The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

I N XO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. . VT BARRY's delicious health-restoring alth restoring Invalids' e EVAIENTA ARABICA, yi e ,_, and Infantss'Faosonid, THE uchassimilating and strength: i n g i e n s g i lo .i'ap three time ti Duda as the best meat, and restores perfect m ° ,,a, strong nerves, soun . d lungs, healthy hyer, refreshing t iveP, functional regularity . , and energy to the most dis . or- Pad or enfeebled—removing speedil and effectually in .};!Restion (dyspepsia), . cough, asthma,consumption, ha hltaal constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, flatulency, nervous ),inorrhoids, liver complaints,. throats, alplitneria, nervous cat biliousness, fevergS aha 4llllB , colds, influenza, noises in the head eruptions,. L I :. ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, 1 1 ;',1 " "P l ial neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, trZtation, heartburn, headache, - debility, dropsy, cramps, aia. l Yta, nausea and sickness even u in pregnancy or at sea, f la, tightness of the chest, Da3', l4 g fits, bronchitis, it - 17,!ii the pit of the stomach scro and between the shoulders.. Vall a t _an most digestible of all . foods and suitable for in r_ and infants in all complaints. of ti l u . Quote a few out of 62,000 Cures:—Cure No.. 58,2 m 16_ 144 Marchioness de Brehan,. of seven years' liver T.:: IvitC , wasting away, debility, nervousness, o b u u s a ne d ss i , gu i u rn ti * u ta u b , irritability, 13 tti. a nervous palpitation all over, intolerable nefvous It4te. sleeplessness, and the most th e Lior k , Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, t from the Right Hon. of *°l*(l Stuart de Decies, Lord Ileu enant of the county at laterford :—I have derived much benefit . from your , ?..9heelent food. —St ride Decies, Dromana, .CaPP o cluin T. ;I‘3" Waterford. Cure No. 54,816, from th Rev James k e enham . , Nor folk. arnAell, Syderstone Rectory, near th It in all cases of indigestion, and b e e st v 2 I. is rnore than usually affected, l ). Far lo ie n u s l i_ a d r m e l r y e i w t e h s th e i n e t flout c . 4 all remedies. It regulates the bile, and IC 411 11112 a eases which would not admit of mercury in any eikires-t short, a healthy flow of the bile is one of the tick % and best symptoms. You can make what use you 14l'e °I this c ommunication —I am, gentlemen, James , 0a,411b1 Cure No. 52,422.—8 ridge House, Prim .l)ittit, Ill vaY ; Thirty-three years' diseased lung . s, u the en _g of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing and ,nolta.irta, constipation, debility, shortness of breath, ITC ' have been removed by your Revalenta Arabica. My lqa, liver, stomach, head, and ears are all right, my har bilire4erflt, and iny recovery is a marvel to all my Rap-faint -4 Afr -- anies Roberts, Ti - berMerchant. Cure No. 49,832. h Ai , --YYear ' ludo c labl ra agony from dyspepsia, nervous h4,--,, asthmas, cou g s h, ri const e ipation, flatulency, spasms, sick -1'1; °•474:‘,4voiniting•—Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure 'lldig4ri I. Missilizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousnf . ms, liir e °I), gatherings low spirits, and nervous fancies. 41 ), N0. 56,81 —Mr o`'aml. Laxton,Leicester, of two years' 4s • 6 d.* . The food I sold in canisters, 11b. 289 . d ; 21 - 11 , N. l2lb 2 411 ; 3 21b ., i „,:, 21s ; 241b.,8405. Super-refined quality, 11b., bi," ; 51 . b , 225. 10b., 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and 13 1 tiaeArrv.)-,‘"r.s, ear;iago free on receipt of Post-office Order, N o k L° Pli l li• -11 Barry and Co., 77. Regent-street, Londpn ''' 4, 3 —1 1:5 Tea Dealers, 3, King William-street . ; like- Ltat e ll 4 65, kircechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishops toad Within ; 63, 150 and; 298, Oxford-street ; 330, r ro ad (.,, 54, 'Upper Baker -street , _• 163, :Tottenham-coil - teerratelase 'l36rotTthPePres,rb-street, Islington N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ; gro 6s, nigh-Street ; and Stubbs, Queen's ' 14. 3.13 " n ' d, London; and all respectable % 1 . 8 mr. , „ s -Woo • -,...i.: 4 Qieulists..--Beware of opuripUli imitati ons. Iff(IIsTAIIAN'S LL 'WHISKY. DUBLIN This EXII IBIT lON, 1865. b,,,, celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the ~o he p..., .. It l . prize Medal. eo nie l3 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole by In the fettles 3s. Bd., at th e R e t a il H ouses i n L on d on ; Ith°lesaiA.e gents in the principal towns in England ; or GIIE A rti -L- W INDMILL -STREET, LONDON, W. t,,,9.bserve the ROcl Seal Pink Label, and Cork branded ..u.nahan's LL liv- • ',, ........