The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The following circular has been issued:—
GENERAL ORDER.
Horse Guards, Oct. 2.
The General Commanding-in-Chief is pleased to approve
of general officers commanding districts in Great Britain,
and officers commanding in garrisons not included in any
military district, granting leave of absence to officers, and
furloughs to non-commissioned officers and soldiers, under
the following regulations and restrictions, viz.:-
1. Leave of absence granted under this order to officers
may commence as soon as the half-yearly inspection shall
have been made. Furloughs granted to non-commissioned
officers and soldiers may commence from the Ist of the
next month.
2. These indulgences are to terminate on the 10th of
March next, when, agreeably to her Majesty's regulations,
all officers and soldiers are to be present with their re-
spective regiments and depots.
3. One field officer, one-half of the captains, and one-
half of the subaltern officers, are always to be present.
4. No officer (except in the performance of duty, or for
the purpose of joining his regiment) is to quit the United
Kingdom without first having received her Majesty's spe-
cial permission, according to the regulations on that head.
5. Officers employed on the recruiting service, or upon
the staff of the army, are not to he included in the
number hereby fixed for the constant duty of the regiment
or depot.
6. The applications for leave for regimental paymasters
and medical officers are to continue to be made in the
mode prescribed in the regulations and orders for the
army.
7. In cases of hort leave of absence being requested by
adjutants, riding-masters, quartermasters, or veterinary
surgeons of regiments, it will be necessary that a special
report shall be made as to the mode in which their duties
are to be performed during their absence, and that the
commanding officer is satisfied.
8. The proportion of non-commissioned officers, trum-
peters, drummers, and private men, to whom furloughs
may be granted, is not to exceed 10 per troop or company.
.When corps are not stationed in garrisons, or military
districts, the officers commanding are at liberty to use
their discretion in granting the indulgence of leave of ab-
sence, under the foregoing restrictions, to the officers and
soldiers under their command, reporting the same to the
adj utant-general.
His lordship expects that the general and other officers,
who are empowered to grant leave of absence under the
provisions of this order will strictly confine that grant to
the proportion of officers herein specified.
By command of the
Right Hon. General Viscount HARDINGE,
Commanding-in-Chief.
G. A. WETHERALL, Deputy Adjutant-General.

Orders have been issued from the Horse Guards to 811
officers in the recruiting service, and to the commanding
officers of the depots of regiments serving in the expedi-
tionary army, the lonian Islands, Malta, and Gibraltar, to
proceed with the enlistment of men for the above-men-
tioned regiments with assiduity and despatch, as it is in
tended immediately to send out all the available men who
may have completed their drill at the various depots to
join the service companies of their respective regiments, in
order to fill up the vacancies that have occurred by sick-
ness or death. The service companies will be thus in-
creased to 1,000 bayonets each regiment. The officers com-
manding militia regiments, embodied and disembodied,
are indefatigable in their exertions to obtain volunteers
from their respective regiments for the line, in addition to
filling up, because it is stated that five infantry regiments
to 011 'eat of war.
of 1,000
4strooonpstog each, and and two cavalry reginints, will be
forthwith