The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

FACILITIES FOR RECRUITING.

The military authorities have addressed the fol-
lowing circular to the staff officers of pensioners
in the several districts in the United Kingdom,
with the view of affording increased facilities for
raising men for the Queen's army :
" War-office, Dec. 28.

" Sir,—lt being considered advisable in the present
emergency to raise men for the service of the regular
army by all available means, her Majesty's Government
bate determined for this purpose to require the aid of the
pension staff; and I am accordingly to inform you that
Lord Panmure r.ckons with confidence on your cordial
co-operation and assistance in carrying out these views.
" Beating orders will be sent to you, empowering your
staff and quartermaster-sergeants, and such of the pen-
sioners in your district as are worthy of being selected
for this duty, not exceeding six in a first-class, cr four in
a second-class district, with one at each of the out sta-

tions, where he can be empbyed with advantage—to raise
recruits for her Maje€ty's service within the limits of your
district. You will be pleased to instruct the persons em-
ployed on this duty not to enlist militiamen, ex,:ept under
the terms prescribed by the circulars from this depart-
ment, and to adhere strictly to the provisions of the Mu-
tiny Act as regards enlistment.
" DITTIES.—I am to add that while employed on this
duty you will act under the immediate orders of the
General-Csmmanding-in-Chisf, in the same manner as a
sub-division officer on the recruiting service of the army,
subject, by order of the Right Hon. the Secretary of
State for War, to the inspection and military oontrol of
the inspecting field officers of the recruiting districts
within which your head-quarters are situated.

"ItzwARD.--You will be allowed the reward of 5p.,
allotted under like circumstances to officers of the army.
str, Aar 071 RECIIIIITIIIIMT —The area of recruitment
will be confined to the limits of the pension district su-
perintended by you.
" MILITIA. VOLUNTEERS.—The Secretary Of State for
War will not demand the payment of the canal
18s. 6d. for a substitute from those Militia volunteers
who, upon enlistment, shall declare themselves to belong
to the Militia, provided that these men have attended
one training with their regiment, or shall have been six
months upon the r, 11 of their respective regiments.
" MOlll2 OT PROCEEDING.—The regiments for which
the pensioners are to recruit will be intimated to yon by
the inspecting field officer of the district, who will also
furnish you with full instructions as to the terms of
enlistment (age, standard, bounty, and bringing money),
and as to the transfer of recruits to the district head.
quarters, or to their respective regiments or depots, as
the case may be.
" CONDUCTING OF RECRUITS.—Tho recruits will be
conducted the herd-quarters of the recruiting district
by pensioner', who will be furnished with the usual

routes, and will receive the usual allowance fur such duty.
" ADVANCES AND ACCOUNTAEILITIES.—The district
paymasters will be instructed to put themselves in com-
munication with the staff officers of pensioners within
their districts, to make them the usua! advances, t) put
them in possession of the usual form of accountability,
and to make monthly settlements with thew.
" RESPONSIBILITIES OF SA3III.—A3 a preliminary to
carrying this project into execution, you w;11 notify to'
this office your consent, and that of the selected pen-
sioners, to being employed upon this duty ; which con-
sent, it is to be disi,inctly understood, will impose upon
them the responsibilities to which all poraon; employed
on the recruiting service aro subjected by the second
clause of the Mutiny Act.
" His lordship deems it right to direct that you re-
mind the pensioners that, while the remuneration for
the enlistment of recruits who shall be intermediately
approved is most ample, still there is a certain risk in
recruiting operations, as the necessary principle in such
matters is that no remuneration or individual expenses
are sanctioned in the case of recruits who do not pass
medical examination.

" It is contemplated to employ the suroone of the
disembodied mili;ia for the neceesary cue lical ex tali-
nation of the recruits, and that their remuneration
be that sanctioned for such duty when performed by
private practitioners ; but where there are no Militia
surgeons a private medical practitioner may be obtained
on the usual terms.
"I have, ttc. B. HAWES."
With the above the annexed instructions are
forwarded :
"Sir,—l am directed to request your attention to the
following instructions, with reference to the circular of
the 28th inst., relative to recruiting by pensioners.
"1. In your selection for this object a preference is
to be given to enrolled pensioners, but others may be
taken if yet know them to be particularly well adapted
for the duty. Non-commissioned officers and privates
with medals or honorary distinctions should also have a
preference.
" 2. None are to be selected but men of good character
and trustworthy, and you will warn them that in the
event of their being found guilty of any fraudulent prac-
tice connected with these duties they will be liable to
suspension of pension, in addition to any other penalty
that may be awarded.
" 3. You will furnish the inspecting field officer of the
district with a list of the men whom you recommend for
this duty, and who agree to undertake it : and in the
event of their not being successful, or proving otherwise
ineligible, you will suggest such changes among them
from time to time as you may think expedient.

