the example of European intrepidity is always of the most vital consequence in rallying the native troops at critical junctures. In the battles in Sindh, Sir Charles Napier remarked that the fall of a European officer was invariably the signal for Sepoy faltering; and that, if others had not been at hand to take his place on the instant; the consequences might have been often disastrous.
The following is the present rate of officers' pay per month, in the Anglo-Indian Army, including all allowances: –
COMPANY'S EUROPEAN INFANTRY.[1]
In garrison or cantonment. Rupees.[2] In the field. Rupees.
Colonel (not a General Officer on the Staff) 1180 1280 Lieutenant-Colonel 745 1020 Major 575 780 Captain 333 411 Lieutenant 199 254 Ensign 155 200 Surgeon as Captain, and Assistant-Surgeon as Lieutenant.
COMPANY'S EUROPEAN ARTILLERY.
Colonel of a Battalion 1180 1280 Lieutenant-Colonel 745 1020 Major 575 780 Captain 353 431 First Lieutenant 209 264 Second Lieutenant 167 212 Surgeon and Assistant-Surgeon, as in the European infantry. Engineers the same as the artillery.
NATIVE CAVALRY.
Colonel 1467 1467 Lieutenant-Colonel 948 1148
- ↑ "The pay and allowance of the European officers of a Sepoy regiment are double the amount of the pay of the men. The forty thousand European soldiers whom we employ cost more than the 200,000 native horse employed by our predecessors." – Tract on India Reform."The army of Bengal alone, comprising 23,247 Europeans, 138,255 native soldiers, with 3,405 British officers, or 164,903 in all, costs a third more than that of France, though less than half as numerous." – Dr. Buist's "Tract on India."
- ↑ The rupee is about two shillings.
