The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-10 00:00:00

TILE AR ill

The amended warrant relative to the army hospi-
tal corps has just been promulgated at Woolwich,
revised from that of Aug. 1, 1857. According to
the new regulations these corps will be recruited
from the ranks, and will receive rates of pay ac-
cordingly—Sergt.-major, 4s. 2d. per day ; Ist class
sergeant, 3s. 2d.; 2d class sergeant, 2s. 2d. ; and
private, ls. Increased pay for good conduct and
long service is to he granted to the privates of the
corps, under the provisions of the good conduct
warrant for the line, subject to the usual forfeiture
for each entry in the defaulter book. Every non-
commissioned officer and private of the corps is to
be allowed the daily ration of a soldier in hospital
on full diet, free of any stoppage, whenever it is
practicable to furnish such diet ; but in the event of
his becoming a patient in the hospital, he is to be
supplied
with the class of diet applicable to his case,
for such diet he is not to be liable to any stop.
page ho in his pay. He will not be entitled, more-
over, under any circumstances, to the allowance of
id. a day for beer money. Wien ho cannot draw
rations front the public stores, whether on board
ship or on shore, hewill
recoeriss,e, a money allowance
of Bd. a day in lieu of a free ration. When he is in
confinement for any offence
the whole of his pay is
to be forfeited, and he is to be provided with the
prison diet. When under other punishment he will
receive the usual hospital ration, orpai:o,:eniva lent
thereto, but will be subject to th—e sto--
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pay of Bd, a day when the punishment i
non-performance of his hospital duties. When- he
is on the march under route in the pursuance
of
public duty, the same allowances for marching
money and hot meals are to be charged for him as
for a soldier on the march, and in such case he is
not to be entitled to rations, but is to receive in ad-
dition to such marching allowances the money al-
lowance of 81 already mentioned above. While on
furlough he is to be subject to the same rules as
soldiers, but the pay to be advanced to him while
so situated is to be Gcl. a day less than the full
rate of pay of his rank, and the residue
is to be accounted for to him on his return

to da!y. While on furlough he will 1,,A, Le entitled
to the money allowance of 8d a day in lieu of rations,
hut will be settled with for his pay only. Ser-
geants having passed the required examination,
and who may be employed in dispensing medicines,
'than, while so employed, receive an allowance of is
Per day. A private appointed lance sergeant, to
enable him to perform temporarily certain duties,
shall receive while so employed 6d a day in addi-
tion to his pay. A private while employed in a re-
sponsible capacity, or placed for meritorious service

la a first tO2EiSe an allowailee of 3d a
day in addition to his ordicary pay. The number
of Fivatcs to receive these rates of nllo mice ..,ha!
to time. A private appointecl a
bather. assibtan

E.led fLom

)k, baker, washerman, &e., shall
receive while so acting 2d a day in L-ddition to his
pay. All non-commissioned officers and privates of
the corps are to be liable to be employed in any
way thatine.y )e required in the performance of
any duties in, the medical and purveyor's depart-
ments ; and when on duty with an army in the
field they will be liable to be attached to the field
ambulances, and attend to the wounded, carrying
them off the field, &c. The non-commissioned officers
are to take rank with those of the other corps of
the army, and are to wear the ordinary distinctions
on their uniforms. Candidates who are not soldiers
may be admitted by permission of the Secretary of
State by special authority. All non-commissioned
officers and privates of the corps will be liable to
discharge at any time the Commander-in-Chief may
think fit, without any claim to compensation be-
yond the scale of pensions, and they may be re-
' transferred, at the order of the Commander-in-Chief,
for misconduct, unfitness?, or otherwise, to the corps
of the army from which they were transferred.
When their services shall be dispensed with they
shall be entitled to pensions on the following scale
rifle/ a total service in the corps, or in the line, ex-
ceeding 21 years :—Sergeants -major,. after 21 years'
service, of which at least five in that rank, a pension
for life of 2s per day, increasing to a maximum of
35 per day, at the rate of 2d for each additional
year's service,with the further additions of good con-
duct pay of which they may be in possession at the
time of their discharge, and of id. a-day for every
five years' service as non-commissioned officers, but
the maximum with such additions not to exceed 3s.
a-day, Ist and 2d class sergeants. After 21 years
total service, of which, at least, five in that rank,
a version fo:.? !ire of is, dd. and L. ;id. a-day, in-
creasing to a maximum of 2s. Gd. and 2s. a-day, at
the rate 1U and ld. for each additional year's ser-
vice, with the further addition of good conduct ray
of which they may be in possession at the time of
their discharge, and of ld. a-day for every five
years' service as non-commissioned officer, hut the
maximum, with such additions, not to exceed
2s. Gd. and 2s. a-day. Privates, after the same
length of service, will be entitled to a pension of
10d. a-day, increasing to ls. 4d. at a progressive
rate. For men of this corps attached to any hos-
pital or station, the purveyor is to perform the
duty of quartermaster, and the officers of the pur-
veyor's department will be the paymasters of the
corps.

