The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-13 00:00:00

ARMY ESTIMATES

The estimates which were laid upon the table of the
House of Commons, very early on Saturday morning, and
which have since reached us, shew that the total charge
for the Army in 1871-2, is estimated to be £15,851,700, the
net amount, deducting the exchequer extra receipts being
£14,697,700. The latter sum exhibits a net increase
over the expenses of 1870-1 of £2,886,700. Since IPA
session, the Army has been ordered to be increased bY
19,980 fresh men, and the total number of soldiers to be pre'
vided for this year will be 133,201. This represents our nairl'
tary strength. This increase in the number of the regull
forces was included in a special vote granted in August'
1870, and the additional expense was provided for the
last financial year by a vote of credit taken at the same
time. The Horse Artillery has been increased bY
six batteries. Twenty Garrison batteries We
been converted into field batteries, and the
remaining garrison batteries increased in strength.
The Artillery Depot has also been largely increased, and
so organised as to admit of the immediate expansion of
that branch of the corps as far as may be needed for active
service. Nine regiments of cavalry are taken at a fulls
strength of men, and all the regiments will consist of four
squadrons, all of which will take the field when ordered oa
active service, and recruits will be trained at a general dept'
The troops of the Engineer Train have been strengthened
and one troop added for telegraph equipment. All tbe
battalions of the Foot Guards, and 23 battalions of P.
fantry, have an establishment of 850 rank and filed'
as being first for active service. The Aro'
Service Corps has been increased by three coo
panies, two for transport service and one for supP4'
to
The Army Hospital Corps has been increased in order
improve the arrangements for the internal service of
hospitals under the control of the medical officers a tP,
army. The Ceylon Rifles Corps will be reduced by
companies, on the withdrawal of the troops fr°
Labuan, where they will be replaced by a police fo
In the year 1869-70, the net expenditure for army serri,.;
was 212,444,765. In the year 1870-71 the sum .I'o
£11,665,985 ; so that a considerable increase is ma 000•
in the amount asked for this year. It must be relOa
3
bered also that the money expended in 1869-70 incitleo,
1472,664 disbursed on account of the Abyssinian expeditito
In the vote for warlike stores in the present year the 6 0.
mentioned for torpedoes is £38,485. Dividing the esP.eco
diture required for our effective and non-effective sell)°,
we find that the former are likely to cost £13,554'0,
while the sum for the latter is mentioned at £2,291'

RUMOIMED RESIGNATION OF THE SECEOI,PtiIe
TO THE ADMIRALTY.—A London correspondent c". ,reti
Dundee Advertiser says :—" It has been generally rtlol°J
in the London Clubs that Mr. Baxter has resiglie i 5
office as Secretary to the Admiralty. The stateloSora
not correct, but seems to be an inference froul 1
eolig
Halifax temporarily acting for Mr. Childers, and %O.
to be assumed that Mr. Baxter will not act uncle:;,pll9
There is, no doubt, considerable uneasiness at
but the statement of Mr. Baxter's resignation is eel.-
unauthorised."
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BIRTHS. da
On the 9th inst., at Sunderland, the wife of C°/311319a
of 1`
W. A. Gambier, R.N., of a son.o..Anburoe'
On the 10th inst., at Capheston, LadY P ' .---
son.

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MARRIAGES• -,,,up0l C.
On the 9th inst., at Canterbury Cathedral, -.-..- ,Il,ie°,
Lugar& Esq. 4th Royal Ral tto Eutelinsto IIY
daughter of the late W. A. Ryder, Ca'PW-
Hussars. Di
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On the 9th inst., at Appleton-le-street, Charles -iite!,‘"
Burke, Esq., to Anna-Everilda, the second dsiii,j3o'
George Legard, Esq of Easthorpe gall,
North.,
Yorkshire. .'

DEATHS.
OAL
Ou the 9th inst., at Kent Villa Finehley ,
1,-joir-r
James Stone Allen, Esq•, in hiBlst year. pgeoSt:,
On the 9th just., suddenly., at 4, Park-cottags, lAO
Park, Robert Dallistone, of the Bank of "a
aged 75.

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Monday, February 13, VAL