UNITED SERVICE
MAGAZINE,

IStalMl a«U ittilttary journal.

1857. PART II.

LONDON:

HURST AKD BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,

(SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN),
13 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

tONDON: PRINTED BY JACK AND EVANS, 1(1*, GREAT WINDMItt STREET.

CONTENTS

SECOND PART FOR 1857.

PAOK Military Education tlie Panacea for all our Shortcomings and Deficiencies 1

On the Army Estimates anil .Military Establishments - - 12

Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy - - - -18

Practical Operations of a Siege - - - - - 19

Hospices on Barren Islands ----- 23

A Scramble through the Hills to Cashmere. By Captain Colman, 53rd

Regiment ------- 35

Military and Political System of Louis XIV., Napoleon I., and Na-
poleon III.—No. II. Napoleon I. - - - - 48 Xotes on Military Science, addressed to Candidates for Commissions 57, 2215

405, 556

Russia after the War ------- 67

The Guns at Inkermann - 72,274

Historical Memorials of the Egyptian Revolution: Military, Social, and

Political. From Arab and European Memoirs, Oral Tradition, and

Searches on the Spot. By Andrew Archibald Paton - 78, 243

Morocco and Fez - 86

Crimean Sketches ------ 98, 544

The Admiralty, Changes at - - - - - 101

Military Education - - - - - - 159, 340

The Closing Years of Napier - - - - 167

English Life boats and American Life-cars - - - - 179 Our Military Pension Warrants, with a view to their Revision 189, 596

The Shipping Laws, for Junior Naval Officers - 199, 374, 533

Reviews at Spithead and Aldersholt - 207

Military Surveying -..--. 208

Coast Defences in Scotland - - - - - - 214

Suggestions for the Reorganization of the Militia. By Alan Charnbre,

Major 5th Royal Lancashire - 216

Mattial and Civil Law cognizant of Murders in the Fleet - - 222 Sarawak - 23(1