_ .
"4. The clothing-of the enrolled men may be issued tremity of suffaeng, still exhibited a power and
to them for this duty, and those who are not enrolled dignity of character unexampled in the history of
may be provided temporarily wi h any spare suits in our country, and which was so eloquently ex-
store, on which there are no claims ; when the experi- preised by the poet in the lines—
meat ha* been found successful sew clothing will be <" how sublime a thing it is
issued. To suffer and be strong."
"5. This clothing should always be worn when thee lie believed.that example had not been lost upon
men enlist a recruit or brine him up for medical inspec- the continent of Europe. Two years ago it was the
Lion or to be attested. '
fashion, and justly so, to run U 3 down among the
"8. You must be careful that an advance made to
these pensioners for the nations of Europe, but the example that hail been
exceed a month's peneio.,, i,-,
Purpose
d.oi fiyrecruiting does not
exhibited during the year 1857 had, he believed,
Money you consider likely to be duet tOattho anyin their estimation by the quali-
approval
raised our country
4.7. The pay and marching allowance etmo '
who brings an enlisted recruit for intermed'a pensioner
dicta or final empire . . approval will be the same as in the case in the East. They nowmwthe Commander-
similarly employed. of Militia staff in-Chief intrenched in the capital of the insurrec-
"B. To prevent unnecessary medical inspection h tion,
of the pensioners employed should be directed to :aett'fy the arrival of reinforcements.
having joined his gallant comrades, and he
himself by personal inspection before enlis.ing a reo i
, Re hoped that tho:;e reinforcements,
wets now awaiting
that there are no visible impediments to hie being palsuati arriving in India, would be sufficient to enable him.
into the service.
"9. These pensioners ::how'd each be provided with a to restore order and re-establish our supremacy in
thenameof the Queen of England. (Cheers.) Tuose
measuring tape, on which the minirnuin height is marked, events would indeed imp, ,s 3 upon them, at his lion.
and to avoid the chance of rejection care should be taken colleague
that ail recruits brought from a distance are at least a nitude had told them a d.utyof no ordinary wag-
; but he believed if they ransacked thepagds
quarter of an inch above that standard. Capacity of of history they would find it a duty that was un-
cheat must alio be attended to, that recruits may not be paralleled lathe histo, of tt. human race. They
were callaeldienu
rejected for being too slight,
"10. As many of the pension diAricts are too far people,
pofruouato Jovrn'ilearly 200,000,000 of
from our ielieion,
from the head-quarters of the inspecting field oflic.ir for
anoudr race, from our language,
recruits to be brought there without con-iderable expense tablish among them a from our laws, and to es-
to the public, you will be informed by that officer w lie- Eii,,and. He would notPrl 'wfoa%7l,.
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that there are any rigiments or depots nearer to you
to al tLe difficulties tha't
plishmeut of that great uedertaking, hut thole
which are in want of men, and where recruits should be
were two things which he was sure would command
taken in preference,
"11. You will as much as possible relieve your staff were
and also the vartermastcr-,ergeaet, if you the approbation of all Engli,hinen as the bas;s of
have one, from their other duties, in order to facilitate I our policy. In the first place, that it was the dui
their obtaining recruits, but you will make them aware of all Government, and should be their e'def oby-
that the time thus placed at their disposal must be sea- I jest, to promote the welfare and prosperity of the
lously devoted to that duty.
country and the people who lived in it ; and, in
"12. To the other men who are selected you will ex- the second place, with regard to the subject of re-
plain that, as no daily pay is assigned for recruiting, they lig-ion, that while on the one hand they should not
will only be expected, by accepting that employment to attempt to prop Tato our pure and holy faith as
exert themselves during their spare hours, when it may
prove a source of profit to them, but that any want of M
the
ahomet propagated his—that was by farce and
success on their part will lead to their services being did- sword—while they should scorn the bise policy
continued, and others selected for the duty.
of attempting to preach a hollow and hypecritical
.
" You will transmit a list cf the men selected to this profession of our opinions by unworthy influences,
and
department, and also cause a copy thereof to be hung up justice
. . so, on theother hand, he believed that• t
is your office, and you will inform the pensioners gene- mercy and truth were the essential attributes of
rally, on the first
occasion of payment, that, though the curl:wise and just Government, and were attri-
tea also which were inseparably connected with
privilege of enlisting recruits must be confined to these, bu