The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-18 00:00:00

TBE ABMk.

The following officers who obtained their com-
missions of Lieutenants in the Royal Artillery on
the Ist inst. are posted as annexed. Those belong-
ing to batteries serving at home will join at their
respective stations on the Ist proximo, and the
remainder at Woolwich on that date, with the ex-
ception of Lieuts. Morier, Yeatman, Harrison, and
Bainbridge, who will hold themselves in readiness
to embark on the 4th of next month : —Chevaux
Morley, Ist Brigade, No. 8 Battery, Woolwich;
George Patrick Alston, 14th Brigade,No. 6 Battery,
India; James Gore Booth, 11th Brigade, No. 1
Battery, India; Robert M'Grigor Stewart, 3d Bri-
gade, No. 5 Battery, Plymouth; Henry George
Pilleau, 15th Brigade, No. 1 Battery, Gosport;
Thomas Charles Cooke, 3d Brigade, No. 3 Battery,
Plymouth; John Samuel Foster, 15th Brigade,
No. 6 Battery, Gosport; Charles Bent, 7th Brigade,
No. 7 Battery, Barbadoes ; Joshua Morris Saun-
ders, 3d Brigade, No. 6 Battery, Plymouth;
Arthur Godolphin Yeatman, 13th Brigade, No. 3
Battery, China; Frederick Wm. Lee Morier, 6th
Brigade, No. 5 Battery, Corfu; Henry Wm. Rooke,
15th Brigade, No. 2 Battery, Gosport; Geo. Chris-
topher Davie, 7th Brigade, No. 6 Battery, Halifax;
Henry Beauchamp Richard Harvey, 10th Brigade,
No. 5 Battery, Portsmouth ; Alexander Murray
Brown, 14th Brigade, No. 4 Battery, India; Wm.
M'Clintock, 11th Brigade, No. 6 Battery, India;
Pemberton Harrison, 13th Brigade, No. 3 Battery,
China; Edmond Bainbridge, 13th Brigade, No. 4
Battery, China.

By a general regimental order issued by the
Deputy-Adjutant-General, Col. Chas. Bingham, the
subjoined appointments and removals are an-
nounced in the Royal Artillery :—Lieut. R. P.
Waddington, to the Horse Brigade, vice Eden ;
Lieut. H. A. Mackey, of the 2d Brigade, is raised
to increased pay therein, vice Eden, promoted ;
Second Captain T. H. Pitt, having resigned his
appointment at the Royal Military Academy,
will do duty with Major Davis' Field Battery of
the Depot Brigade, at Woolwich, until further
orders. An exchange of batteries has been sanc-
tioned between Lieut. Farquhar, of No. 8 Battery,
4th Brigade; and Lieut. Toiler, of No. 2 Battery,
3d Brigade. The undermentioned officers have
been appointed Firemasters and Inspectors of War-
like Stores at the following stations—viz., Captain
M. Le Fer Taylor, at Cape Town, and Lieut. C. E.
H. Symons, at Ceylon; Lieut. H. Bond is trans-
ferred from No. 5 Battery. 15th Brigade, to No. 4
Battery, 13th Brigade, and is to hold himself in
readiness to embark for China on the 4th of Feb-
ruary next ; Capt. Eden, removed from Aldershott
to Gosport; Lieut. Waddington, removes from
Malta to Aldershott ; Lieut. Sadleir is transferred
from No. 7 Battery, 6th Brigade, to No. 2 Battery,
9th Battery, and is to join the latter at Ballincollig
forthwith.

After the annual and quarterly returns of bat■
teries, which will become due on'the Ist of January
and Ist of April, 1861, shall have been furnished,
no more such documents are to be rendered, but, in
lieu thereof, a half-yearly return is to be trans-
mitted to the officers commanding brigades, on the
let of April and Ist of October in each year (cont_
mencing with the return for the period from the
Ist of April to the 30th September, 1861), on the
War-office Form, " P, 36," revised, the first supply
of which will be made from this office to the diffe-
rent stations. This new form will render the War-
office Forms, "P 19, 36, 91, and 43" obsolete.
It is reported at Chatham garrison that a consil
derable reduction in the army will be made by the
Government at the end of the financial year, and
that the army estimates to be presented to Parlia-
ment are being prepared in accordance with that
intention. The details of the intended reduction
have not yet been announced, but it seems probable
that a complete rearrangement of the present
system of depot battalions will be made, the autho-
rities at the Horse Guards having already taken
the initiative by ordering each of the Indian depots
attached to the various battalions to be reduced to
half their former number. At the present time
there are 23 depot battalions within the United
Kingdom, each of which, with its numerous Staff,
is kept up at considerable expense, several depots
of regiments being attached to those battalions
where the headquarters are serving at other
stations at home.

