The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-04 00:00:00

TEE ARMY.

The follJwing services, which became due the ‘24th ult., will
be in course of payment. on the 14th inst., viz.:—
Retired Full and llalf-pay ; Pay of Adjutants of Local Mi-
litia; Allowances to reduced Adjutants and Serjeant 31ajors
of 31ilitia; Foreign Ilalf-pay.
FOR lxma.—By the last returns that have been re-
ceived from the diet-rent Recruiting Parties throughout Great
Britain and Ireland, it appears that 2,574 men have been en-
listed for the British Regiments now serving in India.
There is a probability of Paisley Barracks being soon occu-
pied by military again. The following towns having been fix-
ed upon for depots, viz.—Paisley and Ayr under the Glasgow
division ; and Perth, Aberdeen and Dundee, under the
burgh.

INDIAN ARMY.

AUGMENTATION TO FIELD BATTALIONS OF FOOT

ARTILLERY.
Fort William, S.pt. 2, 1824.—At the recommendation of his
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, an addition of 18 spare
horses, and 24 spare drivers, is to he made to each field battery
of Foot Artillery, with horse draught, until further orders. The
horses are henceforth to be driven by mounting the Syces, wken
considered necessary.
FORMATION oF Two REGIMENTS OF LOCAL rronsE.
N:w. 11, 1824.----Two regiments of local
horse of 8 rissallahs each, and 80 officers and men per rissallah,
will be immediately raised, and numbered six and seven, on
the same scale as in the 2d, ;id, and 4th regiments, and on the
like rates of pay, &c., &c.
These corps ace to be formed, one in Rohilkund, or in the
Meerut district, and one on the Western frontier, at such
points as his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief may direct.
The European and Native staff and establishments to each will
be exactly on the same scale, and in the same proportion, as in
the other regiments of local cavalry.

AUGMENTATION TO TILE LOCAL BATTALIONS.
Fort William, 110 z,. 11, 1824.—The 6th, 7th, and Bth Local
Battalions (or the'lst and 2d Nusserri and Sirmoor corps). will
be augmented forthwith to ten companies of 90 privates each,
(Goorkahs) according to. the scale laid down in the order first
noted (2d May, 1823.)
THE SZPOYS OF. THE LATE 47T11 REGIMENT.
The Sepays of the late 47th ltegiment, who were exempted
from the operation of the Government General Order of the 4th
November, arc drafted into the 46th Native Infantry, and will
proceed, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Sargent, of the
57th Regiment, by water, in Assam, to join that Corps, as soon
as the requisite tonnage can be procured for them.

(Front last Saturday's London Gazette.)
War-0111:..!, April I.
MEMORANDUM—MS liajcsty has been pleased to approve
of the Bth, or King'.: Royal Irish Regiment of Light Dragoons
retaining on its standards the badge of the " Harp and Crown,"
-with the motto " Pristin Virtutis 3lemores."—His Majesty
has also been pleased to approve of the Regiment bearing on
its standards and appointments the distinctions under-men-
tioned, viz. the word " Leswarree," in commemoration of the
distinguished conduct of the Corps during the battle fought
near Leswarree, on the Ist November, 1803; and the word
" Ilindoostan." as a lasting testimony of the exemplary con-
duct of the Carps during the period of its service in India, from
1802 to 1622 —llia Majesty has been pleased to approve of the
78:h Regiment of Font retaining on its colours and appoint-
ments the Gaelic motto, " Culdich 'n Rhi."
sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Sir Henry
John Seton, Bart., to be Captain, by purchase, vice Matthews,
who retires ; Cornet Charles Hay Scion to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, Seton ; John Wallace !sling, Gent. to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Seton.
4.th Regiment of Light Dragoons—To be Captains, without
purchase—Lieutenant Francis Dermot Daly, vice Sale, de-
-1 ceased; Captain John Elliott, front half-pay 21st Light Dra-
goons, vice Barlow, deceased.
'l'o be Lieutenant—Cornet John Somerset Smith, vice Daly.
To be Cornet, by purchase—Edward Harvey, Gent. vice
Smith.
To be Adjutant, with- rank of Cornet—Serjeant-Major John
Harrison, vice Dixon, appointed Quartermaster.
To be Quartermaster—Cornet and Adjutant James Dixon,
vice Allan, deceased.
8:h Ditto—Lieutenant James Thomas Lord BrudenelL from
half-pay of the Regiment, to be Lieutenant, repaying the differ-
ence, vice Parlby, appointed to the 12th Light Dragoons.
10th Ditto—Lieutenant Lord James Fitzroy. from half-pay
3d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Charles John Brandling, who
exchanges receiving the difference ; Stephens Lyne, Gent. to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Beaumont, who retires.
11th Ditto—Lieutenant Charles Wetherall, to be Captain.
by purchase, vice Doric, who retires; Cornet Arthur Ahmuty,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice. Wetherall ; Gent. Cadet
Frederick Darley George, from the Royal Military College, to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ahtouty.
12th Ditto—Lieutenant Win. Pariby; from the Bth Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Weight, who retires
on half-pay Bth Light Dragoons, receiving the difference.
14th Ditto—Captain John Metheld, from the 75th Foot, to
be Captain, vice St. Leger.
Ist or Grenadier velment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant John
,Tuline William Angerstein, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by
otuchase, vice Vernon, promoted ; George Augustus Frederick
ilouston, Gent. to he Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice

