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London, England, 1828-12-16 00:00:00

LONDON, TuEsDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1828.

portanee, was also ra)ed, and st►►nJ over fur the
decision of the Conanisioners.

A gentleman appeared to prove a debt of 680/., a
balance due to the Imperial Brazilian Mining Asso-
ciation. This Company bad ant charter, nor had
it the sanction of an Act of Parliament. Its atflirs
were managed by directors,, and in their name the
funds were placed in the Bank, and they only, or
some of them, had the -right to withdraw :dose.
funds. One of the. directors was the party now up-
plying to prove, in the name and by the authority of
the others.
A Creditor remaikel, that the directors were the
only parties whom the bankers had known the
transaction, and they were, the only parties whose
cheque for the money would be acknowledged.--
They, therefore, it was urged, shotild be alloWed to
prove by one of their own body, as they were the
only parties who appeared on the,bankers' boas as
the depositors.
The Commissioners • will give their decision on-
Wednaoday.
The meeting was then adionnied to that day.

THE ARMY.

REGULATIONS FOR TIIR (.05INIA Nll, GENERAL supitatN-

TENDENCE, AND MANAGEMENT, OP THE SERVICE AND

RESERVE COMPANIES OE REORIENTS ON FOREIGN

NTA TIM.: 9.

Horse Guards, Dec. 5.
Regiments.on foreign stations have been formed
into six service companies and four reserve com-
panies, for the purpose of affording the most effec-
tive means of rendering those aids to his Majesty's
Government, for which the military force is required
both abroad and. at home.
The 'service companies being employed for the
protection of- the colonies abroad,' must be kept as-
complete as circumstances will admit, by annual re-
inforcements. froni the reserve-companies; and the
reserve companies, while they are intended to afford.
the ready means of supplying the deficiencies occur-
ring in the_ companies abroad, must alse be rendered
available for dudes 'at hoMe.•
It is therefore highly important that the strictest
attention -on the part of offiCers shoidd be paid to
the formation of the soldiers at the reserve compa-.
nies, in order to render theta as efficient-as possible,
and applicable to the duties reqUired of them.
It is obviously,necessary that a due propOrtiOn of
officers should.at all times be effective with the re-
serve-ciainpaniei, for the care, superintendence, and
instruction of the men, and other general ditties.
All officers newly appointed are required to join the
reserve companies.
With 'respect to the command of the service ail
reserve companies, respectively, it must be con-
sidered as-a, standing rule (as expressed in former
Orders) that the post of the Commanding-officer is
with the head-quarters of the regiment ; and although
the General Commanding-in-Chief will be disposed
to grant' due consideration and indulgence to the
cases of such Commanding-officers of tegiments as
may return.- -home in, consequence of ill-health, or
after long-continued duty on foreign stations,. yet
every deviation from the principle laiddown must
be . considered one of. a temporary nature only,
arising from the necessity of the case, and on no
account to be drawn into a precedent to the disad-
vantage of the service.
The senior Major will, in the first instance, be
appointed to the charge and command of the re-
serve companies, and he will be held responsible
that all details are carried on, and all regulations en-
forced in the same manner as in the companies
abroad ; but it is to be understood that the Major
appointed to that duty is not to continue to he so
employed beyond two years, %viten he will be re-
quired to join the service companies, and the other
Major of the regiment will be authorised to return
borne, in.• order to assume the charge of the reserve

