NAVAL EXPENDITURE AND MERCANTILE MARINE OF THE WORLD. The following return has been issued by the British Government, showing aggregate nava. expenditure on seagoing force; aggregate revenue; aggregate tonnage of mercantile marine annual clearances of shipping in the foreign trade; annual clearances of shipping in the coasting trade; annual value of imports by sea, including bullion and specie and transshipment trade; and annual value of exports by sea, including bullion and specie and transshipment trade, of various countries, including British self-governing colonies, for the year 1897: REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES IN THE PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES. 535 Revenue and Expenditures in the Principal Countries of the World. Revenue and expenditure in the United Kingdom and British possessions,* principally in the year 1896, with the proportion of each per head of population: ARMED STRENGTH OF EUROPE. Land Forces. (Prepared in the Adjutant-General's Office, U. S. A.) Artillery, field 375 batteries of field artillery. Artillery, fortress 5 sortie batteries. 1 guard sapper battalion. I West Siberian sapper company. 4 European railway battalions. 2 Trans-Caspian railway battalions. 1 Ussuri railway battalion. 6 field engineer parks. 1 electro-technic instructional company 1 instructional balloon park. Technical troops, fortress- 6 battalions. Frontier guard 29 brigades and 4 detachments. Of the foregoing troops the following are Cossack troops: 8 battalions of infantry. 308 sotnias of cavalry (about 60,000 horsemen). WAR STRENgth. N.-C. Offi- Offi- Offi 3,300 893,900 Train 690,000 112,000 91,000 Infantry cers. cials. cers. Men. Horses. 12 74 909 battalions of 4 31 field infantry.17,810 1,674 73,961 918,738 39.467 5 26 15 242 5 651 ? Cavalry 5 |