The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-16 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF 'CUE BRITISH ARMY.

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In England.-13 regiments of cavalry—viz. Ist Life Gnards,
24 Lite Guards,-Koval Horse Guards, 3d, 4th, sth, 6th, &
7th Dragoon Guards, Bth Dragoons. 10th Hussars, 12th Lancers,
15th Hussars, and 17th Lancers. 13 regiments of infantry—
viz. 3 battalions or Grenadier Guards, 2 battalionsof Coldstream
Guards, 24 battalion of Scots Fusileer Guards, 20th, 86th, 88th,
97th; and 93d, and the 24 battalion of the' Rifle Btigade. •23
depots of regiments—viz. Ist Regiment 24 battalion); sth, 14th,
24th, 27th. 29th, 30th, 324, 361 h, 37th, 434, 47t0, 52(1.56th, 60th,
(Ist and 2nd battalions), 67th, 69,h, 70th, 81st, 831. 89th, and
90th.

In Ireland.-6 regiments of cavalry-viz. Ist and 24 Dragoon
Guards, Ist and 2,1 Dragoons, and 7th and Bth Hussars. 16
regiments of infaritry-viz. 19t battalion), 7,h, 10th, 19th, 224,
23d, 25th, 311 h, 48th, 71st, 78th, 94111, 95th. 96th, and 99:h. 25
depots or reuitnents-viz. Bth, llth, 121 h, 15th, 18th, 33d, anh,
35th, 46th, 534. 58th, 59th, 61st. 65th, 66tn, 58th, 72d, 734, 75th,
77th. 821, 85th, 87th, 924, and 231.
In India.-4 regiments of cavalry-viz. 3d, 4th, and 13th
DragOons, and 16; h, 17th, 26th, 3tst, 39th, 4Uth; 41st,'41t1t, 49'th,
51t1), 55tit.,"57th, 624, and 63.1.
In the Mertfterranean:-8' regiments of infantry-viz. sth.
47th, 534, 59th, 69th Rifles (lst and 24 battalions), 77tH, and
92,1. •

In Canada, —8 regiments of infantry—viz. lst Royals (2nd
732;ei,gitnents of infantry—viz. 14th, 36th;
4'A, 66th, 83d, and 85th.
battalionin
67th, 69th, 74th, 76i h. and 89th.
In Gibraltar. —5 regiments of infantry—viz. Bth, 37th, 56th,
64th, and 84th.
In New Sout4 Wales and Van Dieman's Land.-5 regitnents
of infantry—viz. 21st, 28th, 50th, 51st, and 89th.
In Ceylon.-3 regiments of infantry—vii. 3,1, 51st, and 99th.
At the Cape of Good regiments of infantry—yiz.27th,
.72d, and 75th.
At the Mantillas.— 3 regifnents of infantry—viz. 12th, 35th,
and 87th.
In Nora Sootia and New Brunsuick.-2 regiments of infantry
—viz. 31th and 65th.
At Bermuda::-2 regiments of infantry—viz. Ilth and 39th.
At St. Helena. —1 regiment of infantry—viz. 91st.
On Passage, or under Orders for Home.-11th Light Dragoons
from India; 29th regiment of foot, from the Mauritius; and 45th
from India.
On Passage to Colonies.-6Sth, from Gibraltar to .Jamaica;
70th, from Malta to Barbadoes ; 73d, from Alalta to Gibraltar,
on route to Canada; 934, on passage to Halifax.
Total.-26 regiments of cavalry; 109 battalions of infantry.

PRACTICAL. RETORT.--111 the theatre at Weimar, in Ger-
many, not long ago, there were only seven persons in-the house.
The pit took offence at the miserable acting of a performer, and
hissed him energetically ; whereupon, the manager brought
his company on the stage, and out-hisse,i! the visitors.—Sunbeam.

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Lord Eldon delighted in repeating the following anecdote so
characteristic of his friend and master Geerge the -Thikd: I
called with my brother (?t., yell) ou the 4th of June, to pay my
customary salutations, and was summoned into • his Presence;
he was conversing with toy old friend Dr. Glasse, of Wanstead,
but rose immediately we entered, - and plaoing-a chair on each
side of his own, desired us to be seated Ile then .burst into a
hearty laugh, and exclaimed—' Doctor, have yin, in the course
of-your reading., ever before known of a king who sat between
two of his highest officers, who had each run away with his wife?
Rather hard that, Eldon, eh, eh ?"