The Indian Review June 1885

In the latter class are the Telegraph the Educational the Police the Opium the Revenue and Geological Survey the Financial the Postal the Forest the i l Customs and some few other epartments. [...] together the total number of men in the service would be ascertained ; for as the figures give the survivors in each of the 33 years the total of all the figures must give the total number of survivors at any time during the 33 years. [...] The truth of this is perhaps not apparent at first sight ; it must be remembered that the table assumes the steady recruitment year by year of a definite number of men at the bottom of the service and the equally steady retirement of the remnant of this nuber from the top of it. [...] If the circumstances of the case demand that there should only be two majors and one colonel there are but two ways in which it is possible to expedite the promotion of the juniors to those ranks : the one way is to reduce the number of captains and subalterns the other is to compel the retirement of the senior captains after a definite number of years' service. [...] The people are with me and the people is no longer the handful of brave men launched from the seven hills against even the remotest peoples but now includes all nations of the earth." Rufus reminds Nero of the care of the Senate in extinguishing the Pisos' conspiracy but ag-ain.urges the clang of taxing the provinces for the Gallic legions have rebelled.