The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-28 00:00:00

THE ARM F.

The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of
State for War, has recently issued a circular em-
bodying a Royal warrant, wherein it is announced
that it has been deemed expedient to extend the
grant of medals without gratuities to meritorious
and well-conducted soldiers who have fulfilled the
conditions of the Royal warrant of the 13th of
April, 1854, but who are precluded from becoming
recipients of the medal with a gratuity in conse-
quence of the aggregate amount to be annually
awarded being already appropriated. It is deter-
mined that medals without gratuities, in addition
to those already authorised, shall be granted to such
soldiers, whether sergeants, corporals, or privates,
as may be selected by the commanding officer for
them, on the same conditions as regards the qualifi-
cations of the persons to be recommended in the fol-
lowing proportions in each year--viz., to each
cavalry regiment and battalion of the Military
Train, 2 ; to each brigade of Royal Artillery, 3;
to every 900 men of the Royal Engineers, 3 ; to
each Infantry regiment or battalion, 3. It is further
stated that " non-commissioned officers and men
who may be qualified before discharge shall be
eligible to receive medals without gratuity, if re-
commended by their former commanding officers
within three years after their discharge." Non.
commissioned officers on the permanent staff of the
militia who were eligible previously to their dis-
charge from the army are also eligible to receive
medals without gratuities ; and no limit is to be
placed on the grant as regards the date of discharge
in the case of men so serving.
The Under Secretary of State for War, Sir Ben-
jamin Hawes, has recently issued a circular memo-
randum, promulgating the new rates of personal
allowance for officers and other members of the
War-office, and in the civil establishments at out
stations, not within the provisions of the travelling
warrant dated December 23, 1857, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy:—

" The Secretary of State for War has decided
that, in lieu of the rates of personal allowance at
present fixed for the respective ranks of officers
and clerks belonging to the department when
ordered from their homes on public duty, one
uniform rate applicable to all classes (except as
hereafter provided for the clerks, and appointments
' of lower grade at out•stations) shall be substituted,
and as this allowance should be no more than suf-
ficient to provide for the actual and necessary ex-
cess of expense of living away from the usual place
of residence, he has approved of the rate being fixed
at 16s. a day, from the Ist of April, 1860.
" A further allowance of 4s. a day will be ad-
mitted if the officer is accompanied by a servant,
and his rank entitles him to take one, or if the duty
upon which he is employed obliges him to travel
with one.
" Half the daily allowance is to be charged for
the days of leaving and returning home, unless the
duty is completed in two days, when an allowance
for one day and a half will be granted.
" When the duty is completed in the same day
an allowance of Bs. is to be charged if the officer
travel a distance of not less than 15 miles from his
home; if the distance be less than 15 miles 4s. only
will be allowed.

" It is to be distinctly understood that this regu-
lation is intended to apply to all persons holding
appointments, both at the headquarters of the
War-office and at the out-stations, hitherto in re-
ceipt of a higher rate of personal allowance than
16s. a day.

The uniform rate thus fixed is also to be con-
sidered applicable to all officers, whether civil or
military, travelling upon the continent of Europe
or in the United States of America, hitherto al-
lowed special rates for personal expenses exceeding
16s. a day.

" The rate of 15s. a day heretofore allowed to
clerks and others holding appointments in the
manufacturing and other civil establishments at the
out-stations, having been considered in reference to
the rate of 108. a day granted to clerks of equal or
approximate grades serving under the several mili-
tary storekeepers, whose travelling allowance is
fixed by the royal warrant of the 23d of December,
1857, No. 204, it has been determined to remove the
distinction which exists between these classes re•
spectively, and the rate to be charged, therefore, in
the travelling accounts preferred by all of these
classes for service performed subsequent to the Ist
of April, 1860, will be limited to 104. a.day, with
half and quarter of such rate under the conditions
provided for in that warrant."

Another Waterloo officer has been removed by
death, making the fifth recorded within the last
four weeks. Col. Sir T. Noel Harris, K.H., died
at his seat in Kentilm Friday last. The deceased
officer was born in 1785, and was son of the late
Rev. Hamlyn Harris, rector of Whitehall, Rut-
landshire. The gallant colonel served in the cam-
paigns of 1811, 1812, and 1813 in the Peninsula,
during which he was in constant active service. In
the autumn of the latter year he served with the
allied armies in Germany and France up to the sur-
render of Paris in 1814, and was present at the bat-
tles of Grossbcrgen and Dennewitz, and the battles
at Leipsic of 16th, 18th, and 19th of October, 1813.
He passed the Rhine with the army under Marshal
Blucher in the January of the succeeding year, and
was present in all the battles and engagements up
to the capitulation of Paris. The late Sir Thomas
Harris served in the campaign of 1815, and was pre-
sent at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, at which last
battle he lost a limb, and was otherwise severely
wounded, and had two horses shot under him. For
his military services he was made a Knight of the
Royal Hanoverian Order in 1830, and was knighted