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REGULATIONS.

CLAUSE 1. Any person who, as a non-commissioned
officer or soldier, shall have completed the term of service
for which he was originally enlisted, not being less than
10 years in infantry, or, 12 in cavalry, artillery, or engi-
neers, or who, after 5 years' service, has been discharged
for any cause other than misconduct, without a permanent
pension, may, provided he is approved, and engages for
such service by a declaration in tho form hereto annexed,
be enrolled to serve in the Reserve Force, under the autho-
rity of the Act 22 and 23 Victoria, c. 42, for such period as
may be wanting to complete 21 years, if he originally en-
listed in the infantry, or 24 years if he enlisted in cavalry,
artillery, or engineers, reckoning two years' service in such
Reserve Force as one t.wards the attainment of these seve-
ral periods of service, provided that such person shall be
enrolled within 5 years after his discharge from the army.
2. Till ether arrangements are authorised, the persons
composing the Reserve Force shall be attached during pe-
riods of training and exercise, or when called out for the other
purposes specified in the said act, to any Infantry Regi-
ment, or depot, or to the Enrolled Pensioner Force, which-
ever may, by the.Secrotary of State for War, be considered
most convenient, and shall obey all orders of the officers or
non-commissioned officers of such Regiment, Depot, or
Enrolled Pensioner Force, while so attaced.
3. Every persoa thus enrolled shall be bound to register
his place of abode in the books of the pension district in
which he receives enrolment money, and to abide thereat,
and not remove therefrom, without giving due notice ; and
the distance of his residence is not, in any case, except by
special authority, to exceed 30 miles from the head-quar-
ters of such Pension District.

4. All persons enrolled in this Reserve Force shall be
bound to attend regularly at the hour and place of assem-
bly, when called out for training and exercise, either with
the Regiment Depot or Pensioner Force to which they may
have been attached as aforesaid, for a period not exceeding
12 days in each year, or at any time and place, when
called on for the preservation of the public peace, or during
such period as her Majesty may require their services within
the United Kingdom, in the event of invasion or immi-
nent danger thereof, or in case of war ; on all which
occasions they will be under the command of the General
Commanding-in-Chief of her Majesty's Forces, and subject
to the Articles of War.
6. All persons failing to attend on these occasions without
reasonable cause, or when they have volunteered their ser-
vices for permanent duty, or who may be convicted of any
serious misconduct or breach of discipline while so em-
ployed, or of violence or disrespect at any time towards the
officers entrusted with their payment and superintendence,
or who shall be guilty of any fraudulent statement at their
enrolment, shall, in addition to any other penalty, be liable
to dismissal from the Force, with the forfeiture wholly or
in part of the several advantages authorised by this War-
rant.

