The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-10 00:00:00

TEE ARMY.

The mounted batteries of Royal Artillery sta-
tioned at Hilsea Barracks, near Portsmouth, were
officially inspected yesterday by Major-Gen. Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., commanding South-West District,
and Col. Hugh Dunlop, C. 8., commanding the
Royal Artillery in the South-West District.
The route for the A troop of the Royal Engineer
Train, under the eommand of Capt. Duff, has been
received, and the men and horses will at once com-
mence their march from Aldershot Camp to Bromp-
ton Barracks, Chatham, to go into winter quarters.
Lieut.-Col. Baker, of the 10th Hussars, three
troops of which regiment are now lying at Norwich,
has just returned from the scene of hostilities in Italy.
Three other troops of the 10th Hussars are also lying
at Ipswich; and on Friday both divisions were in-
spected by Major-Gen. Lawrenson, Inspector-
General of Cavalry.
Lieut.-Colonel James Spence, C. 8., late of her
Majesty's 31st Regiment, who died at Bath on
Monday last, entered the army at an early age,
and had seen much sei vice. He was present
with his regiment in the action of Stuola, near
Genoa, on the 13th of April, 1814, and in the subse-
quent attacks upon the city of Genoa until its sur-
render, and also at the surrender of Corsica in the
same year. In the year 1815 he served with the
army in Naples. In 1825 he was present at the
burning of the ship Kent, in the Bay of Biscay, on
the Ist of March. He commanded the 31st Regi-
ment throughout the campaign on the Sutlej, for
which he received the war medal and three clasps ;
at the battles of Moodkee (soon after its commence-
ment), Ferozeshah (for which he was appointed a
Companion of the Bath), Buddiwal, and Aliwal,
and the Ist Brigade of Sir Harry Smith's division
at the battle of Sobraon, and was one of only five
officers out of 30 who escaped being wornded in all
these actions. At Ferozeshah and at Sobraon he
had his horse shot under him.
The following General Order, relative to the
granting of leave of absence to officers and fur-
loughs to feoldiers has just been issued from the
Horse Guards by direction of the Duke of Cam-
bridge :
" His Royal Highness the General Command-
ing-in-Chief is pleased to approve of general offi-
cers commanding districts and divisions in Great
Britain, and officers commanding in garrisons not
included in any military district, granting leave of
absence ;to officers, and furloughs to non-commis-
sioned officers and soldiers, under the following re-
gulations and restrictions, viz.:—
" 1. Leave of absence granted under this order
to officers may commence as soon as the half-yearly
inspection shall have :been made. Furloughs
granted to non-commissioned officers and soldiers
may commence from the Ist of the next month.
"2. These indulgences are to terminate on the
10th of March next, when, agreeably to her Ma-
jesty's regulations, all officers and soldiers are to be
present with their respective regiments and depots:
" 3. One field officer, one half of the captains, and
one half of the subaltern officers are always to be
present.
"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 re-
ceived her Majesty's special permission, according
to the regulation on that head.
" 5. Officers employed on the recruiting service
or upon the staff of the army are not to be included
in the number hereby fixed for the constant duty
of the regiment or depot.
" 6. The applications for leave for regimental
paymasters and medical officers are to continue to
be made in the mode prescribed in the regulations
and orders for the army.
" 7. In cases of short leave of absence being re-
quested by adjutants, ridingmasters,quarter masters,
or veterinary surgeons of regiments it will be ne-
cessary that a special report be made as to the mode
in which their duties are to be performed during
their absence, and that the commanding officer is
satisfied.

"8. The proportion of non-commissioned officers,
trumpeters, drummers, and private men to whom
furloughs may be granted is not to exceed 20 per
battery of Horse and Field Artillery, or 10 per
troop battery of garrison Artillery or company.
Commanding officers of regiments returning from
India flay exercise a liberal discretion in granting
furloughs to soldiers who come home with their
corps.

