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By order.

Et iston Station, June 1854.

A, LBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.
Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND to
the 3^th ,rlt., after the rate of Seven par cent. per annum, will be In
COURSI4 of PAYMEn.' to the Shareholders on and after the 11th
July ini.tant.

6th July, 1854.

HENRY WILLIAM SMITH,
Actuary and Secretary.

IMPORTANT TO HOUSES OF BUSINESS.
Reduction on the Government Duty on Fire Insurances to Insurers.
UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION.
Capital Two millions, with Seven Thousand Shareholders,
Chief Offices :-40, Pall-mall, L,ndon. Insurers in the " UNITY "
are allowed the full Discount which the Office receives from the
Government upon the Duty chargeable on their Folicles, at the rate
ofsl. per cent. on Country, and 41. per cent. on London policies.
Inr,urers receive Two-thirds of the Profits

PactiesdeefrOUsoiinsUTlnTwith7lll; association may be personally
Rifted upon by a gentleman from tho Office, and thus be spared alt
trouble or loss of time.

Applications for Prospectuses, Agencies, and all other information,
are requested to ne made to

THOMAS H. BATLIS, General Manager and Secretary.

THE LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COM
PANY.—Capital, Two 5111110.'8 —Malrhester, Liverpool
Ciis.sgow, Greenock, and No. 2, King-street, Cheapside, London.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
BONUSES—EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits apportioned
to the Assured triennially.
No charge whatever for Stamps or Policies.
FIRE DEL R rikiE NT.
BONUSES—FIFTY PER CENT. of the Profits apportioned to
the Assured annually, on Policies of three } ears' standing, an advan-
tage offered by few offices.

JAMES NORTHCOTT, Secretary to the London Board.

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.
BANK OF DEPOSI r,
RATIONAL ASSURANCE & INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION
_ _

No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON.
Established A.D. 1844.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
THE WARRANTS for the HALF-YEARLY
INTEREST, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, on De-
Posit Accounts, to the 30th June, will be ready for delivery on and
after July 10th, and payable daily between the hours of Eleven and
Three o'clock.
Parties residing at a distance will, on application, have their
Dividend Warrants forwarded for Sienature. The Warrants will be
paid on presentation at the Head Office in London, or the amount
may be received at the various Branches, orltbrough Country Bank-
ers, without delay or expense.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.

21st June, 1654.
Prospectuses and Forms for opening Investment Accounts sent free
on application.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND FIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY.
, CORNHILL, LONDON, 21st June, 14.
__NOTICE IS HEREBY 26 GIVEN. That the HALF- YEARLY IN-
TEREST on The CAPITAL ST..CIC of this SOCIETY, at the rate of
Per cent. per annum. due on the 30t instant, together with the
Id NUS there, n, declared at the annual in-eting in May last, will
become payable on the 10th July Lett, and proprietors may receive
the same at this Office on that or any subsequent day, between the
hours of 11 and 3 o'clock. And notice is hen by given that the
Transfer Books of the Society wid close on the 30th inst.,, and open
On the Ilth day of July next.

By order of the Court of Directors.
W. S. B WOOLHOUSE. Actuary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANC& SOCIETY, No. 26, Cornbill, London.
Established in 1838.
DIRECTORS.
A. Campbell Barclay, Esq. John Moss, Esq.
Charles Bennett, Esq. Thomas Nicoll, Esq.
Hugh Croft, Esq. E. S. Symee, M D.
John Elliotson, F.R.S. J. Leander Starr, Esq.
Thos. Colley Grattan, Esq. Clement Tabor, .Esq.
Joseph Thompson, FRI.
MANAGING DIRECTORS.
J. Leander Starr, Esq. (General). Chas. Bennett, Esq. (Financial).
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor John Radford Young.
MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F R d., 37, Conduit-street.
E. S. Oymes, M.D., 33, Davies-street, Berkeley-square.
ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &e.
ASSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker W oolhouse, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 56, Lombard-street.
SOLICITOR.
C. Ewens, Esq., 61, Mor,rgate-street.
Total number of Policies granted ',roin December, 1852, to
December, 1854 —1,194.
Under the following heads are briefly enumerated the leading
principles of this Society :
OSJECTB OP THE ttOCIETY.
1. A Life Assurance may 'oe effected either by One Payment, or
by an Annual Prepawn.
2. Pacies may be e
WITH or without the privilege of
withdrawing o,ne-half of the Annual Payments. It with-
out this priv*.:iege, the rates are lower.
3. A. Lite A.sv.rance may be effected on the life of another, on
Joint Lizoes or Sarvivorships.
4. Annuities, Immediate, Deferred, or Contingent, will be
granted; also Endowments for Children.
5. Naval and Military Men, not in active foreign service, as-
Sure . without extra charge, and allowed to go abroad with-
out forfeiture of Policy, on payment of an extra Premium,
according to climate.
In the event of the Assured (when on the Withdrawal System)
not requiring to continue the Pollee, on its surrender one. half the
manual payments will be returned by way of purchase of his iiverest
therein. By this m ans, apprehension of great pecuniary loss and
doubt as ttt the intrinsic transferable value of each Policy is re-
its,cash value being fixed and determined beforehand be the
IS.tY at one-half the annual premiums paid thereon : a vast class
°, Society will thereby be admitted ; and every indivi ual, bile
steadily pursuing one object—a provision f,r his family at death
Nvill have. by the plan of this Society, a door open to his savings,
'Which will never be closed against his waits or his use.
for
Arospectuses, Report of last Annual Meeting, Forms of Proposals
ssurance, and every description of ne essary Blank Forms, with
Tables of Rates, and full information on all points, furnished, on ap-
plication at 26, Corrihlll, or at any of the Company's Agencies.

