rupee, about five per cent, better than the sonaut rupee, which is the standard of military payments. In viewing the sum-total of an officer's pay, when reduced to English currency, which may be done with tolerable correctness at the above fate of eight rupees to the pound sterling , very considerable allowance must be made for the inevitable expences, &c., incident, not only to military men, but to all residing in India. This consideration will amount to a very plain, and correct, conclusion, viz. that though a subaltern officer may live on his pay, provided his out-set be duly allowed for, yet, that he must have more than ordinary luck, or possess a bent towards parsimony by no means to be envied, and rarely attaining its object, to enable his saving a few pounds within the year.

This is necessary to be well understood, and, when understood, ought to be ever carried in mind by those who expect a young man on his arrival, as a cadet, in India, to support himself without adventitious aids . That he may do so, by arranging a proper plan with others of his class , cannot be denied ; but to effect this, not only all luxuries, but, what in India are considered the necessaries of life, must be relinquished. On receiving a commission, his allowances, of course, are: considerably augmented, but, on the other hand, his expences will be ra-