Star.
London, England, 1825-03-30 00:00:00

THE. ARMY.

The Ist Royal Dragoons, with the exception of one squadron
are to embark froM Scotland fur Ireland on the 14th April. The
squadron which is to be left behind will be relieved by the sth I)ra
goon Guards.

(CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM)*
HORSZ GUARDS, 25111 MARCH, 1823.
His Majesty's Government having decided on an augmentation
to the Infantry of the Army, his Royal Highness the Commander-
In-Chief has been pleaSed to direct, that the following rzvision of
the existing' Establishment and distribution of its Force shall take
place accordingly.
Each Battalion of Infantry in the United Kingdom, as well as all
those on Foreign StatiOns (the East Indies excepted) to consiat of

Six Service Companies at 86 Rank and File . 516 740
And Four Depot Companies at 56 Rank and File V. 24 S

The Depots of such Regiments as are serving at house to con-
tinue united with their respective Battalions.
The Dputs of Regiments on foreign 'stations (the East Indies
excepted) to be formed into Provisional Battalions, and stationed
agreeably to the iistribution laid down hereafter.
Regiments serving in the East Indies to continue on their pre-
sent establishment—those in future proceeding to India, to be aug-
mented to the Indian Establishment of eleven Companies, and to
carry with them their Depots, leaving only the usual Establish-
ment of a Recruiting Company in this country.
The Establishment of the Service Battalion, and the Depot
Companies to be as follows:
Six Service Companies of 86 rank and file each.
1 Colonel
1

Quarter-Matter Serjeant
1 Pay-Master Serjeant
1 Armourer Serjeant
1 Schoul-Master Serjeant
Hospital Serjeant
6 Colour Serjeants
18 Serjeants
1 Drum Major
9 Drummers and Fifers
24 Corporals
492 Privates.,

1 Major
6 Captains
8 Lieutenants
4 &signs
1 Paymaster
1 Adjutant
1 Quarter-Master
1 Surgeon
1 Assistant Surgeon
1 Serjeant-Major
Four Dep6t Companies
1 Major
4 Captains
4 Lieutenants
"4
Ensigns
4 Colour Serjeants
The Provisional Battalions formed by the Depots of Regiment
on Foreign Stations, (the Fast Indies excepted) to be embodied in
the proportion of Three Depots or Twelve Companies to each
Battalion, as nearly as possible according to the Stations where the
Battalions are serving.

56 Rank and File each.
8 Serjeants
4 Drummers and Fifers
12 Corporals
212 Privates.

The Staff for the Provisional Battalions so formed to consist as
follows :
I Surgeon
1 Assistant Surgeon
1 Acting. Adjutant
I Acting Quarter-Master
1 Acting Serjeant-Major
1 Acting Quarter-Master Serjt.
The mode to be adopted fir the payment of these Battalions, and
the respective Depots of which they are composed, will be the sub-
ject of a future arrangement.
The Commander-in-Chief has been further pleased to approve of
the following• places as the Head-quarters for the Depots of Regi-
ments on foreign service till further orders.

t 11141). IUARTIRS OF DIPOTL
Chatham and Sheerness
Landguard Fort, Harwich
• . Weedon
. . Plymouth
. . Portsmouth, Gosport
. . Wiuchester, Chichester
. . Edinburgh. Glasgow
. . Isle of Wight

1 Acting Pay-Master Serjeant
1 Acting Hospital Serjeant
Acting Arntourer Serjeant
1 Acting School-Master Serjeant
1 Acting Drum Major.

POSSUM STATIONS.
Ceylon
Mauritius
New South Wales
Cape of Good Hope
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
North America

Jamaica
Leeward Islands

The East India Regimental Depot Companies to be also in the
Isle of Wight until further orders.
Whenever a Regiment is ordered on Foreign Service, its Depot
to be separated from it, and embodied in the Provisional Battalion
of the Station to which it proceeds, in exchange for that of the
Battalion it may relieve.
Battalions abroad to be directed to send home their Supernume.
raries of each rank, to assist in forming the Depots, taking care not
to reduce the effective Rank and File fit for duty below 516.
They will select the Non.Commisaioned Officers most fit for the
duties of the Depot, and fill their places by promotion in the
Battalion.

