Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY', OCTOBER 27 1857.

ARMY, NAVY, AND ORDNANCE.

Detailed accoants of receipt and expenditure in these
services have been Issued. They comprehend the sums
for the year ending March, 1856. The naval exlenditure

was more than nineteen millions and a half, as follows:

R. 8. d.
Wage 'to seamen and ma,iles
Victuals for ditto
Admiralty °Tee .
Royal naval coa t volunteers • ... ..........
Scientific branch . • .
Estah ishmants at home ...
E+tabliahments abroad ..
Wages to artificers, &c., employed in establishments
at horne . ..... ........... 1,134,472 14 5
Wages to artificers, &c., Employed In establishments
abroad
Nay .1 sta es, &c., for the building and repair of ships,
• • •••• • • • • 4,683,343 10 8
New works, improvem-nts, and repairs in the yards,

&c,......
.973 1 10
Medicines and medical store5....
Miscellaneous services. . .
Half ply, ressrvel half piy, and retirement to officers
of the navy and Royal Niarimn . ....
M Mary pensions and allowances.... 455,678 13 1
C vil pen ions and allowances...... • . . .. 142,729 16 9
Transport Service and Prisoners of War.. • •
t Office Dep ulment Packet Servi-e) .. 726,166 15 10
The army, commissariat, and militia services needed
nearly twenty-one millions and a half. The army 'wen-
Citure was :

Land Fo-cm
Staff Officers
Pnb'ic Departments
R-yal alil'tary College ......
It oyal Military Asylum aad Hibernian Military
Salo A, .......... .....
Volunteer Corps .................
Embodied Militia ..
Rewards for distinguished services
Pay of General Offi‘xfrs...... . • .• . .........
Pay of Pct'red Officers....
Half-pay and military allowances ....
Ha'f-pay and p.nsions of officers of disbanded foreign
corps, and el'o van es to widows and children of
de 'eased foreign officers ........
Pensions
Compassionate list, including Royal bounty and
pensions, and gr tni ler 'or wounds
in-r ensioners of Chelsea and Kilmainham hospitals
Out-pensions
Superannuation allowances.
The commissariat expenditure was :
Pay of Officers and Clerks in the Foreign Garrisons

..•....•......•£9,003,774 f 4
381,763 14 2
150,057 5 1
17.720 18 5

„....„........ 23,C06 15 3
.. 90,216 15 6
. .
2,930,884 0 6
•
19,569 4 0
60,266 7 1
51,546 :8 9
292,551 1 3

31,671 9 2
110,613 12 5

113,791 13 4
30,287 /5 11
1,225,881 12 5
33,190 18 7

and Possesion., sn 1 with the A rnlyi i the Ea.t £83,162 8 4
Pay of As•lstant C'erks, Stor- keeper., and others,
also A bwinees Ustud /if,:ney and Contin-

geneies ....... ....... . ........ .. • • •.• • ••••
Pay and Cmtingencies of the Commissariat of

251,683 0 3

the War Department..
By Lind aid Inl Ind Water T -ansport • . .
Fright of Specie ......
Provibions and Fara2•e .
Miscellaneous Service
For tht troops when encamped in the United King-
dom
Half pay of Commissariat Officers...
Pensions to Wid0w5........ ......
Compassionate allowance to ch;ld-en.... .
.........
Compensation and superannuation..

5 092 5 11
12,3,775. 9 4
42,320 2 2
•• • •••••• • • ••• • 4,686,631 13 5
4:4 255 4 10

556 3 7
20 899 15
6,731 11 4
597 10 0
5,968 G 11

The Militia :
Ditembodied Militia.,

86,853 6 9

Balance duo by defaulter accountants, and sums 10,349A0 2
st len on service in tho East. . . •
Embodied Militia ...
The total is :

1,120 9 5
E 82,499 19 6

For Navy
For Array, Comminariat, and =llia..

.4'19,590,833
21,233 079

440;823,912

NATIVE CHRISTIAN REGIMENTS.

