The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-11 00:00:00

THE ARM'.

THE INDIAN ARMY.: ITS NEW ORGANIZATION.
fly the present organization of the Indian Arm every to regiments have but one Colonel, and each regimenty Hof infantry
is composed of two battalions, commanded by one Colonel.
By the new organization, each regiment of cavalry will have
PA own Colonel, and each regiment of infantry will be divided
into two regiments, with a Colonel to each. By this arrange.
went .1;., Lieutenant-Colonels upon the Bengal Eatablisiunnt
will obtain reghnents, viz, : four additional ones to the cavalry:
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inftantro the infantry ; and four to the four irregular regiments of
y.
NEW ORGANIZATION OF .TriE BENGAL AII3IV.
We understand orders have been sent out to the Governor,
General of India to the following effeet :—The COmpany'a
Army upon the 'Bengal Establishment is to consist of eight
regiments of light Native cavalry, 3 brigades of horse artillery,
battalions of feat
artillery, 1 corps of artillery plandatirs, I
corps of engineers, 2 regiments of European Infantry, mid
61 regiments of Native infantry, including four new regiments-
Each regiment of cavalry is to be officered by one Colonel,
1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 illaior, .Captains, 10 Lientena::ts,
and l Cornets. Each brigade 'of Horse Artillery, each bat.
taiion of Foot Artillery, and. the corps of Golandaurs, it to
have the same number and rank of European ofnesers as a
regiment of cavalry. Tlie Engineer Corps to have 2 Colonels,
2 Lieutenant-Colonels, 2 Majors, Itlfjaptitins, 20'Lleutenants,
and 10 Ensigns. Each regiment of European or Native. In_
fanny is to have same number and rank of officers as a cavalry.
Ensigla prO Cornett.
Those Colonels who are an the senior list, and' those who
now hold regiments. are to continue in the erjeyinent of the
rim off-reckonings of two cern* as at riresent. The. Cole., nels and Lieutenant-Colonels, Commandants of flegnewioinut,
are to succeed to oil-reckonings as vacancies occur among, the
present Colonels of Regiments; every such vacaney will occa-
sion the succession Of two of the steaor new 'Colonels to a half
or single share each ; and then Lieut.-Colonels of Regiments,
who now stand first for promotion, and may succeed to half
shares within two years from the date of this,arrangement,
to receive from the Company an equivalent te.the difference bet-
tweet) full and half shares.
Casualties occurring among the Ge.nerel,Oilicers on the Re-
tired off-reckonings Fund List, rind among those who are pe yr
on, the Senior List, are not to Cause preinotion after the iiPw ar-
rangement has been carried into. execution. Those two Itis:s
will become extinct on the demise of all the CI enera.l Otlicera
enrolled thereon.
All Colonels of regiments, and Lientenrinr.Coloreli Cont..
mandant, not entitled to off.rockenings, will be permitted to
come to Europe, and to remain there on the fuli-par of Co-
lonel, succeeding to ofltreckonings in their turn: and those
who chose to remain in India will he allowed Colonel's` pay,
Nitta, and other fixed allowances, until they succeed to.otf-
reckonings.
Every Officer in the actual command or a regiment doing
Iduty with it, whatever rank be holds, is to receive ,inkl rupee s
the month, in addition to his other allowances, during .th e
period of his command.
Those officers who are absent on furlough to Europe, 'and who hive been Ant years at home, are to return. rerthwith to
the Presidency to which they belong, or, in faildre.thereof, to
foifelt all claims to promotion and off-reekenings.
The ar4ingement is to take place from the date a its pro-
Mulgation in General Orders in India, and the illatleaA
Bombay armies are to be reformed on the same principle as the
above. Each battalion' to constitute a regiment.

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kIERCANTILI4I SHIPPING.

DEAF, DEC. 10.—Wind W.--Came down from the River
and remain, the Lady Holland, Towel; Eclipse, Hearn; and
Dorothy, Forster, for Jamaica.
Pon'remount, DEC. 10..:,--Wind S.S.lV.:—.Arrived the
Oillmore, from the Downs for the Cape of Good Hope,
' anti is come into harbour to lighten and reran., having sprunga-leak.
Pt.YMoIJTn, Rec. 9..—Wind IV.N.lV.—Arrived and
Aailed again the Sovereign, Sisk, for Jamaica: OW the Port
the Prince (korge, London, Louisa, Retrench, anti !lope, rpm
London, for the West Indies.
FALstou,Txt, Mc. .—Wind N:---Sailed the Adrian,
Gordon, for Van Biomes Land.