6. On the termination of the period of service for which
these men have engaged in the Reserve Force, and on the
fulfilment of the other conditions, they shall be entitled to
the same rates of pension as they would have attained by
the Warrants under which they originally enlisted, had
they continued to serve in the corps from which they were
discharged till they completed the period of 21 and 2 t years
respectively, and they shall be permitted to add to such
pension an amount equal to the good-conduct pay
of which they had been in continuous receip t
for two years immediately preceding the date of
their discharge. Such pension, however, shall in no
case exceed tenpence a day for a private, one shilling for a
corporal, or one shilling and threepence for a sergeant or
other superior non-commissioned officer; but except by
special authority no service shall be reckoned for any year
in which the person enrolled has not resided at his registered
place of abode, or has unlawfully absented himself during
any portion of the exercise for which he shall have been
called out in terms of the act above referred to.
7. All persons enrolled in the Reserve Force who may be
wounded or disabled in the execution of their duty, shall be
entitled to the same pension as, under similar circumstances
and for the like service, would have been granted in the re-
gular forces of her Majesty, and when called out on perma-
nent or continuous duty for any period exceeding three
months, the whole of such period shall be reckoned accord-
ing to the usual regulations of the service, and not at the
rate of two years for one.
8. The staff-officer of the pension district in which per-
sons have been enrolled for this Reserve Force, or such other
officers as may be appointed for that purpose, shall keep a
record of the number of days' service performed byeach per-
son in the course of the year, as ascertained either from
that officer's own knowledge, or the report of the Com-
manding officer of the regiment or depot with which such
person may have been trained, and also of the extent of his
service prior to leaving his regiment, so that he may be
enabled to report to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital
when the right to pension has been attained in each case ;
and the officer or officers by whom such person has been
trained, shall also note on a certificate to be given to him,
whether the extent of service which he was bound to per-
form up to the 31st of March in each year, has been regu-
larly completed.
0. No person enrolled in the Reserve Force shall be
compelled to servo in a grade lower than that whick he last
held in his corps, but any interval which may take place in
his service while awaiting a vacancy shall not be allowed to
reckon towards pension. In the event, however, of such
persons agreeing to serve in a lower grade till vacancies
offer, they shall be entitled to reckon such service towards
the pension of the higher grade after it has been attained.
10. The sum of £d shall be allowed annually as enrol-
ment money, which shall be issued to the persons compos-
ing the Reserve Force, in equal quarterly payments in ad-
vance on the Ist April, let July, let October, and let
January, or at the period of being called out for training, as
may be considered most expedient by the Secretary of
State for War, but before these payments, the officer by
whom they are made is to satisfy himself that each man is
possessed of one pair of boots, two shirts, two pair of socks,
and a stook, as also that all fines for misconduct or absence
during the previous training's have been settled.
11, Every person in this Reserve Force shall receive a
tunic, a pair of trowsers, and a cap, on the first and each
succeeding seventh year of his enrolment, and be entitled
to the same
rates of pay and allowances when called out
for training, exercise, or service, as are fixed for correspond-
ing ranks in the Infantry of the Line, with the addition of
such amount of g«.l-conduct pay as the enrolled man was
in receipt of at the time of his discharge.
12. While serving with a Regiment or Depot all per-
sons belonging to this Reserve Force shall be liable to the
same punishments and penalties for offences as are
Mpre-
scribed by the Mutiny Act, and Articles of War for her
Majesty's other Forces; but, when serving with the En-
rolled Pensioners, ;minor offences may be punished by the
fines and penalties authorised for that Force.
By her Majesty's command,
SIDNEY HERBERT.
do declare that I was discharged*
Regiment of
from the after a service
of years ; that I am of the age of ,• and
that, provided my services shall so long be required, I will
servo her Majesty, her heirs and suceessors, in the Reserve
Force enrolled or to be enrolled for Service within the
United Kingdom, in virtue of the Act noted in the margint,
for such a period as, reckoned at the late of two years for
one, may be required to completfia years' service.
Signature of Soldier.
Declared before met§

* Any person engaging in theneSerTe Force should, beton)
enrolment, produce his parchment certificate of discharge to
confirm these particulars, and show that he has not left his
regiment wiih a bad character.
t 22 and 23 Viet., c. 42.
Here insert 21 years, if the former service has been in
Infantry, or 24, Win Cavalry, Artillery, or Engineers.
§ A Justice of the Peace.

THE MARQUIS OF BUTE.—On the present mar-
quis attaining his majority, he will be one of the most
opulent noblemen of the British peerage, and equal to the
Westminsters, Buccleuchs, and Breadalbanes. The follow-
ing is a brief enumeration of the estates in Britain possessed
by the noble lord, and the titles under which he holds them :
—lst, in England—Estates in the counties of Essex and
Cambridge, derived through the North family; a large
estate in Bedfordshire, derived through the third Earl of
Bute, a large portion of which still remains; a large estate
in Durham, derived through the Claverings, an heiress of
which family married the last Viscount Windsor. The
collieries on this estate yield a large yearly revenue. In
Wales—His vast Glamorganshire estates, derived through
the Herberts, Earls of Pembroke, and their representatives,
the Windsors, Viscounts Windsor. In Scotland—Nearly
the whole Isle of Bute (tripled in its annual return since
the last 30 years), derived through a branch of the world-
renowned house of Stuart, hereditary sheriffs, afterwards
I Earls of Bute ; large estates in the counties of Ayr and.
Wigtown, derived through; the Crichtons, Earls of Dum-
fries, and Barons trichton, and their families, which they
by marriage represented ; also, some estates in Cumbrae.—
North. Britialx

