The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-22 00:00:00

THE ARMY,

ALTERATIONS IN DRESS AND EQUIPMENT
OF THE Alt Nil%
MEMORANDUM.

horse Guards, Dec. 11, 1845.
Her Majesty having been pleased to approve of the
following alteration in the dress and equipment of the
army, with a view to the health and comfort of the
troops, the necessary patterns have been sealed and de-
posited at the Office of Military Boards, for the regula-
tion of future supplies: viz.:-
1. A more pliant and elastic description of leather
stock is to be worn throughout the army, which it is
ascertained can be furnished at the same price as the
stiff one hitherto in use.
2. Thick cotton shirts are to be subAituted for linen in
all climates, by which a considerable saving of expense
will be effected.

3. It is intendel that white linen or duck trousers, the
use of which has already been discontinued in the cavalry,
should no longer be worn by the infantry within the
United Kingdom, or in the North American provinces,
or on other cold or variable stations, but that trousers of
a light worsted mixture, of the same texture and quality
as those in use in Highland regiments, be submitted for
summer wear, continuing the use of linen or cotton in
the Mediterranean, the East and West Indies, and in all
tropical or hot climates.

It has been ascertained that the cost of trousers of
this description need not exceed 65., and as only one
pair at a time will be required, this alteration will also
be in favour of the soldier.

Lastly, an improved and more convenient mode of
slinging and carrying the tools and implements of
pioneers has been established, which will not in any
manner increase the charge against colonels of regi-
ments.

Stocks and shirts of the newly approved description
are to be gradually introduced as those now in wear
become unserviceable, and regiments having these arti-
cles of necessaries of the old pattern in store, under the
provisions of her Majesty's warrant, of the 4th May,
1844, will be at liberty to issue them to the
non-commissioned officers and men until the
whole shall have been expended ; but, in order
to preserve uniformity, it will be necessary that the
whole of each regiment commence the wear of worsted
trousers at the same time, and this will be accomplished
as early in the course of the ensuing season as they can
conveniently be prepared; care being taken that recruits
joining in the meantime are not provided with trousers
of duck or linen.

Although specially adapted for wear during the sum-
mer months, worsted trousers are to be worn on the
march at all seasons, but must be changed for cloth ones
immediately on the arrival of the troops in their quar-
ters, at the termination of each day's march. Soldiers
proceeding by railway or by steam-vessels are, however,
to wear cloth trousers throughout the year.
The sashes or girdles of the pattern prescribed for
sergeants of infantry by the memorandum of the 6th
of August last, being only half the price of those hitherto
worn, are to be furnished, if necessary, every third year,
an arrangement by which colonels of regiments will not
be subject to any expense beyond what they have hitherto
been liable to on that account.
By command of
Field-Marshal the DUKE of WELLINGTON,
Commander-in-Chief. ,
(Signed) JOHN MACI)ONALD. Adjutant-General.

ADYERTISEMENT.)—A WONDERFUL CASE OF AN
ATTESTED CURE or DROPSY BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND
OINTMENT.—Copy of a letter from Mr. Thomas Taylor, Che-
mist_ " Stockton, April 17th, 1845. Sir,—Mrs. Clough, the
wife of Mr. John Clough, of Adam, a respectable farmer,
had been suffering from dropsy for five years, and had the belt
medical advice without receiving any benefit. She had heard
of your pills and ointment. and used them with such surprising
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DUNSTER.—SiNGuLA4 ExpLorrs or A 1-lARE.—in hut previously she had been given up as incurable. Signed—
the village of Carhampton, on Thursday last, a hare, having Thomas Taylor." Sold at Professor Holloway's Establish-
been started from the fields, ran into the street, where she ment, 244, Strand, and by all respectable vendors of Medicine
soon got a number of the villagers about her • she then turned throughout the civilized world.
into a ceurtlage of Mr. Copps, and got on the roof the dwell- ALARMING FIRE IN ADAM-STREET, ADELPHI.—
ing-house of John Ilaydon ; thence puss jumped to the Sunday night, shortly after nine o'clock, a fire, attended with
ground, a height of about fourteen feet, and then ran through considerable damage, broke out in the spacious pile of
the various streets of the village, and at last, being closely buildings belonging to Mr. Edward Lewis, a solicitor, situate
pursued, she ran into the ox-court, and through the various
at No. 7, Adam-street, Adelphi. Mr. Lewis, at the time of
ox-cribs of Mr. J. Thorn. Here it. was thought she must the disaster, had upwards of 2,000/. worth of property in the
submit to capture, but her pursuers were mistaken, for she building, but, fortunately, what is burnt mid dernageil will
nably cleared a stone wall, seven feet in height, and bade be covered tiv all ie,kiirttnea 111 the Suit Firc-uillee. 'fife .o-
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ihspatches were reecivta au 6utui ch.i. at the Colonial- i the utmost% keeping time many thousands of spectators out
office from the Governors of the West Witt Colo pies, lof the way n. the firemen.