The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-23 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT,3S;I'
LIVERPOOv,o.
The Great Britain screw steanOto
Gray, whose arrival in the gerseik,,,s
petted daily for the last few v7,.ee,foro
appearance at Queenstown last
a passage of 84 days from Melbo
that port on the 29th of October. r ifto
4 She brought 299 passengers, all °t' 01J,°
good health,J and 180,000 ounces g
.vJ

72000/. eJI
Her passage was much protrao4
gales, especially the latter portion):
trust to her steaming powers 8140,
the arrival at Melbourne of the P
Marco Polo, on the 25th of Octeber!„)
leave on her return on tlae 2d of De7o
The cargo of the Great Britain 010
bales of wool, 120 casks of tailor)
and 108 packages of merchandise.le
The. news yet received (by te P
meagre, nor until her arrival at till',
mails be delivered. digilt4l
An outbreak at the Ballarat all
reported, but the particulars or '—
known. 100
No improvement had taken P beta
merce of the colony, the markets
stocked, and prices very low. „e",
The Great Britain will leave '4l`.
coaling) this evening, for Liverpoco,
to arrive in the course of to-morroce
It is believed she will be at oncriod
the conveyance of troops for the 0,
the English or French Governwee
THE FEDER"

•©nt staffs..

Total
In addition to the ale
Surgeons ..
Transport department ............. . ......... .
The siege artillery consists of 250 01214001:4
31 howitzers, and 97 mortars. Veer
subdivided into 387 battalions, *Le' -
batteries, consisting of 1,122 guns'
A recent plan for a new Federal 0000
tion contemplates an increase of 50t0 coo!:.
increase of the artillery to the pror toe
every thousand men, instead of 2 to eroetel
at present, and a reduction of the Pstvoil
cavalry to the infantry from 1-7th t° 1, he Wu
that the increase of 50,000 men
to garrison purposes. Whensye' the 11'
prospect' of a Federal mobilization ,oteg,
tY 'it
state of the contingent of the plays p
into greater prominence, but i 3 . fOf
power' v,
by one or other of the greater id the
political connexion's sake-
°lth°eure woul
d
bi
ever be brought into the -°l4' pone!'
than the seven first 01.-Ps hand, /,
400,000 ; on the other ar
Prussia would always haVe further
and above their contingent, which ea, F
lingly enough bring into Federal servJ
means the troops would be kept 3t
the same time procure a proportion° t
cendancy for the nation to which thei4re"
the most faulty is the medical, def
small contingents have no surge
01100
contingent has eight surgeons, L'oe too
strength has one : in exact proport.i
Lite,
and the mismanagement of these InIntotl:„
pride and their repulsive tendency*, st' tilg°
an arrangement among themselves for
joint expense is next to impossible. re
The conscription ordered for th,coo
for the present year amount to 13,"-sreai,
amount of one-sixth of the Whole '4
'4
deviation from prescriptive practice
called out this year from three to Oil 95'
than usual. This number consists °f
1,878 'cavalry, 1,068 artillery, 127 8131
for the department.
Id !I
A. meeting of the Australian Freebvtrl
took place yesterday afternoon, Nylllolo°l
wind up. The assets in hand will a"" ro51)
return of 6s. upon 1/. paid, with the Pet,
ther distribution of is. 6d. to 2s. 111/6
from unsatisfactory management, tbe 1301,051/
in the open market in order to suite
mium, and advances to directors on
THE ASSASSIN EARA.NELLI.—The/- coy
inquiry will have to be suspended I°,.,rpieg,o
consequence of the principal actor
undergo the ordeal of an examination/1'
trate. He is "progressing towarderectlii°'
and it is considered probable that Wihet
days he will be sufficiently strong 1°
that purpose without injury to his Dais +
The Britannia Gold and Cop Per
have called a meeting for the 29th 100
report from the committee of manage-,30 op
The remaining railway calls to -be Pg:t,,,S.
include the East Kent on the 24th ',7101,11
'
the Beziers to Graissessac, on the 31s"; 0/
the Western of Switzerland, up to 13
$
321 t 000/. id)
is only sixty years ago that Odo-90161
fishing village, whereas now it posseSS 140,4
tante. In 1793 it was a roadstead, Yin
might be seen anchored ; but nowt ''„el
by 300 large ships, and upwards of 900 u tr.
In 1813 the importation was so tritlis.oisl
mentioned in the statistics of the ellioPit4
the present moment, Odessa imports noel/
three millions of silver roubles, and e%ree
of eight millions. Three men have 103„- 07.,!
is—its founder, of whom little is knefriefti
Doyens ; the Duke de Richelieu, the rec4e,s
Minister of Louis XVIII. ; and, lastly, d Ity
THE PATRIOTIC FUND.-- The seo°9 ire I
formance by the officers of the Oxfordsij;riA
of the Patriotic Fund took place on Of
the Town Hall, and was attended
r
persons. eases;,
dit in Paris, that M. d'Utiedolfh
Berlin, to receive anew confidante' Irteo
the King, will return to London as per
in place of Count B-rnstoff. ere'cs'
The Rev. Dr. Beaumont, an emisnet
li
the Wesleyans, while giving out a hic:esl"
chapel at Hull, on Sunday morning, d,
suddenly dropped dead in the pulpit. tlg'e
The liabilities of Messrs. Heine, ft;
whose suspension in the Cape tradeWeill/P
Saturday, are stated to amount to 13"e'bi0
The Indus, with the India and
brought 27,0001. in specie. LOl3l
CITY OF EDINBURGH ~. '"11
0„0'
have been issued requiring the vollM:feeV
which has now completed its corripleweeAl;
the Corn Exchange, Grassniarket, )•-•
February, at 10 o'clock, for the Pore
401
bodied.—Edinburglt Courant. a v,°
THE WAREHOUSEMEN AND CLEO' -I:o7nie
THE PATRIOTIC FUND.—Yesterday
tion of the warehousemen and clerks lit c,r
city of London waited upon the Lord:-AiSii.
rented his lordship• with a cheque for J.,' De
aid of the Patriotic Fund. His lordehlP
the meeting held upon the occasion- eOOO etc
SIR GEORGE BROWN.—Many errttr 6eFe
been current of late, to the effect that 10
was on his way to England " invelide'; to 6
to learn that the general has only g°l',- co"(
short' time, for change
our, of air as the Wl° te°
board ship and the unfav eta cli,°oo
g e
Sea had impaired in some measure bi
and retarded the healing of his wotingel''6ll
be en received from Sir'-George from bee',
sth inst. He had already felt gre3t
b'1..4
delightful climate of that island, and itij t:o°
i )egUTI to fill up, he confidently hoPa6ll
in the course of eight or ten days, $ll- to 1.00
self of the first opportunity to return
the army. t f),111
SMITHFIELD.—We understand ths"toott
under the censideration of the Pr°tes oclitirjit
erecting., by public subscriptier,. a vDO
martyrs who suffered in Smithfield., Nellso
John Rogers, a prebend of St. Paw%
petite St. I;artholmew's Iloopital pi!
Tußry,

