The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-01 00:00:00

RECRUITING THE ARMY.

(From the Gazette of this evening.)
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 29.
The Queen has been pleased to issue a Commission under
her Royal sign manual, of which the following is a copy,
to inquire into the present system of Recruiting the Army,
Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the
Faith,
To our right trusty and well-beloved Beaumont, Baron
Hothani, of that part of our United Kingdom called Ire-
land, Major-General of our Forces •,
Our trusty and well. beloved Sir Alexander Murray Tul-
loch, Colonel in our Army, Knight Commander of our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Superinten-
dent of Out-Pensioners of our Army;
Our trusty and well-beloved William Frederick Forster,
Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Gnelphic Order, Major-
General of our Forces ,•
Our trusty and well-beloved David Russell, Esq., Colonel
in our Army, Companion of our Most Honourable Order of
the Bath
Our trusty and well-beloved John Thomas Leslie, Esq.,
Colonel in our Indian Forces, Companion. of our Most'
Honourable Order of the Bath ;
Our trusty and well-beloved John George Smyth, Esq.,
Colonel in the 2d Regiment of West York Militia ; and
Our trusty and well-beloved Peter Blackburn, Esq., one
of the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury, Greeting :
Whereas we deem it expedient, that a Commission should
issue for the purpose of inquiring into the present system
of Recruiting our Army :
Now know ye, that we, reposing great trust and confi-
dence in your zeal, discretion, and ability, have authorised
and appointed, and by these presents do authorise and ap-
point, you the said Beaumont, Baron Hotham, Sir Alexander
John Thomas Leslie, John George Smyth, and
Peter Blackburn, to be our Commissioners, to enquire into
the present system of recruiting our army, with the view of
suggesting such changes in the existing regulations and
organisation of the recruiting department, as may tend to
facilitate the raising of men in a more expeditious, satisfac-
tory, and eeonomical manner, and to prevent desertion, and
fully and carefully to consider these important subjects, and
all matters relating thereto, which may appear to you to be
necessary.
And for the better discovery of the truth in the premises,
We do, by these presents, give and grant unto you,orstrner,
three or more of you, full power and authority to m
inquiry as aforesaid, either in London or at
to
the ako such
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Kingdom,depots, or other places of the United as your
judgments may seem best, and in the manner which you
may deem most expedient, and to call before you, or any
three or more of you, such persons as you shall judge neces-
sary, by whom you may be the better informed of the truth
of the premises, and to inquire of the said premises by all
other lawful ways and means whatsoever.
And we do further, by these presents, give and part
unto you, or any three or more of you, full power and our
thority, where the same shall appear to be requisite, to
administer an oath or oaths to any person or persons whom-
soever, to be examined before you, or any three or more of
you, touching or concerning the premises.
And we do further, by these presents, give and grant
unto you, or any, three or more of you, full power and
authority, to cause all persons to bring and produce before
you, or any three or more of you, all and singular records,
ooks, papers, and other writings, touching the premises,
which shall be in the custody of any of them.
And our further will and pleasure is, that you, or any
three or more of you, upon due inquiry into the premises,
do certify to us from time to time, under your hands and
seals; your several proceedings as the same shall be com-
plet6d, and do within the space of one year after the date
of these presents, or sooner, if the same can reasonably be,
Certify to us in like manner the whole of your proceedings,
under and by virtue of these presents, together with what
you shall find, touching or concerning the premises, upon
such inquiry as aforesaid, accompanied by such suggestions
for the amendment of the system at present in existence,
for recruiting our army, and the means by which recruits
may be more easily raised, and desertion prevented, as you
may have to offer.
And we further will and command, and by these pre-
sents ordain, that this our Commission shall continue in
full force and virtue, and that our said Commissioners, or
any .three or more of you, shall and may from time to time
proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and
thing therein mentioned, although the same be not con-
tinued from time to time by adjournment.
And we do hereby command, all and singular, and
Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables,
Officers, Ministers, and all other our living subjects whom-
soever, as well within liberties as without, to be assistant
to you, and each of you, in the execution of these presents.
And
.for your assistance in the due execution of this Our
Commission, We have made choice of Our trusty and well-
beloved John Milton, Esquire, to be Secretary to this Our
Commission, and as well to attend you, whose services and assist-
and other perzintshe services and assistance of such clerks
use
bay appear to you to be necesswa
require.ry,
We require you to use from time to time, as occasion shall
Given at Our Court at Osborne, this twenty-third day of
March, one thousand eight h d .un red and fifty-nine, in the
twenty-second year of Our reign.
By Her Majcsty's Comman'
(Signed) J. PEEL.