_ hisky. WITUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION 11:1113. (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1810), 40v.SSELL-STREET, COVENT -GARDEN, LONDON. Preeholk,NOES lONEY on Personal Security, Mlls of Sa . le, if*, 0 , u or beneficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry three - anY deduction whatever, for perilds of one, two, or cligeoinetefi, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Ellis 41a de to (1 The zreatest r Advances also 15 yeargwar4is tli' Putchase of a Rouse, repay tble in 5, 10, o eLvel ope : - / ornis free on application, or receipt of a stamped EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. Irjl'' DISTRICTj RAILWAY orp Tr ,, COMPANY. 11 001F . 'J IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TRANSFER June, will be CLOSED from the 25th to the 30th day of rest,ProParatory to the payment of the Half-year's Into 'lle by the Contractors on the Ist of July next. 1,13., PROVISIONAL SCRIP CERTIFICATES uL Y PAID UP £lOO BEARING 6 PER CENT. ORDINARY PER ANNUM, and £lO PAID BEARING 5 PER CENT. PER ANNUM, Th e nst be forwarded to the Registrar at the Offices of the °l nPauy • dub, 7ln order that the Dividend Warrants may bo J Prepared. 6, wes t HOPWOOD, Registrar. L ..esoninster-chambers, Victoria -------__ street, S.W. ATLANTIC AND GREAT. WESTERN _ --- RAILWAY. In c NOTICE TO BONDHOLDERS. "kt.,, onformity with the terms on which the SECOND_ 14,t,b_1(TGAGE BONDS of the PENNSYLVANIA Fid th e " YORK SECTIONS of this Railway were issued toer ce Jablic, the SECOND ANNUAL DRAWING of a , t h n• of the Toss amount of these Bonds will take place s. ,l „I"iaoffice of Mm E. P. Satterthwaite and Co., 6 ,__A /1 ei, bars, iu the presence of Mr. Grain, Public Notary, Th e '-'-uSDAY, 12th July, at One o'clock precisely. authorised issue is as under, viz.:-- 95 0 13„ PEN NSYLVANIA DIVISION. boo Bones of $ l , OO O each $950 , 000 1 1, 100 „ j c a o . up .ari ons dju d l u y e . $1,000,000 400 13,, ,_ NEW YORK DIVISION. Goo vil uS of $l,OOO each $400,000) 1 ,000 500 „ ~ C 100 ;; Oct. a -- I P otir $800,000) n on the nh, y , ‘ P_,,or cent of each denomination will be d te t ,,f o aaY, and the Bonds so drawn that have been issued in dolla u will be paid off at the rate of £225 for every 1,000 lo s i 13 ° ,3 d, £ll2 10s. for every 500 dollar Bond, and_ En £ p 2_2 p ail ' ,or ev erY $lOO Bond, on presentation at the C t o e Nt ii s P ffi ees, , Westminster -chambers, Victoria-street, t, o s n re t he is t o e i‘ n ater ; the Bonds of the New York . Section a aiilia Lober, 1 866, and of the Pennsylvania Section on Ist after 1.'41867, ill addition to the Coupon due on those days, which an interest will cease. . presllenta3ro3ent the drawn Bonds will be cancelled in the Offi o s ' e e ,I a Public notary. -es, °, We stminster -chambers, Victoria-street, - Westminster, June 12, 1866. --------..._ IPUE CITY BANK, LONDON. Incorporated by Royal Charter, A.D. 1855. HEAD OFFICE. 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Prescott scrt, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; ney, and Co.: NlsbleVtiallinadraCo.s' Deacon, l3enier and Co.; ; 0 1 v . e ß r arn end e , d G an ur d CO.. Liverpool - 3 and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. STAN - P . ORD SMITH, Secretary. ( • • - 7 ./ o•ii...- ~. , ./ "... c .. "'...... \•••••• --- G.-- ---- ,-- ~-• ) . - . • , , o' : :'Z' ' .1= - \ - - tt , , - :-4 . , .- .:' * *• , --N...,..„, , 'C " • ... ,Ci .% '-',. ~.. • . !: • ..„.4Y - .., ?._...• ,a . ~.44 1 •, : lkfY : '''' • -.0 ...„. . , •,...., A ~ .___.../ * -.... c - • ••,,, 6/ ~ ''', Q:,_ . . 6 - , -- ,„ Filittti , ~,, 0 ~,.. .„, ..,. ~ , \ c .,,_ A:. ,_.4- ...,..,..... . ......., ~ ... . a ,, : i ., . ..--....' :"':1,,, ' ::,,-, '''''A \'''',. 'u . ill , ll..ffi , '\'' ,l l3l. .l' ) o• - : 11 '''....... ; " ( •_ ''', ~.. ' t‘.4 ' . ----- ‘ .1 7--- - % F., . ±-:"..: 14 *A .%-... 