The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-18 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following General Order, No. 893, has been
issued from the horse Guards, by command of the
Duke of Cambridge, and promulgated for general
information :

"His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief is pleased to approve general officers commanding
at home stations, and officers commanding in garrisons not
included in any military district, granting leave of absence
to officers and furloughs to non-commissioned officers and
soldiers under the following regulations and restrictions,
viz. :-1. Leave of absence granted under this order to offi-
cers may commence on the 15th of October, provided the
half-yearly inspection shall have been made. Furloughs
granted to non-commissioned officers and soldiers may com-
mence from the Ist of November. 2. These indulgences
are to terminate on the 14th of March next, when, agree-
ably to her Majesty's Regulations, all officers and soldiers
are to be present with their respective regiments and
depots. 3. At least one field-officer, one-half of the cap-
tains, and one-half of the subaltern officers are always to be
present. 4. No officer (except in the performance of duty,
or for the purpose of joining his regiment) is to quit the
United Kingdom without having first received her Ma-
jesty's special permission, according to the regulation on
that head. 5. Officers employed upon the Staff of the army
or upon other special duties are not to be included in the
number hereby fixed for the constant duty of the regi-
ment or depot. 6. The applications for leave fur regi-
mental medical officers and paymasters are to continue to
be made in the mode prescribed in the Regulations and
Orders for the Army. 7. In cases of short leave of absence
being requested by adjutants, ridingmasters, quartermas-

tors, or veterinary surgeons of regimentS, it will be neces-
sary that a special report be made as to the arrangement
sanctioned by the commanding officer for the performance
of the officer's duties. 8. The proportion of non-commis-
sioned officers, trumpeters, drummers, and private men to
whom furloughs may bo granted is not to exceed 12 per
cent, of corps of all arms. Commanding officers of regi-
ments returning from India and China may exercise a

liberal discretion to soldiers who come home with their
corps. When corps are not stationed in garrisons or mili-
tary districts, the officers commanding are at liberty to
use their discretion in granting the indulgence of leave of
absence, under the foregoing restrictions, to the officers and
soldiers under their command, reporting the same to the
Adjutant-General. Special attention is directed to the first
paragraph of this general order, by which it will be seen
that its provisions are not confined, as former general orders
on the same subject have been, to Great Britain only. It
being no longer deemed expedient to maintain the distinc-
tion in the period of winter leave granted in different parts
of the United Kingdom, that portion of Article 6, page 84,
of the Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army relat-
ing thereto is hereby cancelled. By command of his Royal
Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief,
" WILLIAM PALLET, Adjutant-General."

The half-yearly inspection of the Ist battalion
Scots Fusilier Guards took place yesterday morning
on the Horse Guards Parade. The battalion, under
command of Lieut.-Col. Gipps, Lieut.-Col. Lennox
Peel, and Lieut.-Col. G. W. Knox, arrived on the
ground shortly before ten o'clock and formed line.
The inspecting general, Major-Gen. Lord F. Paulet,
C. 8., accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Capt. W.
F. Seymour, arrived shortly after, and was received
with the customary salute. The battalion then
broke into open column of companies, and his lord-
ship made a minute inspection of the arms, accoutre-
ments, &c., and the general bearing and appearance
of the men. The battalion marched past in slow
and quick time ; it then formed line, and the com-
mand was given to the senior Major (Col. Peel),
who put the right wing through the manual and the
left wing through the platoon exercise. The junior
Major (Lieut.-Col. Knox) took the command, and
put the whole battalion through the bayonet exer-
cise. The battalion next formed square, and the
General, addressing Col. Gipps, the officers, and
men, stated that he was pleased to tell them, as he
always told that battalion since he had been in
command of the Brigade of Guards, that they were
in the highest state of efficiency. This, his lordship
d, showed how well the duties were performed
by ranks, from the colonel to the private soh
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Assit.-Quartermaster-General ; Col. Allison., Asisisst.-
Adjt.-General ; Major Mackenzie, Aide-de-Camp;
Capt. Glyn, Aide de-Camp ; and Town Major
Breton, arrived on the ground at 11 o'clock, where
he was received by a salute from the troops drawn
up in line, after which he took up his position at the
saluting point, when they marched past in slow and
quick time. This was followed by a few field
manoeuvres, concluding with a short address from
the General to the men, forming three sides of all
square, the Colonel and officers being in the centre.
The manufacture of the new Boxer central-fire
cartridges for breech-loading arms in Woolwich
Arsenal is progressing favourably. Col. Boxer has
made a further improvement in their construction,
by which it appears the accidental explosion of the
cartridge is now rendered practically impossible.
This improvement has been ordered to be carried
out in the future manufacture of the Boxer ammu-
nition, which is at present produced in the Royal
Laboratory at the rate of about 90,000 rounds per
day, and this rate of supply will ultimately be in-
creased to upwards of 200,000 rounds per day, in
order to meet the demand for the number of cart-
ridges ordered to be prepared for service in the pre-
sent financial year, 1866-7, namely 40,000,000.
The Danish frigate Jylland, 44, Capt. Pedersen,
from Madeira for Copenhagen, put into Plymouth
Sound yesterday for coal.
The 'War Department store-vessels Lord I'anmure
and Lord Raglan, laden with guns, Palliser shot, and
r generalD stores, sailed yesterday from Woolwich, both
Channelev bonpyort, the latter vessel being towed down
The Lord the former under steam. They are ex-
pected to arrive at Devonport to-morrow morning.
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