The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

RUSSIAN MILITARY MOVEMENT•

By way of Hamburg, we h ave advices from St.
Petersburg of the 10th inst. :
, General Siewers, who commanded the first corps
d armee had arrived at the capital from his head-quarters
at Radom, and left, again on the Bth for Mittau. General
Siewers is charged by the Emperor to organise a new
army, called the "Baltic army," the troops which were
formerly posted between Riga and Cronstadthaving been
ordered to the Polish frontier. The head-quarters of
the Baltic army will be at Mittau.
General Muriavieff, recently appointed Commander-
in-Chief of the Russian forces in Asia, passed through
Moscow on the 7th, to assume his command.
Two divisions of the corps d'armee under General
Paniutin are advancing by forced marches on Odessa,
taking the road through Bessarabia. These troops aro
to reinforce the Russians in the Crimea.

The second brigade of the Cuirassiers of the Guards,
under General Tumanski, are quartered at Warsaw, and
in the neighbourhood of that city. General Essen, with
the picked regiment of the so-called Chevaliers Gardes,
is at Siadlia.

INQUEST OF THE LATE SIR GEORGE IrVOITDIVELL.—
Yesterday, 1111.. Bedford, the coroner, held an inquest to
inquire into the circumstances attending the death of
Sir George Wombwell, whose sudden death on Sunday
morning last, has already been reported in our columns.
The medical evidence showed that the deceased had
died from disease of the heart, and the jury returned a
verdict accordingly.
THE EAST INDIA RAILWAY.—The East India Railway
Company are stated to have paid into the treastecy at
the India-house, up to the end of last weel t, 780, 0001.
out of the 1,500,0001. required by the 15th et'
Febs nary.
To-morrow they will pay about 600,000/. snore, th'.
recent call having been promptly met, whil e that for
February has in numerous cases been anticipat, :Many
shareholders, also, have paid up in full.
UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.—An evening szeotinfl
of the members will be held this evening, when Captiin
J. C. Hoseason, R.N., will offer some remarks on the
following subjects :-1. The three routes to Am stralia ;
2. The value of the commercial steam-marine int IN.e con-
veyance of cavalry, infantry, baggage, and munit a ons of
war ; 3. The incalculable value of steam as a t s totive
power in the saving of time in war ; 4. On the han tiling
of steamers on a lee-shore and in stormy weather. The
several arguments will be illustrated by diagrams and
models on a large scale. These remarks will be fol-
lowed by a discussion, in which members are invited to
take part.
METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT INSTITUTIO U.—Yes-
terday the half-yearly meeting of this charity (i nstituted
for the reception and cure of poor convalesc eats) we; i
held at the office, Sackville-street, Piccadilly - —Admit.'al
Percy in the chair. The report stated that th e original
building having been found too small, another had been
founded, and was completed in March last, ft sr the re-
ception of 120 inmates, at an outlay of 12,0004. About
1,400 poor people had been benefitted by the institution
since its opening, and as the applications for admission
were becoming more and more numerous, it would
shortly be necessary to have a larger building. In nino
months of the year 1854, 872 persons had been at hnitted,
being 354 males and 518 females, of whom 624 had been
discharged cured and 195 improved, while otb ers had
left from various causes, and 18 still remained in the
institution. The receipts had amounted to 5,78 9/. lls.
9d., and the expenditure to 5,289/. 7s. 6d., lea ving in
hand a balance of 5001. 4s. 3d.
THE INIQUITY OF TRADE.—A local journal observes :
"The Lancet is still prosecuting its just and uncompro-
mising. crusade against the fraudulent dealers in the
food of the people. A first volume of its proceedings,
edited by Dr. Hassan, has just appeared. There is
matter for both indignation and congratulation in its
pages ; many necessaries of life' being anything but
what they are called, and others, so far from established
notions, are pure and undefiled. The manufactured
fluid vinegar is proved to be in the most part poisonously
impregnated, and out of some 28 samples, only seven
were pronounced free from adulteration. In this
honourable minority Mr. Joseph Underwood, of Nor-
wich, stands with the first ; a fact which cannot be other
than flattering to his townsmen and their kinsmen in
London, where this gentleman has likewise a business
locale. The article Farinaceous Food' is a most
amusing piece of Barnumism. The Teas and Co:Tees—
excepting most of those in canisters—exhibit a cb eering
aspect of human nature, and the whole class of spices—
albeit,some that are ground—is-likewise unexceptionable.
In too many respects the poor appear to suffer tho
most from adulteration, and it may be difficult to tell
exactly where the fraud originates, but the vendor is not
in such cases free front blame while firms of such mag-
nitude and direct connections with foreign producing
countries as those of Travers, Sons, and otherlk.offer
facilities to the humblest dealer to possess him elf 'of
a stock unquestionably genuine. Water and its im-
purities take up a large portion of the book, and each
chapter is illustrated by microscopical representations of
the genuine articles and their epuricous compounds."

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