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Rzonerzoir or Tat AllwY.-The Adjutant-General, by command, has issued the following "circular memorandum to Infantry at Home and Abroad, except India." "Horse Guards, September 5, 1856.

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"The 12th Foot to remain at its present establishment of 1200 rank and file. "Seven battalions Foot Guards, "1. Her Majesty's Government having, in con-

each at an establishment of 10 sequence of the return of peace, determined to companies, of 46 sergeants, ex- effect a reduction in the Army, and the este- elusive of the schoolmaster, 17 blishment of regiments of infantry having been drummers, including drum-major, fixed by the Queen at the numbers given in the 800 rank and file, with 50 super- margin, his Royal Highness the General Com- numerary rank and file to each manding-in-chief has been pleased to approve of battalion until absorbed ; and an the following arrangements for carrying out that addition of 1 pipe-major and 5 measure.

pipes to each battalion of the "2. Officers commanding will select from the Scots Fusilier Guards, whole strength of the corps the specified num- " Eighty7two regiments at her of men ; being careful to retain as many as home and in the colonies, at an possible of the prescribed standard of 5 feet 6 establishment of 12 companies, of inches, proceeding to the depots (when both 56 sergeants, exclusive of the portions of the regiment are at home) to select schoolmaster, 21 drummers, in- the men. The whole of the men composing the eluding drum-major, 1000 rank service companies abroad are to be considered to and file, with 50 supernumerary form part of those retained on the establishment. rank and file until absorbed, to be "3. The battalions being completed, officers borne by the service companies commanding regiments, and the depots of regi- when the regiment is at home. ments abroad, will ascertain how many of this "1st and 2d battalions Royals, surplus, whether up to the prescribed standard 24, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, or not, provided they are fit in other respects, 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, are willing to volunteer to other regiments, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 234, which will be named hereafter, or to the Land 25th, 26th, 28th, 30th, 31st, 334, Transport Corps, now being reorganized under 34th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th, the title of the Military Train. Every man ac- 415t, 424, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, espied as a volunteer for regiments of the line 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 54th, 55th, will receive one guinea bounty ; where 20 rank 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 2d and 3d and file are given by one regiment to another, a battalions 60th, 624, 63d, 65th, sergeant will be allowed to volunteer with them. 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th, 71st, The pay, Arc. in the Military Train is to be 72d, 73d, 76th, 77th, 79th, 80th, assimilated in 111 respects to the cavalry.

82d, 85th, 88th, 89th, 90th, 91st, "4. Commanding-officers will then proceed 924, 934, 94th, 95th, 96th, 97th, to dispose of the remainder, dividing them into 98th, 99th, let, 2d, and 3d bails- the following classes' and transmitting descrip- lions Rifle Brigade. thin returns to this department, or to the Dc- "An addition of 1 pipe-major puty-Adjutant-General at Dublin, according to and 5 pipers to 42d, 71st, 724, the form prescribed at page 198 Queen's Rept- 79th, 924, and 93d Regiments. lations ; a separate return Leine- forwarded for " Regiments in India will re- each class, together with an abstract, according main at their present establish- to the accompanying-

" First-Men to be invalided as totally unfit for service. Secondly-Such nom

commissioned officers and men as may be considered by the medical officers as of weakly constitution, and not likely to become robust and efficient soldiers. Thirdly -Men of incorrigibly bad character whom it may be desirable to discharge, and who, being marked, will not be able to rersilist, provided they are not entitled to pension or gratuity wider any existing warrant. A special_ report of these cases is to be made for the decision of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in- chief. Lastly-And only, if necessary, after having disposed of the three classes above specified, a return of the remaining non-commissioned officers and men, with- out distinction as to age or length of service, who may he disinclined to continue in the Army, and are desirous of being relieved from their engagements : and such rank and file as will not volnnteet to other corps. "5. Commanding-officers Win take care not to discharge youths, the sons ofsoldiers, born in the Army, or brought up at the Royal Military Asylum or Hibernian School, and enlisted by special authority, without first ascertaining that their friends are willing, and have the means of providing for them_ "6. Such supernumerary noncommissioned officers as may remain after these arrangements are carried into effect will, for the present, be borne on the strength of their respective regiments, with a view to their being ultimately absorbed : but officers commanding service companies will be careful not to make any fresh promo- tions or appointments until the whole of the supernumeraries at the depot shall have been disposed of.