The same arrangements to be made by Commanding Officers of
Regiments at Home, tbeDepots of which will be at once,nominally,
formed at the respective Head Quarters, although they may con-
tinue attached to the Regiments, as forming a Battalion of Tea
Companies.

All Officers attached to Depots by transfer, promotion, or from
half-pay, to repair at once to the Depot stations, or within eight
weeks after appointment.
The distribution of Officers to Battalions and Depots, after the
latter shall have been established, to be made by the Commanding
Officers, subject to the approbation of the Commander-in-Cbief.
Officers obtaining leave of absence, on account of their health
requiring a change of climate, to join the Depot on their arrival is
this country, (unless specially dispensed with by the Commander-
is-Chief,) and to be replaced by Officers from that establishment.
Officers exchanging from one Regiment to anotk.er, to take the

place' of the Officers with whom they exchange, whether in the
Battalion or in the Depot, and to take the same tour of duty with

either, except dispensed with by the Commander-in-Chief.
Officers belonging to Regiments which have recently embarked
for foreign service, and who have obtained leave to remain at home,
to repair at once to the Depot, and be the first on the list for
embarkation, to replace such Officers as may come home on sick
or other leave, or with invalids.
All Ensigns, on their first appointment, to join the Depots.
The Commander-in-Chief having deemed it desirable to suspend,
for the present, the appointment of Officers to the Depots of the
Corps named in the margin,• his Royal Highness has been pleased
to direct that until these appointments take place, the Recruits of
the Depots thus circumstanced shall be assisted and formed by the
body of the Regiments to which they are attached
By command of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief,
HENRY TORRENS, Adjutant-General.
• Bth Foot. 17th do. 24th do. 26th do. 34th do. .53d do.. stub
do. 60th do. 1 B. 61st do. 62d10. 65th do. 72d do. Tad do. 75th do.

MILITARY PROMITIONS.
Commisaions in the Wh or Royal Regiment of Ayrshire Militia,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayr.

DaVirl leanly, Es¢ to be Captain, vice Eqei, appantett to the
Lin* ; Ansel 'Hood, &gab be ditto, Vice Aloherieff, deceased.
Commission In the Holnapierrepoint Troop of Yeomanry &vary,
. signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Nottingham
The Right Honourable Charles Evelyn Pietrepoint, commonly
called Littd Viscount Newark, to be Captain Commandant.
Commission isi the South Hants Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Southampton.
Cornet Harry St. John Neale to be Lieutenant, V. Wencott, resigned
GENERAL ORDER.
Head-quarters, Calcutta, Sept. :10, 1844.
His Bicellency the Commander.in.Chief takes the earliest op-
portunity of drawing to the notice of the Regiments composing
his Majesty's Army in India, a ,General Order, dated at the Horse
Guards, the tali of October, 1824, to which regulations are an-
nexed eanietning the appointment of persons to Commissions in the
Army, the prices of Commissions, the purchase and sale of Regi-
mental Commissions, &c. &c. and his Excellency will hold ad Of-
ficer. commanding Regiments, and other Officers with may be con-
cented, strictly Pesponsihle that the instructions therein laid doW
be attended to in the minutest manner. _ _

By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
THOMAS WMAHON, Col. A. G.

EXECUTION THIS MORNING.

No circninstitnces h.tving transpirel which were
deemed sufficient to warrant a mitigation of puni,h-
meet. this mortiiiig. William Liatat. aged 23 William

Walker, 19; and John Ferguson, nail for burglaries;
underwent the awful sentence of the law.

