The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-15 00:00:00

THE A R11(17.

The.followin4 general order rela..tive to the sur-
. a
vey of regimental stores has just been issued from
the'Horse Guards :-
". The General Commanding-in-Chief, in concur-
. .
renee with the Secretary of State for War, having
been pleased to direct that, whenever the number
of troops at a station permitit,bpards of survey
should have an officer of another corps on them,
and a military store or commissariat officer like-
wise, officers commanding regiments and depot bat-
talion's are enjoined, whenever it is necessary, to
assemble a band of officers for the inspection of re-
gimental clothing, necessaries, arms, saddlery,
equipments, &c., either received or proposed to be
condemned, to apply to the General or other officer
commanding on the spot to appoint one officer from
any other corps in garrison' and a military store
or commissariat officer, according to the nature of
the 'stores, to.be members of the board. It is, how-
ever', to be understood that, as a general rule, the
above addition is to be restricted to boords convened
`for the inspection of -clothing annually, or for any
considerable supply of arms, clothing, appointments,
or free bits, and is' not 'to be resorted to on every
occasion of the receipt of a small number of articles,
except when the ordinary regimental board consi-
ders it necessary to reject any articles forming part
of a small supply, in which case the board is always
-to be reconstituted, with the additional officers as
herein directed. Boards, however, held upon ar-
ticles which have been in use in a regiment and-are
to be returned into store immediately should inva-
riably comprise all the additional officers.—By
command.
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."
The-examination of candidates fbr admission to
the Staff College at Sandhurst, before the Council
of Military Education, commenced yesterday fore-
noon at the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. There were
above 30 candidates.

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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF PIRACY.—The purser
of the African mail'stearner Ethiope reports froni Teneriffe
that on the 24th November, at 9 p.m., a boat containing
Captain George Walker and four Men of the American
schooner William was left off that port by the French barque
Rose Marguerite. Captain Walker, with his boat's crew,,
shorty afterwards landed and'made the following statement
before the Captain-General of the island and the British
and AMeriCan Consuli,.which has been corroborated by his
men .—He left Savannah: on the 24th October, in . the
United States' schooner Williain, with .a crew of 13 men
and two passengers, females; bound to Smyrna. ,He had
also on board 27,000 , dols, in cash and some bales of silk.
Four days' after leaving he experienced bad weather from
N.E.,',Which tenipelled him VV. steer S.S.E. for 40 hours, as
far as lat 20.10 N. On.tho 21st November the schooner was
in h 4. 30.16. N., long.. 20 W., when he spoke the French
barque. Jenny, of Marseilles, bound, to Martinique; and, as
his provisions had been damaged by the bad weather, he
haUed the barque, lattnehed his boat,' and accompanied by
four of his crow, be boarded her in search of a fresh supply.
The mate, meanwhile, was left in ehargefof the schooner,
ar.d was ordered to keep her.close astern of the Jenny.
Captain Walker had made one journey to, and from the
barque, but on his returning to the schooner a second time
the mate made all sail; and completely abandoned him with
his four men -in the small boat. He made every effort to
give chase, but darkness shortly afterwards set in, and the
schooner Was lost sight of.. On the following day they were
picked up by the French barque Rose Marguerite, Captain
Brusson, and left near Teneriffe, as stated abOve. In the
protest which has been entered by Captain Walker before
the Consuls-he swore that from the proceedings of those on
board of his schooner after he left her, which he could partly
see dming,the four hours he. was in chase, .he believed that
the mate, whose-name is T. J. Walton, intended to make
away with the vessel, and get clear off with the 27;000 &is.;
which was in Spanish doubloons. The master of the Rose
,Marguerite had addressed a letter to the French Consul of
Teneriffe, and stated that he had nicked up Captain Walker
:Ind four of his crew in a small boat at sea. Capt. Walker-
and his crew, whose names are Chas. Hunter' Peter Lynch,
Fran',: Joseph, and John Raylarse arrived in' Liverpool
tts passengers by the steamer Ethiope, which also brOught
tug
boat in which Captain Walker and his men had been
abandoned.

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[A.D-vfatTbsF.Nl7.T.] Mr. Benson, Ludgate-hill, has
just published. a new illustrated pamphlet on watoheA (free
by post.for two stamps). It should be le td by all who are
about baying a watch, as it eont.tins prices and important
infiqirratien.as to:---What watch to b-uy! wlero to buy it !
and how 1:0 MSC.

[ADVEaTIST:IIENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Plll'.

Rheumatism, (;out, Nenralgia.—The damp weather corn
mohlyprevailing. this season renders the above diseases
a
almost epidemic. In some shape or other all except the roost
robin:tare tortured by them. Let all such sufferers turn.with
confidence to nolLway's Ointment and Pills, which for a
quarter of a cen'fary have been lauded above all other drugs
for,their soothing and curative powers in these emiplaints.
•The affected parts, first :fomented in warm water, should be
rubbed witlithe ointment tyke a day as' briskly as is bear-
able. Tne pills should be taken, at -the same time to obtain
the full beneficial erect, so that while the ointment sopthes
locally, the pills purify, stimulate, and strengt49,s,feners.Llly.