The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-10 00:00:00

INCREASE OF PAY IN 7HE ARMY.

WAR OFFICE, July 2.

The following Royal warrant is promulgated to
the army by direction of the Secretary of State for
war : EDWARD LUGARD.

" Victoria R.—Whereas, we have been pleased
to take into our consideration the best means of im-
proving the condition of the non-commissioned offi-
cers and soldiers of those regiments and corps of our
army which are liable to service in all parts of the
world ; and also of encouraging recruiting for our
regiments of the line ; and whereas, it has been re-
presented to us that this end may most effectually
be attained by the grant of an increase to the exist-
ing rates of pay as fixed by our royal warrant of the
3d Feb., 1866 : our will and pleasure, therefore, is
that the pay of all ranks of non-commissioned offi-
cers and private men of our regiments and corps
afterrnentioned, that is to say, Foot Guards, cavalry,
and infantry of the line, Royal Artillery, Royal
Engineers, Military Train, Royal Canadian Rifle
Regiment, cavalry depots, and depot battalions, re-
cruiting districts, schools of gunnery and musketry,
departmental corps, be, from and after the Ist day
of April last, increased by an addition of 2d. a day
to the several rates of daily pay assigned to them
by our said warrant. In consequence of the ex-
ceptional rates of pay at present granted to our
Household Cavalry, we have not deemed it ex-
pedient to extend to all ranks of those regiments
the grant of the additional 2d. a day ; but we are
pleased to take the opportunity of assimilating the
rate of pay of our regiments of Life Guards and
Royal Horse Guards, and have therefore deter-
mined that the following schedule be substituted
for that portion of our Royal Warrant of the 3d
February, 1866, which regulates the pay of our
Household Cavalry :—Life Guards and Horse
Guards : Regimental corporal major, 4s. 4d. ; troop
corporal major, 3s. 10d ; bandmaster, 4s. 4d. ; quar-
termaster corporal major, 3s. 10d. ; orderly room
clerk, 2s. 9 d. ; after three years' uninterrupted
service in the rank, 3s. ; trumpet major,
3s. ; corporal, 2s. 9id. ; private, 2s. Old. ; kettle-
drummer, 2s. 7d. ; trumpeter, 2s. 2d. ; trumpeter
appointed before the 10th of June, 1846, in the Life
Guards, and before the 29th of May, 1850, in the
Horse Guards, 2s. 7d. ; farrier major, 4s. Id. ; ar-
mourer corporal, 2s. ; saddler corporal, 2s. 91d.;
farrier corporal, 3s. 3d. ; and shoeing smith 2s. Bd.
It is our further will and pleasure that, as a special
inducement to soldiers to re-engage for a second
period of service in our army, a further addition of
id. a day be, from and after the Ist day of April
last, made to the pay of all men who have completed
or who shall have completed, a first period of limiod
service, and shall now or hereafter be serving in any
corps or regiment in our service, except in colonial
corps other than the Canadian Rifles. We do fur-
ther command that this additional pay of ld. a day
during a second period of service shall, as regards
the non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal
Canadian Rifle Regiment, be in lieu of the excep-
tional addition of Id. a day now received by soldiers
of that corps serving under special engagement for
continued service.
" Given at our Court at St. James's, this 29th
day of June, in the 31st year of our reign.
JOIIN S. PAKINGTON."