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There are s o many ways of reckoning combatants and non-combat ants that it is always possible to dispute the ac t ual strength of an army, but I be lieve the statement I have made, with the necessary reservations for non-combatants, to be substantially correct. The Accident on the Great Northern Railway WELWYN, Monday Evening. Three railway trains with thheniernreeat ll engines and ten ders, and waggons and t rucks, huddled together, e a d ec ainddtwhich smashed occurred euepeainadt4 S a u li ch tt i l n e briefafter midnight jamisthmeen yesterday, and which has resulted in the death of one man, while two others are placed in such imminent peril that their lives are despaired of. Simple and obvious as are the causes of this unpretilented catastrophe, it would seem that it could not by possibility have occurred had there not been at least two or three distinct breaches of the regulations issued by the company for the guidance of their servants and the safety of the public. These regulations on the Great Northern are regarded as singularly clear and good, in some de gre e i s to be attributed the comparative immunity from serious accidents which this line has an hence enerally hitherto enjoyed. The infraction of the rules re ferred to, and the consequences to which it led, will become more apparent as we describe in a manner t which, as h as b een o b served, is without a parallel in the nearestt s ley t s t i o o s on yearsavi s meie a 2, point h m fgeeo i rr l . e e miles rf Immediately helo yi m t eu King,ntog thesb n from - beyond r o o s s and i snm which disasters. Welwyn rec tor, composed hi s " N ight Thoughts, " and was this station a n d b etween it and Stevenage the line enters a tunnel, o r rat h er two tunnels in succession, called respectively th e " S out h ern Welwyn tunnel " and the " N or th ern W elwyn tunnel. " The former of these is a qu ar t er o f a m i le long, then intervenes a quarter of a m il e o f open cutting, and alter this buried ol annals eintelligible ittxhy we of railwaythe nature of the accident, comes the other tunnel, which is three-quarters of a mile long. It was about the middle of this latter tunnel, close to a shaft, that the accident oc curred ; - the line is here perfectly straight ; it is very nearly on a dead level ; the tun nel is through chalk, and above the crown of the arch at this point there is about 50 feet of chalk. A train of empty coal waggons had been despatched at a little after 11 o'clock from King's cross for Ilit3hin, and it had proceeded with due regularity until it reached the scere of this extra ordinary catastrophe when a tube in the engine burst and rendered it incapable of proceeding on its journey. Now, it was evidently the first duty of the guard on this accident occurring, to ha s t en b ac k w ith his lamp and prevent the approach of an y o th er t ra i n on the same line of rails. As the body of this un fortunate man—Joseph Ray —was found close to his break, at the rear of the train, it is pretty clear that this regulation, which is common to all railways alike, was neglected by him, and dearly did he pay for his neglect, for he now lies a mangled corpse at the Railway Arms Inn, near the station. Not long after the " empties" had been started, a Midland goods train was despatched from King's-cross in the same direction. What interval of time there was between the two trains has not yet been stated ; but, doubtless, it would have been ample for all purposes of safety had no casualty occurred to the train in front. As it was, its proximity to the other train , coupled with the neglect of the ordinary regulations by servants of the company, was the cause of the sad calamity. On it came, unconscious of danger, on the same line of rails as the unlucky train of empties which had broken down. There was no signal at the entrance to the southern tunnel to indicate danger or even caution ; and in a few moments it had dashed head-long into the " empties." The violence of such a collision was, of course, tremendous. Joseph Ray, the guard, was doubtless killed on the spot ; John Rawlings, a man who was with him iu his break, was so mangled and mutilated that he now lies in a hopeless state at the same inn as his dead com panion ; and the engine of the second train with several of its waggons was thrown across the up line, so as to block that which had previously been unimpeded. Scarcely had this second mishap oc curred when a Great Northern up goods train arrived, and, dashing into the engine and waggons of the Midland which were lying across its line, completed the catastrophe and produced the extra ordinary results which were narrated, with as much accuracy as the hurry in which the report was ne cessarily written permitted, in Ike Sun of this