The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

ROYAL ENGlNEERS.—Lieutenant•Colonel R. C. Al-
derson, Assistant to Major-General Sir J. F. Burgoyne,
Inspector-General of Fortifications, has, been appointed
Commissioner of the Railway Department of the Board
of Trade, in the place of Lieutenant Colonel H. It. Bran-
deth, deceased.
Major H. Sandham, Brigade-Hajor of the Royal
Sappers and Miners, Woolwich, has also been appointed
to succeed Lieutenant- Colonel Alderson, as Assistant
to the Inspector-General of Fortifications.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—MORTALITY OF TROOPS IN
CHINA .—The Carnatic troop-ship landed at the Royal
Arsenal at Woolwich, on Saturday last, the remains of
Major Greenwood's company of Royal Artillery tBth
Battalion), under the command of Lieutenant E. J.
Paterson, the only officer who returned with the troops.
The company, which when it left Woolwich in November,
1841, amounted to nearly 100 rank and file, has dwindled
down to nineteen men, the whole of the rest having
either died or been invalided. Before the Carnatic left
Hong-Kong, Lieutenant-Colonel Eyne had arrived, and
relieved Captain A. G. Hamilton, upon whom the com-
mand of the Royal Artillery in China had temporarily
devolved.
Seven gunners of the Royal Artillery, under sentence
of imprisonment for various periods, were removed from
the Royal Artillery Barracks to Fort Clarence Prison,
at Chatham, on Saturday last.
ENROLLED PENSIONERS.—His Grace the Duke of
Wellington, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, has
issued the following order in reference to the calling out
of the enrolled pensioners:—
" Horse Guards, February, 1848.

" Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 28th ult., transmitting for the in-
formation of the Commander-in-Chief, a copy of an Act
passed in the last session of Parliament, to facilitate the
calling out of enrolled pensioners for the preservation of
the public peace, together with various enclosures con-
nected with that subject, and having duly laid the same
before his Grace, I have to make the following commu-
nication thereon for the information of the Secretary
at War.
" The Commander-in-Chief will take care that the at-
tention of the general officers commanding in the several
military districts throughout the United Kingdom shall
be immediately called to the Act above alluded to, with
the view of affording every facility in their power for
carrying all the provisions thereof into effect, and the
following points of military detail will also be included
in this instruction.
" Whenever an officer of the army shall deem it is
duty to require that the enrolled pensioners shall be
called ont, he must, report his having done so immedi-
ately to the Military Secretary, for the information of
the Commander-in-Chief, as well as to his immediate
superior: and he must also report in like manner if he
shouhl be informed that the pensioners have been called
out by any other authority. The officers of the enrolled
pensioners when called out for service under the au-
thority of her Majesty, are to take rank with the
officers of the army on the particular service on which
such officers may be mutually employed in operation to-
gether, according to the dates of their several com-
missions.--I have, &c.,
(Signed) " FITZROY SOMERSET.
" To L. Sullivan, Esq., Lc."
Another circular order issued from the War-office,
and dated the 29th of February, orders that all men
discharged from the army, on permanent pensions, dur-
ing the past year, shall be examined by the staff officers
of pensioners, with a view of adding; to the enrolled force
as many as may be capable of bearing arms. In some
cases, the number thus added will enable the staff officers
to form addittional companies; but in either cases (as at
Woolwich), there will merely be ci addition to the
strength of the existing companies.

LADYERTISE3IBNT.3—Teas and Coffees delivered, car-
riage free, at the wholesale prices, isy which mesas, fami-
lies residing in the country. whose consumption is large,
ar• enabled to purchase on the first market terms, thereby
saving all the intermediate profits of retail establish-
ments. Samples and a list of prices forwarded free, on
application by post. References or cash is expected with
first order. Maisell and Co., wholesale tea-dealers, 2,
Backlersbury, Cheapsisle.
Wonson, AlaucK 7.—Another batch of those un-
sightly houses which have so long been permitted to block
up the western front of Windsor Castle were sold by
auction last week by order of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests, and are now in course of r• move].
This will clear the west front of the Castle from the
Garter Tower to below the old Clock 'rower, heretofore
called Julius Cmsar's Tower, and so far clear the way
for the magnificent improvement projected by the late
Sir Jeffery Wyattville, under the auspices of George
IV., viz., a continuation of the North Terrace all round
the western front to the Salisbury Tower, with a range
of modern shops and a colonade beneath the terrace.