Reserve Force of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry, 2,700 of all ranks; besides a Naval Brigade and Naval Artillery Volunteers numbering nearly 500 men. _Queensland_ has a Defence Force of three classes, numbering altogether over 4,500 men. 1st Class—“Permanent Defence”—135 men. 2nd Class—“Defence”—2,600 men. 3rd Class—“Volunteers”—about 1,800 men; besides 4 Lines of Reserves in case of national danger, composed of every male between 18 and 60. _South Australia_ has 2 troops of Lancers, 1 Field and 2 Garrison Batteries, 2 battalions Rifles, and numerous Mounted Rifle Corps, numbering altogether 2,700 men, including Volunteers. _Victoria_ has a force of several Cavalry and Artillery Corps, 4 battalions Rifles, Mounted Infantry, and numerous Rifle Volunteer Corps, besides a Reserve. Total 8,300 men. _Tasmania_ has a small force of Artillery and 2 regiments of Rifles, total 930 of all ranks. _Western Australia_ has a small force of Volunteer, Infantry, and Artillery—640 altogether. _Trinidad_ and other islands in the West Indies have raised small forces for their defence, about 1,000 altogether. Total Colonial Forces, about 84,100 men. * * * * * Let us now turn to the Reserve Forces at home, composed of the two classes of Army Reserves, Militia, Militia Reserve, Yeomanry, and Volunteers. We will not take into account either the Native Indian Reserves, as they are not yet fully formed, or the Colonial Militia or Reserves, as they are inextricably mixed up with the Colonial Forces already described. [Sidenote: +Army Reserve.+] The 1st Class Army Reserve, created in 1877, consists of men who have served their three, seven, or eight years with the Colours, and who then pass to this Reserve to complete their service to twelve years. They are liable to service at home and abroad when called out; this would happen only in case of war or national danger. The men would then either join their own regiments or be formed into separate corps, or, with their consent, be attached to a regiment or corps other than their old one. This class numbers over 54,000 men. The 2nd Class Army Reserve, in which there are not quite 3,000 men, is composed of those men who have served twelve years with the Colours and then choose to enter this Reserve, and of a few other special classes of men. They do not serve out of Great Britain. Both classes are liable to be called out for an annual training, but have never yet been so called out. [Sidenote: +Militia.+]