THE, QAII^ , kpijt-HE^ n g^g m - t oymher^, 1868 v

Cartridges. — A notification has been received at Chatham garrison, from the War Office, that, on the recommendation of the Ordnance Select Committee, the Secretary of State for War, with the coucurreiico of His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Command ing-in-Chiof, lias sanctioned n new method of mark iit>JC cartridges, in Older to reduce the number of the diffeient descriptions of cannon cartridges, and to simplify their issue. In futuro the caitridges— with two exceptions only— aro to be marked merely with the nature of gun for which they are intended, and the weight of the charge, without any other flistinctive maik, and they are to be employed for any service for which the particular charge which they are to contain i* in use.
