The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-21 00:00:00

THE ARMY ESTIMATES.

We are now supplied with the estimate of the
probable expense of our land force during the
ensuing year. £14,606,751 is the sum in ques-
tion. Of this the sum actually required for the
effective services is £12,423,943, the remainder
going in the shape of half-pay, pensions, superan-
nuation allowance, &c. The total number of men to
be voted is 146,044, a few hundreds less than were
required last year.
Treating the estimates in the same way that we
treated those relating to the navy, we subjoin the
following table, showing the principal heads into
which the expenditure on the effective services is
divided. is order that the relation between the
li7 votes and those of last year may be readily per-
ceved, we print all items which are less than those
corresponding to them in the former estimate in
italics;

LDo., and Forces, pay and allowances ..
miscellaneous charges .. • •
Embodied Militia
'Volunteer Corps .„
•• • •
Departments of the Secretary of State for War
and of the General Commanding in Chief ..
'Manufacturing establishments, military
renters' barrack barrack masters, lodging money,
,Ace • • • • • • • • • • 398,695
Wages of Cittificers, labourers, %c, 860,477
Clothing and ne..Bsuies
• • • • • • 525,416
Provisions, forage, 1-ftl and light, barrack fur-
niture, bedding, &c.
• • .. Warlike stores for land and sea .erviee
Fortifications ..
Civil buildings ..
Barracks
_Educational and scientific branches

.. L 4,780,000
648,096
nil.
133,276

201,833

.. 1,456,834
.. 2,200,581
158,185
• 179,407
• • 690,159
261,014

Total effective services • • ..£l2,4939
Although the greater number of the votesshow
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au increase, yet the saving effected on the othersis
great enough to reduce the total estimate of 14
millions odd £185,795 below that of 1860-61.
Our attention is due at the outset to the men
who will compose our army during the ensuing
year. Of the total number, 146,044-7,388 are

officers, 81,891 non-commissioned officers, and
126.765 rank and file. In this enumeration her
Majesty's British forces in the East I dies, not
required to be voted, are not taken in o account.
Were these added the total number w ld amount
to 212,773. Disregarding this, how2ler, and re-
ferring simply to the forces to be voted, we find
that the Horse Artillery numbers 1,516 of all
ranks ; the Life Guards and Horse Guards, 1,314 ;
and the Cavalry of the Line, 10,796. In the In-
fantry we find that the Royal Artillery numbers
19,731 ; the Royal Engineers, 4,535 ; the
Military Train, 1,909; the Foot Guards, 6,073 ;
the Infantry of the Line, 88,168; the Army
Hospital Corps, 1,C92 ; the Commissariat Staff
Corps, 559 ; the West India Regiments, 3,422; and
the Colonial Corps, 5,563. The Staff consists of
162 officers, belonging to the General Staff, exclu-
sive of officers on regimental full pay, 198 to the
Commissariat Staff, 437 to the Medical Staff, 238 to
he Staff of Depot Battalions (112 non-commissioned
officers being included in this number), 97 to the
Staff of Recruiting Districts (including 62 non-
commissioned officers), and 90 commissioned chap-
lains. The total number of horses in the cavalry
and infantry 153 13,642.

The vote for the pay and money allowances to
the Land Forces is £43,299 in excess of that for
the financial year nearly over. The vote may be
divided into the following heads :—For staff pay
and allowances, £326,898 ; for regimental pay and
allowances, £4,310,844 ; for money allowances in
the nature of pay, £269,855. These sums, added
together, would amount to £4,907,597, but from
this is to be subtracted £127,597 for the pay, &C.,
of men wanting to complete the establishment, the
remainer being the amount of the vote. The first
of these items is subdivisable as follows :—For the
General Staff, £93,777 ;'for the Commissariat Staff,
£53,062; for the Medical Staff, £105,031 ; for the
Miscellaneous and Contingencies, £75,028. Elabo-
rate tables are appended to the estimate, showing
the:detailed expenditure of the regimental pay, but
it is not necessary for us to notice them. We may
mention that £69,200 of the total amount is good-
conduct pay.

The details of the vote for miscellaneous charges,
which show an increase of £27,811 over the vote
for last year, are too voluminous for description
here. We may, however, mention some of the
items. For the pay of the staff of the depot batta-
lion, £41,337 is set down ; for the expenses of re-
cruiting, £82,894; for the purchase of horses,
£59,466; for hospital expenses, £71,104; for the
administration of martial litw, £310,733 ; for the
movement of troops, £lBO,OOO.
It will be observed that the vote for the embo-
died militia is nil, The total vote of last year—
£32o,ooo—is therefore saved. The £133,276 to be
voted for the volunteer corps, though comparatively
small in amount, is particularly interesting in its
details. It is amusing to observe that the Yeo-
manry Cavalry have the lion's share of this vote,
£91,311 odd being devoted to that branch of the
volunteer service, £41.964 to other volunteer corps.
More than half of the last-named sum, £27,375
that is, is devoted to the pay and forage allowance
of 150 adjutants of rifle volunteer corps at 10s. a-
day—the contingent allowances to the same, at the
rate of £4 per company per annum, amount to
£4,200.

An increase of £5,609 is :shown in the vote for
the departments of the Secretary of State for War.
A large portion of this increase is due to the item
" advertisements for all services, travelling expen-
ses, and contingencies." The vote for manufactur-
ing establishments, &c., is greater than that of last
year by 24,690; on the vote wages to artificers, &c.,
£4,787 is however saved. The vote for clothing
and necessaries is in excess of the vote for last year
by £201,416 ; that for provisions, forage, &c., by
£178,457 ; and that for warlike stores by £112,493.
The remaining votes, however, show considerable
savings. In the vote for fortifications £437,170 is
saved ; in that for civil building, £27,093 ; in that
for barracks, £17,448 ; and in that for educational
and scientific branches, £16,533. The large vote
for warlike stores is made in the following way :
For the purchase and repair of small arm5,£524,732;
iron ordnance, shot, shell, &c., £424,383 ; gun-
powder, and for saltpetre, charcoal. sulphur, and
barrels used in the gunpowder factory, £144,687;
machinery, £35,859; timber, £131,224; camp equi-
page, £52,193; miscellaneous stores, £790,539; for
the purchase and repair of stores provided on the
spot, and for the carriage of arms and other stores
at the several stations at home and abroad,£lo,soo;
materials for packing, freight, and carriage of arms
and stores, and other miscellaneous expenses,
£49,004; building and repair of vessels and boats,
the supply ofsails, &c., and charge of hired vessels
for conveyance of stores to and from stations at
home, £17,460; experiments, £20,000; total,
£2,200,581.