The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-18 00:00:00

ARMY ESTIMATES.

The army estimates have been printed and published.
The inorease in expenditure for the year commencing next
April is to be only 262,4701., though the number of the
force will be larger than in the previous year by 10,694.
The number of officers and rank and file at home and
abroad (but exclusive of India), which was fixed at
102,283 in last year's estimates, is now to be raised to
112,977. The number is constituted thus :—Cavalry---
Life Guards and Horse Guards, 1,308 ; cavalry of the line,
7,478 ; infantry—Foot Guar ,s, 6,478 ; infantry of the line
138,463 ; West India Regiments, 3,417 ; colonial corps,
5,273 ; to which are to be added 560 men in the pay of the
East India Company, but serving in areal Britain. Itt
regard to the distribution of the force authorised by Par-
liament last year, it is stated that on the Ist of January
last there were (besides recruiting troops) 55,709 men at
at home, and 33,340 abroad, exclusive of India, leaving a
deficiency of above 11,000 men wanting to complete the
establishment.

The number of men being comprised in the first vote,
vote No. 2 is for their pay and allowances, which will
amount to 3,923,2881., being an increase of 297,505/. upon
the year. This is the net sum, after deducting 18,0001.,
defrayed by the Australian Colonies, and 936,6371., paid
by the East India Company for the charge of the four
cavalry and 24 Infantry Regiments employed in the East
Indies ; for the total force is to be 142,630, of whom
29,653, are assigned to the East Indies in the company's

pay.
Vote No. 3 is for the General and Medical Staff,
151,3821.- a decrease of 11,575/. The appropriation of the
vote is—home staff, 62,365/. ; foreign, 89,0161.
The Public Departments, Vote No. 4, take 105,093/.,
being 6,6291. more than in the previous year. The next
two votes also show some increase of charge • the sum re-
quired for the Royal Military College is 17,4011.—an in-
crease of 513/. • for the Royal Military Asylum and the
Hibernian Military School, 20,7561. an increase of
2,736/.
Vote No. 7, for the charge of volunteer corps, is the
same in amount as before—namely, 88,0001. The esti-
mate is for 14,293 men, besides 40 adjutants and sergeant-
majors ; and the chief items are-42,879/. for contingent
and clothing allowance for the men, at 31. each per an-
num, and 40,0021. for probable expense of the corps when
assembled for exercise or for permanent duty, or when
employed in aid of the civil power, and the expense of in-
specting field officers.
This vote completes the charge for effective service, the
amount for which will be 4,305,9201.—0 n increase of
295,8681. The increase is reduced to 262,470/.,, by the
vote for non-effective service being 1,981,566/. or 33,398/.
less than in the previous year. The items Of the non-
effective service vote are as follows :—Rewardsformili tory
service, 20,5001. ; army pay of general officers, 46,0006. ;
full pay for retired officers, 49,600/. ; half-pay and military
allowances, 356,0001. ; foreign half-pay, 33,671/. ; widows'
pensions, 115,889/. ; compassionate allowances, 75,560/ ;
in-pensions, 30,694/. ; ont-pensions, 1,215,712/.; superan-
nuation allowances, 38,0001.
The result is, that the charge for the army, which has
been 6,025,016/. in the, year just expiring, is fixed at
6,287,4861. for the financial year about to commence.