.When corps
military distare not stationed in garrisons or
liberty to use their
officers commanding are at
of leave discretion in granting the in-
dulgencerestrietions to the of absence under the foregoing
command, reporting officers and soldiers under their
g the same to the Adjutant-Ge-
neral.
His Royal Highnes expects that the general
and other officers who aresm powered to grant leave
of absence under the provisionsgare of this order will
strictly confine tat
officers herein specihfied. tit to the proportion of
" By command of his Royal
General Commandln Highness the
Chief,
"JAMES YORKE SCARLETgT.,iAndjt.-Gen."
The following Circular Memorandum to the army,
dated " Oet. 2,1860," has been issued from the Horse
Guards by order of the Duke of Cambridge :
" His Roy
al Highness the G2neral Commanding-
in-Chief notifies, for the information
of the army with reference to the exemption from
the payment of toll, that it appears by a communi-
cation received from the War-office, that the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department has been
requested to cause the magistrates generally to be
informed that the meaning and intention of the
words on duty,' introduced in the 71st clause of
the Mutiny Act, are to exempt officers driving or
riding, whether in private vehicles or not, if on duty.
Also, that in considering the Mutiny Act for the
ensuing year, steps will be taken to remove all
ambiguity in the clause.
" By command,
" JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjf.-Gen."

The following revised regulations for the issue of
allowances, &c., to men of the Royal Marines on
their discharge from the service has just been issued
from the Admiralty
1. Every Marine on his discharge from the
service shall receive an allowance of ls. per day for
20 days from the date of his discharge, and in case j be shall be extitled t°% higher rate of pension than

ls. per day he shall receive the difference added to
his allowance.

" 2. The discharged Marine shall be provided
with conveyance to his home if not m e distant
than his original place of enlistment Ly vessel or
railway, or other suitable means as sh I be found
at a cost not exceeding railway fare. If any part
of the distance shall be necessarily travelled on foot,
and the pension of the discharged man shall not
exeeed Is. a day, he shall receive for every com-
plete 10 miles, and also for the proportion over, if
not less than five miles of such part of the distance,
an allowance of 6d., or, if his pension exceed ls.
and be less than ls. 6d. a day, the'difference be-
tween those rates; but no allowance for distances
travelled on foot shall be issued to a discharged ma-
rine whose pension amounts to ls, 6d. a day. And
men who volunteer from the militia are entitled to
the regulated allowances to themselves.and families
to the place of their enrolment.
" 3. The stoppage to be made from a discharged
marine for his rations supplied at the public ex-
pense, when proceeding to his home on board a
vessel otherwise, shall be 6d. a day.
" 4. The discharged marine's wife and children
shall be provided with conveyance in the same man-
ner as himself, and for any distances travelled by
them (necessarily) on foot an allowance of lid. per
mile shall be made to the wife, and ld. per mile for
each child not above 14 years of age.
" 5. When detained at any port waiting for pas-
sage by steam or other vessel, an allowance of 10d.
a day for the period of such detention excepting the
days of arrival and embarkation, shall be allowed
to the wife, and 6d. a day for each child not above
14 years of age. Rations, when not supplied in
kind on the passage, shall be allowed at the rate of
6d. a day to the wife, and 3d. each child not above
14 years of age, for the probable period of the pas-
sage.

6. In order that a marine discharged with igno-
miny or for bad conduct shall not become burden-
some to the parish in which he is discharged, an
allowance to convey him to his intended residence,
or place of enlistment if not more distant, shall be
issued not exceeding ld. a mile, but in no case
shall the money be paid to the man himself when a
conveyance for him can be provided.
" 7. A recruit, if rejected on final examination,
shall receive an allowance to carry him back to the
place of his enlistment, viz., ls. for every 10 miles,
and for a surplus of five miles or mile. .
"8. If in any case the marine prefers to remain
at the place of his discharge, he is not entitled to
the allowances for travelling or passage.
" 9. A marine who after discharge ro-enters the
serNice is entitled when again discharged to allow-
ance to the place of his re-enlistment only."

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEMNG, OCTOBER 10, /860.