The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-15 00:00:00

WEYIII LL FAIR.

This extensive annual mart for the sale of
sheep and hops was most fully attended on Saturday last, and
the late advanced prices on sheep of every description fully
maintained, and may be quoted at from Os. to 10s. per head
over and above the value of last year. Notwithstanding the un-
favourable state of the weather, so anxious were the purchasers,
that by 0 o'clock in the morning the best lots were all sold, and
very early in the afternoon the business was convicted.
Above 4,000 pockets of hops were pitched, and those sold on
Wednesday fully realized the expectations of the growers....
Fine samples of Farnham produced 131. 135., and country hops
may be quoted at 71. 7s. to 101.
The Sussex hops were much in demand at advanced prices,
and the growers in that county may congratulate themselves
that the prejudices against their production in the west of Eng-
land is fast dying away, and by the care that is now taken in
the picking, drying, and general quality, the aavaples are much
increased in value.

The police regulations of this 1:':;1, are much better managed
thanlormerly, and the 'gangs of pickpockets who plundered
with impunity at Magdalen Hill Fair in August last, did not
here thew their faces. The busiueas of the Hop Fair was much
impeded by the.dreadfal state of the road In the Country-row ;
in many places it was impassable from the mud : and it is
much to be regretted that the respectable individual to whom the
property belongs, does not extend his improvement in this
respect, as well as to the quality of the liquids supplied, and
to the various extensive refreshment-booths which were univer-
sally mold:tined of!

AWUFUL VISITATION.--OR Sunday evening,
Mr. Robert Nosely, an inhabitant of Great Glenn, after eating
his supper, was sitting in a friendly chat with his daughter ante
her husband, Mr. Thomas Hill, who resides at Bloomsgrove,
in the pariah of Radford, when Mr. Hill, perceiving the voice
of his father-in-law materiallyy altered, rose from his chair, and
took hold of him ; he found him totally deprived of speech and
animation, and life was extinct in the short space of five mi.
nutes --(Nottingham netierv.)
The New Exchange at Paris is to be opened
with great pomp and ceremony on the 4th of
the ensuing uionth,being ST. CII ARLES% Day (the
name-day of the King.) Other accounts, how-
ever, say the thing is impossible, as it will yet
require several months to complete the building.

THE ARMY.

GENERAL ORDER.

Horse Guards, Oct. 12, 1024.
The COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF is pleased to approve of Ge-
neral Officers commanding Districts in Great Britain granting
leave of absence to Officers, and Furloughs to Non-commis-
sioned and Soldiers, under the following limitations and restric-
tions, viz :
1. The Leaves of Absence, granted tinder this order to Offi-
cers, may commence as soon as the balf.yearly inspections shall
have been made : —The Furloughs granted to non-commission-
ed officers and soldiers may commence from the 25th of the pre-
sent month.
2. These indulgences are to terminate on the 10th of March
next, when, in conformity to his Majesty's regulations, all
officers and men are to be present with their respective Regi-
ments. _

3. One Field Officer, one half of the Captains, and one half
-of the Subaltern Officers, are always to be present with their
Regiments.
4. No Officer (except in the performance of duty, or for the
purpose of joining his regiment) is to quit the United Kingdom,
without having first received his Majesty's special permission.
L. The Officers employed on the Recruiting Service, or upon
the Stall of the Army, are not to he included in the number
hereby fixed for the constant duty of the Regiment or Battalion.
0. The applications for leave for the Regimental Paymasters,
and Medical Officers, are to continue to be made in the mode
prescribed in page 72 and 73, of the General Regulations of
the Army.
7. In case of short leaves of absence being requested by Ad-
jutants, Riding-Masters, Quarter-Masters, or Veterinary Sur-
geons of Regiments, it will be necessary that a special report
should be made as to the mode in which their duties are to be
performed during their absence.
H. The proportion of non-commissioned officers, trumpeters,
drumnutd, and private men, to whom furloughs may be grant.
ed, is nut to exceed 10 per troop or company.
When regiments or battalions are not stationed in garrisons
or in military districts the officers commanding are at liberty
to use their discretion In granting the indulgence of leave of
absence, under the foregoing restrictions, to the officers and men
under their command.
This order does not apply to the officers and men doing duty
at the depots of regiments on foreign service.
By command of his Royal highness the Commander-in-Chief,
HENRY TORRENS, Adjutant-General.

EXTRACT FROM TIM GENERAL REGULATIONS OF THE
ARMY, REGARDING THE DISCHARGE OF SOLDIERS ON

PAYMENT OF A SPECIFIC SUM OF MONEY.

When Commanding Officers of Regiments may, from par-
ticular circumstances, feel themselves justified in recommend-
ing soldiers for discharge, at their own request, or at the re-
quest of their friends, the sum of twenty pounds shall be paid
by each, inste.id of procuring substitutes.
The following regulations are to be observed in transmitting,
for the Commander-in-Chief's consideration, the applications
on this subject, and in regard to the appropriation of the money
in the public accounts, viz.:-
1. All applications for the discharge of soldiers on payment
of the regulated sum are (in conformity to the General Regu-
lations of the Army) to be made through the Commanding
Officers of their respective Regiments : when Regiments are
serving in Ireland, or on foreign stations, the applications are
to be forwarded through the General Officers Commanding.
t. In transmitting these applications to the Adjutant-Gene-
ral, for the Commander-in-Chief's decision, Commanding
Officers are to state, in the margin of their letters, the age,
height, and services of the soldier, for whom the application is
made, and the particular grounds upon which they are induced
to recommend that the request may be complied with.
3. No money is to be paid, or received, until the authority
of the Commander-in-Chief shall have been obtained for the
discharge being granted.
4. The sum received on account of the discharge of a soldier,
is to be deducted in the account in which his pay is last charged,
and the Conemander-in-Chiers authority for the discharge is to
be annexed.

6. The usual allowance granted to carry soldiers and their
families home, on being discharged, is not to be charged in the
cases of soldiers discharged under these regulations.
t pounds, the
IL When soldiers are authorised to be discharged from Regi.
ments abroad, on payment of the sum of tweay
expense of their passage is also to be defrayed by themselves,
or by their friends.
7. In filling up the discharges of soldiers who may be dis-
charged under these Regulations, the date of the Commander-
in-Chief's authority is to be stated in the 3:1 Certificate pre-
scribed in the established Fonts of Discharge thus :-
3d. That by authority of the Commander-in-Chief,
Authority dated
1
he Is hereby discharged in con-
and Cause of sequence .of having paid the regulated sum of
Discharge. Twenty Pounds.
H. In every case in which the Commander-in-Chief's autho-
rity
the sum of 201., the Commanding Officer is to report to the Ad-
is given for the discharge of a soldier on the payment of
jutant-General the date on which the sum is paid, to whom it
is paid (that is, Regimental Agent or Paymaster), and the date
of the discharge of the soldier, in order that a communication
may be made to the Secretary at War.
The intention of the Commander-in-Chief in establishing
these Regulations, is to prevent the interference of unautho.
rised persons in the recruiting of the army, as well as for the
accommodation of soldiers, whose good conduct entitles them
to consideration, and whose peculiar circumstances give them
grounds for wishing to be released from their military en.
gagements.