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CHRISTCHURCH, TUESDAY.
Last evening the Earl of Malmesbury, whose
country seat, Heron-court, is near this town, and
Admiral 'Walcott, M.P. for the borough, attended
the anniversary of the Vales of Avon and Stour
Farmers' Club. .
The Earl of MALMESBUItY, responding on behalf
of " The Army," said :—" It may not be inappropri-
ate to this toast and on such an occasion as this, to
say a few words—and a very few words they shall
be—with respect to the military conduct of the,
population of this district. You will, perhaps, ecinie
of you have been surprised that when so great.o,
movement has taken place throughout great Britain
as that which has, I believe, raised 100,000 volun-
teers in this country, ready to repel any invasion
which may be made upon its shores, this town, so
near to the southern coast, and probably so much
more exposed than many others to foreign attack,
should not up to this moment have ostensibly dis-
played any of that enthusiasm which we have met
with elsewhere ; but if the public believe that we
have been entirely neglectful in this matter, that we
have been careless of our duty to our country, and
have thought it not worth while to exert ourselves
in the same way as our fellow-countrymen, they
must be told that it is only in appearance, and that
the fact is not so. (Hear, hear.) The fact is this,
having had the honour not long agesto be a member
of In r Majesty's Government, I know how anxious
her Majesty's then Government were, and I know
how anxious herMajestysspiteseet Goyernthent are,
Thai as much as possible, and especially on the
-coaiits'of England, these volunteer forces should be
formed of artillery ; and I was desired by members
of her Majesty's Government to exert myself to
raise, if possible, and to encourage an artillery force
in this district in preference to a corps of riflemen.
I will not go into the question of the relative utility
of the two forces, but I entirely agree with those
men of military experience who have urged this
upon me, and I believe that a force of volunteer
artillery, provided we were defended by batteries
erected by the Government, would be more pecu-
liarly essential in the defence of this harbour,
town, and roadstead, than any body of volun-
teer infantry could be., (Hear.) Holding these
opinions, I was assisted by several gentlemen
of this neighbourhood in bringing out this project,
and we met three or four times in committee, with
the view of carrying it out manfully. I invited to
Heron-court Sir John Burgoyne and his aide-de-
camp, who surveyed Hengistbury Head and the
coast to Highcliffe: They pointed out to me that
those two points might be fortified with very great
advantage to the security of the roadstead and har-
bour. I proceeded to address myself to the
War Department on the subject, and you may be
aware that not long ago a Royal Commission was
appointed by the Crown to make a report upon the
fortifications necessary for the protection of the
coast. I thought it wise, until the report was is-
sued, to leave this question in abeyance, and not to
raise a force of volunteer artillery in this district
until we were certain that batteries would be
erected for our defence, and this was my reason for
so delaying the matter. You will see by the condi. •
tions under which volunteers are enrolled that they
will be obliged to serve at the nearest batteries to
the locality in which they are resident; and there-
fore, if we had no batteries on these heads, and near
to this locality, the nearest batteries to Christ.
churth would be Hurst, Calshot, and perhaps
Portsmouth. It would be altogether out of the
range of possibility that gentlemen and persons
employed as those whom I see before me could,
under any circumstances, give up their time
so as to leave the locality altogether,_ and
go to these distant fortifications, although they
might spare a certain number of hours any day for
drill at the batteries which were erected close to
their own homes. (Hear, hear.) I therefore pro-
posed to the committee that no serious steps should
be taken with the view of forming an artillery
volunteer corps until I had ascertained whether the
Government would erect batteries at i a reasonable
distance from this town. I have ascertained that
—probably from a necessary economy-e-the Govern-
ment has decided that no batteries will be erected
in towns which are not either commercial or mili-
tary towns, and that they could of consider
Christchurch as coming under one o ese catego-
ries. We should therefore, although: ermitted to
have practising batteries—although th Government
would send us down a couple of gun, for the pur-
pose of drill and instruction—sti , practically
speaking, we should be liable to be ent, when a
serious occasion occurred, the whole ay to Calshot
Castle or to Portsmouth, which is ev dently out of
the sphere of local volunteers. (Hea .) This being
lh
the case, I should recommend—and I expect that
the inhabitants of Christchurch and the locality
would probably prefer it—joining in the general
movement of our fellow-countrymen in other parts
of the kingdom, and forming a volunteer rifle corps
instead of one f artillery. (Cheers.) I very much
regret that we are driven to this alternative, be-
cause, on the ground of utility, artillery is (sae of
the best of all defences on the coast, and I am per-
suaded that if we had fortifications within our
reach we should have been more useful as artillery
than as riflemen. Still, there can be no doubt that
volunteer corps of riflemen maybe of service. It
would be a slur upon us if Christchurch were behind
the rest of Great Britain, and I trust that an effort
will be made to raise a respectable corps of rifle-
men. (Cheers.)
Admiral WALCOTT, M.P., in responding for
" The Navy," in a retrospect of the past year referred
first to the gallant deeds of our seamen, marines,
and soldiers at the mouth of the Peillo as beyond
example great; they held to their guns even while
their vessels were sinking under their feet ; they
withstood a most withering fire, and their heroic
admiral—a case unexampled—shifted his flag from
ship to ship as each became successively sunken.
It was an exploit the gallantry of which was never
surpassed, and of which the country might be justly
proud. He trusted that the flag of England would
make a pathway for the missionaries of religion.
Another great proof had been given of the intrepi-
dity of British seamen. Capt. Mtlintock had re-
turned to England with authentic proofs of the
death of Sir John Franklin and of 136 men and
officers having accomplished the discovery, though
with the loss of their lives, of a north-west passage.
Peace and honour to their memories ! England had
had the great good fortune of escaping from the
horrors of a continental war through the exertions
of the late Government and the statesmanlike views
of the late Foreign Secretary of State, to whom the
country was much beholden. (cheers.) In India
the intrepidity and discipline of our troops had
overcome one of the most formidable mutinies. The
gallant admiral, in conclusion, said—l am perfectly
satisfied that a highminied policy is the best pro-
tector of peace, and that preparation for war is the
best preventive against it. I have listened with
great satisfacttion to the statement of the noble earl
with respect to the introduction of a volunteer corps.
The volunteer system of rifle corps forms a most
formidable and useful auxiliary in the field; but I
am rejoiced to find that the feverish excitement of
the public mind has been set at rest, and that our
capacity for resistance is no longer, as it has been,
a matter of debate. It is my firm conviction that if
ever the case should occur that a foe should invade
our shores there will be found in every English
field au English Joan of Arc and on every battle-
ment an English flag and an English Maid of Sara-
gossa. Our safety depends upon our insular posi-
tion, our unity among ourselves, our loyalty and
devotion to our Sovereign, and the honour in which
we hold our country ; and be assured that if such
an occasion as an invasion should arise, the merest
strippling in the country will be found ready to
meet the crisis, and the enemy will find that ho has
kindled a fire the flame and smoke of which will
extinguish him for ever. (Cheers.)
Mr. TICE proposed " The Health of Lord
Malmesbury." He observed that when the noble
earl succeeded to office it was at the time of a con-
tinental crisis, when Europe was in such a position
that it became a matter of difficulty and tact for
any Government which might be at the helm of
affairs. The noble earl showed by his administra-
tion that he was an ardent lover of peace, and when
he resigned the seals of office the threatened danger
had in a great measure passed away. (Cheers.)
The Earl of MAL:SIESBURY, in reply, said-1 am,
indeed, deeply touched at the very flattering speech
which I have just heard from Mr. Tice. Compli-
ments are commonly paid on these occasions—com-
pliments, of course—compliments which are ex-
pressed of course and received of course, yet mere
compliments they are. But more than that has
been expressed, as far as my personal feelings are
concerned, by my friend Mr. Tice ; for yon may
safely believe me that, among the changes and
chances of public lifs, its immense anxieties in such
a position as that which I had the honour of hold-
ing for some 15 months, among very difficult times
—when relieved from the heavy weight of respon-
sibility—a responsibility almost toomuch for human
nature on many occasions to bear—you may safely
believe that, being relieved from such a responsibi-
lity and returning to a quiet house and to domestic

