ediate emergencies. On the 7th October the order for
the mobilisation of the cavalry division, one army corps, and eight
battalions of lines of communication troops was issued, and a Royal
proclamation calling out the army reserve was published. Of the
excellent arrangements made by the Admiralty a full account will be
found hereafter.

[Footnote 2: "Her Majesty's Government have carefully
considered the question of the general objects for which our
army is maintained. It has been considered in connection with
the programme of the Admiralty, and with knowledge of the
assistance which the navy is capable of rendering in the
various contingencies which appear to be reasonably probable;
and they decide that the general basis of the requirements
from our army may be correctly laid down by stating that the
objects of our military organisation are:--

(_a_) The effective support of the civil power in all parts
of the United Kingdom.

(_b_) To find the number of men for India, which has been
fixed by arrangement with the Government of India.

(_c_) To find the garrisons for all our fortresses and
coaling stations, at home and abroad, according to a scale
now laid down, and to maintain these garrisons at all times
at the strength fixed for a peace or war footing.

(_d_) After providing for these requirements, to be able to
mobilise rapidly for home defence two army corps of regular
troops, and one partly composed of regulars and partly of
militia; and to organise the auxiliary forces, not allotted
to army corps or garrisons, for the defence of London and for
the defensible positions in advance, and for the defence of
mercantile ports.

(_e_) Subject to the foregoing considerations, and to their
financial obligations, to aim at being able, in case of
necessity, to send abroad two complete army corps, with
cavalry division and line of communication. But it will be
distinctly understood that the probability of the employment
of an army corps in the field in any European war is
sufficiently improbable to make it the primary duty of the
military authorities to organise our forces efficiently for
the defence of this country."--(_Report