The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

THE AE3IY.

The annexed circular has been issued by the
Under-Secretary for War, Sir Benjamin Hawes:—
" The Secretary of . State for War has directed
that all offices and official residences appropriated
to officers of the Commissariat, military store-
keepers, clerks of works, clerks, master gunners,
messengers, labourers, or other members of the
civil departments attached to the army, shall be
placed under the charge of the barrackmaster, and
be subjected to all regulations affecting barracks.
Store-buildings and workshops of all kinds not
occupied as residences or offices will remain in
charge of the head of the department concerned."
The following circular has been promulgated,
applicable to all regiments, at home and abroad
(except India), .and to consolidated depots and
depot battalions :
" It having been decided to discontinue the pre-
sent separate contingent clothing accounts, pre-
scribed by the circular letters quoted in the margin,
and to include all actual and necessary expenses
incidental to clothing as ordinary charges in the
regimental pay list, Secretary Major-General Peel
desires that from and after the Ist of April, 1839,
separate estimates or requisitions for money on
account of this service shall not be forwarded to
this office, but the amount required shall be in-
eluded in the Paymaster's general estimate.
" The quartermaster should be supplied with
such sums as he may actually require for the ser-
vice out of the public funds in the paymaster's pos-
session, furnishing the paymaster with receipts for -
sums so advanced, and accounting to him for the
same before any further advance is made.
" The quartermaster's demands for advances
should invariably be approved of and signed by the
commanding officer.
" A detailed and accurate account of the quarter-
master's expenditure on account 'of clothing, coun •
tersigned by the commanding officer, and accom-
panied by proper vouchers, is to be annexed in
support of any charge on account thereof in the
quarterly pay list., and in this Account should appear
a list of the advances made by the paymaster.
" A separate credit should also be given in the
pay list for any miscellaneous receipts by the
quartermaster on account of clothing, vouched by
a certified. statement of particular;"
The annexed circular has bTen addressed to
officers commanding at foreign stations :
" Secretary Major-General Peel having had
under consideration certain representations from
officers commanding her Majesty's troops abroad
of the great inconvenience experienced by officers
in the operation of Article 2 of the Royal Warrant,
dated the 23d of September last, regulating the
grant and. issue of staff and garrison. pay, is
.pleased,
with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners
of her Majesty's Treasury, to authorise the issue of
the pay of all officers, including the subordinates
of the civil departments attached to the staff of the
army or to garrisons abroad, monthly, in errear,
the amount to be charged upon final vouchers.
" This arrangement to take effect from the Ist of
April next."
The following circular in reference to the accounts
of regimental agents and paymasters has been re-
, centl issued from the War-officei—

" In accordance with the provisions of the royal
warrant dated 27th September, 1858, regimental
agents will, from Ist April, 1859, receive a yearly
allowance of lAd. in the pound, or 12s. 6d. per
cent. upon the aggregate amount of the daily pay
and annual allowances actually issued through the
agent.
" Regimental officers will continue as heretofore
to receive their pay according to their own option
from the regimental agent or paymaster.
" 'With a view to secure an earlier and a more
direct charge and audit, the pay of regimental
officers, when so issued by the paymaster, is to be
charged quarterly in his pay list, and finally audited
in such account.
" The charges in the agent's annual account under
that head are to be restricted to the pay of such
officers who have selected the regimental agent to
receive their pay from.
" Whenever an officer is, at his own option,
transfared from the payment of the agent to that
of the paymaster, or vice versa, the prescribed
certificate will be invariably required in duplicate,
the original being annexed to the account in which
the pay is for the future to be charged, and the
duplicate thereof to the account in which the pay
will cease to be eharged.
" The separate quarterly statement of officers'
pay, prescribed by Article 43 of the explanatory
directions will be discontinued, and Articles 8 and
145 of those instructions are rescinded from the Ist
April, 1859, from which date these regulations will
take' effect.
" The necessary alterations in the printed forms
will be notified to the several accountants forth-
with. _ _

'Phis regulation does not affect the Royal
Artillery or Engineers."
The following circular, relative to the instruction
of officers in the use of the rifle, has been just issued
from the Horse Guards :

" The General Commanding-in-Chief desires that
the officers of regiments and depots go through the
judging distance drills and practices once every
year, either with their companies or in squads
,by
themselves, as may be found most convenient. The
names of the thre-e best judges of distance among
the officers of each battalion, and the number of
Points gained by them respectively, are to be speci-
fied in the annual return rendered at the conclusion
of the course.

" By command,
" G. A. AVETHERALL, Adjutant-General."

Lieutenant-General Sir Harry G. W. Smith,
G.C.8., commanding the northern district, is still
detained in town from the effects of a fall, by which
the gallant general injured his knee. The gallant
officer, however, is gradually recovering.
The next examination by the Council of Military
Education--composed of Major-General Cameron,
Vice-President ; Major-General I'ortlock,
Colonel Addison, and Lieutenant-Colonel Elwyn—
of candidates for direct commissions will take place
on the 13th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 10th, and 20th prox.,
at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
A. large number of Turkish medals have been
received at the head-quarters of the Royal Engi-
neer establishment, Chatham, for distribution
among the officers and men of that branch of the
service who took part in the campaign in • the
Crimea. The following are the officers of Royal
Engineers at Brompton barracks who have been
awarded the Turkish medal :—Major S. W. Lovell,
C.B.major G. M. Stopford, Captain A. Crevke,
Captain G. R. Lempriere, and Lieutenants C. G.
Gordon. The medals were distributed to the men
on Sunday.

The Deputy-Assistant-General of the Royal
Engineers, Colonel J. W. Gordoti, C. 8., has been
engaged at the head-quarters, Chatham, in inspect-
ing► the new uniforms about to be issued to the
non-commissioned officers and men. The greatest
activity prevails in the clothing department at
Brompton Barracks, in order that the alterations
required may be made, and the whole of the men
supplied by the Ist of the ensuing month•