The Neptune, Petrie, from Sunderland, was wrecked the •Itli
inst. near jossiemouth t crew saved.
The Good-Intent, 111`Kenzie, from Wick to Dorchester,
sunk off' the Island of Gromsay the Ist inst.
The Shamrock, Gowen, from Liverpool to Belfast, was
driven on shore on Ramsay flay; cargo eischarging in a
damaged state.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
nouse, when the following Captains were sworn into the cam-
mind of their respective ships, viz.,—Capt. John Barnet So.
theby, of the London' for St. Helena, Bombay, and China ;
Capt. Thos. Larkins,MarquisCaroden,for Bombay And C4inaz
Capt. James Head; Canning, and Capt. Peter Cameron, Rail
.of Belcarras for Bengal and China.

FEMALE INTItEPIDITY.—On Tuesday evenitisr,
between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a young lady, of
respectable appearance and . manners, was accosted at the
lower end of l'arliament-street,- Westminetet, by an ill-look-
ing fellow in sailor's apparel, who importuned her in rough language for charitable relict. She . eesured him that she
had no money to give away, and desired Alit he might be
gone about his business, or she should be compelled to charge
him on the watch. Seeing the coast clear, the fellow seised
a smell work-basket which was suspended from her arm, and
made oil' along by the House of Cotumons in the directicii of
the street leading to the Millbank ; but Just as he was turn-
ing the corner to the House of Lords, his foot came. in con-
tact with a large stone, and.lie _was thrown against the, ofe-
ment with great violence. The lady, who wail pretty closely.
at his heels, came tip before he had time to rise, and. 11011 ;!i at
down, notwithstanding his struggleti, antil her erica of " "
&c., fortunately brought two gentlemen to her -assistant..
the fellow was secured. and given into the custody of ,T .;
man, who all the previous t;me was not to be I,,teid.—.
Inftlie struggle., the wretch lied struck the femslo two severe
blows, one of which produced a coesiderable discharge of blood
from the stomach. The young woman ati.ted that she been tnaking some trifling purchases at a shop in the Btrand,
where she received change for a sovereign, and on leavieg
the shop, remembered having seen a man peeping throb; It
the window, whose appearance was answerable to that of the
prisoner's, and she therefore toncluded that he had NMI her
receive the money; and being. placed in the basket, that he bed
formed the protect of running away with it, if oportitesey
presented. The uniiequentedeureet through which she had to
pass, and her being without a protector, were most favourable
to such intention ; and there is no doubt that the mendicant's
character wait assumed for that purpose. Both gentienitin,
having escorted the holy to her abode promised to appear the
following morning (yesterday) at Union-hall tto
give evidence, in the event of any further proceedings Lein;
taken. We learned, however, that name entreaties were Mille
by the , delinquent's relatives on him behalf before the (We' was
called on, and the lady, who had fortitude enough to grapple
with and detain an Athletic robber, had the humanity tliolveyer
ill-bestowed) to abandon his proeecution.

REPRUSENTATITE BOUlielit En, De-
puty Clerk of the Crown and Ilanaper, 4;ave
notice in the Dublin Gazette of Saturday last,
Pith instant, 66 that the 'tight Hen. CHARtVB
ViSCOUrit GOHT bus been chosen to be the Pepe
to sit and vote on the part of Ireland, in the
/louse of Lords of the United Kingdom, in the
room of RICUARD Viscount PoweascounT, de-
ceased."
There was a sharp frost yesterday morning,.
The basin in the Green Park was frozen over,
and the ice in some parts was double the thick.
ness of a crown piece, but in others it was not
thicker titan half.a,crown. About noon, the
wind having changed to the westward, a thaw
took place, and by two o'clock three-fourths-et
the sheet of ice bad disappeared.

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Orders have just be---
en issued to the Recruiting
Departments to employ their Staff in the raising
of Recruits, and the regulation which has been
in force since the termination of the late war, for
limiting the age at which recruits were to' be ac-
cepted to 25,has been repealed, and instructions
given for taking men as old us 30.
It is understood that Major-General Sir T. Bradford, K.C.it.
will be appointed Colonel of the 94th (now raising) Regiment
of Infantry.—Major-General Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.8., it is
also said, will be appointed Colonel of the 95th (now raising
Regiment of Foot.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers) Dee. 11.

