East India (European and native troops). Return to an address of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 25 July 1867;--for, "copies of the series of minutes, reports, despatches, and other documents relating to the strength, composition, distribution, and description of troops, European and native, showing the increase of the formed and decrease of the latter, considered to be required for the internal defence and permanent occupation of India, as well as for successful resistance against external aggression, recorded by Lord William Bentinck, Governor General of India, between 1830 and 1835:" "of minutes* on the same subject by Sir Charles Metcalfe, both as governor general and as member of the Supreme Council, by Messrs. Prinsep, Ross, Blunt, and Lieutenant Colonel Morison, as members of the Supreme Council, and of the governors and commanders in chief of Madras and Bombay:" "abstract statement of the forces, European and native, regular and irregular, of every description, such as contingents, subsidiary forces, frontier forces, local corps, &c., distinguishing the European and native, regulars and irregulars, as also the arms and grades, viz., officers, non-commissioned officers, rank and file, and showing the divisions of India to which belonging, the stations at which severally located, and whether employed on actual service on the 1st day of May 1837, 1st day of May 1847, 1st day of May 1857, and at the latest date for which returns are available:" "separate return of the strength of forces, European and native, showing the arms and grades serving on the 1st day of May 1857, and at the latest date, in those territories which, on the 1st day of May 1837, were not under the direct authority of the Government of India:" "and, statement of the area and population of the several territories acquired by the British Government between the 1st day of May 1837 and the 1st day of May 1857, and since that date." * So far as can be found [electronic resource].