By direction of the Duke of Cambridge a silver
medal has been presented to Sergeant Cox and
Gunner Lawler, of the depot brigade, Royal Artil-
lery, stationed at Sheerness, for long service and
meritorious conduct. The presentation was made
by Lieut.-Col. Talbot.

Col. Guy, Commandant of the troops in the
Camp at Colchester, inspected the 9th battalion at
that station on Tuesday. A private of the 38th
Regiment, named Allen, has been ordered to un-
dergo a court-martial for loading his rifle with ball
cartridge, with the supposed intention of shooting
Sergeant Robinson, attached to his company, with
whom he had had an altercation. Another private
of the 38th Regiment, named Grosser, also undo'.
orders for a garrison court-martial; broke out of
the guardroom on Monday, but was soon retaken in
the town. He will now have to undergo a general
court-martial. Another private, named Pattison,
has been sentenced to 80 days' imprisonment for
insubordination.

The preliminary operations for the construction
of the foundation of the fort on the Noman Shoal
have been commenced by the contractor.
Colonel Do Rinzy, of the Ist brigade Garrison
Artillery, and Brigade-Major Milward, who have
been engaged for some weeks past in inspecting the
Volunteer Artillery in the Northern and Western
counties of England, have returned to Woolwich
and resumed their official duties at head-quarters as
heretofore,

THE JOURNAL EDITED BY THE DEAN

OF WESTMINSTER.*

Are we warranted in making any allusion to a
very curious volume, consisting of extracts from a
lady's journal, kept during a visit to Germany in
1799-1800, and now edited, but not published, by
her son, the Dean of Westminster ? When the

Iletters, journals, and other papers of his mother
came into the Dean's hands, last year, he states that
he found among them this journal, from which
he has printed certain selections, containing
notices of persons of historic interest, with whom
the writer was brought into more or less familiar
contact. In one case, that of Nelson, they are
notices of a personage of the very highest historic
interest, while in others (we speak only of those
which are printed in this volume) they re-
late to persons who live more or less in the

memoirs of that time, and live on even in our

own time in the oral traditions of social life.
More than one member of our own Royal family,
the Duke of Brunswick and his Court, the Queen
of Prussia, Breteuil, Beurnonville, Bellegarde,
Rivarol, Gentz, Lavalette, Alexis Orloff, Lord and
Lady Holland, Lord Minto, Sir William and Lady
Hamilton, Mr. Elliot, our Minister at Dresden,
Righini the composer, Fuger the painter, with
many others, all find a place here. Are we war-
ranted, then, in assuming that this contribution to
our knowledge of persons so public in some sense
is public property also ? All the persons mentioned
here are dead, no injury that we see can be done to
the feelings of any of their representatives, and, as
we conceive that a time may come in any case when
there is no longer any reason for the reservation of
such memoranda, however private in the first in-
stance, so we contend that the time has fully arrived
in this case when they may be claimed as materials
for historical portraiture. Had the Dean kept
these memoranda to himself, we conceive that
biographers would have had reason to complain of

their concealment. Having printed them for com-
munication to his literary friends, we can see no
reason whatever why they should not be more
widely circulated; and, as we have no clear inti-
mation of a prohibition to the contrary, we take
a liberty which we believe no one will think
inexcusable.

It appears, however, that it is thought desirable
that something should be said on behalf of the
writer—that these memoranda were made at such
a very early period of her career as by no means to
show the character to which she attained in
later life. The writer, the granddaughter of Lord
Chesterfield's " Richard Chenevix," was married, at
19, to Colonel St. George, of Carrick-on-Shannon,
and at the age of 22 was left a widow with an only
son. A period of several years elapsed before her
second marriage, and during this interval she made
the tour of which this volume is partly the record.
She was then, as the Dean conceives, unawakened
to those more serious and earnest views of exist-
ence which later sorrows and trials brought home
to her, though even of that clay there are traits
unpublished which would, he says, show that she
was of no light or frivolous turn of mind. For
our parts, we are not in the least disposed to corn-
plain of Mrs. St. George for taking an innocent
interest in those scenes of life which she re-
garded as a passing panorama, and we require no ex-
cuse for anything we see here. We mention the sub-
,jest by way of concession tothe Dean's scruples, who,
tlidcei
et
we think, is unduly sensitive on the score of a youth-
fulr n ovy v a yorul'h,iaa
chnNve'nded
was shortly sobered to a ma-
eminently serious and devoaust.wea Were tsoeled iont ha ln
scandalize anyone, not even an Archbishop,
stilmlgioeod
to
anything which should prevent one of high ecclesi-
astical rank receiving absolution from
such latitu-
dinarians' as ourselves.

We absolve the I)ean- , then, and we el aim for
on the other hand, the praise of the ghost of Cax-
ton for passing through the press such a very
amusing volume. It is but of small dimensions;
in fact, it is not much bigger, and certainly does
-not contain more, than many a pamphlet of the
season, while the entries are of the most concise
clN:ractcr, like the jottings in an ordinary pocket-
book. Nevertheless, they often succeed in present-
ing us in a few sentences; and sometimes in a single

Journal kept during a Visit to Germany in 1799-1800.
Edited by the Dean of Westminster, [Not published.]