A correspondent of one of the Madras journals suggests
to Lord Harris the advisability of raising regiments
composed entirely of native Christians, and doing so
forthwith. He thinks that with the aid of the missionaries
some 25,000 able-bodied men might be procuredrthatis if
government is satisfied with able-bodied men, and does
not look for a grenadier stature in its recruits. The
native Christians are not at present very willing to enlist
in the native infantry regireentsafor, as might be expected
from the barbarous ignorance of the }Endow and
Mahomedans, the latter affect to look down upon the
Christian sepoys as men who have abandoned their caste.
If all that we have heard and read of Jesuits and'of other
missionaries and their enterprises in Southern India is
not fallacious, a far larger number of Christian recruits
than 25,000 might be procured in the Madras presidency.
Why au attempt is not made to embody them into
separate regiments, we are at a loss to conjecture.. It has
hitherto been the policy of the radian government to dis-
courage the enlistment of native Christians. No native
Christian, it is unnecessary to say, would have been
received into any of the Bengal regiments, and if a Sepoy
of any of those corps became a Christian, he would have
been turned oat. This was one of the concessions made
to those bodies of men who have proved so gloriously
"staunch"—but it was a concession which was necessary,
when we remember that from the very earliest times the
mode of recruiting adopted in the Bengal army was -rotten
to the:core. There was, however, no such necessity for
discouraging the enlistment of Christians in .either the
Bombay or Madras armies, and measures might have been
taken to induce greater numbers-of them to join the corps
of those presidencies than are now to be fund in them.
The great desideratum, however, is to have regiments
composed so'ely of native Christians. Such a step will
have the effect of elevating the native Christians in their
own esteem, and showing them that government does not
r •glrd them as outcasts as the Mahomedans and Hindoos
do. 0 eof the results of such a course would be, that
the regiments would never want reeruits. We need not
say that we are adverse to any tampering with the religi-
ons of the races of this country ; but, on the other hand,
we do s'r, if the government of India thinks it politic to
have a good:), number of regiments of native Christian
soldiers, that if it cow raises a few corps of such men, and
treats there with ladulgence and favour, it will be litTle
less then astonishing Is ,w thick nativa Christian appli-
cants for enrolment will be found to present themselves
in the course of a very few years —Phcenix, Sept. 5,

kt LEWIS Az rOMPANY'S, Rane;agh•street.
BOYS are C 0... ILIED from the Ages of Six :o Twmty

J. J. Pousseal was one day showing bia "ale to
Posterit," to Voltaire, " krow" said the
sage, " 1 am afrjd your- 'o3a' will never be forwarded
to it 3 address "

A Tana Sotanint.—Wo have noticed with much plea-
rue the return to M-Iloe of Sergeant Major Nagle, of
the "oth Regiment. This gallant y tvgsoldier, now oily
in his twenty-s c'ind year, has been all tbto:gh the
erituan campaign, in which he was twice severely
wounded ; he has been rewarded with the insignia of the
Legioa of llmour, and medals for Alm!, Inkermau aed
S. 'oa:toDol: and he ;kis also obtained a medal for " val tir
in the field " end a g ,e 1 service peasira of £2O a ye tr for
life. It is o-ly to be hoped that he will yet attain that
position to which.. his remarkable services, as well as his
irth entitle him., Be is the grand nephew of the late
Lieutelnt-Colonel N gle, and the descendant of one of
the mos' ancient Citholic fareilies in our county—the
Naghs of Anna of Annak's,,—wh,, like en many mare in
this neighb urhood, suffered from the eff cts of the late
disastrous tim s ; but he des:fising idleness at home, and
disreg.trding vulgar prPjadice, entered the army in the
humb'e capacity of a private soldier, in which he has wan
his present pcsi•iar, solely by his bravery and good
conduct, earniag at the sime time the respect and es eeus
of his superiors.—Cork Examiner.

7 HE BA1;BtRIT1E8 OF DRESS. —We are wont to ridicule
the fathilus of hy-gone days—the high heels, hoops, and
patches of onr paternal ancestors. But though the general
tss'e may have improved, it is saarcely embodied in
practice. Tie votiries of the cipriciaus goddess ar
numerous arid irrati,:nal as ever. What can be said for
the present style of female costume? By concurrent
testimony it is inimical to health, stiff, ungraceful, incon-
venient, and expensive. Common sense and good taste
dike unite in condemnieg ' the strutrure of silk or straw,
adorned with flowers, ribbons, and lace, crowel3d en the
angle of the jaws and the nape of the neck, and with its
forepart just reaching the crown of the head," which
constitute the bonnet of 1857—the long skirts, " the
trammels end insrumen's of torture under the name cf
cothes"—the crinoline, gotta percha, or ate-1 cages that
deform the female form, and produce only inconvenience.
It is a dress mania ea,'ried to en extreme, without
answering any on,, of tie good objects of dress. "Place
the in,st bewitching of the animal creation under similar
conditions of artificia'ity, and wh,t will become of their
grace and charms ?" point. dly asks the Westminster.
Wi'hout gratifying ary taste but the love of finory, withont
exciting admiration in others, subversive of con.fort and
convenitnce—how comes it that this absurd fashion has
been allo,7ed to tyrannise over our fair contry women ?
Noncovfo /Tikes

Excliterely for CLOTHING BOYS from Six to Twenty Years.
LEWIS Si COMPANII tumelutrincuu