The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-12 00:00:00

RANGOON PRIZE-MONEY.

Considerable discontent has been manifested, and with great
justice, at the delay which has taken place in distributing the
prize money to the troops who were at Rangoon, now so many
' years ago. It is a sad reproach to the Government, whether
of the East India Company, or the British monarchy, to allow
many years to pass after every war in which the troops en-
gaged are entitled to prize-money. The larger nortion of the
men and officers who in this instance escaped the danger of
war, disease, and famine, are now dead and gone, and that
small pittance, which would have been a very slight recomT,
pense to them, will now perhaps be lost to their relations, or
will pass to those by whom the deceased never intended that
it should be received. We hope there will not soon be any
war to admit of prize-money, but if there should be one, we
would call the attention of the Government of England and of
India to the distribution of the prize-money, which is so une-
qual as to hold out no encouragement to the men to enter the
army and navy, and encounter the perils of warfare. The pub-
lic are much alive to the punishments in the navy and army,
and the commission have recommended to the Government to hold
out encouragement of every kind to get good men into the ser-
vice, and thus dispense with corporal punishments altogether.
General orders have been issued by the Horse Guards, making
some parade of encouragement to the privates, but, if examined,
these will be found very inadequate. We are enabled to give,
for the satisfaction of the numerous inquirers, a copy of the or-
ders issued in India on the 26th of April. 1836, for the distri.
bution of the Rangoon prize-money. It will be seen thP:t a
private soldier and a seaman are to receive only 2J- shares,
whilst a colonel is to receive 900, a flag offl°;:r to receive
4,500, and the commander-in-chief 14,000--fourteen thousand
shares ! Is that right? There is no. want of officers ; then
why give them such large porkus of the prize-money, whilst
the private soldiers, whom you wish to encourage, get a pit-
tance scarcely worth taking?
This is a matter of serious consilaraCon for the Govern-
ment ; we call their attention to it.

(Extract from the Calcutta Courier, dated April 27.)
RANGOON PRIZE MONEY.
We have been favoured with the following table and scale of
distribution of the Rangoon prize-money, the uncertainty at-
tending which is at length to find its termination, and the
troops employed in that arduous warfare to receive the mites
that revert to them.

Schedule of Classification of the different grades in the Mili-
tary and Naval Services, with the number of Shares of Prize.
money assigned to the former on ordinary occasions, and the
rates of war batta received by the latter
FIRST CLASS—Commander-in-chief, flag officers, and gene-
ral officers.

SECOND CLASS.—Colonels, lieutenant-colonels, post cap-
tain.s, majors, commanders, captains (naval), masters.'
TIIIRD CLASS.—Captains of the army, captains of marines,
lieutenants (naval), pursers, surgeons (naval), surgeons, chap-
lain (naval), commanders of pilot vessels and of divisions of
gun-boats and others, receiving from 400 to 600 rupees per
month ; engineer (one), receiving a monthly allowance of 350
rupees per month. _

_ .
FOURTH CLASS.—Lieutenants, ensigns, and quartermasters,
lieutenants or marines, quartermasters of marines, boatswains
and gunners, assistant surgeons (naval), assistant surgeons,
carpenters, second masters; mates, schoolmasters, master's
mates, volunteers, commanders of pilot vessels and others re-
ceiving 200 rupees v6r month, commanders of transports em-
ployed onshore.

Cuss.—Midshipmen, captains' clerks, clerks (naval)
conductors, apothecaries, &c. ; subadar majors, subadars, rue-
saldars, and woordee majors, jemadars, russaldars, &c. ; sub
conductors and staff sergeants, Ist class ; sergeants of ma-
rines, sergeants (military), staff sergeants, 2d class ; petty offi-
cers, Ist and second classes; havildars and drum and trumpet
majors ; mates, gunners, carpenters and others, receiving from
50 to 100 rupees per month.
SIXTH CLASS.—Quarter gunners, seamen, marines, and
soldiers.

First 1 Second ' Third I Fourth' Fifth Sixth
Class. Class. Class. I Class. Class. Class.
Bengal Troops
Madras Troops , 1 47 132 :334 Cr 2 19,721
Naval Troops i 2 37 145 103 118 2,500
Ditto Marine force, '
from Bengal 1 . 2 63 213 4,120
i

8

432

1,761

Two at ! 14,000
Six at

44.71:3

PROBABLE AMOUNT OF SHARES IN THE AVA PRIZE
DISTRIBUTION.

Shares each.
Commander-in-Chief
General and Flag Officers 4,500
Field Officers and Captains in the Navy
Captains and Officers of corresponding rank l3O
Subalterns and ditto 5O
Warrant Officers and ditto 3O
Soldiers and Seamen . 2A
* This Officer sharina. with Captains in the Navy is at variance
with the King's Warrant.a