The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-28 00:00:00

Rank and File.)

16 Sergeants, i. e. four per Company, including Colour.
Sergeants.
4 Drummers.
16 Corporals
200 Rank and File.
184 Privates

TOTAL ESTABLISHMENT.
Staff' Drum- Corpo.
Sergts. Sergts. mers. rals. Privates.
6 Service Companies... 7 24 10 24 576
4 Depot Companies ... 0 16 4 16 184
10 Companies.

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7 40 14 40 760
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800 Rank .& File.

It is understood that, although the number of ser-
geants and corporals allowed to be borne on the estab-
lishment of the depot companies for the purposes of re-
cruiting, and of performing the general duties of the
depot, is the same proportion as in the service compa-
nies, yet the regulation forbidding the appointments of
sergeants or corporals taking place from the men at
the regimental depots is to remain in force, and no de-
viation is to he made therefrom, except in special cases,
which must be reported for the previous approval of the
General Commanding in Chief, and (in all instances
where it may be possible) after a communication with
the officer commanding the service companies abroad.
The attention of commanding officers of service as
well as of depot companies is particularly directed to
the injunctions contained in page 173 of the. General
Regulations and Orders for the Army on the subject of
the appointment of non-commissioned officers.
„By command of the Right Hon. Gen. Lord Hill,
Commanding in Chief,
JOHN MACDONALD, A.G.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

A new and original drama in three acts, entitled
Woman's Trials, was produced at this theatre last
evening for the first time, but from the reception it rnet
with, we think it very doubtful whether a second re-
presentation of it. will ever take place. This we rather
rcgret, because, notwithstanding the piece in its present
state merited the reception it met with, yet we think
by a judicious use of the pruning knife, and by a
softening down of the catastrophe, whieh, as it stands
at present, is ridiculously horrible—it might be rendered
quite as stageworthy as many a domestic drama which
has had a long run. The following is an outline of the
story :—Ellen Marchmont (Mrs. Stirling) is secretly
betrothed to Frankton (Marston) ; her father, Colonel
Marchmont ( Waldron), wishes to see her united to
Clement Graylingford (Archer), but consents at length
to her union with Frankton. The night before the
wedding, Frankton is seized and conveyed on board a
smuggling vessel by Robert Ruff (G. Bennett), acting
under the direction of Graylingford, who forges docu-
ments to prove that Frankton has eloped with a village
girl, and Ellen, in a fit of desperation, marries Grayling-
ford. After a lapse of four years, Graylingford, and
his wife and child, attended by Ruff, are discovered at
Rome. Finding Ruff troublesome, Graylingford hires
assassins to kill him, who, however, are overpowered,
and betray their employer. Ruff, vowing ven•
geance, departs secretly for England, and Gray-
lingford believes him dead. Frankton meanwhile
has discovered the residence of Ellen, and rushes into
her room, urging her to fly with him, which she refuses
to do. Graylingford discovers him—they fight ; Gray-
lingford is overcome ; but drawing a pistol, shoots
Frankton, and separates himself from his:wife, taking their
child with him. In the third act the scene lies in Eng-
land. Frankton, who has recovered from his wound, is on
his way to Ellen's father, to inform him of what had oc-
curred. Ellen herself also, on her road to her father, is
detained at a village inn, at which Ruff arrives, dis-
guised. Graylingford himself also arrives at the same
inn with his child. Ellen during his absence goes to his
room to see her child, and while there Ruff enters
through a secret panel. She hides behind a screen, and
Ruff, drawing the charge from Raylingford's pistols,
declares his intention of taking vengeance ; he breaks
open Graylingford's desk, and discovers a paper declar-
ing that he is the right heir of the Graylingford pro-
perty, and Graylingford, who was his foster brother, is a
changeling. Graylingford enters, Ruff taxes him with his
baseness and seizing him by the throat strangles him ; he
then attempts to seize the child, but the mother, who
has seized his pistol, presents it at hini and drives him off ;
he retires through the pannel, and she fires to give an
alarm, and the shot kills Ruff. At that moment her
father and Frankton arrive, and the curtain falls. Mrs.
Stirling was excellent as Ellen, and in ninny scenes Ben-
nett's acting was very powerful, and elicited much ap-
plause, but nothing could bear up against the absurd
horrors of the catastrophe, and the audience would not
listen to the conclusion of the piece.