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July, 1854.

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
During Admiral Berkeley's short visit to Devonport
ho inspected the new' steam establishment at Keyham.
The imperative necessity of completing this establish-
ment is daily, pressing upon the Admiralty with accumu-
lative force. Every hour's delay in this work involves
a fearful responsibility. The dockyards and steam esta-
blish4-ients, hard-worked as they are, are now compara-
tivelidle. r ;When the winter comes and the fleet re-
turns-to undergo the process of refitting and repairing,
the gfeat pineh will come, and will be surely felt. The
insane reductions in our dockyards three years since are
now proved to be unpatriotic indifference and culpable
folly. • - •
Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., the Surveyor of the
Navy, with Mr. Watts, assistant surveyor, paid a visit
to Deptford and Blackwell yesterday, and inspected the
despatch gun-boat Arrow ; the screw transport Prince,
in the East India Docks ; and the other screw-steamers,
dispatch gun boats, and store•ships building and fitting
at Blackwall.
The Admiralty, we understand, are desirous of hiring
screw and other steamers to convey troops and ordnance
stores to the Black Sea and provisions to the Baltic.
Lieutenant Lucas, of the Hecla, who has just been
most deservedly promoted fir his cool gallantry, was not
a midshipman as stated, but a mate. He served through-
out the late war:with Burinah, and on many occasions
his gallantry attracted the attention, and acquired for
him the commendation, of his superior officers.
Her Majesty's ship Royal William, 120, Captain King-
come, was towed from Hamoaze into the Sound on
Wednesday morning by the Confiance steam-tender and
the Sir Francis Drake, hired steamer. Rear-Admiral
Berkeley and Port-Admiral Sir William Parker were on
board. She took in her powder and shot the same day.
The Dasher steam-vessel, Captain Le Febvre, arrived
at Portsmouth yesterday from the Channel Islands, to
refit.

The broad pendant of Commodore Stopford has been
shifted from the Royal William to the Calcutta.
The crew of the Meander got up topgallant masts
on Wednesday, and commenced rattling down the rig-
ging.

Yesterday the Russian ship Jean Marie, Halle, late
master, captured by her Majesty's cruisers off Elsi-
nore, was brought a prize to Gravesend by Mr. Par-
sons. She was subsequently taken into the West
India Docks, to be condemned in due course by the
Court of Admiralty.
The mail for the British squadron in the White Sea
via Hull, Christiansand, and Wangoe, will be made up
and forwarded from the General Post-office this evening.
The directors of the East India Company yesterday
gave notice at Lloyd's that two more ships, of from
400 to 500 tons burden, were required to take troops
from the Thames to Madras and Bombay.
Contracts were entered into on Wednesday for the
supply of wheat to the Royal William Victualling-yard
—3,500 quarters by Messrs. Frean and Daw, and 500
quarters by Messrs. Hurrell and Crossing. The price
of the latter is 745. per quarter the price of the former
has not transpired. The Government invited tenders
for 2,500 quarters, and have taken 4,000.
The Sphinx, 6, paddle, Captain Clifford, will go out
of harbour to Spithead this morning, and will receive
advance wages. She made trial yesterday of her pad-
dle-box boats, fitted with Mr. Henry Watson Hall's
new and much improved gear, over that hitherto used
in her Majesty's or any other service. A lot of raw
hands were suddenly called upon, totally unprepared,
by the first lieutenant, and ordered to get the paddle-
boats afloat. It was instantly executed without the
slightest difficulty, and the boats again in their place.
Officers and men were delighted with the simplicity of
the acting gear, and although an entire arrangement
new to them, the boats were ready for service in one-
third the time generally required over the old system.
Its advantage, whether in case of fire or collision, is suf-
ficiently manifest—that whether by day or night, pas-
sengers could cast it loose without difficulty.

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Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terulnate at half-past 11.

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August 4, 1854.—The magnificent screw steamship " 'AL-
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heloneing to the General Screw Steam Shipping Company. will be
despatched with her Majes'y': Malls for Adelaide, Port-Philip, and
ASdn••y, on the 4•h August next. This floe vessel has maintained
her high reputation for rapid saling and punctuality, and is a sister
hip to t e " Argo," which has made the quickest v yage to and from
Australia up to this time. The Calcutta has been employed carrying
he Mails to and from England and Calcutta, and from her superior
ailing and steaming qualities, it may be fairly assumed that she will
make the ruts in 60 days. Rates of Passage trom 30 to 100 guineas.
She will be followed, on the 4th of October, by the 41ta3sos, of 2,500
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commissioned officers and men, 45 women, and 73
children, many of them in a deplorable condition, having
encountered severe storms during the passage, and hav-
ing lost their entire kit and baggage. The troops deserve
the kindest consideration of Government, and a more
liberal allowance than is granted for the loss of a kit
under ordinary circumstances.

The last division of the 15th Hussars left Reading
yesterday for Exeter to join head-quarters. The regi-
ment will remain stationed at Exeter to remount and
recruit.