" 7. Non-commissioned officers and men discharged under these regulations will be entitled to carry with them the whole of their clothing now in wear. .8. It is desirable to retain as many medallists as possible ; and his Royal High- ness trusts to the discretion of commanding-oflicers in this respect. By command, G. A. Witammsam., Adjutant-General."

The Highland Society requested permission of the Commander-in- chief to bring up the Crimean Highlanders from the country, and enter- tain them at dinner at the Surrey Gardens. To this preposterous request the Commander-in-chiec through Sir Charles Yorke, replied with much politeness accepting the proposal as a mark of kinclfeeling, but quietly pointing politeness; that "although there can he no objection to the troops being entertained in this manner in the various garrisons in which they are quartered, yet the moving them from their quarters to London for such a purpose must be attended with so much Inconvenience, that his Royal Highness must express his regret that he is obliged to decline ac- ceding to an application which has been prompted by so gratifying a feel- ing on the part of the Society."

Official intelligence has been received that the Russian Government has abolished, for the time being, all the quarantine restrictions now in force in Bessarabia, the Black Sea, and the Sea of .Azoff. This new regulation is to remain in force until the navigation is closed for the pre- sent year.

The mission at Naples, vacant by Sir William Temple's death, will, we hear, be reserved fqr Sir Henry Bulwer, after he shall have returned from his present temporary employment in the Principalities.—Daily Nam

Sir Charles Eastlake is at present in Rome with Mr. Miindler, observ- ing what works of ancient art are disposable for the enrichment of the National Galleu. The British Government, being in treaty for the pur- chase of the Marquis Campana's valuable museum, is desirous to have the best opinions upon the contents of its several branches ; and Sir Charles Eastlake has consequently paid some visits to the Marquis's col- lection of paintings by the early Italian masters from the Byzantine period to that of Raphael; a collection which, besides forming a most in- teresting history of the progress of art during that period, contains many admirable specimens of the rarest schools. The report of Messrs. New- ton and Price, who were sent to Rome this summer for the purpose of examining the Etruscan department of the Marquis's museum, is already in the hands of the Government, and cannot fail to give a satisfactory idea of that collection, unrivalled even by the Etruscan gallery in the Vatican ; and Mr. Gibson R.A., who is now in England, will probably be requested to give his opinion with respect to the merits of the Marquis's sculpture-gallery, in order that some determination may be come to with respect to the acquisition of the whole museum for the British nation.— Extract from a Private Letter in the Daily .Neres.

The resolutions published in the Third Report of the Select Committee on Transportation do not exactly agree with the draft which we published last week. The discrepancies are for the most part unimportant, and are principally a transposition of that which stands as 12th in our version, but which in the version now published stands as the 6th. The following has to be added.—

" That full information of any change in the regulations affecting persons under sentence of transportation or penal servitude' should from time to time be furnished by the Home Office to the Judges, Recorders, and Chair- men of Quarter-Sessions."

The young Prince of Wales, accompanied by his tutor, is about to visit Manchester, on his way to Balmoral.

The Epoea says that the P.mperor of the French was about to confer the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour on General O'Donnell, Minister of War; and to accompany the favour by "an autograph letter highly flatter- ing to the man who in Spain has saved the cause of monarchy and society."

Marshal Pelissier has been on a visit to Marshal Raffle, one of the few re- maining good soldiers of the great Napoleonic wars, and an especial friend ef the Duke of ifalakoff.

Count Walewski has lately received from Queen Victoria, as a souvenir at the treaty of the 30th March, a splendid gold snuff-box enriched with diamonds, and bearing a medallion representing the portrait of her Majesty.