companies.
With a view to the regular and impartial distribu-
tion of the other officers of the regiment, to the pre-
vention of unnecessary expense to the public, by too
frequent an interchange of officers between •the ser-
vice and reserve companies ; and to -the maintaining,
by every possible means, the efficiency of both por-
tions of the cops, the following regulations are pre-
scribed, viz. :
A due proportion of officers and non-commissioned
officers will always be required to embark with the "
detachments which are sent out at fixed periods of
the year, to complete the service companies, so as to
admit of those whose health may require a change
of climate being permitted to return home.
Offieers obtaining permision to return home
through ill health, on medical certificates, are to re-
port themselves, immediately on their arrival, to the
Adjutant;General, in order that the General Cora-
-mantling-in-Chief may, upon a medical report on
their respective cases, determine what extent
.9f
leave of absence shall be greeted them, or require
them to Join the reserve companies, and that other
officers may be sent-out, when proper opportunities
offer, to replace them with the service companies,
according to the exigencies of the service.
Officers who are permitted to return home from
the service companies on specific leave of absence on
their private affairs, or at their own requests, are re-
quired to rejoin the service companies:, at their own
expense, within the periods for which leave of ab-
sence tnay be granted -them.
Officers who are permitted to return home from
the service companies for the purpose of retiring on
half-pay, or of quitting the service, are to report
theinselves, immediately on their arrival, to the Ad-
jutant-General, and also to the Military Secretary,,
and to state the purpose for which they have re-
turned : but such permission is ir. so case to be
granted to officers who apply to receive the regu-
lated difference on- exchanging from full to half-pay :
No specific leave of absence is to be granted to offi-
cers who are permitted to return home for the pur-
pose of exchanging from their regiments, or of quit-
ting the service, as such result will be immediate, if
a successor he forthcoming. If that should not be
the case, the period of leave to be granted to such
officers will be decided by the General Command-
ing-in-Chief, according to the circumstances of the
Aervice, after their arrival, and the grounds on which
'they wish to exchange, or to retire, shall have been
reported.
With a view to prevent any misunderstanding or
delay, when.orders are received for officers to pro-
ceed
to join the service companies, and in order that
every officer may be prepared to take his tour
of duty on foreign service, it is directed, that
a roster shall be kept of the officers of the several
ranks with the reserve companies, and that it be
considered as a general rule, that such officers as may
have been for the longest period at home, or absent
from the service companies, whether on leave, or
with the reserve .companies, shall be the first to pro-
ceed abroad, when required to accompany detach-
ments, or to supply vacancies which may occur in
the service companies.
To ensure a due observance of these orders, it is
directed, that on the left side of the names of the
captains, lieutenants, and ensigns, respectively, in the
monthly returns of the reserve companies, the figures
1,2, 3,4, &c., shall be inserted ill red ink, which
shall denote the regular succession of the officers of
each rank for duty abroad, when they may be called
upon for embarkation..
In cases of sickness, (properly certified), or other
vet), urgent and sudden emergency, preventing the
officer, of either rank, first for duty, from proceeding
on service, the officer next in turn of that rank must
be' substituted.
The subaltern officers, acting as paymasters and
adjutants to the reserve companies, are considered as
exempted from the operations f the roster for
foreign duty, so long as they shall be acting iii those
situations. It must be specified in the returns, against
the names of such officers, in which capacity they
are acting.
In the selection of men to complete the service
companies, and more especially those stationed in
, hot climates, attention must be paid -to the age 'and
constitution of the individuals, so that the draught
may consist, as far as possible,,of the ablest and most
seasoned recruits, and therefore best qualified to bear
the effects of a change of Climate.. The opinion of
the medical officer must of course be consulted in the
selection.

By command of the Right Hon. General Lord
Hill, Commanding-in-Chief,
HERBERT TAYLOR, Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDER.
• Horse Guards, Nov. 28.
The Master General and Board of Ordnance hav-
ing represented that considerable damage is done to,

the ceilings of the lower stories of the soldier's bar.
ack rooms, by the careless mid violent manner

in which the iron bedsteads 'are- turned down
upon the floors above, the General Commanding-in-
Chief enjoins commanding officers to cause due cau-
tion to he observed in this respect,and.apprizes them
that henceforth all damages which shall appear to
have been done to .the barrack ceiling by a con-
tinuance of the careless practice beirein complained
of, will be charged against the troops.
To obviate this evil, the non-commissioned officer
in charge of each room must be Ordered to superin-.
tend the turning down of the bedsteads at a fixed
hour in the evening.
By order of the Right Hon. General Lord Hill;
Corninanding-in-Chief,
HERBERT TAYLOR, Adj.-Gen.

SUIPPINO INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

SOMAS*, DFCEMSE It 14.--Wind E. S. E• —High
water 59 minutes past two.—Arrived the Gt:o.
Canning, BeSsari, film Smyrna ; De Jonge Goose, El-
berth, from Salon ; Thomas Hyde,. Reay, from Jamaica;
Fountain, Baldry, from Trieste; from.-Ja•
maim ; Gent, Srotland, from Fayal; 13itminE;ham,
Iburii, from Npv York. -
The Baiiihridgo, frZnt Miramichi to Liverpool, run on
the Elias, ycstertlay„ about a mile south of South Stacks—
Crew med. •