The route has not yet arrived, and the precise day
for the departure of the 46th Regiment, now quartered
at Windsor, is not known, but the depot has been
formed, and Colonel Garrett will he enabled to embark
forthwith 1,000 men for the East. Yesterday after-
noon the regiment had a grand field-day in the Great
Park. The men were supplied with 20 rounds of
blank cartridge each, and went through their evolu-
tions admirably, considering the great number of re-
cruits in their ranks. The file firing was remarkably
good, and the volleys were well executed. In April
last, before it was known the regiment would be ordered
out, the effective strength of the 46th was considerably
reduced by furnishing volunteers to the 50th and the
33d Regiments. It is now positively stated tliat the
Essex Rifles, and not the Royal Bucks (King's Own)
Militia, will relieve the 46th, and take garrison duty at
Windsor and Kensington.

The remaining division of the 27th Regiment left
Merchants'-quay, Dublin, at half-past 8 on Wednesday
morning, in the Prince Arthur, to embark in the
transport Southampton, which arrived in Queens-
town for its conveyance on Friday. The division (under
the command of Lieutenant• Colonel Usher Williamson)
consisted of head-quarters, band, and colours, amount-
ing in all to 122 privates, 17 sergeants, 10 corporals,
and 11 drummers. The band of the 91st Regiment
accompanied them from the barracks, playing, as they
marched, the lively air of " Rory O'More," to which
the people responded with a hearty cheer. As soon as
the steamer removed from the quay both bands struck
up the air, " Auld Lang Syne." Hundreds had as-
sembled to witness their departure, and cheered them
loudly as they left the quay. The officers who accom-
panied this division were Captains Langley and
Thomas, Lieutenants Chester, Twemlow, Barnardiston,
and Patten, Paymaster Kidd, Quartermaster Trainor,
and Assistant-Surgeon Tiver. 31 women and 38 chil-
dren were permitted to sail with them. The depot con-
sists of 46 men, almost 20 of whom are in hospital.
One hundred of the 72d Highlanders with two ser
geants, under command of Captain Robinson and En-
signs Ellison and Cameron, left Galway by train on
Tuesday morning for Cork, there to embark on board
her Majesty's ship Sibella, for Halifax, the head-quar-
ters of this regiment.

THE REPORT ON PROMOTION IN T.HE

ARMY.

The Commissioners named in the royal warrant of the
9th of May last, for investigating this subject, were
Lord Hardinge, Lord Grey, Lord Cathcart, Lord Pan-
inure, Lord Seaton, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir John
Pakington, Mr. Ellice, Sir John Burgoyne, Sir H. D.
Ross, and Colonel Knollys. The report just presented
bears the signatures of the whole number ; but two of
the commissioners, Lord Cathcart and Sir H. D. Ross,
have recorded their dissent from several of its recom-
mendations, which refer especially to the Ordnance
corps, and Sir John Burgoyne agrees to a limited extent
in their view. The document commences by referring to
the report of a commission appointed for a similar pur-
pose at the beginning of the present reign, and founded
on the best evidence which was then procurable. The
present commissioners, having these ample materials
before them, have not thought it necessary to examine
any witnesses ; but they have carefully analysed the
minute and valuable returns published in the appendix
to their own report, with the view of ascertaining what
has been the effect of the remedial measures adopted at
the instance of the commission above referred to, and
how far —as regards the numbers and ages of the officers
' in the upper ranks of the army, the length of service
which has been necessary to attain those ranks, and the
efficiency of those from among whom officers must be
selected for command—the measures in question have
been successful.
After observing that, so far as regards the number of
officers upon the Army List, and the proportion between
the employed and unemployed officers, the comparison
between the year 1838-9 (the period at which the re-
turns which formed the foundation of the report of 1840
were made up) and the present year, is very favourable,
they proceed to give a history of the reductions which
have been effected since 1815—premising that the con-
clusion of the last war found the country with an effec-
tive army of 219,852 men. The report then proceeds as
follows :

" When peace was concluded, upon what appeared to be
and what was a lasting foundation, two measures were ne-
cessary :—First, a large promotion is reward those by
whose brilliant service that peace had been achieved ;
secondly, large reductions in the establishment and num-
bers of an army far larger than could be required, or
should be maintained, in time of peace. Large reductions
were accordingly enacted, amounting in-
-1816 to
1817
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1818
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1819
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1822 f
being a reduction in all of 128,096 men in seven years
upon a force of 219,852 in 1815, which was thus reduced
to 91,756 in 1822.
" These reductions necessarily increased the half-pay
lists till they contained upwards of 10,000 officers, and
cost the country no less a sum than 974,0001. per annum.
This disproportion between the non-effective and the
effective lists had a most advantageous effect upon the
latter.
"It became necessary, whenever it was possible, to fill
vacancies in the effective by transfers from the non-effec-
tive list. The necessary promotion in the army was
checked, and there stood between the officers on full pay
and the general officers' rank, a vast number of officers on
half-pay, senior to them, barring their access to the rank
which confers high command, until their age and infirmi-
ties incapacitated them for its exercise.

" There is no doubt, however, that the restrictions
placed upon promotion during this period, though at that
time bearing severely upon the interests of the profession,
have tended ultimately to restore the equilibrium between
the effective and the non-effective services, and to relieve
the former of the burden which the numbers of the latter
imposed upon it."

