Star.
London, England, 1826-10-17 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER.

Horse Guards, Oct. 6, 1826.
The Commander-in-Chief is pleased to approve of General Offi-
cers Commanding Districts in Great Britain granting Leave of
Absence to Officers, and Furloughs to Non-commissioned Officers

and Soldiers, under the following Limitations and Restrictions viz.
1. The Leaves of Absence, granted under this Order to °limn,
may commence as soon as the Half Yearly Inspections shall have
been made ; the Furloughs granted to Non-commissioned Officers
and Soldiers may commence from the 25th of the present month.
2. These Indulgences are to terminate on the 10th March next,
when, in conformity to his Majesty's Regulations, all Officers and
Men are to he present with their respective Regiments.
3. One Field Officer, One Half of the Captains, and One Half of
the Subaltern Officers are always to be present with their Regiments.
4. No Officer (except in the performance of Duty, or for the
purpose of joining his Regiment) is to rit the United Kingdom
without having first received his Majesty s special permission.
.5. The Officers employed on the Recruiting Service, or upon the
Staff of the Army, are not to be included in the Number hereby
fixed for the constant Duty of the Regiment or Battalion.
6. The Applications for Leave foo Regimental Paymasters, and
Medical Officers, are to continue to be made in the mode prescribed
in pages 72 and 73 of the General Regulations of the Army.
7. In cases of abort Leaves of Absence being requested by Adju-
tants, Riding Masters, Quarter Masters, or Veterinary Surgeons of
Regiments, it will be necessary that a *pedal Report should be
made as to the mode in which their Duties are to be performed
during their Absence.
8. The proportion of Non-commissioned Officers, Trumpeters,
Drummers, and Private Dien, to whom Furloughs may be granted,
is not to exceed Ten per Troop or Company.
When Regiments, or Battalions, are not stationed in Garrisons or
in Military Districts, the Officers Commanding are at liberty to use
their discretion in granting the Indulgence of Leave of Absence,
under the foregoing Restrictions, to the Officers and Men under
their command.

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This Order does not apply to the Officers and Men doing duty
with the Depot Companies of Regiments on Foreign Service.
By command of his Royal Highneu the Commander-in-Chief,
HENRY TORRENS, Adjutant-General.

The late Mr. CHARLES CONNOR WES an ornament to
his profession, not merely for his respectable talents, but for the
unblemished integrity of his private life. Ile was a native of Cork,
and at an early age was induced, by an unconquerable love of the
drama, to leave College and betake himself to the stage. He Las
been much respected, both in his native country and in England,
where his attractive manners and respectable conduct gained him
many attached and sincere friends.
Shenstone, who wasted his genius, nr:ant for better
things, on pastoral poetry, and his fortune, given for
nobler purposes, on his garden of the Leasowes, had a
very awkward And clumsy figure for an Arcadian shep-
herd, or even for an English Gentleman. This was
also the case with Darwin, who was particularly coarse
and unc nth in feature, and laboured under a very
considerable impediment of speech. Lord Lyttelton
had a face rendered meagre partly by ill health, and
partly by study, and also a slender uncompacted frame,
which gave to his tout-ensemble a very ungracious and
ungraceful look ; whilst Thomson, whom he loved as
a poet and patronized as a man, "shone sleek with full
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crammed fat' of laziness, in spite of an unanimated coun-
tenance, and a large, gross, and uninviting carcase. It
is recorded of Thomson, that in mixed company he
• was almost always silent; a point in which he resem-
bled many authors of higher character than himself;
• Butler and Addison will naturally recur to every man's
mind. Dryden, whose colloquial talents are so highly
extolled in the " Pirate," was altogether unconscious of
the po, session of them—for in one of his minor poems
• be frankly admits that

" Nor wine, nor love mold ever make him gay,
To waling bred, he knew not what to say."
And Corneille goes still further in a letter to Nilsson,
and unhesitatingly c-nfesses that he was never heard
with plessure except when he expressed his sentiments
through the mouth of another.—New Mlorrtlrlr~ Maas
Custom SERbION*C.— At St. Catharine Cre s Church,
Leadenhall street, provision is made, under the will of
Sir John Gager, who was Lord Mayor in the year 1646,
f a sermon to be annually preached on the 16th of
October, in commemoration of I.is happy deliverance
from a lion, w:iich he met in a desert, as he was tra-
velling in tae Turkish dominions, and which suffered
him to pass unmolested. the Minister is to have 20s.
for the sermon, the clerk 2s. 6d. and the sexton Is. -The
suns of 81. 161. 61. is likewise to be distributed arbong
the necessitous inhabitants, pursuant to the will of Su
John SpArrman. Among several instances of the same
nature, mention is made of a pet son who, though he was
Oro .% n down by a lion, and wounded in several places,
vt as 4fter all, generously left with life. Thus it appe ITS,
rise hon does not always kill whatever anima happens
to be in hi: power.
Thursday afternoon, Mr. Frederick Woodmester, an
officer in his Majesty's service, on halipay, was found
ileAd in Lis sitting worn. The deceased was apparently
in excellent health, and had been out walking that morn.
ing. .pii irtii.ning to his apartments, in Standgate,
Westminster Road, he went into his sitting-room to
write a k ter, and shortly afterwards, his landlady, on
going to prevare his dinner, discovered him lying on
the filor a corpse. The deceased had Wiest from the
chair on which he was sitting, and died, it is believed,
without a struggle, as no noise-was heard by the per-
sons who occupied the adjoining apartments.