[THE TIMES.]
We have received letters from Demerara of
the IBth October, which are chiefly remarkable
from their conveying the impression that the so-
much-talked-of insurrection in that colony has
been little more then a riot. It seems clear, at
all events, that it had no extensive ramifications.
It was Ftated, that at the commencement of the
affair by the Guiana Chronicle, that Mr. A.
Simpson had been the first to convey information
of a tumultuary spirit among the Negroes of some
particular plantations to Dr. M'Turk, their
burgher officer,' and next to have communicated
it to the Lieutenant-Governor: This turns out
not to be true. Dr. M'Turk called on the
Guiana Chronicle to contradict its assertion, and
a promise was given by the printer and publisher
that he would do so. No contradiction, how-
ever, appeared ; and in consequence a new
paper has been set on foot, called the Colonist.—
It contains Dr. M'Turk's letter, in which he
states that he had received timely notice, the pro-
gress of the riotous feeling might have been arrested
at once. The trial of Smith, the missionary, had
commenced. It is thought singular that he is tried
by a court-martial of officers of the army only,
not including any colonist ; but at the same time
the Judge-Advocate appointed to preside is the
Dutch Fiscal Ileyliger, and the charges are so
framed as to state his offence to be one against
the (Dutch) laws of the colony. The President
of the Court of Justice, having previously sat on
the trials of the Negroes, in which the question
of the revolt and rebellion or mere riot must have
been the leading question, was, in the case of the
missionary, put hors du combat.

[MORNINU
A sort of side-wind attempt has been made to
cry down the motion which is to be brought for-
ward in the Common Council of the City of Lon-
don this day, for leave to erect a monument to
the memery of Mew). We are told it would be
better to give the money which such an under-
taking would require, to his surviving relations.
'We trust that British benevolence will be ex-
tended liberally to all the unfortunate sufferers
from the restoration of tyranny in Spain ; but
why should the proposed honour to Riego inter-
fere with this ? In a great and rich country like
this, it must be the want of will,and not the want
of ability, that prevents the collection of enough
for both purposes. They are quite distinct from each
other. The one is strictly charitable ; and all who
are not utterly devoid of humanity, ought to en-
deavour to promote it according to their means,
-whatever their principles ; the other has for ob-
ject to embody, in a most striking manner, devo-
tion to the cause of Liberty, and detestation of
ryranny, at a time when the success of the latter
renders an unequivocal manifestation of principle
peculiarly necessary. No name has such claims
on the gratitude of all lovers of liberty as Riego
—no name recalls at mice such exalted devotion
to a noble cause, and such a signal violation or
justice on the part of its enemies. The fate of
Riego is a bitter reproach to the Sovereigns of
Europe, who meanly sought the blood of him
whose only fault was leniency to guilt on a Throne;
and there is not one of those who are chargeable
with his death but will feel a pungent mortili.
cation on learning that a monument to keep their
crime in perpetual remembrance has been erected.
It is the height of meanness in such a case to
calculate on a few pounds. The man who is in-
fluenced by a feeling of regard for his pelf on
such an o;:casioo, is a slave in his heart. Eng-
land is the only country in Europe where such
an honour can be paid : and shall we refuse to
avail ourselves of this distinction ? Shall the
Common Council of the City of London meanly
shrink from its duty, because it, would not be
agreeable in high places ? Their refusal to do
their duty would be placed to a lei honourable
cause than charity to Spanish sufferers.