Yesterday the commissioners:appointed to inquire
into the organisation and working of the Army
Hospital Corps, with Col. J. C. Kennedy, C. 8.,
president, arrived at Chatham garrison for the pur-
pose of prosecuting their investigations at the head-
quarters of the corps. The commissioners com-
menced their inquiry by visiting the offices of
Major S. G. Banbury, commanding the Army Hos-
pital Corps at Brompton, and spent considerable
time in inspecting the books and system of accounts
used in the corps. To-day the commissioners will,
it is expected, visit the generals hospital, Fort
Pitt, in order to observe the working of the Army
hospital corps at that large medical establishment.
The inquiry at Chatham is expected to extend over
several days. The members of the commission are
Col. J. C. Kennedy, C. 8., commandant of the Mi-

litary Train ; Deputy-Inspector-Gen. H. Mapleton;
M.D. ; Dr. Sutherland, one of the Army Sanitary
Commissioners; Surgeon W. J. Fyffe, M.D., sth
Dragoon Guards ; and Purveyor-in-Chief J. Scott
Robertson.

A notification has been issued by the Council of
Military Education, and forwarded to the several
commanding officers of cavalry and infantry regi-
ments, to the effect that the Secretary of State for
War has sanctioned the proposal made by the
Council, that the children of foremen, labourers,
officers' servants, canteen-keepers, and others of a
similar character who may be connected directly
or indirectly with the army, as well as the children
of deceased soldiers, should be admitted into the
military schools upon the payment of the sum of
3d. per week, a discretionary power being given to
the officer commanding at each station as to the

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number tobe thus admitted. The Secretary of State
for War also agrees with the recommendation of
the council that the children of civilians who are
not connected with the army should only he admit-
ted into the schools in special cases, when they
should be required to pay at the rate of ss. per
month.

The appointment of Major-Gen. G. Macdonald to
the colonelcy of the 96th Regiment will, according
to the rules of the service, place at the disposal of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge a good
service pension, of which Major-Gen. Macdonald
has been in receipt a great number of years, but
which he will cease to enjoy on being promoted to
be colonel of a regiment.

AIR. LOCKE, M.P. FOR SOUTRWARE,
AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.

Last evening a numerous attendance of the elec-
tors of the borough of Southwark took place at the
Bridge House Hotel, London-bridge, to hear from

