The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

By direction of the authorities at the Horse
Guards a number of non-commissioned officers and
men have been selected from the depot companies of
the Royal Engineers at headquarters, Brompton-
barracks, Chatham, to proceed to New Zealand to
augment the 6th company of Royal Engineers sta-
tioned in that colony. The men selected to com-
pose the detachment have been taken from the com-
panies who have undergone the longest coarse of
instruction at the fieldworks and at the several
schools at the Royal Engineer establishment.

Major-Gen. Sir R. nacres. 1i..C.8,, having re-
turned to Woolwich from leave of absence yesterday
resumed the command of the garrison, and was en-
gaged daring the day in inspecting the barrack
quarters, offices, &c.
Official instructions were yesterday received by
Col. Ford, commanding Royal Engineers at Wool-
wich, announcing his appointment to the command
of the corps in Canada, whither he is to proceed
early in October to relieve Major-Gen. Servante,
recently promoted by the death of Major-Gen. Old-
field. Col. Ford will be relieved in his command
at Woolwich on the Ist proximo by Col. Hawkins,
R.E., who has been employed for some years past
on the Beundary Commission, between the United
States and British territory, in the western.portion
of North America.

Lord Palmerston and the Unemployed of
Glasgow,

On the visit of the Premier to Glasgow in March
last, a memorial from the unemployed was present-
ed to his lordship in the City Hall, at the soiree of
the trades. The answer to the memorial has been
received, and is as follows :
" Treasury Chambers, 19th August, 1863.
" Sir,—I am commanded by the Lords Com mis-
sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint yon
that Lord Palmerston brought the memorial adopt-
ed at the meeting of unemployed operatives at
Glasgow on 24th of March last, together with other
similar applications, under the consideration of this
board, with reference to the measures which it
it might be the duty of Her Majesty's Government
to propose during the last session for the alleviation
of distress in the manufacturing districts.
"Their lordships desire me to state that although
it is deeply to be lamented that the intermission of
the ordinary employment which is afforded by the
cotton manufactures should have extended to
other localities than those in which that manufac-
ture constitutes the staple and almost exclusive
source of employment, her Majesty's Government
did not feel justified in submitting to Parliament
any general measure for the promotion of employ-
ment, or the amendment of the poor-liw, or for
facilitating emigration.
" However desirable such measures may appear
to partiessuffering under what it is hoped may prove
but a temporary want of employment, my lords
must observe that it is seldom expedient and seldom
ultimately advantageous, even to the parties them-
selves, that general alterations affecting the large
subjects of employment, poor relief, and emigration
should be made in consequence of temporary pres-
sure; and Parliament accordingly, in the two acts
passed for affording relief in the last session, have
confined their operations to the districts in the coun-
ties of Chester," Lancaster,' and 'Derby,' known
as the manufacturing oistricts.
"My lords have only to acid, in expressing their
sympathy with the distressed operatives, tbat look-
jug to the increasing general prosperity of the coun-
try, their lordships irupt that in the intinufeciurieg
districts of Scotland, having regard to the demand
for labour and the various sources of industry which
prevail in those districts, those on whose behalf the
memorialists have been addressed may be able to
find profitable employment. —I am, sir, your obe-
dient servant,

" F. PEEL.

" To Mr. John Macdonald,
" Chairmqn cf Meeting of Unemployed Operatives
at Glasgow,"