morning. By this crash a third man—Lacey, guard of the up-train—sustained severe and dangerous in juries. In order that allthese events should have occurred in this tunnel there must have been sad neglect somewhere. A man is stationed at the south end of the south tunnel, and another at the north (or Knebworth) end of the north tunnel. It is the duty of these men to signal to each other the entrance and departure of every train into and from the tunnel, and' to allow no other train to enter until the departure of the preceding train has been duly signalled. It is evident there must have been some neglect or misunderstanding of these signals, and their import en the occasion in question ; for not only was the Midland down train not warned that the " empties" had not emerged from the tunnel, but the Great Northern up train was left unwarned that there were at the moment of its approach two trains in the tunnel. Either the drivers of these trains were uuwarned, or they disregarded the warn ing. Those are questions which the Board of Trade and the coroner's jury will doubtless have to solve. It is even said that the perfection of the system, in theory, of this signalling at either end of a tunnel was an excuse to the guard Ray for not going back to stop any advancing train ; because he felt such confidence in the signalling that he had no appre hension whatever of a train entering the tunnel until his train had got out of it. However perfect in theory, this system seems to have failed in this par ticular emergency. The state of the engine at tached to the first train may also form a subject of investigation. With each of the goods trains were a driver and stoker and two guards, and with the empties a driver, stoker, one guard, and his friend Rawlings, whom he was conveying on his way to Peterbo rough ; so that there Were in all 12 persons travel ling with these three trains. It seems a miracle that all were not killed on the spot, instead of one only being instantaneously killed and the lives of two others jeopardised. In The Sun of yesterday evening we stated some of the measures that had been had recourse to to clear the line, and render it fit for the resumption of traffic. These exertions were continued to-day with unabated vigour, and with such success that at 9 o'clock this evening the entire wreck of the cata strophe had been removed. These operations were carried on under the direction of Mr. Johnson, the engineer of the line, with a force of about 450 navvies and fitters, and labourers working in relays. The entire scene of ruin was confined to a space of about 100 yards in the centre of the northern tun nel. The men attacked this at either end, working away with picks, and crowbars, an d t ro ll eys, an d wheeling off large portions of the ruins as they se parated then from the general wreck. As they THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1866. p ONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOll for Gentlemen. Remember, we wait for you at EVANS' after the Covent-garden Opera acid the Theatres. R. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-IVDEN and UP IV THE AIR, an entirely New Entertain ment, EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday); Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Char.n,g-eross. 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A cavalry division consists of two brigades, each containing two regiments, and as every regiment has four squadrons, the division contains 16 squa drons ; it has also two batteries of horse artillery attached to it. The reserve of artillery consists of one division of field artillery, which forms four batteries, and of two batteries of horse artillery, besides an artillery train for the supply of ammunition. This gives the strength of a corps d'armee as 24 battalions of infantry, 24 squadrons of cavalry, and 16 batteries of artillery. Besides this, however, each corps has one battalion of rifles and one battalion of engineers, besides •an engineer train for th 9 transport of materials for making bridges, and a large military train, which carries food, hospitals, medicines, fuel for cooking, bakeries, and all the other necessaries of not only life, but of the life of an army, the members of which require not only the same feeding, clothing, and warming as other members of the human race, but who will not be denied_lpllet4 ,pnwiler, shot and shells, saddlery for their horses, and who from the nature of their life are more