The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

tiONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.
Masoit-GssERAL-.--Turner, Royal African C. 41. Corps Sierra
Leone.
linan, half-pay Foreign Vet. Battalion, Hameln.
CArrants—Dawson, of late Ist Veteran Battalion, Chelsea
Hon. H. D. Shore, half-pay unattached ; half-pay 6tl:
Foot, Stepney ; Scleicher, half-pay 3d Line German Legion,
Mariendrebber, Hanover.
LiauTrwArrs--Kelso, 13th Dragoons, Hydrabad, Madras;
Hon. F. Forbes, 17th Foot, Edinburgh; Ferrar, 41st Foot, Bur-
mese Territory ; Madigan, 46th Foot, Calcutta ; George Carson,
68th Foot, Devonport ; Olpherts, 9th Foot ; Robertson, African
Col. Corps, Sierra Leone ; Fitcher, half-pay 88th Foot; Dob-
son, half-pay 6th Foot, Isle of Man ; Gilbert, half-pay 21st Foot,
Turuford, Herta; Horner, half-pay 14th Foot; Hon. G. Bla-
quiere, half-pay 14th Foot ; Alexander, half-pay 70th Foot;
half-pay sth Garrison Battalion, Inch, Queen's County.
Er.srarol—Philpot, Newfoundland Vet. Co. Newfoundland ;
Sewell, of late 7th Vet. Butt. London ; Coghlan, half-pay 37th
Foot, Rathmines, County Dublin ; Massey, ball-pay 91st Foot,
Dublin.
ADJUTANT.Swyny, half-pay 121st Font, Ennis.
QUARTER-MASTERS--Stewarty Royal Artillery ;
half-pay Ist Fatale Cavalry, Tullamore: Keyte, half pay Ist
Dragoons.
COMMISSARIAT DE?.—Assist. Corn. Gen. Benomi, London;
Dep. Assist. Corn. Gen. Lloyd, Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay
Dar.—Apoth. Stuart, Edinburgh.
BA/MACK Mr.—Kenny, Bantry, Ireland.

(CIRCULAR.)
Wu-Office, 24th May, 1826.
Sist....-The Acts of the sth Geo. IV. cap. 74, and the 6th
Geo. IV. cap. 12, having enacted, that from and after the Ist of
January, 1826, the British statute mile, consisting of 1760 yards,
shall be the only legal mile throughout the United Kingdom; I
am directed by the Secretary at War to acquaint you, that all
lowancee connected with the marches of the troops in Ireland,
which are chargeable at certain rates per mile, are to he calcu-
lated according to the number of British statute miles, instead of
wording to the number of Irish miles, as heretofore.
I have, &c.
(Signed) W. MERRY.
The Officer commanding Regiment of

We understand his Majesty has been graciously
pleased to signify his permission to have his name en-
rolled as the Patron of the Western Literary and
Scientific Institution.
On Tuesday the Duke of York had a grand din-
ner party, at his residence in South Audley-street, to
meet their Royal Highnesses the Princess Augusta,
the Duchess of Kent, and Prince Leopold. Among
the company were, the Princess Feodore, the Duke
and Duchess of Northumberland, the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford,

&c: &c.
Yesterday the Princess Sophia visited the Duke of
York.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited the
King yesterday.
The Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Sophia
visited the Princess Augusta yesterday.
Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, Prince Leo-
pold, attended by Baron Stockmar and Sir Henry
Seton, left his residence in Pall-mall, in his travelling
carriage and four, for Dover. His Royal Highness s
suite followed in two carriages and four. From Dover
his Royal Highness- will cross over to Calais, and
proceed to Paris, whence, after making a short stay,
he will proceed to Saxe Cobourg, on a visit to his
mother, the Duchess of Saxe'Cobourg. His Royal
Highness took leave of the King on Sunday, previous
to his departure.
The Earl of Westmoreland transacted business yes-
terday at the Foreign-office.
Yesterday Lord Maryborough and the Right Hon.
Sir Charles Long had audiences of his Majesty.
The Judge-Advocate laid before the King, yester-
day, some proceedings of courts-martial, and took his
Majestv's commands upon the same.
On 'Tuesday night Mr. Akerboni, a Messenger,
was despatched from the Colonial Office to the lonian
Islands.•
Yesterday morning a Messenger of the same name,•
and brother to him who left London on • Tuesday
night, arrived at the Secretary of State's Office for
Colonial Affairs, with despatches from the lonian
Islands for Earl Bathurst.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Captain Thomas Francis
Balderston, of the ship Asia, took leave of the Court
previous to departing for Bengal direct.
Lake House, Cheltenham, so much admired for
its elegance and beauty of grounds and situation, was
yesterday submitted to the hummer, at the Auction
Mart, by Mr. Williams, who, in an able and elabo-
rate statement, said it had cost the late proprietor,
Thomas Tomihme, Esq., in erecting and decorating,
30,0001. It was knocked down, however, at 10,29(11.
The room was attended by a most fashionable com-
pany. Mr. Williams, in the course of • his observa-
tions, stated, that land in Cheltenham, which a few
years ago sold at 30/. per acre, had lately produced
1,7001. the acre.
The Ladies' sale of useful and ornamental work for
time benefit of the Distressed Spitalfield Weavers,
closed yesterday. The proceeds have exceeded the
most sanguine expectations of the Ladies who have
so laudably exerted themselves for this benevolent
purpose.
NEW PEERS.—We hear, on authority on which
we can place reliance, that the following distinguished
persons are to be raised to the British Peerage :—Lord
Balcarras, Mr. James Stuart - Wortley, Mr. Charles
Rose Ellis, Mr. Duncombe, Sir John Leicester, Sir
Charles Stuart, Sir Charles Long, Lord Northland,
and the Lady of Sir H. Halford. We also under-
build that the mother of the Right Honourable Vesey
Fitzgerald is to be created an Irish Peeress, and that
he is to succeed Sir Charles Long as Paymaster of
the Forces. There being no precedent of a physician
being raised to the British Peerage, and it being the
gracious intention of his Majesty to ennoble time family
of Sir Henry Halford, it has been found necessary,
for
• time aocomphshment of that purpose, to confer the title
upon Lady Halford.—Represenintive.
Mr. Brougham last night appeared to be bursting
, with impatience for au opportunity of presenting some
petitions to the House ; but unfortunately for the
execution of his project, he found Mr. Grenfell iu
possession. Various conjectures arc abroad as to the
object of his petitioners. A correspondent says, that
some prayed that the bribery resolutions may not be
allowed to apply to , Wincbelsea ; hut we doubt the
fact ; all we know of time matter it, that When the
Usher came in with the rod, the members brushed off
to the Lords, and Brotigham did not like it.