The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-22 00:00:00

JVAVAL ;lAD 3111,17ARY LN2ELLIGENCE.

A short time since raruiting for regiments cm
Indian service was ordered to be stopped; but yes-
terday an order was r‘caced nt Chatbam garrison
frcm the horse Guards directing recruiting to be
opened anew for all Indian regimmts. -Advantage
is taken of the present lack of employment for
labouring men to raise the standard of height, and

the recruits to be taken for these regiments must
be sft. Bin. in height, instead of the former bft.
6in. The depots of Indian regiments at Chatham
are-Ist and 2d battalion of the Ist Regiment, Ist
battalion 23, Ist battalion 3d, Ist battalion Bth,
Ist battalion llth, 38th, 39th, 45th, 108th, and
109th Regiments.

A revised Admiralty circular, which has just been
issued, states that the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty have decided-1, to increase the time
during which naval cadets will be under training,
part of such time being spent in sea-going training
ships, and the whole period being considered one of
probation ; 2, to introduce the system• of limited
competition for naval cadetship; and 3, still further
to reduce the number of naval cadets annually
entered. The next examination for naval cadet-
ships will be held, under the direction of the Ad-
miralty Director of Education, on the third Wed-
nesday in June and on the last Wednesday in
November, but the appointments as cadets of the
successful candidates will date from July 15 or
January 15.

LONDON GAZETTE —Last Evening.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 20.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have received from the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs copies of two Decrees issued
by the French Government respecting the temporary im-
portation of cast iron and cotton tissues.
The following are the Articles of these Decrees, which
were published on 9th January instant.
I.—ART. 1. Cast iron shall continue to be admitted
under the system of temporary admissions, which was in-
stituted by the decree of 15th February, 1862. Cast pig
iron, however, can only be imported under this system of
manufacture of cast wawa.
ART. 2. Iron and other metals enumerates in Art. 1 of
the Decree of 15th February, 1862, must be conveyed to
the factories authorised to wake use of them. The Cus-
tom-house officers will take such steps as are neces-
sary to ensure the arrival of these prOducts at at their
destination.

Art. 3. Charcoal-iron cannot be represented upon re-
exportation byan equivalent of articles manufactured from
coke-iron.

Art. 4. The credit account allowed on importation will
only be opened at the recommendation of the Consulting
Committee of Arts and Manufactures, charged with the
duty of examining into the relation which exist between
the material imported and the products exported.
ART. 5. All the provisions of the Decree of 15th Feb-
ruary, 1562, which are not cpposed to the present Decree
are to remain in force.

ART. 6. The importation credit accounts already opened
will remain in force for six months, from the date of the
present Decree, under the ':ionditions laid down in the fore-
going Articles.
lI.—ART. 1. Four months from the date of the present
Decree, tissues cf cotton, pure or mixed, shall cease to be
admitted under the system of temporary admissions.