The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-22 00:00:00

BENGAL ARMY ALLOWANCE.

The following is a copy of a Circular, addressed
to the licigal Army, on the subject of the late re-
ductions in the Officers' allowance on that e,tablish-
ment. It will be seen Out both Lord Combermere
.nd Lord William Be ;finch are favourable to a re-
peal of the Honourable Court's orders on this im-
portant subject, and that the case:bas again been re-
ferred to the East India Directors for further con.
ideration.

CIRCULAR.
" Adjutant-General's Office,
" Head-quarters, Poorce, April 27, 1529.

have received the orders of his Excellency
the Right Honourable the Commander-in-Chief, to inform
you that it has been intimated to him by the Right Hon.
the Governor-General in Council, that it is his Lordship's
intention to transmit to the Honourable the Court of Di-
rectors copies of the Papers and Memmials which have
liten submitted to Government, and recommended to its
favourable consideration by his Excellency, on the subject
of the Government General Order of the 29th of No-
vemlier, 1828, with a communication of the views and
sentiments which the Government have been led to enter-
tain on this important question.
" His Lordship in Council has been pleased to add, that
it will afford him sincere gratification if the Honourable
Court of Directors shall see fit to re-consider it.

" I have the honour to he, Sir,
" Your obedient servant,
(Signed) "C. FAGAN, Adj.-Gen. of the Army."

THE ARMY IN INDIA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-In a late number of the Scotsman, of which an
extract is given in your Paper of Tuesday, in which it
adverts to discontent or excitement, as the Elitor would
describe it, of the Bengal Army, in consequence of the re-
duction of its allowances, that Paper would seem to treat
the subject with considerable fairness; but the informa-
tion on which it grounds its reasoning has been erroneous.
In the first place, the Army do NOT " receive the same
pay as Officers serving in England." They are paid in
rupees, each rupee being calculated in the original scale of
pay at 2s. 6d. It is notorious that the Sonata rupee of
Bengal is at present scarcely equal to Is. Bd. of English
money ; therefore, for all purposes of remittance to Eng-
land, education of family or other necessary expences, the
Bengal Officer actually loses one-third of his asserted and
supposed pay ; in other words, a Captain of Infantry, in
the stated receipt of 120 Sonaut rupees per mensem, or,
as intended, a snm equal to 15/., now finds his pay for
every valuable and ultimate purpose to which he can apply
it, equal only. to 101. !
Nor is this all; the same ratio of loss affects every other
branch of his allowances, while he unhappily fines that
the prices of the common necessaries of his subsistence,
equipment, cattle, servants' wages, and other indispensable
daily expences have at the same time most strangely and
distressingly increased.
The Scotsman believes there is not the slightest inten-

tion of altering or extending the late reduction of allow-
ances. The fact, however, is, that such reduction has
been systematically urged front home in every despatch for
these last twenty or thirty years, and the service has been
yearly and gradually suffering under these retrenching ex-
periments. The Company base sought to reduce their
military expences throughout, or, in other words, to make
the soldiers who have gained their victories now pay for
the unwise expences of the wars themselves, for the bung-
ling mistakes of their Governors and rulers, and fur the
ever ruinous attempts at commerce which of late have so
characterised every trading connection with India. The
Army piTf etiv understand this, end thus their discontent
(for such it truly is) is now assuming a distinct and cont-

bined form, ai they are fully awate that nothing but such
necessary and strong (thugh still wisely respectful) de-
monstration of their feelings can preserve even the poor
remains of their present scanty remuneration for banish-
ment, hard service, and ruined constitutions.
I nm, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, Oct. 20. VERA X.