A few
irregular regiments so constituted are of the highest
value; a whole army would be a constant danger.
Lard J. Ruarzu. thinks we " have had too large
an army altogether.• This is true. But before we
venture to reduce the Indian army, we must have
previously organised and improved the Indian
police. Had we availed ourselves of the muni-
cipal communities of India ; had we called to the aid
and co-operation of oar Government the local insti-
tutions of India ; had we associated ourselves with
local spirit, freedom, and self-protection, we should
have had at small cost in the village communities
themselves a cheap and effective polies system. We
should thus hare simplified and improved the admi-
nistration of justice, have collected the revenue more
easily, and moved treasure less expensively ; but we
have neglected the village communities, and have so
centralised in a bureaucracy, native and European,
all authority and power, that we have to conduct our
government without popular co-operation, and of
course at a fearful rate of expenditure. Still, it is
not too late to alter our system, and by an alteration
which would improve, at little capsule, the police
of India, we agree with Lord Joilx that the army
of India might be reduced. By the completion of
the railway system, too, which is in progress of eon-
atruction, something might be contributed towards
a reduction so desirable to the exhausted finances of
India.

What the exact number of the reduced Army ought
to be is a matter for after consideration. Already the
nominal ordinary strength of European troops—a fact
which seems to have escaped Lord Jour's atten-
tion -averages something like 50,000. By the act of
11453 the East India Company is empowered to have
20,000 European troops of their own in India, be-
sides 4,000 is depst in England; and their European
regiments in India are, we believe, kept op to their
parliamentary strength. On reference to the last
Army Estimates it will be found that the Company
had in their service and pay before this mutiny
broke out, and before the troops withdrawn for the
Crimea had been fully replaced, 26,363 Qteux's
troops. Here, then, we have nearly the 60,000
European troops actually in India which Lord J.
Resstu. deems necessary, and which he advocates
as involving an increase of European force. To meet
the present emergency, Lord PANNIAZ has already
given orders which will raise that fora to 20,000
men. No man can say whether more will not yet
hale to be sent; but he will be a bold minister
who diminishes, at least for some years to come,
that force below 70,000.