liable to require medi cines, bandages, splints, and all hospital accessories than other men. If we do not consider the train when we are cal culating the number of combatants who actually fall in, in the line of battle, every battalion may be considered to consist of 1,024 men, except the pioneer battalion, which contains 620. Thus the force of infantry and engineers in a corps d'armee numbers over 26,000, and on account of men ab sent through sickness may in round numbers be calculated at this figure. Each squadron of cavalry may be calculated at 140 mounted men, which makes the whole cavalry force about 3,300 men. Each division of four batteries of horse artillery brings into the field 590 actual combatants, and each of field artillery the same, so that the whole artillery force of a corps d'armee is about 2,350 men. The actual number of combatants with a corps d'armee in this way seems to be 31,650 men, which may be stated in broad :numbers at 31,000. The Guard corps d'armee differs chiefly from the Line corps in having one additional rifle battalion and two additional cavalry regiments, which increase its strength by about 2,150 actual combatants ; the total number of combatants in this corps may be safely assumed as 33,000 men. The whole army in the field at the present moment may be considered as representing 280,000 actual sabres and bayonets present in the ranks. If we turn, however, to the list furnished by the military authorities, we find that the army is said to consist of 335,000 men, with 106,500 horses, of which only about 70,000 belong to the cavalry and artillery, and that it is accompanied by a waggon train of 8,950 carriages, of which only 3,500 be longing to the artillery perform any service on the field of battle. What has then become of these 55,000 men, 36,500 horses, and 5,450 carriages which form the difference between the returns we find of an army on paper and the actual number of men engaged on the field of battle ? This difference represents the moving power of the combat ant branches ; it is this difference that feeds the warriors when they are well, that tends them when wounded, and nurses them when struck down with disease. Nor are these the only duties of the non-combatant branches. An army on a campaign is a little world of itself, and has all the requirements of ordinary men moving about the world besides having an enemy in its neighbourhood, who attempts to oppose its progress in every way possible. When the line of march leads to a river, over which there is either no bridge or where the bridge has been de stroyed, a bridge must be immediately laid down, and, accordingly, a bridge train is necessarily always present with the army. When a camp is pitched , field bakeries have to be immediately established to feed the troops ; field telegraphs and field post offices must be established for the rapid transmis sion of intelligence. A large staff must be provided for, which is the mainspring which sets all the works going. All these are only ordinary wants, such as any large picnic party on the same scale would require. When we consider that GOO rounds of gun ammunition can easily be fired away in a general action, that every infantry soldier can on the same occasion dispose of 120 rounds of ball cartridge, and that this must be all replaced immediately ; that all this requires an enormous number of carriages, with horses and drivers ; that outside of the line of battle there must be medical men, their assistants, and nurses ; that within it and under fire there must be ambulance waggons and men with stretchers to bear the wounded to them; and that 40 per cent. of the infantry alone in every year's campaign are carried to the rear, we may understand how the large difference between the number of actual fighting men and of men borne upon paper is accounted for. We,.have seen that each corps d'armee may be safely estimated at 30,000 combatants and that of the guard at 33,000, without taking into considera tion those large artillery and engineer trains which would be requisite were the army to undertake the siege of any considerable fortress. It only remains now to consider whether this strength may always be reckoned upon as constant ; and it appears that this may be done in consequence of the admirable system of Prussian organisation. By this system, as soon as a corps d'armee is put on a war footing, there is a depot battalion formed for each regiment, a depot company for each battalion of