The commission next give a table, which we present
in an abridged form, showing the gradual diminution
which has taken place in the number of officers on half-
pay and retired full pay since 1828, in which year it
amounted to 8,670. The total has since been reduced
as follows :

1829 to
1834
1839 lf
1844
1849
1854
"This great decrease, however, has taken place princi-
pally in the lower ranks; thus, the number of field officers
on half and retired full pay has fallen since 1840 from 554
to 390, while the number of captains on half and retired
full pay has decreased during the same from 1,401 to 988 ;
the lieutenants, from 2,679 to 929; and the ensigns and
cornets, from 435 to 134.
"The cause of this," it is added, "is obvious. In the
lower regimental ranks employment is certain for any of-
ficer desiring it.
"But the moment an officer attains field officers' rank,
his chances of employment are very much diminished.
This necessarily results from the constitution of a regiment,
which consists, for the most part, of ten companies, with
their ranks of officers, each numerically the same. Thus
the ten ensigns become ten lieutenants, and the ten lieu-
tenants become ten captains ; but from that rank upwards
the equality of proportion is of course lost. For the ten
captains there are but two majorities to be attained; and
for the two majors but one lieutenant-colonelcy. A pro-
portion of these ten captains must, therefore, ultimately
retire on half-pay, if they do not sell out, in which case
they merely substitute another person to stand in the same
position as themselves.

" However much, therefore, time may relieve the ser-
vice of redundancy of officers caused by the reduction after
the war, there will always be in process of creation a fresh
though a more limited redundancy of field officers, who
will stand between the captains' and the generals' list,
forming a bar to promotion after the former rank, and
becoming themselves too old for active service by the time
they are absorbed into the generals' list.
" The progress made, however, in reducing the half-pay
list since 1838.9, even in the upper ranks, has been most
satisfactory; and there is every reason to expect, unless
some great disturbing cause should arise, that the ratio of
that reduction will continue for some years to come."
As regards the ages of the officers now serving, and
those in the general officers' list, or in immediate prox-
imity to it, the results of the researches made by the
commissioners have been by no means se satisfactory.
They state that a comparison of the War-office returns
for the year 1838 and 1854 shows that, in the lower
ranks of the army, the age of the officers is less, but that
in the upper ranks it is greater, than it was in the same
grades at the former period. And they proceed to sub-
stantiate their assertion by tabular statements of the
ages of officers of different ranks. We extract the
portions relating to the highest and lowest grades of
which the particulars are given, which are as follows :
" In June 1838 there were 1,852 lieutenants on full pay.
There are now 1,966.
" Their ages in 1838 were as follows :-
1,235 were below 30 years of age.
285 between 30 and 35
128 „ 35 and 40
118 „ 40 and 45
86 ~ 45 and 65

1,852
" In 1854 there are 1,966.
1,882 are below 30 years of age.
72 between 30 and 35
8 „ 35 and 40
3 ff 40 and 45
1 1) 45 and 65

1,966
There were in 1838, 177 lientenant-oolonels on full pay.
Of whom 16 were below 40 years of age.
29 between 40 and 45
54 PY 45 and 50
78 PP 50 and 65

177
" In 1854 there are 112.
Of whom 38 are below 40 years of age.
45 between 40 and 45
46 „ 45 and 50
53 „ 50 and 65

182
These results they proceed to observe—

" Are no doubt mainly owing to the greater prevalence
of sale and purchase in the lower regimental ranks as coin-
pared with the upper, which prevalence again has been
more marked in 18a3 than it was in 1839, as will be shown
by the following table, giving the number of officers of
each rank who retired from the army by the sale of their
commissions in those two years :

In 1839. In 1853.

Major-generals
Colonels
Lieutenant-oolonels l 2
Majors 2l
Captains 93
Lieutenants
Cornets, second-lieutenants, and ensigns 37

" It is obvious that under the present system, by which
all promotion in the upper ranks, with exceptions too con-
fined in their operations to have much influence on general
results, is given to seniority alone, irrespective of service ;
the larger the number of field officers on half-pay the
slower the promotion to the rank of major-general must be,
inasmuch as the amount of that promotion is necessarily
regulated not by the numbers and requirements of the
rank from which the promotion is made, but by the num-
bers of the then existing general officers' list.
" It follows again as a matter of course that the slower
the promotion is the greater is the age of the officers pro-
moted.
"If, therefore, we find that, instead of an increase in
the numbers of the officers on half-pay, there is an actual
decrease, the number on full pay remaining generally
about the same, the circumstances are, pre tanto, more
c
favourable to an earlier promotion from field office
to that of major-general ; yet although fiethtdu.orffic thend
e. rank
rs
on half-pay have diminished from 554 to 39001 1841 r and
1851, years which elapsed between the brevets
1851, yet upon an examination of the returns of the ages
excluding
and services of the colonels promoted tothat th be_
e major-generals
at those two periods, it will be found
age of major-generals promoted in 1841,
frac-
tions, was 59, and that of the major-generals promoted in
1851 was 60."
The following passage, which expresses the views of
the Commissioners as to the age best suited to active
service and heavy responsibilities, is exceedingly incl.

portant :
"The army cannot be said to be efficient in all its ranks
when, in the grade from which the commander must be
chosen, upon whose vigour and energy the success of a
campaign may mainly depend, there are no officers below
that age after which but few men possess the physical
strength necessaryto endure the privations and fatigues
incidental to service in the field. Nor is the evil limkted