[NEW TIMES,]
The Expresses from Paris, bringing intelli-
gence of an advance in the French Itentes on
Monday, produced yesterday morning the imme-
diate udvance on Consols from 8.5-1. to 85g.—
Spanish Bonds in that Capital had not, however,
experienced any improvement, nor were they
likely, if the reported arrival of Mr. Parish
should prove correct : it is added that this Gen-
tletam was even refused an audience by the
King of Spain, and strongly was his Majesty de-
termined to adhere to his resolution upon the
subject of the recognition or these Loans. We
have some reason to doubt whether Mr. Parish
has actually returned from his mission, althqugh
it is asserted with great confidence. It is quite
idle to suppose that the recognition of the former
Loans would be made a condition sine quo non
of concluding another. Such an arrangement
Might be very desirable in more views than one;
but It cannot be indispensable. Report states
that the Revolutionary Faction has excited some
serious disturbances at Barcelona. If so, it is
deeply to be regretted ; for the individuals who
suffered from the sanguinary cruelties of the
Constitutionalists when in power, will be but too
glad of an excuse for wreaking vengeance on
them for any new treason. The Madrid Gazette
exhibits no symptom of alarm on the part of the
Spanish Government, but speaks most positively
of the King's resolution never to recognise the
Loans of the Cortes. Spanish Bonds in conse-
queuce continue very heavy in our Market, clos-
ing yesterday at.WI.

DIORNINO Pon.]
French Papers to the 9th inst. and the Eioik
of Tuesday, arrived last night by express. The
intelligence which they contain possesses neither
interest nor importance. The little agitation
produced in the capital by the return of the
Duke of Angouleme had subsided so fast, not.
withstanding the efforts made at all the,Theatres
to keep up, or rather to create, popular enthu.
siastn by " pieces of circumstance," that even
those pieces were no longer played. They

did not survive the day of his entry, and
thus afforded a fresh proof of the little sym-
pathy which existed between the Orator in an un-
just cause and the general feelings of the people.
It would appear from a short article in the Mo-
niteur that a fresh stand was making by the
Ultras to resist the diplomatic exile of the Duke
of Belluno. The previous accounts stated him
to have yielded to a second invitation from the
King, and accepted the honour of representing
his Majesty at Vienna. It was added that he
was preparing for his departure, which would
immediately take place. Instead of setting off,
however, as it was anticipated, he has returned
to spend a few days at his estate at Menars. His
appointment to the embassy is still mentioned as
being unracalled, but his second retirement to
the country seems to imply that the arrange-.
ment made has not proved sufficiently satis-
factory to put an end to his hesitation. Some-
thing like indecision seems also to reveal itself in
the conduct of Ministers. 44 The Ordinance for'
dissolving the Chamber," justly observes the
Qnotidienne, 64 is always announced but con-
stantly deferred. The list of Presidents for the
Electoral Colleges is slowly formed. Each
name is examined, weighed, set aside, re-consi-
dered, and then marked out for ever, or else de-
finitely inscribed. With respect to the Septen-
nial plan, it Is suffered to sleep. The next
Chamber, however, will bring it out again : but
in the interim our Ministers rush from fete to
fete ; every day some new ceremony claims their
presence ; visits, dinners, compliments to make or
to receive—really the life of a Statesman is be-
come unbearable !" To find such a Paper as
the Quotidienne slily turning into ridicule the
triumphal pomp lately got up by the Ministers,
is a phenomenon which the inconsistences of
party spirit can alone explain.

[BRITISH ?REIS.]
Paris Papers to Tuesday reached our office
yesterday. The long-announced Decree of Am-
nest by Ferdinand is, it appears, to be promul-
gated on the young Queen's birth-day. Then,
the Eloile states, is to appear the great act which
is to pass an amnesty overall (ainnestier tout.) But
this act of professed oblivion will be in fact only a
new proscription, loaded with exceptions; it is,
by a species of jesuitical sophistry worthy of
the Monk who prt,pared it, filled with numerous
exceptions. It pardons only " all," in the words
of the Etoi " that, in a fatal revolution, has
" been the result of weakness) influence, error,
and example ; all that has stopped in its ca-
" reer ; all that a real repentance has been able
" to extenuate ; all that an actual return to the
46 right path has been able to repair." Here are
the fine-drawn distinctions of the confessional
monk—the different political cases of conscience,
set down and solved at once, with the perspi-
cuity of the celebraten casuist Sanchez. Saes
has been accustomed to separate mortal sins
from venial, and those of transgression from such
as were only intended ; and to allot the propor-
tional penance us an expiation to each ; and this
decree is drawn up on the same conscientious
principles as be acted on in the Confessional.
—The first project proposed in the Coun-
cil by the sanguinary Monk is said to have
been one of complete proscription. Its leading
articles were framed to drag to trial all persons
who held any office under the Constitution, and
remove to the distance of 30 leagues from Madrid
all who professed constitutional sentiments.—
The vile project is said to have been opposed by
the Minister of Justice ; and even Ferdinand, it
is added, " albeit unused to the melting mood,"
declared it too rigorous, and it lay over in conse-
quence for future discussion. The Official Gazette
of Madrid copied into its number of Dec .2, a literal
translation of the letter addressed to the Paris
Papers, some time since, on the subject of a New
Loan, by Guebhard. The Gazette de Madrid
observes, " that Guebhard's declaration must
" completely dissipate all allusion on the subject
cc of the Loans of the Cortes." " Never (this
" Paper adds), as the letter of the banker says,
44 will the Royal Government repay the money
" leat to the gaolers of Ferdinand VII. and the
44 oppressors of his people." It is now quite
clear that nothing but absolute destitution, and
he utter inability to raise any new loan without
he recognition, will ever induce Ferdinand, or
he crew by whom he is surrounded, to recognise
he loans under the Constitution.