rifles, a depot squadron for each cavalry regiment, a depot com pany for the artillery of each corps d'ar»ace, a depot, company for each engineer battalion, and a depot for the military train. These depots remain in their barracks, and supply all vacancies made in the ranks of the corps to which they belong. Nor is it all difficult for them to do so, because in conse quence of the system of recruiting pursued in this country these depots do not consist entirely of raw recruits, but partly of men who have served for some time in the army, and who have, after leaving the regular ranks, been annually put through a course of training. It is here requisite to say a few words on the system of recruiting in Prussia. With the exception of clergymen and a few others, every man in the year in which he becomes 20 years old is liable to military service for five years, three of which he spends in the regular army and two in the reserve. On completion of this service he is placed in the first Levy of the Landwehr for seven years, and afterwards in the second levy of the Landwehr for seven years more. When it is necessary to raise the regular army to a war footing the reserve is first draughted into the ranks, then the first levy of the Landwehr, and afterwards, if necessary, the second levy. At the present time the three first years of the second levy have already been called to arms. If the Landwehr is exhausted the Land sturm is called out, and in this case every man be tween 16 and 50 is liable for service. Each corps d'armee of the Line in time of peace is quartered in one of the eight provinces of the kingdom ; its recruits are obtained from that pro vince, and its Landwehr are the men in the pro vince who have served five years and who have been dismissed from actual service, but are subjected to an annual course of training. The provinces to which the different corps d'armee belong are :- 1, Prussia Proper; 2, Pomerania ; 3, Brandenburg; 4, Prussian Saxony ; 5, Posen ; 6, Silesia ; 7, West phalia ; 8, Rhine Provinces. The Guards are re cruited from men of a certain stature from all the CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq." John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. 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From Erfurt on the right to Kolsor on, the left, Prus sian advanced posts are pushed close up to the 'rontier line, and in rear of the curtain which these afford the supports are congregated at those spots where convenient quarters or military reasons render their presence most desirable. Whether active war will actually break out, or, if it does, where the first blow will be struck, are questions which no one can pretend to answer, and which time alone can decide. The utmost secrecy is justly preserved by the Prussian military authorities as to their opinion of either the course or conduct of the pdssible campaign, and so carefully has their counsel been kept that not a single hint of their plans has come out. Rumours have, of course, been afloat which have pointed out alternately every road leading southwards as that by which an offensive movement will be made into Austrian territory. None of these, however, bears the slightest semblance of truth. All that can be confidently stated is that those who have charge of the militarymovements are too discreet to breathe the faintest whisper of their intentions to the out .side world. Some facts, however, are well known and beyond doubt. The whole army, divided into two wings, will in the event of war be commanded by the King in person. The right wing, or, as from its present position it might be termed, the Army of Saxony, is under the command of the Archduke Frederic Carl, to whom General Moltke is attached as chief of the Staff. The left wing, or Army of Silesia, has the Crown Prince as its Commander, with General Blumenthals in a similar capacity. Each of these two great divisions consists of a certain number of corps d'armee, and it may be pre sumed, from the geographical position'of the pro vinces whence the various corps receive their re cruits, that the first, fifth, and sixth corps d'armee are with the Crown Prince, and the second, third, fourth, seventh, and eighth with the Archduke. The Crown Prince, with his right resting on the fortress of Torgau, on the Elbe, and his left on that of Kosel, covers the passes from Bohemia and Mo ravia into Silesia, and is supported by the fortresses of Glatz and Neisze. The Archduke, resting his