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general officers receiving unattached pay, in addition t 4
those who are colonels of regiments, making a present total
of 234."
Two exceptions are to be allowed to the rule of se-
niority in the advancement of colonels to be major.
generals, and it is further recommended that supernume-
rary general officers should be appointed without refer-
ence to seniority, whenever it may- be considered proper
to confer this rank as a reward for distinguished service
in the field. With regard to the highest rank of all,
that of field marshal it is considered that the principle
of seniority should be discarded altogether,
The commissioners proceed to suggest means of pre-
venting the proposed change from being injurious to in-
dividuals already in the service, and with this view they
suggest, in the first instance, a general brevet, and they
further advise that—
" The regulations proposed, limiting the advancement
of lieutenant-colonels tot the rank of colonel to those only
who shall have served ree years in command of a regi-
ment, or in staff situations as already described, should not
apply to existing lieutenant-colonels or majors, including
captains and lieutenant-colonels of the Guards. From the
same regard to vested interests, they recommend that pro-
motion to the rank of colonel, after a certain period of full-
pay service, should be granted to all existing captains and
lieutenant colonels of the Guards, inasmuch as they are
doing duty with their regiments and hold the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel, their commissions being exchangeable with
lieutenant-colonelcies of the line, on which account the
regulated price of such commissions has been fixed and paid
for by them at a higher rate. As, however, the duties they
perform are of a less responsible nature than the command
of a regiment, being limited to the command of a company,
and as the simultaneous promotion of no less than 40
lieutenant-colonels of the Guards to colonelcies would
ultimately- bring an undue proportion of Guards' generals
on the general officers' list, the time necessary to carry
with it a promotion to a colonolcy should, it is thought, in
their case, be extended, and the existing captains and lieu-
tenant-colonels of the Guards (not being mounted officers)'
should servo six years in command of a company before•
they obtain the rank of colonel."
The commissioners are of opinion that, as employ.
ment on the staff in situations of a rank requiring to be
held by a lieutenant-colonel will carry with it, after a
limited period, the rank of colonel, such situations
should not be retained for an undue length of time in the
same hands ; and they suggest that the commands of
general officers and situations on the staff, both at home
and abroad, should not be held for more than five years,
unless by reappointment.
The question of retirement, some augmentation of
which is a necessary adjunct to the changes proposed in
the mode of promotion, is next considered :
" The means of retirement now offered to the army are
as follows :
" By the warrant of October 1, 1840, which was founded
on the report of the commission dated 1810, retirement on
the full pay of their rank was ordered to a certain number
of lieutenant-colonels, majors, and captains, the cost of the
whole being 38,0001. per annum; all retirements on full
pay, under the previous warrants, being prospectively abo-
lished. The numbers were fixed by the warrant at 20
lieutenant-colonels, 20 majors, and 113 captains; but there
not being captains enough found willing to accept those
terms, the numbers in each rank have not been adhered to,
the Secretary-at-War merely requiring that the limit of
38,0001. a-year shall not be exceeded. There are now on
the list 28 lieutenant-colonels, 25 majors, and 98 captains.
"These retirements are given by the commander-in-chief
to officers selected according to their regimental, and not
their brevet rank. They obtain no additional rank, nor
can they be further promoted.
" The names are selected from a list of applicants by the
commander-in-chief, who is guided in each case by the
merits and service of the officer.
" It is proposed to augment this list in number ; to give
to each officer, on acceptance, a step of rank, but with the
full pay only of the rank from which he retired ; and to
extend to colonels, as well as to lieutenant-colonels the
right so to retire." ,
Into this retired list it is proposed to absorb as many
of the lieutenant-colonels as choose to accept the terms,
giving them 1001. a year in addition to their half-pay.
" The cost of the existing full-pay retirement is as fol-
lows :—The full pay of their ranks to 25 lieutenant-
colonels, 25 majors, 61 brevet-majors, and 37 captains,
amounts to 37,9901. 10s. 10d. ; but, in order to arrive at
the net cost to the country, it is necessary to deduct the
cost of the half-pay of which they would be in the receipt
were they not on retired full pay ; this amounts, in the
case of the officers above enumerated, to 22,9851. 173. 6d.,
which, being deducted from the 37,9901. 103. 10d., leaves
a net cost to the public of 15,0131. 13s. 4d.
" To this net cost of 15,0131. we propose to add an esti-
mated net cost, in round numbers, of about 8,0001. a year."
The exact net cost it is for several reasons difficult to
ascertain, but the estimate given is supposed to be an
approximation as near as can be made to the increase in
expense which would have to be provided for.
Such are the recommendations of the commissioners
with regard to the household troops, and the infantry
and cavalry of the line. The same alterations are sug-
gested in the mode of promotion in the Royal Artillery
and Engineers, but the difference between their organi-
sation and that of the rest of the army renders separate
consideration necessary. In the Royal Artillery
" The command of battalions, corresponding to the
colonelcies of regiments, is given to general officers, not by
selection but by seniority. There has been but one excep-
tion to this rule in the present century, and the practice of
conferring these commands according to seniority, without
reference to services, is now never departed from.
" The engineers are also considered to form only a
single regiment, and the officers of this corps likewise are
promoted only by seniority ; but the services required
from engineer officers are of a very different nature from
those of any other officers in the army. Except when in
command of detachments of the sappers and miners, the
officers of the engineers have no privates under their
orders, and the duties imposed upon them require that
they should most commonly be employed singly, or not
more than two or three together, throughout the extensive
dominions of the Crown."
From the peculiar reputation of these two services it
has resulted that
" The average of the officers in the different ranks of
Ordnance corps is far greater than that of officers in the
corresponding ranks of the army, nor is the average made
up of that variety of ages which, within certain limits, is
to be found in the ranks of the army, and which gives to
the public service the advantage of having a few officers in
each of the higher ranks of greater physical vigour than
the rest."
By a detailed comparision it appears that
" The ages of the officers below field officers' rank are, as
in the rest of the army, younger now than they were in
1838, but from a different cause. In the other branches of
the army this arose from the increased sale of commis-
sions ' - in the Ordnance corps it has arisen from the great
impetus given to promotion by the frequent augmentations
which the Ordnance corps have received of late years.
But, on the other hand, the increase of age in the upper
ranks of the Ordnance corps is far greater than that in the
army. There is not now in the Royal Artillery one full-
pay colonel under 65, and very few lieutenant-colonels
under 55 ; while in the rest of the army, during the period
intervening between 1838 and 1854, the age of the field
officers has but slightly increased. In the Ordnance corps,
taking the ten senior colonels in each year, the increase is
not less than seven years in the artillery and six in the en-
gineers.
" Again, in the brevet of 1841, no colonel in the Royal
Artillery, promoted to be a major-general, was above 70
years old ; in the brevet of 1851 there was no colonel pro-
moted who was under 70."
The commissioners are therefore of opinion that, ire
order to bring forward the officers of the Ordnance corps
to the rank of lieutenant-colonel at an earlier period of
life, it will be absolutely necessary to increase consider-.
ably the provision which is now made for the retire-
merit of officers from this branch of the service ; and[
they further suggest "that, in future, your Majesty
should exercise your undoubted power of selecting officers
of all ranks in the Ordnance corps for service, and should
give them for that purpose such rank and promotion as
their merits and the duties entrusted to them may appear
to entitle them to, without regard to their seniority in:
the corps." It has been felt, however, thadtuteheedperivnecniptl:
of selection for promotion cannot be intro •
this extent, into the Ordnance service, without rendering;
oun
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more obvious the necessity, which exists on otheraei
ds,
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neral should be assigned to thetgeoogtigirdeoenytneeadiamcepteosseapervice, and.
:
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2o.honourableffiToeordoraenatlimyng.
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the master-general with the same eaelrslowereatlrraatirnk.
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power ex-
ercised by the commander-in-chief in parallel eases ;
namely, that of selecting from among the candidates for re-
tirem
be the most prewssent those CMOs h
i ngich, from peculiar circumstances,
may .
"4. To fix the gross sum which the retirement shall not
exceed, augmenting it, however, considerably beyond the
amount now voted, in order to facilitate the retirement of
a larger number of officers."
The amount at present voted is 33,9811., and an addi-
tional sum of about 14,0001. would probably be requisite
to carry out the plan suggested by the commissioners.
The report concludes with a recapitulation of the altera-
tions suggested, and a hope is expressed that the ulti-
mate tendency of the changes recommended will be to
reduce the numbers of the ineffective portion of the army,
and consequently in future years to reduce the cost of its
maintenance ; while the accelerated promotion of officers,
whose services and capacity entitle them to such advance-
ment, will ensure the presence, in all ranks of men to
whose unimpaired energy and vigour may be entrusted
the safety of the country and the honour of her Majesty's
arms.

