The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-29 00:00:00

THE RECRUITING SERVICE.

The following general order haa just been promulgated
for the guidance of the officers and parties on the recruit..
ing service :-
1. The 36th clause of the Mutiny Act requiring that a per-
son offering himself to serve in her Alsjesty a land forces must
be attested at the place of enlistment, and by a magistrate
residing in its immediate vicinity, the attention of officers
employed on the recruiting service is particularly directed to
this enactment, in order that its provisions may be rigidly ad-
hered to, and all detached parties from the recruiting stations
instructed accordingly.
Although it is admitted that the system of detatching
small parties to towns at a distance from their head-quarters
carries with it much responsibility on the part of the re-
cruiting officer, yet it is considered that, with the exercise of
due care and caution, the parties detached might with little
risk, in most cases, cause the recruits to be attested, after
medical inspection, without first sending them to the te-
cruiting station; but to meet cases in which it may be eon
sidered absolutely necessary that the recruits should be seen by
the officer in charge of the party previously to their being
attested, the Honourable Board, by letter dated June 27,
18.15, have been pleased to sanction marching allowance
being granted to the recruits and the soldiers conducting
them for the number of days they may be actually billetted
upon and dieted by innkeepers, or the actual expense of the
conveyance, if not exceeding the amount of the marching allow-
ance from the place of enlistment, the claims for which are to
be kept quite distinct, so as not to interfere at all with the
charges previously sanctioned f,)r marching allowance, and pre-
pared on a separate voucher, the Hon. Board's order of June
27, 1t145, authorising the expense being invariably quoted;
and those charges only will be admitted in the public accounts
which are certified by the Deputy Adjutant-General to have
been unavoidable, and incurred for tiie benefit of the service.

3. As it is distinctly understood by officers in charge of re-
cruiting parties and those having beating orders, that when
parties are detached from their stations to places specified in
their routes, the parties so detached are not to send their de-
tachments to other places in such manner as to incur any charge
to the public, there being no authority by which such detach-
ments are sanctioned:

COURTS OF CONSERVANCY.—Yesterday three Courts
of Conservancy, for the c 'unties of Surrey, Essex, and Kent,
were held before the Lord Mayor, attended by Sheriffs Hun
ter and Sidney, Aldermen Sir C. Marshall, Musgrove,
Hooper, Humphery, the Recorder, Town-clerk, and other
City authorities. The first, for Surrey, at the Town-hall, had
been postponed from the previous Monday, in consequence
of the non-attendance of several jurors. On the presentation
of the jury being read, it showed that a great obstruction
was occasioned by the floating pier at Lambeth; that from
the complaints of the inhabitants in the vicinity a great
nuisance was caused by the London Gas Company, who are
accustomed frequently, in the dead of the night, to let off into
the river a quantity of noxious and offensive fluid, which
frequently caused such an intolerable stench as to drive
many of the inhabitants from their beds, while the conti-
nuance of such a practice must inevitably injure, if nut
totally destroy, the fishing in that part of the river. The
jury further expressed great regret that such nuisances as
Putney and Battersea-bridges were still allowed to remain,
without the slightest attempt to improve them being made,
The Recorder informed the jury that their presentment would
be referred to the proper quarter. The Court was then dis-
solved, and the Lord Mayor proceeded in state, as before,
to the Swan at Stratford, to receive the presentment of the
Essex jury, from whom, however, a slight obstruction at
Bow Creek was only noticed. The civic cortege then pro-
ceeded to Blackwell, and embarking on board his Lord-
ship's barge, attended by Captain Fisher (the harbour-
master), proceeded across the river to the Crown and
Sceptre, Greenwich, where the jury for the county of Kent
had assembled. This jury presented the pier at Erith as
an obstruction, and, further, that the navigation of the river,
off Wo.,lwich Dockyards, was very materially impeded by the
great number of her Majesty's vessels which were moored of
that spot. The jury having been here also assured that their
presentment should have due attention, were, as in all the
above cases, dismissed with thanks by the Learned Recorder
in a neat speech. Tho Court then partook of a banquet,te
including the accustomed delicacy of white bait, and h
Lord Mayor and suite afterwards returned to London
in
the state barge, which was towed by one of the Watermen '
steamers.

ARRIVAL OF THE 13T11 FOOT FROM INDIA.—Early
yesterday morning, the ship Cornwall arrived in the river off
Gravesend from India, with a portion of the 13th Regiment of
Foot, which, according to the list, has been on service in the Indian
territories for more than twenty-two years, having left this countr%
in January, 1823. This regiment, it wilt be remembered, greatly
distinguished itself during the recent Indian war, more especially
at Affghanistan, Ghuznee, J. ellalabad, and Caubul. In the COUTO
of the day the troops were disembarked, and proceeded to the depot
of the corps.

NEW IRON STEAMER.—Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill,
and Co., have launched from their building-yard at Blacktvall, for
the Peninsular and Oriental Company, a new iron steamer called
the Madrid, decidedly the finest vessel that has yet left the Or.
chard Wharf. Her burden is 450 tons; length, 160 feet between
the perpendiculars; width, 28 feet; depth of hold, 15 feet. She is
to be propelled by a pair of Miller and Co.'s beam-engines, of 140.
horse power, and is intended, we believe, to ply between Ceylon
and Hong-Kong.