... THE ARMY. Eighty-three gentlemen have entered the army during the preceding month, thirty-four of whom have purchased their commissions at prices varying from £1260 to £450 each, and amounting ing the aggregate to no less a sum than £21,940. Globe. Education ...

... attaining the rank of captain in the army for £850 after four years' service. He then exchanged into the 7(ith Regiment, receiving £2500 for so doing, and he is now serving over the heads eleven subalterns, his seniors in the army, and, after deducting the price ...

... STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY.—Dec. 1, 1845. (From the Dublin Evening Packet.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-mentioned is that at which tbe Depot of the Regiment is stationed.] life guards. Foot. Ist, Hyde Park 35th, Mauritius; Charles Fort ...

... STIRLING - THE ARMY Third Courts- Marital— following mult of the recent court-martial on the private of the Dragoon Goard Nottingham for breaking out of barrack See : John Thoma Holme John Turner and Edward Smith- eon eighty-four da’ with hard labour ...

... one of his wives took up with a Cameroons-man, instead of murdering the man, and mutilating the woman, he gathered all together that belonged to the woman, and, adding something to it, sent her off with the man—saying, that soon all his wiv.es should ...

... rich vein of humour, the ancedotes preserved of him are unhappily few and far between. Never grant a life annuity to an old woman, he would say ; they wither, but they never die; and if the proposed annuitant coughed with violent asthmatic cough on a ...

... paper, a female, who assumed male attire, and entering the Prussian army, went through the compaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814, and rose to the rank of serjeant-major. She left the army on account of a wound, and her sex. was discovered, but the king conferred ...

... proved fatal.— Times. Attack nf Lion on a Woman in a Menagerie. —An accident, very foolishly and incautiously brought about, took place at Wombwell's collection, at present in Birmingham, on Saturday evening. A woman, while visiting the menagerie, began to ...

... from American official statements that more men desert from the United Slates army of 8473 men, than from the French army of 300,000. The (ddest inhabitant is said be a woman now living in. Moscow, in Russia, who is 168 years age. At the age she married ...

... vessels. The following morning they made a simultaneous attack by sea and land. The Swiss, to the number of 2500, led the van, supported by two regiments of cavalry, and followed by an army of 16,000 °men, with forty pieces of cannon. After a brief but obstinate ...

... before twelve commissioners assembled at Monte Video, that while he was with Rosas's army, knew an Englishman, whose name was William, who was murdered with a woman and child only seven years old. Similar massacres were common throughout the war. The ...

... the army, and also distinguished for his exploits on the turf, took up his quarters at the principal inn in the market town of N- m, Warwickshire. Shortly after his arrival, the daughter of the landlady, a remarkably fine and handsome young woman, did ...