Mr. John Locke, one of the members for the
borough, a statement of his views and opinions re-
specting the legislation of last session, and an ex-
planation of his conduct as regarded that legislation.
Dr. Challice, M.D., was called to the chair.
Mr. LOCKE came forward and was received with
great applause. That was the third time he had
appeared before them since he had been first re-
turned as a member for the borough to give an
account of his stewardship. He did not come
before them in that way in 1859, for owing to
the dissolution in that year he had had frequent
opportunities of addressing his constituents, and it
therefore became necessary that he should have
adopted a formal mode of stating his views and
opinions as regarded the legislation of that year.
The hon. member then proceeded to pass a warm
eulogium upon the public conduct of his late hon.
and gallant colleague (Sir C. Napier.) He and Sir
Charles had always acted together with unity of
purpose to promote the interests of the borough,
unless those interests came into collision with
those of the nation, and in such an event he was
sure that the electors of that borough w ould not ask
him or anyone who represented them in Parliament
to sacrifice the interests of the country to mere local
interests. (Hear, hear.) The only matter of a
public nature on which he and Sir Charles Napier
differed was that relating to the paper duties. His
(Mr. Locke's) opinion was, he believed, more in
accordance with the feelings of the people of South-
wark than was that of his late respected colleague,
but he honoured his late gallant friend for having
manfully defended his own views, believing them to
be right. (Hear, hear.) It was owing to the great
exertions of Sir C. Napier that the British navy
was at length placed in the perfect position that it
stood at present, and here he (Mr. Locke) might
observe that Englishmen of the present day were
as desirous of having their navy in as efficient a
state as when it was commanded by Drake, in the
reign of Elizabeth. (Hear, hear.) Upon the effi-
ciency of our navy depended the security of our
trade and commerce, as well as the prosperity and
freedom of this great community. (Hear, hear.)
Thanks, then, to his late colleague, their navy was
in a position to contend against any navy in the
world. (" No," from a person in the body of the
room.) Well, if the worthy elector doubted the
power of our navy, he should like to see the navy
of any other nation test the question with them.
(Hear, hear.) But he believed that so long as
they had an efficient navy, a brave body of volun-
teers, and a well-disciplined army, they need have
no fears as regarded foreign invasion. (Hear.)
Mr. Locke then referred to the recent election
which had taken place in the Borough to fill up
the vacancy caused in the representation by
the death of Sir Charles Napier. In that
election he took no part; because he felt that it
would not be consistent with his position to have
done so; but now that the election was over, ho
begged to say that he would have great pleasure in
acting in concert with his new colleague and join
with him, and the other independent members of
the House of Commons who sat below the gangway,
in voting for measures calculated to uphold freedom,
independence, and retrenchment. (Applause.) He
would now come to the business of the evening. It
was not necessary that he should dwell on the sub-
ject of the legislation of 1859. He might however
state that in that year he advised Mr. Disraeli to
give in his adhesion to the two resolutions moved
by Lord :John Russell on the subject of his (Mr.
Disraeli's) Reform Bill. The first resolution de-
precated the alteration proposed to be made with
respect to the 40s. freeholders residing in towns,
and the latter referred to the non-extension of the
suffrage in boroughs. In the first Mr. Disraeli gave
in his adhesion, but he declined to adopt the second,
and he went to the country upon his reform. The
result was that he was defeated, and the present
Government were placed in power. In the session
of 1859 he (Mr. Locke) was enabled to pass a bill in
referenee to weights and measures, which he believed
would be found to be a useful Act of Parliament.
He now came to the legislation of the year 1860.
In that year the Reform Bill was brought in by
Lord John Russell., It was certainly a small mea-
sure, and had been designated by Punch as" a poor
little Bill." (A laugh.) It was a measure that
certainly could not satisfy the constituency of
Southwark, seeing that with a population of
194,000 souls, they were only to have two members,
while small boroughs, many of which would not
have more than 300 electors, would have an equal
number of representatives in the House of Com-
mons. (Hear, hear.) Yet, notwithstanding all
the defects of the bill, he supported it because
it was a measure that went in the right direc-

tion. It had reduced the elective franchise from
£lO to £6, but it was defective
,because it did
not contain the lodger franchise. It was, how-
ever, got rid of, and much of this resulted from
the consideration which the house had to
give to the commercial treaty with France and the
budget. The treaty involved the consideration of
upwards of 100 articles of goods, and the budget
involved the bringing in of almost as many bills to
carry out matters to which the budget referred, and
when he recollected all the opposition which had
been given to the treaty and the budget by his
friends, the licensed victuallers, corkcutters, and
others, whose interests were supposed to be affected
by the proposals made by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer—he only wondered how the right hon.
gentleman was able to carry his measure through
the House of Commons. Well, but his friends the

icensed victuallers got frightened, and they wished

to stop the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the course
of his wild career. But why should the licensed
victuallers be so frightened so long as they had
such respectable and intelligent gentlemen con-
nected with their trade as his friend Mr. Harris,
who was then sitting near him ? They need not be
afraid that any Minister would be likely to do any-
thing that could really seriously affect their inte-
rests. (Hear.) And what were the licensed victual-
lers frightened at ? Why, they thought their inte-
rests were to be drowned by the quantity of yin
ordinare which was to come in from France under
the treaty of commerce been this country and France.
But notwithstanding the opposition thus given to
Mr. Gladstone, he pressed forward the clause rela-
tive to this matter, and now that the bill had be-
come the law of the land he believed that neither
his friend Mr. Harris, nor his other friends con-
nected with the licensed victuallers' trade, had any
great fear that the measure would affect their inte-
rests in any way whatever. (Hear.) The hon gentle-
man then referred to the question of the paper duty;
and, after referring to some of the objections to
that measure, said he had supported it because he
thought it was essential to the interests of the
country that paper should be relieved from the
duty that was placed upon it. He would, in the
course of the ensuing session, support a, bill to effect