4 JANUARY 1868, Page 8

Sir John Pakington has appointed Sir H. Storks Comptroller- in-Chief

of the Army, a new office, which makes that successful officer supreme over all departments of supply. He will be assisted by Major-General Balfour, the brilliant Indian military financier who has been so discreditably neglected by the India House. At the same time. Major-General Lindsay has been appointed Inspector-General of Her Majesty's Reserve Forces, that is, in fact, Commander-in-Chief of the Militia and the Volun- teers. There will be plenty of work for him to do, if he is to make this great body of men as mobile as an army, work which might tax very high organizing skill. They have no commis- sariat, medical service, or means of transport yet, and would be starved in a week's campaign.