The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-27 00:00:00

7HE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in• Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Friday,
the 31st inst.

The 60th Regiment (King's Royal Rifle Corps),
2d battalion, under the command of Col. F. R.
Palmer, C. 8., paraded on Southsea-common, Ports-
mouth, on Thursday last, for their half-yearly in-
spection by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C.B.
After marching past the regiment was put through
a series of manoeuvres, at the close of which Lord
Paulet expressed his gratification at what he had
seen, and said that it would give him great plea-
sure in forwarding, as he should do, to his Royal
Highness the Commander-in-Chief, a highly-
favourable report of the condition and discipline of
the regiment. The appearance of the men was re-
markably smart and soldierlike, and this was fur-
ther enhanced by the fact of nearly every man
under arms wearing the Indian medal.

A notification was on Saturday received at
Chatham garrison from the Horse Guards, that
there will be several vacancies at the Normal
School, Chelsea, for training schoolmasters for the
army, to be competed for on the 22d of January
next by non-commissioned officers who may be re-
commended as candidates. The examination will
be conducted in the presence of an officer or board
of officers nominated by the general or other officer
commanding, by means of printed questions, to be
answered in writing by the candidates who will be
assembled at the camps of instruction, or at the
head-quarters of districts. Non-commissioned offi-
cers who may be recommended as eligible to pass
the examination must be medically reported upon,
statirg their fitness as regards health and freedom
from physical infirmity. Under the new regula-
tions for the training ;of schoolmasters candidates
who have completed their education, and are certi-
fied to be fit for appointments as schoolmasters,
will be discharged from their regiments, and be
re-enlisted for the army without additional
bounty, with a view to their being ap-
pointed schoolmasters to such schools as may
be selected. Schoolmasters of the first class
will be appointed warrant officers, and rank
next below the commissioned officers ; those of the
other classes will take rank next below that of ser-
geant-major. The pay of each class will be as fol-
lows :—First class, 7s. a day ; second class, ss. 6d. ;
third class, 4s. ; with an addition of Is. a day after
10 years' service. Promotion from one class to
another will be made by the General Commanding-
in-Chief. After 21 years' service the pension as-
signed to the schoolmaster will be as follows :-First
class, 3s. 6d. a day ; second class, 35.; third class, 2s.
6d. In recommending non-commissioned officers for
training, the Duke of Cambridge expects command-
ing officers to bear in mind the great importance of
the moral influence and example of the schoolmaster
irresp
of thoseectiveof theironly attainments,
in thisinments,raenspdetcot areforw ne forward the
names -
ceptionable.
On Saturday 50 non-commissioned officers and
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visionbeen
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medically Depot
inspected Brigade,
for foreign service, left head quarters for Woolwich,
under the command of Lieut. N. M. Burt, to join
the 7th and Bth batteries of the 15th Brigade, Royal
Artillery.

Lieut: Whyte, of the 6th Regiment, hitherto sta-
tioned at the camp at Colchester, has been ordered
to join the service companies of his regiment at
Corfu; and Capt. Rekewich, of the 2d battalion sth
Regiment, has received instructions to join the de-
pot at Colchester. A party of invalids, unfit for
further service, left the camp at the close of last
week for Chatham, under the medical charge of
Staff-Assist.-Surg. Watson. Lieut. Leeds, R.A.,
left the camp on Friday for Lowestoft, for the pur-
pose of superintending the firing from"..heavy guns
of the Ist Suffolk Artillery Volunteers.
We regret to announce the death of Gen. Sir W.
Geo. Moore, K.C.8., which occurred at Montrose-
house, Petersham, on the 23d inst. The deceased
was son of the late Mr. F. Moore, Under-Secretary
of State, by Frances, daughter of Sir W. Twysden,
and nephew of Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Moore, who
fell at the battle of Corunna. He was born in 1795
and was educated at Harrow. He entered the army
as Ensign April 18, 1811, and served in the Penin-
sula with the 52d, and was present at the sieges of
Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, and St. Sebastian, and
also at the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle,
and the Nive, for which he was rewarded with the
war medal and seven clasps. He was also at the re-
pulse of the sortie from Bayonne as Aide-de-Camp
to Sir
prisoner John
and was severely wounded and
taken
with that General. He served also
on the Quartermas
ter-General's Staff at the battle
of Waterloo. His commissions bear date as Lieut.,
Sept. 10, 1812 ;
Capt., April 14, 1814 ; Major, Jan.
HoPe ,
1
1838; Major-Gen., Nov. 11, 1851; Lieut. -Gen.,
June 5, 1855 ; and
man an d t of the 60th
.-Com
Col
21, 1819 ; Lieut.-Col., Jan. 12, 1824 ; Col., June 28,
Rifles, Jan. 26, 1856. By the death of the above
the gift of his Royal
the 60th Rifles is placed in
,
Chief
the 2d battalion of
officer,Highness t 1 et
he oe mGmenaneral Commanding dantship of