right on the fortress of Erfurt, joins his left to the Crown Prince's right on the Elbe. In rear of this point of junction the Guard, which of itself forms a corps d'armee, is held in reserve. Such is a gene ral sketch of what may be presumed to be. the present distribution of the Prussian forces along the southern frontier ; to enter into more minute details at the present moment would be injudicious, and perhaps prejudicial to their cause. Every one who has read the history of a war must have experienced the difficulty of realising from the accounts of most historians ally definite idea of the actual number of combatants engaged in particular battles or sent on partic u l ar d ut i es. writers rilndeed,ters that it at is co a corps commonbrigcandaerst against militarye often menti o n e d as if every reader were intuitively conve rsan t w ith the number of soldiers who compose them, no t on l y sand at the outset of a campaign, but even after disease and battles have thinned the ranks and sent many of the early combatants into hospital or the enemy's war prisons. At the present moment, when, as we have seen above, the Prussians are ranged along a frontier on the further side of which are drawn up troops whom the incidents of a few hours may make their enemies—when the personal quarrel of two advanced sentries or the tra nsgress i on o f an imaginary boundary line by an unwitting patrol might cause a collision between the two great German Powers, and necessitate the descrip tion of another European war ----it may be inte resting to glance over the organisation of the Prussian army, and, from a general examination of the system on which it is based, to deduce rules which will be of service for computing broadly the numbers of troops engaged on different occa sions, in case of such a lamentable necessity. The Prussian army which takes the field in time of war consists of eight corps d'armee of troops of the Line, and of the corps d'armee of the Guard. Each corps d'arnzee is organised with the intention of being a perfectly complete little army of itself, so that without inconvenience it can be detached from the main army atany time. Each corps d'armee of the Line in time of war consists of two divisions of infantry, one division of cavalry, areserve of artil lery, and a military train. Each division of infantry is composed Of two brigades, each of which has ~ ~~ vsp - ftPER :47 e) z %,1.4y4k1 made their way towards the centre , kecslo6) . found the fire still smouldering, and as , mediately under a shaft the draughts of air which it supplied ever and anon fanned the dying embers into a flame. Then was brought into play the Marquis of Salisbury's powerful fire-engine from Hatfield, worked by 14 sturdy navvies at a time, and supplied with water from tenders brought to the spot by cautiously -guided engines, whistling and screeching as they approached the scene of the ca lamity. These were dragged up by other engines and two powerful 10 or I'2 ton cranes—one at either end. To them, by chains and tackling, were made fast such heavy gear as men without machinery would be powerless to move, and then the ponderous mass was slowly dragged out of the tunnel. In this way, after hours of well-directed labour, the line was at length cleared ; the engines and tenders were set upon their wheels once more ; the remains of the hundred trucks, of which, however, sonic 18 or 20 had fallen victims to the flames, were safely got out ; the remnants of springs, of bolts, of nuts ; of twisted rails, of telegraph wire, of wheels, and screws and crowbars, and coke and coal, and baked wheat and flour were all by degrees removed, and such a collection perhaps it never fell to the lot of man to behold before. A shipbreaker's yard is not a tidy sight, nor is a marine store dealer's usually a model of neatness, but if all the marine store dealers and all the shipbreakers in London had huddled together the contents of their stores they would scarcely have presented a more motley heap than that deposited this evening within a few yards of the Welwyn station. Pending the clearing of the line the stopping trains were forwarded by Hertford, Cambridge, Royston, and Hitchin ; and the express trains by Hertford, Cambridge, March, and Peterborough. By 9 o'clock this evening the line was pronounced fit for_the_ passage of goods trains ; but Mr. John son intended to make a minute inspection of the tunnel before permitting passenger trains to traverse it. The sides and roofing of the tunnel are com posed of five rings of brickwork, and as the injury i d s onet to presumed the that bricks t he s appears afety t o of be the eonly tunnel i is superficial net it e n jd e a h n g u s e e r e du intends. N eve r hto t e a l k e e s s , b t e h f e e r e p r e v e a e r u m t i i o t n t c pa l s i s A e l n r . . ger trains to pass through it are very proper and necessary. Mr. Johnson has been ably seconded in his exertions by Mr. Cochobott, the superintendent of the line, who has been unremitting in his labours. The inquest will be opened this day. