3 FEBRUARY 1849, Page 10

The Adjutant-General has, under command, issued an order making re-

ductions in that portion of the Infantry which is employed in the home service, and fixing the establishment of regiments, at home and abroad, at a reduced strength. The home force is fixed at forty-three regiments, each of the strength of 47 sergeants, 17 drummers, and 750 rank and file. The Colonial force is fixed at fifteen regiments, each of the strength of 47 sergeants, 17 drummers, and 770 rank and file. Regiments in India and Australia, together with the Thirty-seventh and Seventy-fifth Regi- ments, will remain at 1,000; and the corps which have been divided into two battalions will continue at 1,200 rank and file, as heretofore. Com- manding-officers are instructed to make returns of men whom it is pro- posed to discharge, including men who are weakly, below the standard height, or confirmed drunkards. Recruiting to be discontinued until the establishments shall have fallen below the strength now prescribed.

We believe that Sir Edmund Lyons, lately Minister at Athens, will be ppointed British Minister in Switzerland.—Times.