Star.
London, England, 1831-06-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A Military Board, consisting of cavalry officers, sat on
Monday at the Cavalry Department Office, Whitehall, to
decide upon the propriety of adopting the new cavalry field.
movements of Major-General Sir Hussey Vivian, or of still
continuing the practice of those of Dundas, which have been
in use throughout the service since 1796. Viscount Com-
bermere presided at the Board. Among the other officers
present were Gen. Fane, Major-Gen. Sir Colquhoun Grant,
Colonel Thukwell, 13th Hussars, Colonel Stistead, 3d Light
Dragoons, Colonel Kearney, late of the 6th Dragoons, and
Colonel Lord Loughborough, of the 9th Lancers.
Major Smith, who imitated the example of the Athlone
corporator, in refusing to light up his house, is Brigade
Major there, a situation he received six months ago from the
pres.nt Government. He previously held a similar appoint.
ment in Dublin, which was abolished last year. Major
Smith was, during the fever of Brunswickism on the Ca-
tholic question, one of the most violent opponents of the
Duke of Wellington's administration.
The depot of the 73d Regiment of Foot, it is expected,
will shortly remove from Truro to Dcvonport.
The Long.room Barracks being vacated by the South
Devon Militia, oa Tuesday the 87th Irish Fusileers from'
Devonport, and on Wednesday the 220 from the citadel, re-
moved into these quarters.
Thursday the last division of the 79th Foot arrived at
Aberdeen from Newhaven, and immediately joined the main
body of the depot In barracks. The 79th was relieved by
part of the 47th, or Hereford Regiment, from Plymouth.
The 17th Lancers, stationed in Limerick, have received
the route for Cork, and were to have marched thither on
Monday. They are to be replaced by the 6th Carbineers.
The detachments of the 17th in Clue still remain.
The depot of the Rifles is stationed at the Pigeon-house.
The depot of the 29th at Beggar's Bush. The Lancers, 30th,
and 92d, in the Royal Barracks. The 70th in Richmond
banacks, and the Enniskilleners at Portobello.

The Lord Lieutenant lost one of his medals at the review
in the Park, on Saturday.
The 10th Hussars, 43d, and GOth, are now stationed at
Manchester.

The following officers of regiments just returned from
India will be placed on half-pay :—Royals: Lieut. Col.
Campbell ; Lieutenants Lucas, Dalrymple, Thompson, and
Dalton, 14th Foot ; Lieutenants Dorner, Johnson, Grearson,
De Vernet, Otto, and Graves ; Ensign Senior, 89th ; Lieut.
Colonel 111‘Caskil ; Lieutenants Kingston, Graham, Pole,
White, and Wilson.

Recruiting is still going briskly on in Edinburgh for the
92d Highlanders ; and as the officers ate so remarkably cir-
cumspect and punctilious with their recruits, some time is
likely to elapse before they complete the number required.
THE ARMY IN INDIA.

The Dacca provincial battalion disbanded on the Ist
of January, in conformity with the Instructions furnished to
the Commanding Officers; the Adjutant and European non-
commisioned staff of the battalion being placed at the dis-
posal of the Commander in Chief.
The Military Board at Fort William was re-organized on
the Ist January ; the Board to consist of the Chief Engineer,
the Commandant of Artillery, Chief Magistrate of Calcutta,
and two stipendiary military members ; and to controul the
ordnance, public works, canal and embankment, commissa.
riat, and stud departments. The officers appointed to the
Board are, Lieut.-Colonels A. Galloway and J. Craigle, with
salaries (2,250 Sow rupees each month ; Capt. (}.Young,
70th-N.I. secretary; and Captain Gowan, of the Artillery,
assistant ditto.

The Mundlaisin local battalion au also disbanded on the
Ist of January. The Aulstant.Surgeon is for the present
retained, to perform the medical duties of the Nimur district.
....

The Court of Directors have directed the issue of sashes
to be once in every four years, instead of triennially. as
hitherto. The next issue will be in 1832, in advance until
1836.
The 9d and 4th Native Veteran Battalions were die.
banded on the 31st December, and the Ist and 2tl Native
Veteran Battalions were re-organized from the same date, to
consist of 10 comparies of 1,000 privates.
An order in Council, dined Fort St. George, Oct. 26, fixes
the same batta for Veterinary pupils u is authorised for
medical pupils.
A riding-school has been established at Bangalore, for
training young officers arriving from England ; their riding,
drill exercise, &c. Capt. Wilkies. 7th Regiment, L. C. is
appointed superintendent of the school, who is to draw the
pay and allowances of the young officers.
An order of the Court of Directors extends the term of ser-
vice of General officers on the staff of the Presidency of Ma-
dras, from four to five years.
The term" Northern division of the army" is in future to
be substituted for that of " Surat division of the army."
A Court-martial was held at Saugau, India, on the 23d of
September, 1830, of which Lieutenant• Colonel Note, of the
16th Regiment, was President, for the trial of Serjeant-
Major Duffey, 71st Native Infantry, for disobedience of
orders, in not quitting Colonel Warden's bungalow when
commanded, and, when taken away, for having returned to
it ; for other disgraceful and disrespectful conduct, and for
threatening expressions. He was found guilty of three of
the charges, and sentenced to be reduced to the rank of a
private. The Court accompanied their sentence with a re-
commendation of the prisoner on account of the great aggra-
vation he had received. Earl Dalhousie, the Commander-
in-Chief, remitted the punishment, and added the following
remark :—' That the misconduct of the Serjcant arose from
the very reprehensible interference of Lieut. Colonel Warden
with the domestic concerns of the non-commissioned Euro-
pean Staff under his command." _

The Prince of Joinville arrived at Ajaccio, in
Corsica, on the 26. h of May.

We are informed by a letter from Stockholm,
datcd Nay 20, that the King of Sweden was so ill with the
fever that it was found necessary to publish bulletins of his
health.

Private letters from Poland recommend not to
credit either the Russian bulletins or the Prussian accounts
of the progress of the Lithuanian insurrection. It is extend-
ing rapidly, u well as that in Podolia, Volbynia, and
Ukraine.
The report of the cholera marlins having mani-
fested itself in Berlin and Hungary, wu circulated in the
Rhenish provinces. Tne Berlin Gazelle of the 30th, and
the Austrian (Ammer mention nothing of that circumstance.
M. Aguado left Paris for London, on Monday,
in consequence of instructions he received from the Minister
of Finances of Spain, to conclude, if possible, an mange-
meat with some hullers of this metropolis. It is thought
that he will be litre only tour days.

M. Aubernon, th. prefect of Versailles, writes
to the editor of the Journal des Debate to deny any comp'.
tag against Louis Philippe having been discovered, or ex-
isted in that place, the day of the King's fete.
M. Mane, editor of the Tribune, was sentenced
by the Court of Assizes of the Seine to three months' im-
prisonment, and 3,000 francs fine, for an article published
by that Paper, In which it was stated that " with the pre-
sent law of election there was liberty or equality of rights only
for the rich t that the rest of the people were mere canaille,
and that from being the helots of the King imptued upon
than by the Cossacks, they had become betas to the King
of the both-aides."