15 JANUARY 1848, Page 2

The week has produced an important military announcement. The Royal

Artillery force is to be augmented by the addition of twenty companies, with a strength of ninety-nine men in each. The augmentation increases the Artillery to double the numbers which it possessed two years ago. This is a very opportune and judicious instalment towards national defence; the more so as the Artillery is the branch that can least easily be recruited in haste. If the Militia is to be called out, as seems generally ex- pected, for a certain number of days in each year, a due propor- tion of the annual training will no doubt be appropriated to the ready use of that powerful defensive arm.