The journals note the arrival of the Princess Lieven in Paris on Sunday ; and the return of Count Montalivet, formerly Minister of the Interior under Louis Philippe, from a visit to Claremont. The Empress Dowager of Russia evidently delights in locomotion. She was recently at Carlsbad ; she is now at Moscow; in a month she is to be at Nice for the winter.

It is said that Count Nesselrode has selected Dresden for his future place of residence, having purchased a house and grounds there. A letter from Warsaw states that one of the Polish emigrants, M. SMnislas Ostrowski, belonging to one of the most distinguished families in the king- dom of Poland, and who, during his stay in Paris, filled, until the revolu- tion of February, the functions of chief of one of the offices of the depart- ment of Public Works, having obtained leave to return to his country, has, by order of the Emperor of Russia, been reinstated in his honours and pro- perty.

The Freese of Brussels states that Mademoiselle Johanna Wagner, the celebrated singer, was married on Saturday last to M. Joehmann, the son of a niftliormaire of Tilsit.

The Queen has been pleased to ordain and declare that Eliza Rosetta Massey Corry, the widow of the late Rear-Admiral Armar Lowry Corry; Elizabeth Boxer, the widow of the late Rear-Admiral Edward Boxer, C.B, ; Caroline Bucknall Esteourt, the widow of the late Major-General James Buck- nail Bueknall Esteourt ; Mary Tylden the widow of the late Brigadier- General William Burton Tylden • Katherine Adams, the widow of e late Major-General Henry William Lams, C.B. ; and Sophy Eliza Fox Strang- ways, the widow of the late Brigadier-General Thomas Fox Strangways, aluall have, hold, and enjoy the same style; title, place, and precedence to whick they would have been entitled had their husbands (who lost their lives in the public service during the late war) survived and been respect- ively invested with the insignia of Knights Commanders of the Most Hon- emabk Order of the Bath ; for which honour they, among others, vvonld have been recommended to her Majesty, as notified in the London Gazette of the 10th of July 1855, had they survived. And also to command that thessid Royal order and declaration be registered in her Majesty's College of Arms.—Zonclost Gazette, Sept. 9.

The Admiralty have sent a Lieutenant of the wavy and a war-steamer down to the Northumbrian coast to protect the fishermen there from the en- croachment of the French, who, supported by two war-steamers, have been Very aggressive this year.

Great additions and alterations are in progress at Pembroke Dockyard. The present dry dock is to be widened and lengthened, so as to meet the requirements of our new class men-of-war. Two new slips for shipbuilding are to be made of huge blocks of limestone with copings of granite. Other slim: are to be lengthened to meet the increased size of the ships ; and the consequence is a great increase seaward of the establishment. An extension of the sea-wall is going on. All accumulation of mud is to be washed away by means of reservoirs between the slips, and these can be run out by the sluices when required.

It is said that the Austrian Government propose to expend 100,000,000 francs during the next five years in carrying out their project of making Po!a, on the Istrian coast of the Adriatic, a first-rate arsenal and naval sta- tion. The Archduke Ferdinand is to have his head-quarters, as Lord High Admiral of Austria, at Pole.

Subscriptions for the guns for Alessandria have been opened at Leghorn, Florence, Pisa, Pistoja, and other towns in Tuscany ; the Government not interfering.

The Russian General Todtleben, who is now visiting the fortress of Rea- tacit, has been invited to Turin by General La Marmora. The Sardinian Minister of War, it appears, is anxious to consult that distinguished en- gineer on the new works about to be erected for the defence of Alessandria.

According to the communication of the Secretary of State, the standing army, in regiments, numbers over 13,000 men ; of whom more than 12,000 are engaged in protecting the frontiers against the depredations of hostile Indians.—New York Mirror.

The Gazette announces that the Philanthropic Society's Farm School at Redhill, near Reigate, in the county of Surrey, has been certified by the Secretary of State as fit to be a Reformatory School under the provisions of the statute 17th and 18th Victoria, cap. 85.

