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London, England, 1857-07-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 21.

LORD PALIMRSTON hu announced that recruiting,
to fill up the void created in the number of men voted
teethe Army by the House of Commons, in eoesequence
of sending so large a force to India, will at once com-
mence. The number so voted was, it will be
recollected, 120,000 men, including the various
Colonial corps, but excluding the 30,000 QtExtt's
troops in India. The rank and file of the various
local corps number about 7,600 men. Al these
corps arc not available for Imperial purposes, but
are in reality only effective police bodies, the
British Army, u voted by the House, cannot
be estimated for those purposes—that is, for the
defence of the realm, for garrisoning our Mediter-
ranean and other fortresses, and for protecting the
rest of the Empire (India excepted)—st a strength
on paper of more than 118,300 men rank and
file. We nay, on paper; for it may be doubted
whether it really amounts in regiments to that
strength. Taking it, however, at 118,600 men, this
was the hen which Ministers asked far, and which
the House of Commons, almost without a remark,
voted as a pew establishment for the current year.
Of this some 4,000 or 3,000 troops were sent on spe-
cial le" ite to China, part of which force will now
be arrested is &musty, diverted to other more
pressing requirements, and be replaced by marines
to be sent from England. By this easy substitution
of msrines for part of the army we see how valuable
and sensible a step it was in Parliament to augment
the peace establishment of that admirable and useful
force.

We bad, let as 'spume, the average number of
Ql:flirt's troops (say 30,000) in India before the
Bengal Army arose in mutiny. En intelligence of
that calamity nutted England reliefs to the extent
of 10,000 men had been ordered out in the ordinary
and regular course of things. Bat in the pre-
sence of such a rebellion, and until it be
effectually suppressed and most signally
punished, no regiments then in India will,
it may he presumed, be allowed to return to
Europe. Immediately after the news arrived, other
4,000 temps were naked for by the Court of
Director, and granted by the Quer.res Government.
Consequent on the still later news, six other regi-
ments have been put under orders for India, besides
a force of the Quefle's Artillery, which will, we be-
lieve, maks its appearance in India for the first time.
Calculating this last force at 4,500 men, and the
force diverted from China at 2,000, we have an
addition of 20,500 Qt:Exte's troops to the Indian
Army, and the number of men voted for other pur-
poses by Parliament reduced to 97,000. So long as a
void in the number of troops raised under the &utile-
rityof Parliament is caused by a transfer of QUZI3I'II
troops to India, the cost to England and its [Menem
of the Army not in the service of the Indian revers-
meat, bat otherwise employed in the empire, is ales
reduced. Immediately these 20,000 man is.,.
England for India, they cease to be a charge as the
Imperial Treasury, and will have to be paid for by
their immediate employers, the subordinate govern-
ment of India.
To supply India with these 20,000 additional
QUEEN'S troops, the force previously deemed fleets-
eary for the security and protection of South Africa
against Kaffir hostility and recklessness, for the
strength of our garrisons in the Mediterranean, the
West Indies, and the Channel Islands, and for the
safety and defence of the realm, must of course be
diminished. Troops will, perhaps, also be taken
from the Mauritius and Ceylon, where it has been
the established military policy of England to keep a
considerable force. But wherever obtained, the

diversion of so large a force to India disturbs the
calculations on which Ministers proposed the current
year's Army Estimates to the House of Commons ;
as it also interferes to some extent with that system
of military improvement commenced at our various
camps.

As we are without any Channel Beet or any large
naval force in the Mediterranean, and as it is ob-
vious from the proceedings in Parliament that we are
not to have a fleet in the Channel this year, nor any
increase of the squadron under Lord LToNs'command,
it becomes all tho more imperative on the War-office
to sct about raising the men necessary to bring the
strength of the army up to the number voted by the
House of Commons. This obligation is the stronger,
seeing that, if we understand Lord PALMERSTON'S
statement on that point correctly, the militia will
this autumn be embodied only to a very small ex-
tent and couridet ing that without an alteration in
can be neither permanently embodied
`•^•'oncan garrisons.

~ however, be considerable difficulty in
„ during the harvest months now so 810•
approaching. The demand for agricultural
" be great, and wages, of course,
, high. For the next two months
influences will seriously impede recruiting.
as it is quite possible that events in
require still larger drafts from the
Army, it is indispensable for national sod
Al purposes, that the utmost vigour should at
characterise our Recruiting Staff Service. If
- harvest it be necessary to pay a high
recruits, by all means let the bounty be
would be the worst of all possible eeone-
even five pounds a man retard until the
filling up of this great void in the
Army. For before autumn arrives, other
may be ordered out to India.
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