Star.
London, England, 1826-04-29 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER.

Horse Guards, April2s.
The arrangement detailed in the annexed Official Memorandum
having received the approval of the King, and the same having been
adepted with a view to the general efficiency of the Service, and to
meet the immediate advantage and convenience of the respective
classes of Regimental Officers holding Brevet Rank, to which its
provisions exclusively apply, his Royal Highness the Coma
m.CHisr communicates to the Army his Majesty's gracious inten-
tions upon this occasion, In order that Officers on Regimental Full
Pay, who shall be entitled to Frofit thereby, may have the oppnr-
tunity of doing so without delay.
By Command of 1114 Royal Highness the O'ommander.in•Chief,

HRN Y R NS. Adjutant-yr..--
His Meaner has been graciously pleased to approve of the fol-
lowing arrangement, with a view to the general efficiency of the
Service, in the regimental ranks of Major and Captain on full pay
of the Infantry, and to the advantage and convenience of Officers
who now held their Regitnentel Rank with Superior Brevet Rank
in the Army.
Regimental Officers on full pay who hold Breast rank in the
Army burrito to their Regimental Rank, shall hay.: the option of
retiring upon an Unattached Commis on Half Pay of the halt
effective rank, above that which they hold regimentally, and shall
afterwards be permitted, if they should be so disposed, to mil
themselves of the Regulations of the 25th April last, by selling that
Unattached Half-Pay Commission.
The actual Regimental Commissions, front Which the individuals
-are thus promoted, are to be in every instance filled from the
Half-Pay.
The Commissions of Captains, by Captains from the Half•pay,
having no Brevet Rank higher than that of their Regimental
Commissions.

The future claims of Officers retiring to half-pay under this
arrangee lent, shall, in consideration of their services, not be affected
by such retirement ;—and as the arrangement is made with a view
to the convenience and advantage of the service, they shall be con-
sidered as standing on the same footing with respect to provision for
their Widows and Children, as Officers placed on half pay by
reduction, or on account of wounds and infirmities.

Three months will be allowed to each individual from the date
on which he accepts the promotion to the regimental rank on half
pay, to enable him to determine whether he is,desirous of selling
his commksion.

It must be understood that the sale of half pay commissions con-
sequent on, this measure, ls distinct from that allowed by the regu-
lations of 25:b April last, and that the period fixed by those reside.
Lions will not be extended with respect to the individuals to whom
'they refer; also, that no Officer above the age of sixty years, who
shall avail himself of the option of promotion to the higher regi-
mental rank on half-pay, shall be allowed to dispose of that half-pay;
certificates of age must therefore, in every case, accompany the ap.
plication to sell.
The individuals who shall be disposed to take advantage of the
first part of this arrangement, upon the terms specified, will make
application to the Commander-in-Chief, through the Military
Secretary ; such application to be transmitted by their respective
Commanding Officers, within One Month after they shall have
become acquainted with the arrangement.
As one of the objects of this arrangement is to secure to Regi.
meats the services of effective and efficient Field Officers and Cap-
tains, it is his Majesty's pleasure that the arrangement, so far as it
provides fur the removal of Brevet Officers to Half pay, with
Promotion to the Regimental Rank, shill be imperative with
them holding Staff Situations, unless they shall prefer giving
•p their Staff Situations, and upon this point they are required to
make an immediate communication to the Military Secretary, for
his Royal Highness the Commander-in• Chief's information.
Horse Guards, April 25.
PRESENT HEAD-QUARTERS OF REGIMENTS OP
THE LINE SERVING IN IRELAND.

CAVALILL-5d Dragoon Guards, Caher ; 7th Ditto, Newbridge ;
lit Royal Dragoons, Dublin; 2d Royal Scots Greys, ditto; 3d Light
Dragoons, Dundalk ; 14th ditto, Cork; 15th Hussars, Balliorobe.
INVANTILT.-24 Batt. Grenadier Guards, Dublin; 10th Foot,
Castlebar ; 11th ditto, Tralee ; 14th ( Depot) Fermoy ; 15th Foot,
Templemore ; 19th ditto, Col k ; £24 ditto, Galway; 24th ditto,
Limerick ; 26th ditto, Naas ; 29th ditto, Waterford; 33d (Depot)
Birr ; 54th Fuot, Athlone ; 50th (Depot). Belfast ; 58th Foot,
Dublin; 61st ditto, Longford; 624 ditto, Londonderry; 65th
ditto, Clonmel ; 66th ditto, Dublin; 724 ditto Belfast; 734 ditto,
Dublin ; 75th ditto, Newry ; 78th ditto, Cork, for embarkation ;
79th (Depot) Newry; 84th Foot, limerick; 86th ditto, Buttarant ;
98th (Depot) Spike Island; 91st (Depot Detach.) Birr ; 9241 ditto,
Newry; 97th ditto, Kilkenny; 98th ditto, Youghal ; 99th ditto,
Birr ; Ist Rifles (Depot) Drogheda; 9d ditto, Kilsak.

