The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-02 00:00:00

THE MILITARY COMMISSION

( From the Naval and Military Gazette )
The best course we can adopt to satisfy the nume-
rous inquiries poured in upon us, respecting the Mili-
tary Commission, is to recapitulate the original informa-
tion which at different times has appeared in this paper.
We have already said the information may be relied
upon, and therefore we shall only notice a contradiction
put forth by a Contemporary, by assuring our readers
who are absent from the metropolis, that there are at
least one hundred officers belonging to the United Ser-
vice and Army and Navy Clubs who know Just as well
as ourselves that the statements are almost to the letter
correct. The resolutions were long since settled, we
believe on the 18th July, and the menibers of the Com-
mission have dispersed : there is no secrecy in the
matter ; and the only pending questions are the form of
Report, and the mode and extent of publication.
The Mates of the Royal Navy (as stated in our last)
will receive commissions, an increase of pay while serv-
ing, and half-pay after certain service.
The Lieutenants of the Royal Navy, while serving, will
have an increase of pay, which may encourage them to
remain afloat.

Adjutants of regiments (Lieutenants in the Army) will
receive the benefit of the one shil:ing increase of pay from
length of service, and thus be induced to retain the post
of Adjutant.

A certain number of Officers of the Royal Artillery
will be allowed to retire.

The pay of Captains of the Royal Marines will be as,
similated to that of Army Captains.
The Medical Departments of the Army and Navy will
be improved.
An allowance granted to Naval Officers for loss .31
baggage, &c.

Colonels on the full pay of regiments as Lieutenant-
Colonels are to be permitted to retire on 3001. per
annum, but when advanced to Major-Generals to receive
4001. per annum.

Army Officers of thirty years' full pay service wil
be allowed to retire on the full pay of their regimenta
rank.

EW PUBLICATIONS.—We are requested
o state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street,
lasjust published the following New Works, which can
)e had of all Booksellers and at all the Libraries :
. The Romance of Private Life, by Miss Burney, 3
vols.-2. Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians,
by John Poole, EQq., Author of " Paul Pry," 2 vols.-
3. Narrative of the Voyages of her Majesty's Ships
Adventure and Beagle Round the World, by Cap-
tains King and Fitz Roy, 2 vols. Bvo., with an Appendix
by Major Sabine, with maps, charts, and upwards of 60
illustrations, 21. 18s. bound.-4. Morton of Morton's
Hope, an Autobiography, 3 vols.-5. The Life and
Times of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan, by his Son'
M.P., 2 vols. Bvo., wits portrait,
Henry Grattan, Esq.,
&c.-6. Temptation ; or, a Wife's Perils, 3 vols.-7.
Mr. Darwin's Journal of his Researches into the Geology
and Natural History of the various Countries Visited
by her Majesty's Ship Beagle, 1 vol. Bvo. (containing
as much matter as two ordinary octavos), 18s. bound.—
And 8. Zillah, a Tale of the Holy City, by the Author
of " Brambletye House," complete for 6sbour , with
two illustrations, forming the New volume o " Col-
burn's Standard Novelists," a collection of the best
works of fiction of the most distinguished English writers.
RAIN WITHOUT CLOUDS. 011 the evening
of the 26th ult., about seven P.M., as the editor of this
journal was going along a lane called Plough-lane,
leading from Nottinghill to Kensington, he was sur-
prised to find a somewhat thick but firm rain descend-
ing, there being neither
wind nor a cloud within, per-
haps, fifty degress of ti• zenith. The atmosphere,
except a few small and light clouds at a long distance
from the zenith, was exceedingly clear and serene, and
the smaller stars round the zenith were distinctly visi-
ble.—Railway Magazine.