The total number of European officers, it will be observed, is 4487, of whom 752 are in the Queen's military service. The complement of officers to each regiment is, of Europeans, one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, one major, five captains, eight lieutenants, four cornets or ensigns; of native commissioned officers there are a subadar and jemadar with each troop or company. The command of stations is given to brigadiers, of whom there are, in Bengal 16, in Madras 12, and in Bombay 7. The divisional commands, under general officers, areBengal, Queen's, 2; East India Company, 5: Madras, Queen's, 2; East India Company, 3: Bombay, Queen's, 1; East India Company, 2. Total, Queen's, 5; East India Company, 10.

On the Bengal establishment there are ninetynine corps, namely-3 of horse artillery, 7 of foot artillery; a corps of engineers equal to 3 others in the strength of its officers; 10 of native cavalry; 2 of European infantry, and 74 of native infantry. In each of these the European commissioned officers consist of 1 colonel, I lieutenant-colonel, 1 major, 5 captains, 8 lieutenants, and 4 second lieutenants, cornets, or ensigns. The total establishment thus, is 1980; or 99 colonels, the same of lieutenantcolonels, and of majors; 495 captains, 792 lieutenants, 396 ensigns, and about 180 supernumeraries of the junior rank, awaiting the process of absorption.

The average number of European officers in Bengal, annually for the last eighteen years, has been 1754; of casualties, 80, per annum, or 1 in 22; of deaths, 54, or 1 in 32; and of retirement, &c. 26, or 1 in

67. In Madras, total number of officers, 1346; of casualties, 75, or 1 in 18; of deaths, 52, or 1 in 26; and of retirements, &c. 23, or 1 in 58. In Bombay, total number of officers, 624; of casualties, 34, or 1 in 18; of deaths, 26, or 1 in 24; of retirements, &c. 8, or 1 in 78.

The total casualties of commissioned officers in the East India Company's army at the three Presidencies, from 1813 to 1833, has been yearly, 169, 154, 159, 143, 150, 203, 198, 167, 194, 164, 168, 260, 233, 244, 233, 163, 193, 204, 244, 227, 228.

In 1835, the number of high ranked officers of the East India Company's service attached to the Indian army establishment,

The lieutenant-colonels at the same period amounted to 206, majors 206, captains 1030, and subalterns, 2472. In the Company's army there is no half-pay list, no sinecures, and no pensioners under 25 years' service; until that period is completed, European commissioned officers are not enabled to retire on the full pay of their rank, which is attained by seniority. A lieutenant-colonel, major, or captain, retires on the half-pay of his rank, if his health requires his

relinquishing the service, and a lieutenant having served 13, or an ensign 9 years (including 3 years for a furlough) may retire on ill-health certificates, on the half-pay of their rank. There are military funds to which liberal subscriptions are made by the Company's Government, but the charges are principally borne by the officers themselves. The general servitude of the officers in the Company's army is thus shown:

Senior Subalterns of the Armies of the three Presidencies, on the 1st of January, 1835. Abstract Statement of the dates of Promotion and periods of Service of the Field Officers, Captains, and

* In the Artillery and Engineers there are two Senior Lieutenants in each Battalion.

The officers in the Company's service receive commissions from Her Majesty corresponding with those which they receive from the East India Company; but westward of the Cape of Good Hope, the Company's officers possess no rank when on service with the Queen's officers; eastward of it they take precedence according to date and rank of commission. It is but justice to state, that in no part of the globe can there be found a braver or more gentlemanly community than the officers in the Company's service. The officers for the East India Company's artillery and engineers are educated at Addiscomb College, near Croydon, in the oriental languages, as well as in military discipline. Each cadet pays 657. the first year, and 50l. the second. The cadets are clad in uniform, and get their appointments as soon as qualified. The examination is very strict, and if a lad fails for the engineers or artillery, but evinces general talent and diligence, he is recommended for the infantry. The East India Company purchased Addiscomb College and grounds in 1810 for 17,2517.; the building cost 82,8697.; and the total expenditure from 1810 to 1830 was 366,1547. of which 37,1367. was for instructing the cadets in trigonometrical surveys and the art of sapping and mining, &c.; for books, stationery, and mathematical instruments, 18,7521.; and the rewards to cadets for industry and talent amounted in four years to 1,600l. The total number of cadets educated during the period has been two thousand and ninety; and to the excellence of the establishment, the success and extraordinary formation of the East India Company's fine