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—With reference to my communication of yesterday, I have to inform you that the traffic of this line will resume its ordinary course to-morrow. The goods trains to and from London pass through the Welwyn tunnel to-night.—l am, Sir, your faithful servant, SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager. Great Northern Railway, General Manager's De partment, King's-cross Station, London, June 11. The Austrian Reply to Count Bismack's Circular. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : VIENNA, June 11 (Evening). Count Mensdorff, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has addressed a declaration to Count Karolyi, dated the 9th, replying to the statements in the Prussian circular despatch of the 4th inst. The Austrian Minister says : " Count Bismarck has considered himself allowed to attack the truth of the words we have spoken in the Federal Diet. This attempt will not succeed for the proofs of what we have said are but too well remembered by all. They weigh heavily against the Cabinet of Berlin ; and not only in Austria, but also in non-Prussian Germany, the voice of the public conscience is universally in unison with our own. Even in Prussia there are many truthful independent minds to whose judgment we could appeal with full confidence." i Count Mensdorff goes on to mention the recent 1 proceedings of Prussia in Holstein,. and enters a solemn protest against the statements with which it has been attempted to justify these proceedings. He declines, on the part of the . Austrian Government, all and every responsibility for the serious consequences of the Prussian decision by which the conflict is henceforth consigned to the domain of facts, and proceeds to prove that, since its despatch of the 26th January, 1866, the Prussian Government has, both by word and deed and without lawful ground, taken up a position in the Duchies which has rendered utterly precarious the condition of possession settled by the Gastein Convention. " Austria," continues Count Mensdorff, " re-- spected, nevertheless, the settlement of the posses-- sion of the Duchies. She did not give notice of withdrawal from the Gastein Convention, and would have allowed the provvisorium established by that convention to remain undisturbed until the Diet should have given its decision. Prussia, by marching troops into Holstein, completes de facto on her side the violation of the Gastein Convention, and our protest is grounded upon the fact of Prussia having proceeded to acts of self redress and of her having violated, by the occupation of Holstein, not only her treaty relations with Austria, but also Article 11 of the German Federal Pact. She has, moreover, thereby brought about the state of things things contemplated by Article 19 of the final Act of Vienna." In conclusion, Count Mensdorff reserves to the Imperial Government the right of taking such steps and resolutions as may be found necessary, since since nothing remains for Austria but to take steps for defending her honour and guarding her rights rights from being treated with contempt. THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN.--Sir, --The following paragraph appears in Mr. Reuter's telegrams, published in The Sun of Saturday last :—" The analysis of the Austrian despatch published by the Morning Herald and the Morning Post on Friday last, and reproduced by the Independance Beige, is i d m e c p l are r t a re d u t b y the doc Cologne m nent , thus Gazettedec declared e b d e apocryphal." This published by this company on the 7th and its iono au thenticity has been fully established by the publi ca t i on 'the despatch in the Memorial D " ins apo t„ cryphal," was and the Moniteur of yestqrday. you will publish this statement.—lani COMPANY. 2, MANAGER OF THE GENERAL TELEGRAM June 11." 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