The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-30 00:00:00

GERMANY.

VIENNA, Orr. 26.
A reduction of the army, so long promised, so
little expected, has at last been ordered. The Aus-
trian Soldier's Friend, a military journal, notorious
for its good information on all army matters, pub-
lishes what it calls an imperial resolution, dated Cra-
cow, Oct. 12, 18.11. I quote the entire paragraph:
1. The infantry of the line, frontier and rifle battalions,
belonging to the 4th, sth, 7th, and Bth army corps of the bri-
gades tistairkories, Kudriaffskr, Paumgarten, and Schmers
ling, are to remain upon their present footing. Those of every
other corps are to be reduced to 100 men in each company.
The 4th battalions of the regiments belonging to the German
recruiting districte,with the exception of that in Mayenec, are
to retain their present establishment of sixty privates per
company ; wherever this number may not be !sufficient to
perform the local duty, assistance is to be obtained by the
dislocation of the battalion which is mobile. Every fourth
battalion of Italian and Hungarian infantry of the line is to
be reduced to sixty men per company.
2. In those armed corps which are not excepted above,
the lance corporals of the line and frontier regiments are to
be reduced to eight, and the leaders of patrols in the rifles
to twelve per company.
3. Thole battalions of the line and frontier infantry which
arc to reduce their establishment to 180, and those rifle re-
giments which are to reduce to 160 privates arc to grant
permanent leave to one pioneer per company.
4. The number of sub-pioneers belonging to the eight
pioneer companies cantomal in Italy are to be reduced from
120 to 70; the other pioneer companies arc to retain their
present establishment.
5. Every battalion of landwelir is to dissolve the third
division, but to establish the cadres of the other four (tom-
panies, so that the officers, non-commissioned officers,
and servants, shall remain on the war-footing, and
on the provision-lists; the lance-corporals, drummers,
tramplers, pioneers, and pirates, are to be dismissed.'
By the third landwehr divisions the officers are
to be dismissed as " surplus ;" the non-commissioned
officers and privates are to be enrolled in the
other four companies and sent on furlough. Those
battalions of landwhcr which have been increased since 1818,
not from the usual supplies of landwehr-men, but from
clas.sis of the population whose duty it is to serve in the
regular army, and therefore bound to eight years active
service, have to send to the ministry of war correct lista
of all such inclisiduals.
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6. The cadres, however, of the third and 'fourth batta-
lions of the newly.crcuted regiments of infantry—Nos. 56,
46, and 50—are to be established at once, and the privates
to be enrolled at the next recruiting period. The reserve
divisions formerly in existence will thus be abolished.
The corps Teti:mil to have to effect the arrangements
contained is the foregoing paragraphs immediately; not
forgetting, however, that, n 4 compensation for the bands
and trumpeters, the regulated number of privates be
dismissed.

These arrangements require official confirmation
before they are implieitv credited, notwithstanding
that they are announced in the &Niers Friend.

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