[PRICE SD.

to this. Ther e results from it this further disadvantage :
either inexperAenced commanders are employed, or, if ex-
perienced, their experience is wasted. Thus, should some
of these major-generals be still young enough for employ-
ment in the field, they are still too old to make the expe-
rience they so gain available for further services. Ono
command', probably, brings them to an age when retire-
ment from active service becomes necessary, and the ex-
perience they have gained is lost to the country, and, as it
were buried with them, and they are again succeeded by
untried men.
"It is stated, in his evidence before the commission of
1840, by Lo rd Fitzroy Somerset, that in the last war,
with the exception of Lord Lyndoch and Sir T. Picton,
they had no general officers in command above forty years
of age.' They were all between thirty-five and forty."
The Duke of Wellington, it is added, was a major-
general at 33, and out of eight eminent generals who
were his contomporaries, Sir G. Murray was the only
one who did mat attain the same rank before arriving
at the age of 40.
The report of 1840 suggested no important alteration
in the existing Hystem, because it was apprehended that
in time of peace it led to no great evils, and it was
thought that it might be allowed to work on "until
the pressure of war should make change indispensably
necessary." The result has been that the average age
of the major-generals promoted in 1851 was not less
than 60. Three years must now be added to that
average for the three years which have since elapsed ;
but the average age of the whole number of existing
major-generals is, at this moment, not less than 65 ;
and the lieutenant-generals, who would command divi-
sions, are, of course, older still.
The commissioners proceed to state another grave
objection to the present system of promotion :
" In the majority of cases it causes officers to remain un-
employed for 'several years before they become major-gene-
rals. This is the natural consequence of their attaining
that rank so late in life, while all lieutenant-colonels, whe-
ther they serve or not, are advanced by general brevets,
by seniority alone, to the rartk of colonel and of major-
general. This being the case, it is neither to be expected
nor desired that officers should remain on full pay, and
should continue to encounter the laborious duties of their
profession in all parts of the world for the many years
which must intervene, under the existing regulations, be-
fore their being promoted to the ran of lieutenant-
colonel and their attaining to that of major-general.
There are comparatively few officers, therefore, who do not
pass at least a great part of this time on half pay; and we
find accordingly, from a return which has been laid before
us of the names and services of all the general officers who
have held commands during the last twenty years, that
more than half of them had not served in their pro-
fession for ten years or upwards, before their first appoint-
ment to commands as major-generals, that in many cases
the time so spent in retirement exceeded twenty years, and
in one fell little short of thirty-seven years. We appre-
hend that it can require no argument to prove that even if
they retain the requisite vigour of body, officers who have
been so long out of the active exercise of their profession
cannot be expected, in general, to command troops with
the same efficiency as men of more recent military experi-
ence."
Before explaining their views as to the changes which
it may be expedient to effect, the commissioners com-
ment on the existing mode of advancing officers by brevet
to the rank of major-general, which, they observe, is
intended to answer two distinct objects—first, to create
a class of officers eligible for commands ; and secondly,
to reward past service by conferring on those who have
performed them an honorary distinction combined with
certain pecuniary advantages. Only a small proportion
of the officers who become major-ganerals, and subse-
quently lieutenant-generals and generals, are ever ac-
tually employed in these ranks ; and it is obvious that
the advancement of those who are not so can only be
regarded as a reward for their past services.
As to the first and most important of these objects,
that of furnishing officers fit to hold commands, the
details contained in earlier pages of the report prove
that the system has not worked well, and the commis-
sioners apprehend that it could not be made to do so
by any abridgment of the time at which the rank of
major-general is usually attained. One obvious incon-
venience resulting from such a course would be an acces-
sion to the list of general officers so great as to impose
a heavy burden upon the finances of the country.
The commissioners proceed to point out the remedy
which they recommend, and express their opinion that
it should be sought in a more free exercise of the power
vested in her Majesty of giving temporary rank to
officers, with a view to their being appointed to com-
mands which cannot otherwise be so satisfactorily
filled up.
"It has," they observe, "long been the practice of the
British army to confer, when occasion requires it, local and
temporary rank on officers selected for certain duties. But
the advantage to be derived from this practice has, for
many years past, been materially diminished by its having
been regarded as a rule, to which very few exceptions have
been admitted, not to confer rank of this kind in such a
manner as to alter the relative positian of officers, as deter-
mined by the dates at which they have respectively at-
tained the rank of colonel. It has not been thought ad-
visable that temporary rank as major or lieutenant-general
should be given to any officer where he is likely to meet on
service officers standing above himself in the strict order
of seniority, and there have been but few instances of
officers being appointed to command as major-generals,
until they have reached that rank in the ordinary manner.
They therefore recommend that in future, when the ser-
vices of an officer are required to take the command of any
portion of your Majesty's troops as a general officer, the
fittest officer that can be found for the particular duty
should be selected, without reference to seniority, from the
whole list of officers who have attained the rank of colonel
or a superior rank."
The commissioners add their belief that—
"By adopting this rule, together with a further change
in the mode of advancing officers from the rank of lieut.-
colonel to that of colonel, which we shall propose in a later
paragraph of this report, we believe that those whose duty
it is to submit the names of officers to be appointed to im-
portant commands, would always have it in their power to
recommend for such employment officers properly qualified
for it by their age, their vigour of body, and their profes
sional knowledge and ability."
The selection of colonels for major-generals' com
mands will not, it is added, be an innovation in the Bri.

