The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-21 00:00:00

T EIE ARMY.

DISCUARGI OF SOLDIERS.

War-oftieP "
, os , .04ov. 17. 1846.
Sir,—The arrange t _ one settlements with sol-
:0 from the army and the allow-
ancesn such occasion, having been under
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...ave the honour to signify to you her
Majesty's pleasure that in every ease of the discharge of
a saiier in Great Britain or Ireland, whether with or
without pension or gratuity, except when he is dis-
charged by purchase, or for bad conduct, the following
rules shall be observed from and after the Ist of January,
1847, instead of those hitherto applicable, viz. :
Rule 1. The discharged soldier, whatsoever shall
have been his rank or the rate of his pay at the time of
his discharge, shall receive an allowance of one shilling
per diem for twenty days from the date of his discharge,
and if he shall have necessarily attended at Kilmainham
for the completion there of his discharge, this allowance
shall be extended to twenty-five days ; and in case the
soldier shall be entitled to a higher rate of pension than
one shilling a day, he shall receive the difference be-
tween the allowance of one shilling and his rate of pen-
sion for the twenty or twenty-five days respectively.
Rule 2. He shall also be provided at the public ex-
pense with a conveyance to his home, or intended place
of residence, if not more distant than the place of his
original enlistment, by steam-vessel or railway, as far
as either shall be available and least expensive, and
when not available, by such other suitable means as
shall be found, at a cost not exceeding railway fare.
Rule 3. If any part of the distance shall be necessarily
travelled on foot, and the pension of the discharged
soldier shall not exceed Is. a day, he shall re-
ceive for every complete ten miles, and the pro-
portion over, if not less than five miles of such
part of the distance, an allowance of 6d.; or if

his pension exceed ls., anti be less than Is. Gd. a
day, the difference between these rates. But no allow-
ance for distance travelled on foot shall be issued to
a discharged soldier whose pension amounts to ls. Gd. a
day.
Rule 4. The stoppage to be made from the discharged
soldier for rations when actually supplied to him on
board any steamer or other vessel in proceeding to his
home or intended place of residence, shall be 6d. a day.
Rule 5. For the discharged soldier's wife and children,
conveyance at the public expense shall also be provided
for the same distance, and in the same manner as for
himself, as stated in rule No. 2. And for such distance
as shall be necessarily travelled on foot, as adverted to
in rule No. 3, an allowance of lid. a mile shall be issued
for the wife, and Id. per mile for each child not above
14 years of age.
Rule 6. If the discharged soldier, with his wife and
children, shall be unavoidably detained at any port
waiting for a passage by steam or other vessel to proceed
to his home or intended place of residence, an allowance
of 10d. per day for the period of such detention, except
for the day of arrival and that of embarkation, shall be
issued for the wife, and 6d. a day for each child not
above 14 years of age. And when rations in kind at the
public expense shall not be supplied on such passage, an
allowance of 6d. per day for the probable period of the
passage shall be issued for the wife, and 3d. a day for
each child not above 14 years of age.
I have to add that appropriate forms for charging
these allowances will be supplied from this office upon
requisition in the usual course.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant.
F. MAULE.

TILE NEW SYSTEM OF PRISON DISCIPLINE.
War•offiice, Nov. 17, 1846.

Sir,—lt being very desirable to ascertain the effect
produced by the new system of prison discipline, as
adopted in the military prisons, on the general character
and conduct of soldiers who have been confined therein,
I am directed to request that you will cause the enclosed
forms of return to be filled up in duplicate, and trans-
mitted to this office for the half-) ears to 30th of June
and 31st of December, 1845, and to 30th of June, 1846;
and that you will in future cause similar returns to be
made up and forwarded to 30th June and 31st December
in each year.
These returns should in future be completed and sent
off at the expiration of three months after the above half-
yearly periods, so as to allow of sufficient time to enable
you to form a judgment of the character and conduct of
men who may have been released from confinement in a
military prison on or shortly prior only to the 30th of
June or 31st of December.

When a regiment is ordered to proceed abroad, the
return for the previous half-year should, if possible, be
transmitted prior to its embarkation, and a return for
the whole regiment should be forwarded for the broken
period to the date of separation of the service companies
and depot by the former, at the expiration of three
months from such date.

The depot companies will, of course, render a separate
return from the date of their separation from the service
companies to the end of the half.)ear, and continue
similar returns half-yearly.
The service companies of a regiment arriving at a
foreign station where a military prison is established,
and set apart as such by the Secretary-at-War, under
the 28th section of the Mutiny Act, will render similar
returns for the half-yearly periods subsequent to its
arrival at such station, but not otherwise.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Year most obedient humble servant,
L. SULLIVAN.

HEALTH OF SOLDIERS IN MILITARY
PRISONS.