EMORNING HERALD.]
A Paris Paper, which reached town yester-
day, contains an extract from the official Journal
of Madrid, distinctly stating that the present
Government of Spain has fully determined not to
recognize the loan, contracted by the Constitu-
tional Government. If some statements respect.
big the financial condition of Spain, now lying be-
fore us, be correct, this piece of intelligence,
even if clothed with entire authenticity, could
hardly cause any very great sensation. Of what
avail the recognition, in mere words, of a loan, if
there be no funds wherewith to pay one real
of the interest ? What difference between the re-
cognition and non-recognition of the Spanish loan,
if such be the condition of the Spanish Go.
vernment. The account to which we refer,
set forth the Public Debt of Spain at fourteen
milliards of reals—the half of which, or there-
abouts, is described as not bearing interest...—
The annual expenditure of absolute necessity is
1,2042,327,6134 reels.--Now, since the half of
the tithes, which the Cortes had detached from
the revenues of the clergy, and applied to the
payment of the interest of the public debt, has
now been restored, the receipts are brought down
to, only 300 millions—and the interest of the con-
solidated debt alone consumes the whole of the re-
venues of the State.—And again, from the above
data, it follows that if the Spanish GovernMent be-
came downright brankrupt, still the public income
would be 400 millions short of the wants of the
State. It surely should excite no surprise that
the Minister-Confessor Sam declines pledging
either his credit or his conscience by acknowledg,
ing a loan, for meeting which he is not alone
utterly, but ludicrously unprovided. The same
state of things in Spain, also removes any sur-
prise that might have been felt at the squeam.
ishuess—indeed, the indignation with which

the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange lately re-
ceived the proposition for a new Spanish Loan
for the 44 absolute King." It fully accounts for
the " liberal" horror with which they scouted it
from the market. But there is a matter of won-
der, which is, that the actual Spanish Govern-
ment, so utterly lost in credit and resources, and
so overwhelmed in debt, should still expect to find
any parties simple enough to cautract a new loan
with it. It is difficult to conceive how, under these
circumstances, such a Government as that of
King Ferdinand can go on at all. It is pretty
well known that no Government can go on with-
out money, and in no inconsiderable quantity,
but least of all, a despotic Government. Des-
potism is a luxury, and, like other luxuries, cannot
be enjoyed but a great expence. For this, Fer-
dinand seems, as we have shown, very ill-pro-
vided. One of the main causes of the revolution
in 1820 was the general stoppage of pay-
ment to the army, navy, and civil servants
of the Government. At present, these are
not only not paid, but proscribed. There
is little doubt that the soldiers of Morillo and
Ballasteros, and those that betrayed their duty
at Cadiz, expected pay and favour upon the
downfal of the Constitution. They are woe-
fully disappointed, and it is to this that the dis-
orders in the provinces, as well as the quar-
rels between the Spaniards and French at Ma.
drid and Cadiz, may be attributed. The ex-
tent of the disorder and alarm at Madrid, may
be judged from the fact, that the French Ge-
neral Bourmont has ordered all the Spanish
troops to quit Madrid. Some of the French
Journals intimate, that the destitution of the
Spanish treasury is one of the chief motives for
attempting, or at least threatening, the reconquest
of America. But such a project without money
is treated as an extravagance. Even if the Spanish
Government had money, it is said that soldiers
could not be found in Spain for the enterprize.