sh army, but rather the revival of a system which for-
merly prevailed, but has, during the last century, fallen
into desuetude ; and any objection which may be made
on the ground of possible partiality in selection, may be
urged with equal force against the practice of selection
from the list of major-generals.
The promotion of lieutenant-colonels to the rank of
colonel is at present regulated
" According to the strict rule of seniority, without re-
ference to the service performed by the officers promoted,
except in the case of officers appointed to be aides de-camp
to the Queen, who become full colonels by virtue of that
appointment. All other officers obtain this rank by general
brevets, which include equally lieutenant-colonels on full or
on half pay. It is recommended that, in future, this prac-
tice should be altered ; and that, except when promotion is
given as a reward for very distinguished conduct in war, or
by appointment as aide-de-camp to the Queen, officers should
rise from the rank of lieutenant-colonel to that of colonel
by service alone. The commissioners propose that the rank
of full colonel should be given to all officers on their com-
pleting three years of service with the rank of lieutenant-
colonel, in the command of regiments, or the field officers
and senior captains and lieutenant-colonels of battalions of
the Guards, termed mounted officers, or to lieutenant-colo-
nels on the staff, in situations necessarily held by officers
of that rank - or lastly, as field officers of the Artillery or
Engineers. 13y giving the rank of full colonel to lieutenant-
colonels, after three years' service in any of the above ca-
pacities, the interval between the acquisition of the former
and of ie latter rank would be greatly abridged in favour
of officers who served in active employment after being
promoted to be lieutenant-colonels, and would thus bring
them into a position in which, according to the recommen-
dation above submitted, they would be eligible for employ-
ment as major-generals. It is believed that by this arrange-
ment ample facilities would be afforded for obtaining the
services of general officers less advanced in life than those
to whom employment in this rank has of late years been
restricted ; with the further advantage of offering a strong
inducement to exertion to officers holding the command of
regiments, or any of the other situations which, according
to our suggestion, would give the same title to advance-
ment; since distinguished merit in the discharge of their
duties by officers so employed, would naturally lead to
higher commands under the system of which we have ad-
vised the adoption."
The commissioners are not desirous to abandon, but
they propose to modify, the system of advancing colonels
in the army by seniority to the rank of major-generals,
as as a reward for their past services. They feel tha
honorary distinction conferred, and the pecuniarybe
d they consider the ar-
rangement the hopes of our officers, an
advan-
tages which it brings with it, ought not to withdrawn
abuse the rule
public. They regard, however, a
the brevet rank of
one on the whole highly:davnantageous to the
which allows officers having obtained
y duty
to become major-generals if
in that rank, ultimately
the
lieutenant-colonel, without having perfor.med an
commander-in-chief
when called upon and
edthfor three years as they
should be ;
propose that the advancement
tthheeyir have
readiness merely
to expressed
serve
the commissioners enforced on
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lieute-
nant-colonels.
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recommended
the following their opinion in paragraphs :
Wth respect to
We are also of opinion that the present practice of
having general brevets at uncertain intervals of time, and
of an extent determined by no positive rule, should pro-
spectively be abandoned. It is obvious that, to any service,
an alternation of large promotions and complete stagnation
must be injurious, especially when the promotions
capricious and unforeseen
periods, depending not on the
wants of the service so much as on the occurrence of events
totally unconnected with the state or requirements of the
army. Thus there was a brevet in 1830, then for six years
an entire stagnation of promotion in the upper ranks ; in
1837 and 1838 brevets two years running • again a stagna-
tion till 1841, in which there was a brevet ; since which
there have been two brevets, at intervals of about five
years.

