The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-24 00:00:00

TT! E ARMY.

The following General Order is now-in circu-
lation to Colonels arid Commapding Officers of
Rogiments. Upon reference to the old regula-
tions for the purchase, sate, and exchange of
Regimental Corrunissionsi we
_find that the forms
of application for the sale and purchase of com-
missions, which prescribed a certificate, signed
by the parties, that no stun beyond that limited
by his Majesty's regulations would be demanded
or accepted, are cancelled, and that the follow- I
ing pails are new :

" Officers retiring upon the half-pay and receiving the dif-
ference, forfeit ail claim to further rank or employment, to the
pension for their Widows, and to compassionate allowance for
their children, unless they repay the difitrence upon being al-
lowed to come in again upon the same rank in which they
retired, ' but they forfeit their progressive rank during the
period of their retirement."'
.

The required form to be accompanied by written Certificates,
signed by the Commanding Officer, viz.
" Ist. That he has ascertained by reference, through the
Regimental Agent, to the responsible persons, that in each
case there is good and sufficient security that the purchase
money will be forthcoming when called for.
" 2d. That of the individuals so returned as purchasers,
A.B.C. are in all respects deserving of promotion, and those
whom he would not hesitate to recommend, whenever the va;
cancy shall offer, as fit for the duties of the higher and more
responsible Commissions.*

' When the Regiment and Commanding-officer are abroad,
the Commanding-officer is to state the security to which refer-
ence is made, and the Military Secretary will ascertain thto•igh
the agents whether that security be good and sufficient, it b'-
ing understood that if the answer be not at once satisfactory,
the individual will be struck out of the list of purchasers.
" The quarterly return so certified, is. to be the only con -
munication made on the subject of promotion by purchase ;
and when a resignation is sent in, it will be considered uncon-
ditional and iv-evocable, and no successor is to be pointed net
or recommended. In all cases, the individual selected for the
purchase, or his sureties, will be called upon, to lodge the pur-
chase-Money with the agents.
" If the senior who may have been returned as a purchaser,
and whose money shall have been certified to be forthcoming,
should decline the purchase when selected for it, or his sure-
'ties should decline it for him, he or they will be called upon
to-state the reason for so declining to the Military Secretary,
for the Commander.in-Chiers information; and if the expla-
nation should ,not be considered satisfactory, his name will be
struck out of all future lists of purchasers.
" The candidates who may he selected from reference to the
qUarterly returns, for the purchase of promotion •out' of their
own corps, will be directed to lodge the purchase- money, with-
out being acquainted in what regiment they arc, to obtain -the
promotion, nor will any application for the purchase of pro-
motion which points out the expected vacancy be admitted.
" That they do not intend to sell out, or retire upon half
pay, after effecting such exchange, but that it is their &mail*
intention to join immediately, and to do duty with the corps to
which they exchange, the leave of absence which may have
been granted to either, or both, being cancelled by such ex-
change.
" No officer of cavalry, who shall apply for permission to
retire on half-pay, will be allowed to receive the difference be-
tween full pay of cavalry and full pay of infantry, but such ex-
change will be viewed as being, to all intents, an exchange to
the half-pay of his branch of the service, receiving the dif-
ference between full-pay and half-pay, and subject to the re-
strictions applicable to such exchange.
"In exchanges to half-pay, either with or without the dif-
ference' or from cavalry to infantry, the application must be
general and • unconditional, and the officer upon full-pay wily
not be alloWed to.poinf out his successor, who will be indiscri-
Minately selected by the Commander-in-Chief without any-
previous notice to the parties.
" Eviry Officer who, from wounds, ill health' infirmity, or
age, shall become unfit. for Service, and who shall be desirous
of retiring upon half-pay, will transmit his appliCation through
his Colonel, or Commanding Officer, accompanied by a certi-
ficate from the Senior Medical Officer of the Regiment, ex-
pressing the 'cause of his becoming unfit for service, and
which certificate 'must be countersigned by the Colonel-or
Commanding Officer."
" N.B.—The General Officer who makes the half yearly
confidential reports is hereby directed to state in such reports
his opinion of the correctness of this certificate."
No Brevet, we understand, will take place at present.