by purchase, vice Wheeley, promoted ; Ensign William
James Watson to be Instructor of Musketry.
10th Foot—Robert Munro Dickinson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Phillips, promoted ; Samuel Pre •
derick Poole, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Brouncker, appointed to the 24th Foot.
11th Foot--Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Moore to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-
Colonel Henry Keane Bloomfield, who retires upon half-
. pay ; Captain Thomas Peebles to be Major, without pur-
chase, vice Moore.
15th Foot—Lieutenant Walter G. Hawkins to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Fry, deceased ; Ensign Stewart
Davies D. Cartwright to be Lieutenant, without pur -
chase, vice Hawkins ; Serjeant-Major Joseph M'Murray
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cartwright
17th Foot--Lieut. Charles Gramme Grant to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Walton, deceased ; Ensign Robert
G. W. Wrench to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Grant.
22d Foot—Louis Richard Grismond Vaughan, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase.
23d Foot—Lieut. James De Vic Tupper to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Gillmore, who retires ; • Henry Francis
Hutton, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Gerard, promoted.
24th Foot—Henry Albert Harrisson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice O'Mahony, promoted.
38th Foot—Captain W. de W. Roche Thackwell, from the
39th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major A. C. Snod-
grass, who exchanges.
39th Foot—Brevet-Major A. Campbell Snodgrass, from the
38th Foot, to be Captain, vice Thackwell, who exchanges.
51st Foot—Lieut. Charles James Hughes to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Mitford, who retires; Ensign Robert
Norton Cobb to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hughes.
62d Foot—The Christian name of Captain Hunter is Ed-
ward only, and not Henry, as hitherto stated.
69th Foot—Ensign George Edward Bruce to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice Bulger, promoted in the 10th Foot.
71st Foot—Lieutenant John C. H. Poyer Callen to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Denny, who retires ; Ensign
John Henry Leslie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Callen.
73c1 Foot—Ensign James Trench Turner to be Instructor
of Musketry.
78th Foot—Lieutenant R. Cuninghame C. Graham, from
the 80th Foot, to be Lieutenant, Tice Ewing, who ex-
changes.
80th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Ewing, from the 78th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Graham, who exchanges.
85th Foot—George Robert Somerville Ramsbottom, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase.
94th Foot—Lieutenant William Plumer Gaskell to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Buchanan, who has retired.
96th Foot—Lieutenant George Kerr Ilallett to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Lowry, who retires; Ensign James
Morrison Kirkwood, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hallett.
Rifle Brigade—Sergeant-Major Christopher Johnston to be
Ensigo without purchase.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign John Moore to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Landon, who retires.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Ensign Ernest C. Wil-
ford to be Instructor of Musketry.
CAVALRY DEPOT.—Cornet Edward Pulleyne, of the Bth
Light Dragoons, to be Instructor of Musketry.
RECRUITINGDISTRICT.—BreVet-COlOrtelChas.Franklyn,
from the 84th Foot, to be Inspecting Field Officer, vice
Macpherson, promoted to the rank of Major •General.
ROYAL HOSPITAL (Kilmainham).—Assistant-Surgeon
Wm. Carte, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Physician
and Surgeon, with the local rank of Staff-Surgeon, vice Dr.
Macaulay.
PURVEYOR'S STAFF.--Purveyor's Clerk of the First
Class Edward Simpson to be Purveyor to the Forces, vice
Dalton, deceased.
CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.—To be Chaplains of the
Fourth Class.—The Revs. Frederick James Abbot, Michael
Cuffe, Thos. Malony, John O'Flaherty, Joseph M'Sweeney,
Joseph O'Dwyer, William George Morley, Robert Shep-
herd, James Hamilton, John Francis Browne, Thomas
Coghlan, Charles Morgan, Edmond Butler, Michael Hogan,
James Carey, and Richard Blake.
BREVET.—Captain Thomas Rattray, of the 6th Bengal
Native Infantry, to be Major in the Army.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
West Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieutenant
Oswald Augustus Smith to be Captain, vice Berens, de
Ceased ; Comet Charles Lawrie to be Lieutenant, vice
Smith, promoted ; Richard Benyon Berens, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Lawrie, promoted.
West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—George
A'Court Webb, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Thompson,
resigned ; Markland Barnard, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Hodges, resigned.
3d Regiment or King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
Charles Donaldson, Gent., to be Ensign.
Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery—
Second Lieutenant Augustus Walter Cruikshank to be First
Lieutenant, vice John Clervaux Chaytor, promoted.
City of Edinburgh Regiment of Artillery Militia—First
Lieutenant Herbert Jones Hughes to be Captain, vice
Home, struck off the strength of the establishment ; First
Lieutenant George Roland, jun., to be Captain, vice Fraser,
resigned ; Second Lieutenant Robert Nicol to be First
Lieutenant, vice Hughes, promoted; George Finlay, Gent.,
to be First Lieutenant, vice Roland, promoted ; George
Bowman, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Bruce, re-
signed.