20 APRIL 1867, Page 3

Marshal Niel, French Minister at War, issued an order on

Tuesday which does not look like peace. The price of exemption from the conscription was last year 841., and has never been higher than 1121. even in war time, but he has raised it at once for the conscripts of 1866 who are called out this year to 1201. This will sweep at least 10,000 extra men into his net, and will tempt as many " veterans" to re-enlist. At the same time it will carry a bitter disappointment into the thousands of homes where frugal men, penny by penny throughout their child's life, are saving the money to keep him at home. He has also abolished bands of music in the cavalry, saying he wants the men and horses for fighting purposes, thus leaving only the trumpeters.