War-Office, Nov. 17, 1846

Sir,—lt having been represented to the Secretary at
War that when a prisoner is committed to a military
prison with appearances of recent medical treatment,
or symptoms of being affected in his mind, the medi-
cal officer in attendance on the prison, unless fur-
nished with full information on the subject, has fre-
quently much difficulty in deciding on the cause of
the former or the truth of the latter, and whether
the man is malingering or not ; and he is therefore
obliged to depend for the discovery of the facts on his own
tact and judgment, or on the prisoner's own statement of
his case. lam directed, therefore, to request, in order
to avoid the risk of injuring by hard labour a prisoner
debilitated by recent illness previously to his commit-
ment, and to defeat on the other hand imposition on the
part of malingerers, that you will direct the medical
officers of the regiment under your command to transmit
to the medical officer of the prison, in all such instances,
a special medical report of the prisoner's case, in addi-
tion to any remarks that he may think proper to append
to his certificate in the body of the form of commitment.
I am further to acquaint you that when it is found ne
cessary to remove soldiers confined in a military prison
before the time stated in their commitment as the ter-
mination of their imprisonment, a short notice of the in-
tended removal should be transmitted to the governor or
officer in charge of the prison, by post) or otherwise, in
order that the medical officer of the prison may have
due intimation of the prisoner's removal, and time for
inspecting them medically previously to the arrival of
the escort.—l have the honour to be, &c.,
L. SULLIVAN.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 14th day of November, 1846.
ISSUE DEPARMENT.

Notes issued. •.. • •• 28,246,295

Government debt .• 11,015,100
Other securities .. 2,934,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,739,817
Silver bullioa .. •• .. 2,506,458

£28,246,295

£ 28,246,295
IL. MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
•, 1846.
EPARTMEN T. -

Dated the 15th day of Novem'

BANKING D.
Proprietors' capital . • 14,553,000
Rest •.• • • •
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) • • 9,777,777
Other deposits • • • • 7,995,422
Seven day and other
bills •••• • • • • •••• 972,112

Government securt-

ties (including Dead
Weight A nnuity) .. 12,808,119
Other securities •• • 12,525,906
Notes •••• • • • • ...... ,836,335
Gold and silver coln• • 602,45$

£33,772,81T
,r. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 19th day of November, 1846.

X 33,772,1517

CETLON.—APPEARANCE OF THE CHOLERA.—By
letters from Ceylon of the 9th of September, it iippears
that the cholera was rife at Kandy. Several soldiers of
the 95th Regiment had died of the disorder. The sittings
of the Supreme Court had been removed from Kandy to
Colombo, on account of the sickness.—The Lancet.
THE TROOPS IN SINDE.—The following is an ex-
tract of a letter just received from John Level!, a private
in the Ist battalion of the 60th Royal Rifles, by his
friends residing at Oakley-green, near Windsor, dated
" Camp, Kurrachee, Lower Sinde, September 24, 1846 :"
—" This is one of the most unhealthy stations in India.
First, there is nothing but a barren
desert for hundreds
of miles around us ; and, secondly, it is visited with the
very worst of diseases, such as dysentery, jaundice, liver
complaints, brain fever, and several others equally dan-
gerous to Europeans. We have also been visited with the
true Asiatic cholera, the most fatal disease of all others.
That disease visited us with dreadful 'violence in June
last. It broke out in the camp on the 15th of June, and
took from the 86th Regiment of the Line about 200 men,
from the Bombay Fusileers 150 men, and from our
regiment, the most fortunate in the camp, 83 men, in
only five days. On the 15th we buried 18 men in one
large grave we dug for them, and on the following day
27 of my comrades and one child in another large pit.
Coffins could not be provided,' and the immediate burying
of the bodies was indispensable. They were, therefore,
sown up in canvass, and laid in one grave, packed together
like herrings in a barrel. Lime was then strewn over
them, to consume the remains, and to keep off infection.
The number of the natives who died during the time the
cholera raged was estimated at 6,000 ; but no accurate
accounts can be given, as they fled from their homes at
the first outbreak to the mountains, and those who sur-
vived did not return until the expiration of upwards of
six weeks afterwards, when all farther danger was sup-
posed to be over. The scene, during the raging of the
cholera, was awful in the extreme. Since we have been
in the country we have lost in our regiment, 1 officer, 122
men, 22 women, and 47 children. Lieutenant-Colonel
Marsham is now in command of the battalion."
SEVERN NAPIG4TION.—It is expected that in the
course of a fortnight the works will, be so far completed
as that a clear six feet channel will be open from Stour-
port to Gloucester. The company will 3 then be enc!.•
powered to exact tolls. The engineeers express their
belief that the present number of locks and weirs will be
sufficient, and that the required cl.,,pth may at all times
be maintained by dredging.— Worcester Journal.
Sir Benjamin Brodie had an interview yesterday, with
Sir George Grey, at the Home-office.
Colonel Mitchell had an interview, yesterday, with
‘Earl OM, at the Colonial-office.