BARBAROUS OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.
?ROM TUB CLONMtL }MUD.

Tuesday night, the loth inst. about the hour of twelve o'clock,
an extensive dairy-house and cow-house, at the residence of James
Sadlier, Esq. or Brookville, within a mile of Tipperary, were
maliciously set on fire and entirely consumed, with nine calves and
a lamb. About the same hour that night, on the lands of Carrots.
lough, within half a mile of Tipperary, a large farm-house, dairy-
house, and cow-house, containing thirty-six valuable mikh cows,
the property of Richard Sadlier, of Scallakeen, Esq. (a Magistrate)
were also maliciously set on fire, and the entire consumed to ashes.
There were three men and three women sleeping in the farm-house,
who were obliged to fly from the house in a state of oudity.
We are all here perplexed in endeavouring to guess at a probable
cause for such barisaroua outrages upon two of the most useful and
universally respected resident gentlemen in this entire district—
being constantly resident, giving employment to numbers, sad
always foremost in doing acts of benevolence and charity. in their
horrid agonies, several of the suffering brutes calved, and with their
young were soon reduced to a heap of cinders. The moans of
these unoffending and dying creatures were beyond endurance, and
fully sufficient to melt down the stoutest heart. Five casks, and a
large cool of butter. all the dairy utensils, the furniture of the
dwelling-house, and the clothes of the unfortunate inmates, who
scarcely escape:ll,4th their lives, were an consumed. A large sub-
trapdoor has been entered into for the discovery of the horrid in-
cendiaries, and nearly a thousand pounds have berosubscribed.
Sunday morning, while a man of the name of Maher, and
family, living at Seartnagiewran, beyond Caber. - were at the
Chapel, a ruffian, disguised in woman's clothes, entered the house
and set fire to the furniture and every thing wpb, end afterwards
set fife to the roof outside, by which means the whole was reduced
to ashes. On perceiving the whole in a state of conflagration, the
incendiary discharged a blunderbuss, and ran off in the direction of
the tuountaips. Friday night, the dwelling-house of John Fits-
patrick, of Killeen, near Lanespark, In Slievardagh barony, was
burned to the ground, and there can be no reason to doubt that ft
was maliciously. Fortunately for the family. which consisted of
ten persons, a poor man to wham a lodging had been given that
night., awoke in time to give alarm, otherwise the results might hove
beta still more disastrous than they were. Every article of turn'.
tare which the house contained, together wkh a quantity of wearing
apparel and some potatoes, fell a prey, to the lames.

A subsci iption has been commenced by some bene-
volent individuals fur the relief of the unfortunate families who
were saferets by the late calamitous fire in Vere street, Clare
market. It is said that two of the children who were with difficuky
rescued from the flames are now lying Wan almost hopeless condition.
A woman, a tew days ago. stole a leg of mutton
from a butcher at Lane liosi Potteries ; the hatcher was aware of
the theft, and followed the woman into her. house, where he found
her dividing it, raw as it was, between her half Imolai:1d children ;
he bad not a heart so blame, much more to prosecute her ; but put
his hand in his pocket, and gave her fit. ed. to go and buy the
children some bread with it.

A Gentleman who was relating in a coffee-ho.ne, an
accident Chad met With from a fall, was asked by a Surgeon pre
nt, If it was near the vertebra that he had been hun ?—" No, Sir,"
was the early, it was Drag the Observatory."

DEATH OF. LORD CHARLES BENTINCK.
It is with extreme concern that we have to annoance to the
public the sudden death of the above mentioned Nobleman. The
melancholy event occurred yesterday morning, abort half past
seven o'clock, soon after his Lordship had entered his dressing
room from his adjoining bed room. It appears that about that time
his. Lordship's footman, bearing a strange noise in the dressing room,
entered the apartment, when he discovered his master lying down
en the door without animatioo, his. Lordship having dropped down
dead whilst in the very act of dressing himself. It I. remarkable
that, just before the fatal event took place, his Lordship's children
had been with him in the apartment. No time was lost in sending
for medical aid, and Sir Henry Halford and Mr. Warren were not
long in arriving in North.row, Park.lane, his Lordship's residence;
but their skill was rendered entirely useless, as it was found the
vital spark had fled. It is a distressing reflection to the Noble
Lord's relatives that he was entirely alone, not any of his household
being in the apartment at the time.
The Nobk Lord had been unwell for some days put, although
it would seem his Lordship retired to rest at his accustomed hour
the preceding evening, apparently in the enjoyment of good health :
he did not complain of the slightest indisposition.
We understand the medical gentlemen have ascertained that his
Lordship's decease was occasioned by the rupture of a blood vessel.
Hir Lordship was son of the late. and brother to the present
Duke of Portland. He has held the office of Treasurer to his
Majesty's Household for a great many years, and ollciatesi in that
capacity at the Coronation of his present Majesty, when be dia.
tribeteill the Coronation Medals in Westminster Abbey.
By his death there is a vacancy in the representation of Queen.
borough.