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London, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, MARCH 11.

STOCK EZCIIANGE.—The sales are —Caledonian, New, 465. 6d.—
Direct Northern (scrip), 51s. 6d.—Dundee and Arbroath, New, No.
3, 4%—East Lothian Central, 515.--Edinburgh and Bathgate, 574
Edinburgh and Northern, Newport, 71. 14s.—Ditto, ditto, New,
52s.—Edinburgh and Perth (New), 565. ex div.—Dltto, Halves, 211.
—North British, 337i—Ditto, Halves, 16!8—Ditto, Quarters, 80s.—
Ditto' New Quarters (scrip), 23e.—Ditto, Thirds, 69s.—Scottish Cen-
tral, 231.—Scottish Grand Junction, 21s. Scottish Midland, 221.
GLASGOW, Mown 13.

SToca E'enArioic.—The sales are—Direct Bombay and Madras,
33.—Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), 56s.—Glasgow,
and Ayr, Halves, No. 2, St.—Glasgow and Greenock, Preference,
Ms.—Manchester and Southampton, 165.--Paisley, Barrhead, and
Hurlet, 55s.—Scottish Central, 231.—Sthlingshire and Midland Junc-
tion, 475.

LIMITATION OF SERVICE IN

THE ARMY.

The following is an abstract of the Bill for limiting the
time of service in the army, and for amending the Acts for
rendering effective the services of the Chelsea and Green-
wich out-pensioners :-
Ist clause. That after the passing of this Act, no person
shall be enlisted to serve her Majesty as a soldier for a longer
term than ten years in the infantry, or twelve years in the
cavalry, artillery, or other ordnance corps, to be reckoned
from tke day on which the recruit shall have been attested,
if he shall have stated himself to be then of the age of
eighteen years, or if not, then from the day on which he will
complete the age of eighteen years.
2d. That any soldier, after completing the term of limited
service, for which he shall have first engaged, may at any
time be re-engaged for any term not exceeding eleven
years in the infantry, and twelve years in the cavalry or
artillery.
3d. That both the first and second term of limited service
for which any soldier shall have so engaged, may be
prolonged for such further time, not exceeding one year in
time of peace or two in time of war ; and that any soldier
who shall give notice to his commanding officer, after com-
pleting his second term of limited service, may be continued
in the service so long as he shall desire to be so continued,
and until the expiration of three calendar wonths after he
shall have given notice to his commanding officer of his wish
to be discharged.
4th. That soldiers who may not have served a sufficient

time to entitle them to a permanent pension, under any
royal warrants or regulations now in force, shall be entitled
to have their names registered for prospective or deferred pen-
sions in such manner as her Ilajesty may direct.
sth. That all persons whose claims for any such prospec-
tive or deferred pension shall have been so registered, shall be
liable to be enrolled with and as part of the local force for
the preservation of the peace, under the Act 6 and 7 'Vic.
6th. That as the Act passed in the sixth year of the reign
of her Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws re•
lating to the Payment of Out-Pensioners of Chelsea," has
been found beneficial, it is now provided that this Act
shall (ttend to el her Majesty's colonies and pos-
sessions beyond the seas, and that it shall apply to all out-
pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, and to such of the out-
pensioners of Greenwich Hospital as may have served iu the
Royal Marines, and to all discharged soldiers whose claims to
a deferred pension have been registered as aforesaid; and
that it shall be-lawful for her Majesty to fix the number of
men to be enrolled in every such colony and possession as a
local force for the preservation of the peace in such colony or
possession, and to cause them to be armed and equipped, and
called out for inspection or exercise on any number of days
not exceeding twelve in each year, as the governor or person
administering the government of such colony or possession
for the time being shall direct.
7th. That it shall be lawful for one of her Majesty's prin-
cipal Secretaries of State, or in Ireland, for the Lord Lieu-
tenant, and in her Majesty's colonies and possessions, for the
Governor of such colony or possessson, to issue his warrant to
the Lord Lieutenant of any county, or the Mayor or other
chief magistrate of any town or district wherein such pen-
sioners and persons having claims to prospective or deferred
pensions are enrolled, authorising him, in case of emer-
gency whereby the public peace may be endangered, or
on the requisition of any officer commanding her Ma-
jesty's forces within such town or district, to call out the
whole or such part of the persons so enrolled as he may con-
sider necessary for any term not exceeding twelve days,
during which time they shall be liable to the provisions of
he Mutiny Act and Articles of War.
8. That in case of actual or.apprehended invasion, it shall
be lawful for her Majesty to direct that the said enrolled
pensioners, or such of them as her Majesty shall think fit,
may be sent in aid of the defence of the realm, to any part
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland where
their services may be required.