SAVINGS'-BANES.—A bill has just been introduced by
the Government for continuing for four years the Irish
Savings'-banks Act of the 11th and 12th of Victoria, and
for allowing the funds of friendly societies to be depo-
sited in savings'-banks, without restrictions as to amount,
under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Com-
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
CAUSE AND EFFECT—WELLER'S-OOURT, KING'S-CROSS.
—lt may be worth while to stat 9 that since the articles
on the neighbourhood of King's-cross appeared, the cess-
pools in Weller's-court and in "Paradise-row" have been
removed, and the closets drained. Mr. Sutherin, the
district surgeon, states that since this has been done he
has been called comparatively seldom into the houses.
In Ashby-street, and other streets where the drain-
age is unaltered, he has still no rest. About ten days
ago we made an inspection of the neighbourhood,
and saw with regret that in Wellees-court, where
matters had been improved, two of the closets had been
filled up with stones and other rubbish, put in, it was
said, by the children. The other day one of our coad-
jutors called again at Weller's-court, when the closets
adjoining
painsnin gcomplained of the place,
had been taken the work
were overflowing, and the smell most offensive. Seve-
raloduwlroderngrl
ed. eleantvteevdh
"looteht leen aftertiayeah us destroyed. "Is any one ill t"
sir ; a little girl is dying there,"
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been

" We attach much importance, therefore, to the abolition
in future years of general periodical brevet promotions, and
we recommend the creation of a fixed establishment of
general officers, each vacancy in which should be filled up
as it occurs by the advancement of the senior colonel on the
list, except when there may be a supernumerary general
officer (appointed as we shall recommend in the succeeding
paragraphs) to fall into it. With regard to the number of
general officers which should form the fixed establishment,
we have had some difficulty in coming to a satisfactory
conclusion. Upon the whole it has appeared to us that the
best course would be, to take the actual number of general
officers as our guide. We find that on the 30th of April
last, the general officers' list comprised 131 colonels of re-
giments • 92 on unattached pay, and 7 on half-pay, or 233
in all. ?We propose that in future there should be 100

GUILDHALL, JULY 3, 1854.
Tom;COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S
LANDS will meet at Guildhall, on Wednesday. the 12th day
of July inst., at One o'Clock precisely, to receive fenders for Letting
on Lease for 21 years, from Michaelmas, 1854, a House, 81, on the
east side of Mark-lane, Fenchureh-stre

Further particulars and Plans may be seen, and Forms of Tender
Obtained, at the Architect's Office, Guildhall.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL GENERAL
MEETING of the PROPRIETORS in this Company will be held on
SATURDAY, the 22d day of July instant, at 12 o'clock at noon, at
No 34, York-road, Lambeth, when there will be submitted to the
Propr etors then present, in person or by proxy, a Bill promoted by
an independent Company, now pending in Parliament, intitaled "A
BM for making a Railway from the London and South-Western
Railway, at Salisbury, to Yeovil, and to form a Junction with the
Railways at Yeovil of the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railway Companies," in which Bill there have been inserted provi-
sions authorising working and other arrangements between the Com-
pany intended to he thereby incorporated and the London and South-
Western Railway Company. And if the Proprietors then so present
shall approve the above-mentioned Bill and provisions, there will
also be submitted for their consideration and approval the terms of
arrangement proposed (subject to such approval) to be made between
the two Companies in exercise of the general powers intended to be
ronferred on them by the same Bill and provisions.
Dated this 6th day of July, 1854.
By order of the Court of DireL. ctors.
CROMBIE, Secretary.
York-road Offices, London.

THEATRE it.OYAL DBITRY LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, Juvr 7,
WM be performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame
Caradorl, Madame Sedlazek, Madame Heinrich; and Signora Pa-
weld, Baal, and Arnold!.
To conclude with the popular Ballet, entitled UNE FETE EN
OLTMPE.
,etees-Staffs, 7s; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 23.; Gallery,
Is.; and private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
8.3 x-ofllee Opel daily from Ten till Six, where places may be
secure I. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and
Cock. 63, New Bond-street.
Notice.—Doors open at Half-past Seven, Perrormance commence;
at Eight. Ha f-price at Half-past ins.

THE ITRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.

Under the management of Mr. ituckstone.

THIS EVENING, JULY 7,
Will be performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OP THE
"{GOND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G.
JandentioM W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynslds,
Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fltzwilliam.
Followed by At LIKE AS TWO PEAS.
To conclude with THE S.jAPEGOAT.

ROYAL PRINCESA'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
under the Management of Mr. CHARM) 11.1.0 r.

THIS EVENING, Arm' 7,
wilt be performed FROII VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal
characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart Misses Mur-
ray, Heath, and Vivash.
After which, THE COURIER OF LYONS. Principal characters
by Messrs. C. Kean, J. Vinin•;, Ad lisoii, GrahAra, David Fisher,
Cathcart, and Saker ; Misses C. Lecierq, Heath, Ternan, and K.
Terry.
To cone: Aide with THE HALT OF THE BALLET.