The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The troop-ship Eastern Monarch, 1,849 tons,
Commander H. Morris, which has been taken
up by the Hon. East India Company for the con-
veyance of reinforcements to India, has arrived at
Gravesend, where she has been inspected by the
Commandant and the officers of the staff at Chat-
ham garrison. She will embark her troops to-
morrow morning. The following is the amended
detail of the troops who pr,:ceed to Kurrachee in
the Eastern Monarch—viz., 40 men of the 7th
Royal Fusiliers ' • 280 men of the 52d Light In-
fantry ; Captain Charles A P. James, Ensign A.
W. Crozier, and 72 men of the 70th Regiment ; 12
men of the 81st Regiment ; Ensign Ramsay Steuart
and 80 men of all ranks of the 94th Regiment—
total, three officers and 484 non-commissioned
officers and men from the battalions of infantry at
Chatham.

The Blenheim freight-ship embarked at Spithead
on Saturday the following troops for India :—En-
-1 sign Barker, 2 sergeants, 2 drummers, and 138
rank and file of the Ist Battalion of the GOth (Royal
Rifle) Regiment ; Major G. H. Bligh, Captain
Bales, and 30 rank and file of the 2d Battalion
ditto. She weighed anchor at 6.30 p. au. for Cal-
cutta, with a fine breeze N.E.
The authorities at the War Department having
decided, with the concurrence of the Secretary of
State for War, to make a considerable augmenta-
tion in the Royal Engineers, by the addition of
four more companies, two of the companies have
been already formed at the head-quarters of the
corps, Brompton-barracks, Chatham. Each com-
pany numbers 116 non-commissioned officers and
men, and has been formed chiefly from the troops
who have recently joined that corps ; the two new
companies are numbered the 33d and 34th. As
soon as the two remidning, companies have been
formed the .st►ength of the Royal Engineers will
be raised to nearly 5,000 men. The four addi-

tional companies. are to be kept for home service,
and will supply the place of those which have re-
cently proceeded' to India.

THE NEW ARMY WARRANT.

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The Royal Commission appointed to revise the
Army Warrant of 1854 has made its report, and the
new warrant, embodying its recommendations, may
be expected in the course of the ensaing week. In
all probability the principal changes likely to take
place will be found to be as follows :-1. The in-
crease of the fixed establishment of general officers
from 234, the number settled by the commission of
1854, to 250. 2. The replacement in their proper
position of those colonels whose promotion to
the rank of major-general was stopped by the
advancement of officers junior to them for dis-
tinguished services in the field. These latter
officers will conlinue to enjoy all the pay and
privileges of their promotion, but will not be
counted on the fixed establishment of generals until
the time at which they would have come in upon
it in the ordinary course by seniority. All future
promotions for distinguished service to be made in
the!same way so than those who gain their promo-
tion shAll not do so to the exclusion of other officers.
3. The abolition of the rank of lieutenant-colonel,
the • restoration to. their old position of those
lieutenant-colonels who have been passed over by
the warrant of 1854, and the advancement of all
existing lieutenant-colonels to the rank of colonel.
There will also probably be some change as regards
the position of colonels who may be given the com-
mand of brigades, the effect of which will be the
creation of the rank of brigadier-general. The im-
mediate consequence of this warrant will be the
proniotiOn of 16 colonels to the rank,of major-
general, viz.-16 to provide for the increase of the
establishment from 234 to 250, and 10 who have
been hitherto kept back by the promotion for dis-
tinguished service of Major-Generals Airey, Rose,
Searlett, Buller, Eyre, Windham, Havelock, Inglis,
Hope, Grant, and Mansfield. The senior colonels
down to Colonel I. R. Young, half-pay, sth Foot,
will thus attain the rank of Major-Generals, and
theifpromotious will leave vacant the offices of in-
specting field-officer of the London and Dublin
recruiting districts, and the lieutenant-colonelcies
of the Coldstream Guards, 87th, 10th, 99th, and
83d Regiments. —Morning paper.