The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Count
Alexander Ilensdorff, took an airing yesterday in an
open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting,
Colonel th;Hon. Charles Grey and Captain the Hon.
A. H. Gordon, attended on horseback. _

His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday, accompanied by Count Alexander
Mensdorff, and attended by the Hon. Captain Gordon.
The Royal Family took their accustomed walks and
rides yesterday, in the Royal gardens of Buckingham
Palace.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Count
Alexander Mensdorff, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness
de Speth, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended during
dinner.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended on Mon-
day at Buckingham Palace, and performed the galop
" Das Glockenspiel," composed by Wilhelm Kuhe,
pianist to his Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenzol-
lern Hechingen.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, and his Serene Highness Prince
Frederick of Hesse, visited the National Gallery, yester-
day. The Royal Duchess was attended by Baroness
Hammerstein and Mr. Edmond Mildmay.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the De-
puty Governor had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Ludlow Bruges, M.P. for Devizes, bad an inter-
view with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Tuesday, at the
office of the Commissioners of Railways, in Great
George-street. _ _

Mr. H. F. Tiarks, Conseiller de Legation and ChargE
d'Affaires of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of
Oldenburg, expired on Monday, at his residence in
Oxford-square. Mr. Tiarks was accredited as ChargE
d'Affairs during the negociation of a convention between
Great Britain and Oldenburg.

THE ARMY.
DISCIPLINE IN MILITARY PRISONS.
Horse Guards, Jan. 16th, 1847.

It having been represented by the Secretary at War that
it world be for the advantage of discipline in the military
prisons if those establishments could be relieved from the ne-
cessity of receiving incorrigible delinquents, and prisoners
whom, from the disgraceful nature of the offences of which
they have been convicted, it may be deemed expedient to dis-
charge at the termination of their imprisonment, the Com-
mander-in-Chief desires that henceforth all soldiers who, in
addition to an award of imprisonment, may have been recom-
mended by courts-martial for discharge, with ignominy, or
whose discharges may have been sanctioned en the grounds of
incorrigible misconduct, be committed, when
practicable, to civil prisons.
'rhe discharge documents will in all such cases be com-
pleted; and if the soldier is to be discharged with ignominy
the forms prescribed at page 127 et' her Majesty's Regula-
tions, must be gone through before -he is permitted to leave
the regiment, transmitting the certificates of discharge to the
Governor of the pri.Gon, for the purpose of being delirred
the prisoners when the term of their imprisonment shall have
expired.
The Commander-in-Chief further directs that soldiers com-
mitted to military prisons during the summer months, but
whose term of imprisonment will terminate after the winter
sets in, may, in all cases, carry with them their trousers and
other articles of clothing suited to the season at which their
release from imprisonment is likely to place.—By com-
mand of Field-Marshal the Duke of WELLINGTON,
Commander-in-Chief,
(Signed) J. MACDONALD, Adj.-General.
Horse Guards, Jan. 25, 1847.

The observations contained in the annexed extract of a
report from Dr. Tufnell, surgeon to the military prison in
Dublin, as to the best position of the soldier while employed
at shot exercise, have appeared to the Commander-in-Chief
so judicious, that his Grace desires they may be considered
as instructions to be attended to, and enforced, by command-
ing officers, when soldiers are subjected to that description
of punishment in the garrison or barrack cells under their
superintendence.
It must be clearly understood, that all prisoners, previon.,
to their admission into the cells, are to be carefully examined
by a regimental medical officer, and every possible precau-
tion taken that no man having a tendency or predisposition
to rupture shall, on any account, be employed at shot ex-
ercise, or any other species of hard labour which may be
likely to be prejudicial to his health.
By command of
Field Marshal the Commander-in-Chief,
(Signed) J. MACDONALD, Adj.-General.
Extract from the Half-yearly Report of the Surgeon of the
Military Prison in Dublin to 31st December, 1846.
" In lifting the shot the man should keep his heels pretty
close together, the body being thrown well over the shot,
and the weight brought up to the level of the hips close to
the person ; so long as this is done the whole effort is made
by the muscles of the loins, back, shoulders, and arms, and
none required from the muscles of the abdomen ; but if the
legs be allowed to be separated, and the shot be lifted oft
from the body, the whole effort then comes upon the mus-
cles of the belly, and by their contraction, as well as that of
the diaphragm, the disposition to rupture is excited."
RECRUITING DEPARTMENT.

Horse Guards, Feb. 9, 1847.
All correspondence relative to the recruiting of the troops
serving in Ireland is henceforth to be addressed direct to
the Adjutant-General, with " Recruiting Service" written
on the left-hand corner of the cover, as directed by the
Regulations,
The Lieutenant-General commanding in Ireland will con-
tinue to dispose of the cases of recruits, who, having been
rejected on joining their regiments or depots, have been
declared unfit for the service by medical boards, in the
manner pointed out by the Circular Memorandum of the
31st May, 1842, and the proceedings and other documents
will be transmitted as heretofore to the Deputy-Adjutant-
General in Dublin, for the Lieutenant- GE informa-
tion, but that office will henceforth be relieved from all the
details of the recruiting service, except in so far as they
relate to the discipline of the officers and troops employed on
that duty.
By direction of his Grace the Commander-in-Chief,
(Signed) J. MACDONALD, Adjutant-General.
Horse Guards, Feb. 8,.1847.

Officers commanding regiments and depots will imme-
diately transmit to this department a return showing the
n•mber of boys who may have been received by their corps
respectively, from tlid various union workhouses throughout
the United Kingdom, for the purpose of being trained as
drummers or musicians, from the year 1840 inclusive, speci-
fying the dates of their enlistment, and the workhouses from
which they have been received.
By command of the Commander•in-Chief.
(Signed) J. DIACDONALD, Adjutant-General.