The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

fibbed of 1

very name

)f our fortune were flown,
thou quitted'st thy father's embrace
ife of my love—my only son--

ay house remain

1 hath mounted the kingly throne,
ling is a vassal again !"

,ARY PRESS

CONTEMPOR.

tEATMENT OF THE ARMY
(From the Times.)

ference to an article which appeared in last
Imes, condemning the system under which
er Majesty's troops, and in the particular
ed to the 22d regiment, have been and are
a extreme hardships, beyond those which
\ ced by the average of the army, and partly
‘3, an unfair or injudicious allotment of the
vices by the authorities of the Horse
awe received from a highly respectable
g statement of facts and regula-
Inle to the routine of military duty :
order on the authority of which troops are
recalled from colonial or foreign service
-q from the Government to the

e iollowir

Commander-in-Chief, but the Go-

it, which determines the amount of troops to
a movement, the time of their departure, and

of their destinatior

-nmander-in-Chief is not less devoid
.of
"rtat specific corps shall he moved in
a direction amongst those regiments which are
" fit for service,' than he is to fix the time at
he place to which, or the object for which they
;rod

ses the first order for foreign service is to
the corps which stands g first on the ros-
) say the corps which has been longest at
corps must be taken (the Commander-in-
no discretion in the matter), unless there

imstances in its state of efficiency, &c.--
efined, and unequivocal circumstances,
it pro hac vice from the rigorous opera-

22d regiment, the assertion is

was 23 years between India and the
rwards 6 years at home, then 11 at

ld is now again ordered

Lie operation of the rosier upon this
)eyond all question one of great seve-
r of deep regret ; but it has been al-
able, without positive injustice to other
L gross violation of established and im-

came from the Secretary of State or War
make out which in the manuscript we co-
ld two regiments to the Mediterranean some
he garrisons there having been unduly and
y weakened, and the two first regiments for
'Jut in orders, being the 42d and 88th, which

)efore t

vriter of the letter in Thursday's Times,
)Icl Indian and Constant Reader,' asserts
vents ought to have been sent to India
!re ordered for the Mediterranean, in
99d find 9()

giments would have had
of their station at the lonian Isles, the
), or one of them, having received the

Old 1

n' may know better than
r who transmitted in both cases the order to
but then, as Lord Hill is bound
the Government and not from the

ps equally respectable) functionary, his
not fail to execute the official commands
cording to the succession in which he re-

ad therefore, and for no other reason

a service to the two regiments
ng for farther commands from
addressed himself to the 22d

lid Indian' says, that the officers of the
I•regiments Nvould have very gladly suf-
iirnent of their time at home on condition
ieir choice of destination, and being sent
Isles instead of to Bombay. No doubt
but what would the 42d and 88th have
id they have given up their right to the
Ln for the sake of obliging the officers of

`i:Ord Hill, as was said before, has no option in
business. The existing system is very possibly a
instance one; and, indeed, the present proves that
at inequalities of service do take place under it.
; it has been imposed by superior authority upon