Up to a late hour last night ho?es were entertained
that the life of Lintot would have been spared, but after
the mast mature inquiry his case was found to be so
fraught with guilt as to place him without the pale of
earthly mercy. Mr. Sheriff Brown was in attendance
a ith the ini.erable men to a late hour last night, when
they returned him their joint thanks, and seemed com-
posed. Dr. Cotton was early in his attendance this
morning, at the gaol, where he found Mr. Baker and
Mr. Sheller in prayer with the prisoners. Ferguson
having requested permission to retire, the Reverend
Divine exhorted the two culprits to preserve that com-
posure and calmness which they then displayed, as in a
few moments they would need it to carry them through
the awful scene. On the return of Ferguson he had,
it appeared, dressed himself in black, and seemed very
composed and calm; he expressed his perfect resigna-
tion to his fate, and his confidence as to a future state.
Lintot expressed himself in similar terms, but not with
that calmness which marked his unfortunate companion.
Walker prayed fervently, and took but little notice of
his companions, Having partaken of the last sacred
ordinances of religion, they again joined in prayer.
Mr. Sheriff Brown, about eight o'clock, arrive-I in
the Press Room; and, at the same moment. the voices
of the culprits singing the Sacramental Hymn were
heard echoing through the vaulted passages. The
effect upon those present was affecting in the extreme.
As the chimes tolled the last stroke of eight, Ferguson
entered the Press Room: he bowed as he advanced
up the room to Mr. Sheriff Brown, to whom he again
expressed his grateful thanks for the kindness and hu-
, mane attention of the worthy Sheriff. He also ex-
pressed his acknowledgments to Mr.Wontner, and then
turning to the Reverend Mr. Cotton, begged him to
remain with him as much as possible, and uttering a
prayer, he walked calmly up to-the Officers of Justice
and held his hands nut to he pinioned; but before this
was done, he begged permission to put en a pair of
black gloves, which was granted. On being pinioned
he sat down, and, evidently with great stillness and
composure of mind, appeared engaged in meditation.
Walker was then brought in; his features wore an
unsettled and wild appearance; but in answer to a
querion, he said he felt as comfortable as he could pos-
sibly expect to be at such a moment. Lintot was lastly
intro Weed, and having hastily shook hands with, and
thanked the Sieriffs and Mr. Wontner, quickly ap-
proached the Officers, and beine he was pinioned took
a pin from his cravat, and flung it rather violently
away; lie then submitted himselt to be pinioned. The
calm, resigned, and penitent demeanour of these un-
happy men formed a marked contrast to that of the
wretched Harris, who was executed some weeks since,
and with whose cries and exclamations the very prison
re-echoed. At a quarter past eight o'clock, the unfor-
tunate men were led to the scaffold : Ferguson first as-
cended the drophis genteel aFp arance excited consi-
derable sensation in the crowd ; Walker next followed,
and lastly came Lintot. 'lay countenance of Ferguson
assumed the most deadly paleness, hut he stood firmly
erect. Walker trembled, and his :ips seemed to quiver
in agony. Lintot looked fr an instant steadily round,
and then closin his eyes, resumed his position, and
joined in the ejacu ations delivered by the Reverend
Ordinary to the Throne of Heaven for mercy. In the
midst of these the signal was given—the drop fell, and
at twenty minutes past eight o'clock they ceased to
exist in this world.—The crowd a%sembled was com-
posed of a better class of persons than usually attend
such dreadful exhibitions.

It was decided yesterday that the new Custom-house
shall be pulled down, and that everything be cleared
nut, preparatory to the work of demolition, before the
6th of next month, on which day the business will be
removed to a spacious office on Tower-hill.—Morn. pa.
The 9th of January. at half-past two o'clock in
the morning,' a severe shock of an earthquake was felt,
at La Guayra, which created great alarm to the inha-
bitants ; but fortunately no mischief ensued from it.
The alarm soon subsided, business was again resumed,
but the people were under great apprehension that a
repetition would occur.

Fats.—This morning, at half-past three o'clock, an
alarming fire broke out in the melting-house of Mr.
Ruff, tallow-chandler, Upper Rathbone-place; from the
quantity of fat on the premises, the fire burned in a
moot furious manner, and soon communicated to :he
dwell,ng-house, and the back fronts of •he houses of
Mr. Hill, pawnbroker, and Mrs. Smith, dress-maker.
A number of engines were soon brought to the spot,
and the firemen having a good supply of water, they
played with great effect on the flames, which were es-
tingoished, alter destroying the melting-house, dwell-
ing-house, and shop, and doing much damage to the
two.houses adjoining. It originated from t.ie boiling
over of some fat.

STAlLlttriP.—Richmond took hi; benefit at the Fives'-court, yet.
terday afternoon, and it was a bumper. George Cooper came fot.3
ward, and said that he was ready to accept Jem Ward's challenge •
and would meet him or any of his friends at Hairy Holt's on Fri-
day evening next, to make 'a deposit—(Brno! and any/awe).
Ward was not propene.

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