habits from so stormy a sphere as that which I have
left, it is with the greatest satisfaction that one can
possibly feel to know that one's neighbours, whom
you knew before taking a heavy task, meet you
with open hands and smiling faces when you return
to these scenes from those stormy ones. Ido not
boast of having succeeded in the great task which
was before me. I did not prevent a great and a
bloody war. I did not prevent the deaths of some
80,000 or 100,000 men who fell on the fair and fer-
tile plains of Italy ; but this I believe, with the
help of God, I did prevent—l prevented a general
European war—(cheers)—this I behave, with the
`ltelt) of red and the assistance of my colleagues, I
did prevent—that the 'Tar should have extended
beyond the sphere it did; and if my word is doubted
it is proved by the statements of the Emperor
of the French and of the Emperor of Aus-
tria themselves—the one complaining that he
was not assisted by England, the other saying
that Prussia did not come to his aid, and both cir-
cumstances being those which prevented their con-
tinuing the struggle any longer- (Cheers.) It has
been properly stated this evening that this is not a
political meeting, but I should not be acting re-
spectfully to Mr. Tice, who has just spoken, or to
you, who probably listened to him and heard his
remarks on me with pleasure, if I did not say that
to the last day of my life I shall always thank
Heaven that I was the humble means of prevent-
ing a war which I believe would have extended to
as great a length of time as the great war which
swept away so many millions of men and swamped
so ninny millions of money, (Loud cheers.)