The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

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Voterreet Dieu, lintritoernalt.—An official
circular, dated Aug. 22, hissed De Grey and Rime,
has been Mooed from the War Ogee, stating that, with
• view to afford Increased aid to volunteer corps in
obtaining properly qualified drill instructors, the ewer,
tary of State for War has cancelled Articles 147 in 167°f
the Volunteer Regulations, and substituted other
articles for them from the lit September. In the
articles thus substituted, it is stated that sergeant-
instructors will be provided to light horse, mounted
rifle, and ride volunteer corps, in the proportion of one
to each corps of from 1 to 3 companies, two to corps of
from 4 to? companies, and three to corps of from 8 to
12 companies or upwards. For light horse cone the
qualifications required are, eve years' service in the
cavalry of the Imperial or Indian armies, a competent
knowledge of cavalry drill, • good character, age
not to exceed 50 years; for mounted rifle
amps. Ave yeses' awries, mid knowledge of
Infantry and mounted drill; mid for ride corps,
! Are years' service, • omnipotent kuowle4e
of Watery drill, and age gnat to exceed 50. itelatige
to the mode of appointment, applications with testi-
monials of character are in every tem to be submitted
by the commanding °nicer for the approval ul the
Secretagy of State for War. A sergeant-instractor
will ready', if in the receipt of pension, Is. dd. • day;
if without pension, la. 7'l. • and if appointed surant•
net* of • battalion, an Liditional allowance 6d. a
day; and he must be prepared to g• through • course
of instruction at the School otaseketry it required.
The mock et transferees* of sergeueMistructon from
the regular army Is speoiled in detail. Every such in-
stenctor to a volunteer corps is liable to the provision,'
of the Mutiny Ask and may be tried by court marital
for any crime committed against the articles of war;
he is to be considered as under the supervision of the
adjutant, sad in the event of being guilty of any crime
of a enfileiently grays nature to induce him command-
ing eager to refer the ere to the consideration of the
Secretary of State, he is to be placed in arrest; and •
record is to be k.s .1 all offences, after doe ievestiga-
tins. If additional drill instractors are temporarily
revered, sergeants of the penneneet staff of the dis-
embodied militia may be attached to volunteer cerre,
at the thicretion of the commenting nicer, reemrtne
Is. • day in addition to their militia pay. Article 166
states that volunteer corm are sot to make direct oars
to non-commierioned officers serving in the regular
army to become their sergeant4m4rnstors, nor to
attempt to induce sergeants of the militia, or sergeant-
instructors attached to or unpaged by other volunteer
cone, to quit their regimeet or corps without the cea-
sed of the sonimaading eater of the militia regiment
or volunteer corps. On the subject of the doers of in-
structor the coseluding mettle. 167, says s—" The
priacipal duty of a eargeant-instructor is to attend to
the drill and instruction of the corps to which he is
attached; hat the commsnling nicer of the corps
may employ him to take charge of the eons, or to tits-
charge other simiL‘r duties of a military character,
provided they do not interfere with his special fuse-
tines. He will DM be permitted to engage in any trade
or beineee.”

Aaravat OF 71111 Cgarrem. FUR= IN TER OLTDt.
—Fur al the squadron fanning the Clause iwit
arrived in the Clyde on Tuseday night. The chips
came an ruder Nteeni, were ad' the Bothary abut bail-
out eleven °Work, and shortly afterwards dropped
their anchors *low the Tail al tbe /leak. The
poaition in which the ships are now Ming at *sailor is
—First, the lag ship. Revenge, 90 guns. Rear Admiral
Smart; further down, lb. Centurion, 80 guns, 01144111
Rogers; neat, the Cbutivierer. 101 guest. Captain
Sotheby; sad the Nougat, 101 guns, Captain Rogers.
They ported company with the other three line-of-battle
ships no Moods, evening, of Kingston —via., the Eager,
Trafalgar. and Sorg. It is probable that alter her
Majesty bee retuned to Holyhead the latter will bear
up for the Clyde.