Some reports of the unhealthiness of Boulogne have called forth a state- ment of the sanitary condition of the town from four members of the medical profession, desirous of dissipating the prejudice that has been excited in England. They state, that in July and August 1855, 148 persona died, of whom 90 were children ; and that in the correspond- ing months this year, 161 persons have died, of whom 102 were chil- dren. Fevers have been much less severe than usual. In the camps in the neighbourhood there were not quite 2 per cent on the sick-hat; "an extraordinary fact, that elicited expressions of :astonishment from the Emperor." "A Sufferer," however, repeats the original accusation as a warning to intending visitors.

Mr. Hind the astronomer calls upon "all who are provided with suitable telescopes," and who are desirous of aiding in the search for the comet of 1666, to lose no time in commencing operations as he believes "the next re- appearance of this great comet is near at hand."

The first of a new line of steamers running between Hamburg, South- ampton, and Santander, arrived at Southampton from Spain on Tuesday.

Gold has been discovered near Nelson in New Zealand, and a lode of copper on the Dun Mountain. A fire at Wellington has destroyed un- insured property valued at 25,000/.

Mauritius has an unprecedented crop of sugar this year-125,000 tons.

Mr. Henry Fry, Lloyd's agent at Quebec, writes to the Timea that the shipping at Quebec are a prey to crimps, who go on board in armed bands, remove seamen, extort money, rob, and dare the ships' officers to resist them. The police are powerless ; the soldiers are not called in ; there is no ship of war in the port.

"C. S.," writing from Wiesbaden, reports two suicides at gambling. tables. A Dutch officer, having lost all, shot himself : before his blood was washed from the floor, "gambling was resumed as madly as ever." A week before this, an English officer killed himself at Homburg under simi- lar circumstances. It is said that the Duke of Nassau intends to expel the hell-keepers from his dominions.

The visitors at Heligoland were astonished to find when they awoke on the 3c1 September, that the Governor had issued an order closing the gaming- table which enjoyed a permissible existence for thirty years. Sonic one at Hamburg, annoyed by recent censures on the profligacy of that respectable city, had reminded Mr. Labouchere that the Colonial Office recognized gambling.

A great fraud has been committed in Paris, by the cashier and sub-cashier of the Northern of France Railway. It appears that it is customer)? in France to deposit shares with companies for the sake of security, as it haa been thought ; the cashiers got access to a number of shares thus deposi and sold them on the Bourse; it is rumoured that they have thus embe shares worth 240,000/. The chief delinquents have fled; but others are supposed to have been implicated with them, and one person has been ar- rested. The capital of the company is about 7,000,000/. sterling.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

of 1848-'55. of 1856.

Zymotle Diseases 751.4 275 Dropsy, Cancer, and other Diseases of uncertain or variable seat. 40.7 41 Tubercular Diseases 193.9 197

Diaeases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses

109.8 106 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 91.5 41 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 80.8 92 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 64.7

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Diseases of the kidneys, eke 9.6 14 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 7.5

7

Rheumatism, Diseases of the Bones, Joints, am. 8.0

10

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &e. 2.3

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Malformations 4.8

4

Premature Birth 27.9

44

Atrophy 35.3

78

Age 38.0 45 Sudden 7.5

17

Piolena,Privatioa, Cold, and Intemperance 36.7

67 —

Total (Including unspecified causes) 1,442.7

1,100

Mr. Gavan Duffy has published, in a letter to Dr. Lang, that he is not prepared to take measures for attempting to hasten what must come in the course of years—the independence of Australia.

The Queen's birthday seems to have been celebrated at Sydney with even more of rejoicing and festivity than are customary in England. Hundreds of colonial notables and plain citizens attended the Governor's levee.

The example of California is catching. The citizens of St. Paul, Minesota, have held a meeting and formed a Vigilance Committee, charged with the extirpation of all bad characters from the city !

The Legislative Assembly of Victoria ordered that the registered voters or the colony should be aclvertieed in the newspapers : the Argue came out for torn successive days with forty-eight pages of double-demy containing the flames; and the charge for the endless advertisement was 10,200/.!

The dwarf "General Tom Thumb" is married : he is nineteen years old.

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