A ngerstein. . •
6th Regiment of Foot —John Athol' Bannatyne Murray
M`Gregor, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Foley,
promoted.
9:h Ditto—Captain George Pinckney, from half-pay York
Chasseurs, to be Captain, vice Cortlandt George Macgregor
Skinner, who exchanges.
13th Ditto—Ensign William Mellows Brownrigg to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Howard, killed in action ; Charles
Savage, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Brownrigg.
30th Dito—Lient. M. Schooff, from the 67th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Deane, who exchanges.
37th Ditto—Capt. George P.rown, from half-pay 34th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Joseph Perry, who exchanges.
38th Ditto--eTo be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign
John Campbell, vice Mitchell, dead of his wounds ; Ensign
Frederick Tudor. •
To be Ensign—Edward Evans, Gent. vice Campbell.
42d Ditto—Lieut.'Andrew Simon Frazer, from halt'-pay of
the Regiment, to he Lieutenant, vice Fitzgerald, whose ap-
pointMent has not taken place.
54th Ditto—Ensign Frederick Considine to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Claus, deceased.
67th Ditto—Lieut. Charles Deane, from the 30th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Schooff, who exchanges.
75th Ditto —Capt: • John Samuel St. Leger, from the 14th:
Light Dragoons, to be. Captain, vice Metheld, who exchanges.
99th ditto—Lieutenant Henry Rickards to be Cantsin, with-
out purchase, - vice Crooke, promoted in the Royal African
Colonial 'Corps; Ensign Mathew Patison to be rereutenant,
v!ce Richards ; George Darby Griffiths, Gent. to be Ensign,
vice Patison.
Royal African Colonial Corps—Captain Thomas Murray
Crooke, from the 99th Foot, to be Major, without purchase,
vice Hollis, whose promotion has not taken place ; Lieutenant
Thomas Dowling, from half-pay 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant,
vice George Laye, .who exchanges.
UNATTACIIE D.—Captain henry Vernon, from the Ist or
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel
of Infantry, try puretnere, rice LietitenanteColonel George Des-
brisay, who retires.
oserrer. STAFF.—Staff-Surgeon John Rice,. from the
half-pay, to he Surgeon to the Forcer.
To be Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces—Assistant-Surgeon
John Benjamin \Paterson,. from the half-pay sth Royal Ve-
teran Battalion, vice Hospital-Assistant M. Christie, super-
seded ; Assistant-Surgeon Henry Hart, M. D. from half-pay
22d Light Dragoons, vice Hospital-Assistant Evers, promoted
in the 14th Foot ; Assistant-Surgeon Robert Charles Horne,
from half--pay Glengarry Fencibles, - vice Hospital- Nssistant
Coming, promoted in the 67th Foot; Staff Assistant-Surgeon
Tlminas Howell, from hall-pay, vice Binsby Nicholson, who
exchanges.
To be Hospital-Assistant—James Alexander Orr, Gent. vice
Thornton, resigned.
111 1011ANDA,—The undermentioned appointments, es
stated in the Gazette of the 1201 instant, have not taken place :
—2sth Foot, Lieutenant Thomas Swyny to be Captain ; Ensign
Thomas Lingard to be Lieutenant ; George Darby Griffiths,
Gent. to be Ensign.
Staff-Assistant-Surgeon John Perkins has resigned his corn-
Office of Ordnance, April 2, 1825.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Major and Brevet Lieut.-
Colonel Sir Alexander Dickson, K.C.8., to be Lieut.-Colonel,
vice Desbrisay, retired ; Capt. and Brevet Major Thos. Rogers
to be Major, vice Dickson ; Second Captain Wm. Miller to be
Captain, vice Rogers.
Commission in the Carmarthen Militia.
James Thomas, Gentleman, to be First Lieutenant, vice
Davies, promoted.

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FlRE.—Yesterday morttina, between two and
three o'clock, an alarming fire was discovered on the premises
of Mr. RtisELL., linen-draper, in Long-acre, the second house
from James.street, Covent-garden. in a very short time the
house was gutted by the devouring element, the whole of the
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learn, no serious accident occurred. The -conflagration was
jimited to the premises where it cotnmenct:d.