The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-18 00:00:00

THE OFF-RECKONING FUND.

' Fort William, July 29, 1825.
The Governor-General in Council is phased to direct, that
the following Extract of a General Letter from the Iformur.khlo:
the Court of Directors, in the Military Departmert, um'er date
the 23d March, 1825, be published in General Orders
" Para. 2 With reference to our orders, on the futura
cession of Officers to the benefit of the Off-reckoning Fund, we
find it necessary to direct, that the amount of the annual udvance
to be made to Officers, who may succeed to Half Shires between
the Ist May, 1024. and theist May, 1820, shall be the ',tone na
they would have received on the old system,' laarriLly, 543/. from
the Fund, so long as they would have continued on the Junior
hist, and that 750/. shall be the amount of the advance from
the date when they would have passed through this LW; or
this last advance, 400/. is to be made by the Fund, and 3501.
from our Treasury.
" 3. Those who succeed to Half Shares after the lit
1826, and who will not be entitled to the benefits of Compensa-
tion for the difference between half and a full share, are to re-
ceive an advance from the Fund at the rate of 4001. per nun.
" IVA!. CASEM ENT, Lieut.-Colonel,
" Secretary to Govt. Military Dept."

The Ist and 2d Divisions of the 2d Battalion Of the Rifle
Brigade embatked, on the 10th instant, on board the Cato and
Iriliilie transports, and the 3d Division of the same corps cm.
barked, on the 11th instant; on board the Sovereign transport
at'Cork, for Malta.
A Detachment, consisting of Officers and Privates belonging
to •different Regiments in the- West Iniies, embarked on the
15th instant, at Cowes, for the purpose of joining their respec.
tive Corps. ' •
The Ist .Division of the Depot of the OM Regiment of In-
fantry bits arrived, on board the Zephyr transport, at Chatham,
from Tynetnou '

From Last Night's Gaz ETTE.
Office of Ordnance Jan. 14, 18211.
Corps of Royal Sappers and kiners—Second Captain Edw.
Matton, of the Corps of Royal Engineers, to be Adjutant, vice
Jones, who resigns the Adjutantey.

INDEPENDENT GAN COMPANY:—. Yefitorday a
few persona attended at Garraway's, in consequence of a notice
that several of the Share* in the Independent (sea Company
were to be sold by auction, by Mr. MU SG ROV E. fl :.alp
was expected to take place at one o'clock. About ten to hires
after that hour Mr. Musgrove entered the room, and informed
the cold assembly that be ought to apologise to them for Mit
l Aping advertimesl whet bad thicen place with respect to the
Shares, Of the sale of which he had given notice for that day ;
but he really had not an opportunity. The fact was, the Gas
Shares hail been said the day before,—( A laugh.)—One of the
meeting—You may lock the box, Mr. 31uigrove....41r. Ai us-
G nov E-4 am sorry if any (lentlernan is disitppointki, but it
was impossible for me to give notice of the sale that ham taken
place.—The Gentlemen who were in attendance then walked
away laughing.

VIGO BAY SCrivnt:.---The following, relative
to the above scheme, is from the courier Francais :—" If the
details transmitted by our Correspondent from Spain be correct,
as we have reason to believe they are, they will produce as much
disappointment to' the shareholders ofi the Vigo Bay Company
in' England as to the Spanish Government. :according to, let.
ters lately received from that city, the parties engaged in there.
searches in Vigo Bay have lost all hopes of recovering the Money
sunk in the galleons. is appears, that the undertaking was
commenced a little too hastily on the faith of the representations
of William Cox and some others, But, after some attempts,
suspicions were excited that these representations were not
exactly correct ; and recently a manuscript has been found at
Vigo, which has dissipated what trifling hope remained. This
manuscript, which is written with no elegance of style, but
which bears the stamp of truth, is said to be the production of
a mere mechanic, a joiner, who was an eye witness of the battle
between the English fleet and the Spanish squadron. He
relates, that the Spanish Adtniral, finding himself attacked
by the English at the very entrance of the port, landed
all the money he had on board the galleons, and ordered it
to be conveyed in waggons into the interior of the country.
After having taking this precaution, he set. fire to the galleons,
to prevent them from falling into the hands of the English.
They, however, having learned the direction in which the trea-
sure was going, made a descent at liedondela, attacked the
escort, and captured the greater part of it, the rest was pillaged
by the peasantry in the neighbourhood, who were drawn to the
spot by the expectation of booty. Our Correspondent adds to
these details, that the manuscript in question has appeared so
important and authentic, that the Government has officially
demanded it from the Authorities at Vigo."

ETYMOLOGY or Til it Won n EYE.--The Jewisb
Doctors have a curious fable cqncerning the etymology of the
word Eve. " Eve," say they, " comes from a word wlnth
signifies to talk ; and she was so called, because, soon after the
Creation, there fell from Heaven twelve baskets full, of chit
chit, and she picked up tine'of thetn, while poor Adam picked
up the other three."