-end the Ambassadors of the Allied PI;
diplomatic document, the object of
gulate the future relations of the
cipalities.
From all that can be learned ill Pri!,.
the South cif France, nothing if/41f
likely than that an a.' ttem t 5
by the Carlists before ?ono.. tea
General Cabrera has at lasCoonse-n t
movement in Catalonite
AUSTRALIA'

THE FEDERAL CONP toiZl
1411tti-
BERLDT, Jan. 20.—Now that so l'ili,colllll, ri!'ll§l
Federal contingents being mobilised J'oo.o 4%401: i
ing to know of what they consist. !itt,bl/ yDarmo
by the military commission at jr4 11/41911
11
strength of the Federal army (beill° ,0P
Federal contingents) to be 525,037 131'
follows :
Corps d'Armee.
•.''
I. 11. 111. Austria .......................
IV V. VI. Prussia .......................... ••••'
'toot
VII. Bavaria ................... '; Do'
VIII. Wurtemberg, Baden, ...... ate Sir
stadt ........................ •••iioo,
IX. Saxony, Electoral Soo,
Luxemburg, Limbur g•l'orb, t Nee ,
X. Hanover, Brunswick, 01(1tblitg,
Hanseatic Towns, Mot”"—..."' tu,441 f
Reserve division of infantry .................
Total . . ..•
........
. iltithe
There are distributed among the seroi ° 4
follows : 04t ng c
Infantry ....................................... •••\ 41,, to t
(Of whom 28,621 are sharpshootert'''..„.,
Cavalry. .................................... •••" at,
(With 72,032 horses.) lerl,`4ll
Artillery ......................................... fever, 0
( With 7,424 horses.) of
roc
Engineers ... ................................. •••"..„,• eaDt rYie
On the different staffs ...................... ti o 0
,„nl4ll to :
14„
,„...
Total ......................... ••
In addition to the above are-- (` ,
To
Surgeons ....... •••,,,,,,,
...•