│ 288│ 288│ 288 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── FOOT ARTILLERY. │EUROPEAN.│Battalion Staff. │ 43│ 46│ 46 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Non-commissioned Officers.│ 424│ 424│ 436 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Buglers. │ 40│ 40│ 40 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Gunners. │1620│1600│ 1600 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ NATIVE. │Native Officers. │ 60│ 48│ 50 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Battalion Staff. │ 3│ 6│ 6 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Non-commissioned Officers.│ 320│ 256│ 293 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Buglers. │ 40│ 32│ 32 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Privates │2080│1664│ 1700 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │LASCARS. │Native Officers. │ 20│ 20│ 21 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Non-commissioned Officers.│ 80│ 80│ 82 ────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────┼────┼────┼──────── 〃 │ 〃 │Lascars. │ 800│ 800│ 921 ────────────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────────┴────┴────┴──────── CHAPTER VIII. Reductions—Half-batta order—Further reductions—Brevet of Colonel given to Lieutenant-Colonels Commandant—Alterations in uniform—Shekawuttee campaign—Establishment of Retiring Fund. At the conclusion of the Burmese war, the horses from the Sylhet local corps were transferred to Dum-Dum, for the purpose of being attached to a battery, and in the early part of 1827, the undersized stud horses, which had hitherto been sold to the public, were directed to be admitted into the service for the light field-batteries, as Government had decided on horsing them all, the uselessness of bullocks for the purpose having been thoroughly proved. The number of batteries was, in July, 1827, fixed at twelve. The arrangement was immediately commenced on, and, by the end of the year, six batteries were in an effective state, and the remainder would soon have been ready. It will, however, scarcely be credited that in April, 1828, these orders were countermanded, and bullocks directed to be retained and the horses of the batteries so equipped sold off.