The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-03 00:00:00

MILITIA.

The following arc the stations of the embodied
Militia ;—Hampshire Artillery, Plymouth; Ist West
York and 3d West York, Aldershott; Royal Wilt-
shire, Gosport; 2d Warwick, Devonport; Tower
Hamlets, Curragh ; Royal Sussex, Edinburgh; 2d
Stafford, Cork; Ist Stafford, Aldershott;' Oxford,
Aldershott; West Norfolk, Chester; sth Middle-
sex, Curragh ; North Lincoln, Waterford ;
Royal Lancashire, Dover ; Lancashire Artillery,
Portsmouth; East Kent, Aldershott; 2d Chester,
Aldershott ; Bedford, Dover; Berks, Reading ;
Dumfries, Dumfries; Forfar Artillery, Kinsale ;
Lanark, Dublin; Stirling, Aldershott; Antrim
Rifles, Woolwich ; North Cork, Aldershott ; Done-
gal, Dover.; North Down, Aldershott ;, Dublin
City, Shorncliffe ; Fermanagh, Bradford ; Kerry,
Aldershott ; County Limerick, Portsmouth ; Louth
Rifles, Aldershott ; Waterford Artillery, Ports-
mouth ; Wexford, Weymouth. Total embodied, 34
—viz., 19 English, 11 Irish, and 4 Scotch regiments.
The East Suffolk Militia Artillery Col. Adair
commandant, having completed their 28 days'
training at Ipswich, were disnaisssed to their homes

" At a general court-martial, held at Portsmouth
on the Ist day of July, 1858, and continued by ad;
jourument to the Bth of the same month, Ensign
John James Scott, of the 47th Regiment, was ar-
-raigned upon the under-mentioned charges, viz. :
" First—For conduct to the of good
order and military discipline, in having at Ports-
mouth, on or about the 30th day of May, 1858,
when on the sick report, and undergoing medical
treatment, quitted his barracks, without the leaye
or authority of the eominanding officer, or the sur-
geon of the 47th Regiment.
" SeCond.—For conduct unbeConaing the charac-
ter of an officer and a gentleman, and to the preju-
dice of good order and military discipline, in the
following instances :
" First Instance.—' In having, at Portsmouth, on
or about half-past 10 o'clock, p.m.; the 30th day of
May, 1858, in company with Ensign Dunne, 47th
Regiment, entered the quarters of Ensign G. P.
Pigott, of the Wexford Regiment off Militia, in
Clarence Barracks, in his absence, upset his furni-
ture and utensils, and otherwise disarranged his
room, and caused the bedding to take fire.'
" Second instanee.—' In having, at Portsmouth,
about 12 o'clock, p.m., same date as above stated,
been drunk and disorderly in the George Hotel,
and then and there otherwise misconducting him-
self.'
" Upon which charges the Court came to the fol-
lowing decision :
" The Court, having maturely weighed and con-
sidered the evidence in support of the prosecution,
together with what the prisoner has urged in his
defence, is of opinion that he, the prisoner, Ensign
John James Scott, 47th Regiment, is guilty of the
first charge.
" With regard to the second charge, first in-
stance—that he, the prisoner, Ensign John James
Scott, 47th Regiment, is guilty, with the exception
of " conduct unbecoming the character of an officer
and a gentleman," and the words, " and caused the
bedding to take fire," of which it acquits him..
" With regard to the second charge, second in-
stance—that he, the prisoner, Ensign John James
Scott, 47th Regiment,.is guilty, with the exception
of the words " and disorderly," of which it acquits
him.

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" ' The Court, having found the prisoner guilty
of the first charge, and of so much of the second'
charge as is above specified,
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the prisoner, Ensign John James Scott, 47th
Regiment,
reprimanded
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breach
and
further, to be placed at the bottom of his regimen-
tal rank, and his name to appear immediately be-
low Ensign George V. Boyd.'
" Her Majesty has been pleased to approve and
confirm the finding and sentence of the Court.
" His Royal Highness cannot allow the officers of
the army to be led astray by a tacit acquiescence in
such erroneous opinions as appear to have been
entertained by the members, of this court martial.
" He had hoped that since the publication of the
orders by the late Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief, the disgraceful habit of practical jokes had
been entirely discontinued.
" Those orders were personally delivered to, and
acknowledged by, Ensign Scott, on his first ap-
pointment to a commission ; his disobedience thereto
was, therefore, unbecoming the character of an
officer; and to conspire with another for the per-
sonal annoyance of a brother officer by entering his
room uninvited, to-upset his furniture and utensils,
and otherwise disarraage his room, can be desig-
nated by no other term than ungentlemanlike;
neither, in the opinion of his Royal Highness, can
it be otherwise than disorderly in an officer to be
drunk in a hotel, and then and there otherwise to
misconduct himself.

" His Royal Highness considers such conduct to
be fitly described by the language of the charge,
and he therefore recommends court-martials to
check, by adequate punishment, practices which a
perseverance in cannot fail to affect
,the character
of the officers of the army as gentlemen.
" Ity order of his Royal Highness,
Comman ding-in-Chief,
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjt.-General."