The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-11 00:00:00

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BRADSHAW'S RAILWAY MANUAL FOR 1865 (W.
J. Adams).—The present is the Seventeenth annual
issue of this world-famous Guide Bookl—y
printed
arinbotoekd
numbering up now as many as 618
pages, embellished with three large folding map
s—
one of Great Britain and Ireland—one of India—
and one of Europe7-besides a little one of the trunk
line connecting New York with St. Louis. As
good wine proverbially needs no bush, it might
be said with equal truth that a good word
is hardly needed nowadays for such necessities in
our social system as a Bradshaw, a Murray, or a
Kelly's Post-Office London Directory. Granted that
Bradshaw is a " mighty maze"—it must, in justice
to it, be added that it is " not without a plan." It
amounts—the mastery of the system latent in
the labyrinth of Bradshaw, to little less than a
science in itself, and that science, moreover, one of
a very abstruce character indeed. Nevertheless
through all the intricacies of this marvellous and
for the generality of inquirers utterly bewildering
labyrinth of Bradshaw there is a clue really and
truly discoverable. Once discover that clue, and
you are :immediately set apart as among the few
rare and isolated notabilities of your generation.
Not by any means a Bradshaw, however, of
this character, be it observed, is the goodly book
now before us. Here, at least, are none of those
excruciatingly recondite time tables in the
midst of tracking your way through which, with a
nervous forefinger, on the road, let us say, from
Euston-square to Aberdeen, you suddenly appear
to be wandering into the afternoon of the day be-
fore yesterday, and almost dread to find yourself,
before the close of your researches, landed some-
where about the middle of the week before last !
Problems meeting you at almost every turn of
every page of Bradshaw's Time-tables about as
difficult of sane solution as that famous one we
might fancy from the first leaf of Euclid for
Idiots—Given the name of the Captain and
the ship's tonnage, to find out her destination!
A Bradshaw, in the ordinary coffee-room accepta-
tion of the term, this is not—but, on the contrary,
perfectly plain sailing as contrasted with most diffi-
cult and perilous navigation. The book under notice
is, in other words, just simply Bradshaw's Rail-
way Manual or Shareholder's Guide and Direc-
tory. It includes within it a wonderful mass of
well-authenticated and perfectly reliableinforma-
tion in regard to all the railways in the United
Kingdom, Continental, African, Australian, Amen-
can, East Indian and West Indian. Five hundred
and sixty one distinct railways in all, together with
about two dozen auxiliary associations, such as
the Submarine Telegraph, the Telegraph to
India, and the London District Telegraph. Alto-
gether, " Bradshaw's • Railway Manual" is the
epitome of all that vast and complicated sys-
tem which has constituted the present epoch in
the world's history, the Fast Age, the Iron Age,
in other words, the age of railroads and of rapid
intercommunication.

MISS BRADDON'S "DOCTOR'S WIFE," (Frau Doe-
torin), and "Henry Dunbar," ha.vo both juot appearod in
Germail at 13Orlin.

The Prussian Army Bill.

BERLIN, FEB. 9.

The following is the draft of the Army Bill
brought by the Government into the Chamber of
Deputies :
" We, William, by God's grace, &c., with the
assent of both Houses of Parliament, order as fol-
lows for the whole extent of our monarchy in alte-
ration and completion of the law as to the obliga-
tions for military service of Sept. 3, 1814.
" 1. The general obligation to war service in the
army and fleet is reduced from 19 to 16 years.
" 2. Those persons bound to take military ser-
vice shall belong during the first seven years of their
entire term to the standing army or war fleet re-
spectively. They shall, however, in so far as the
necessary reinforcement of the army or fleet, or
drill, do not otherwise require, be sent on furlough
during the last_four years to their homes, instead of
the last two years, as now usual.

" This applies also to one year volunteers (see
sec. 7 law of Sept. 3, 1814), to whom also the first
year of service, as hitherto, shall be reckoned as
three years.

" 3. During the term reduced to nine years of
obligatory service in the army and navy of both
classes, the defensive force shall belong for the first
four years to the first class, and for the following
five years to the second class of the land and sea
services. Passage into the second class takes place,
therefore, as hitherto, usually with the commence-
ment of the 32d year of age, but release from the
land and sea services and entry into the reserve as
early as and without exception with the completed
36th year.

"4. The service' relations of the land and sea
services of both classes shall be specially settled by
a separate bill, according to present requirements,
upon the basis of the following general regulations.
" 5. Owing to the existing increase of the standing
army the first class of the landwehr (militia) will in
future only be called to arms by us when very seri-
ous danger threatens the country. The orders con-
tained in sec. 8 of the law of Sept. 3, 1814, as to
the destination and application of the landwehr,
must nevertheless remain in force. In accordance
herewith peace drill is requisite for the landwehr of
the first class. This shall take place in future :
a. For the infantry as hitherto, in special battalions
or companies, in their native districts for a term of
from two to four weeks. b. For the jagers, pioneers,
artillery, and military train simply by attachment
to corresponding troops of the line for exercise during
the same term. c. This last method of exercise shall
also be universally applied to the cavalry as soon as
the cavalry of the line is reorganised upon the ne-
cessary peace footing to be prepared for war. From
that time forth expires the hitherto existing legal
obligations of the communes to furnish the drill
horses free of charge, as well as all horses for mobi-
lising the landwehr, which shall thenceforward be
supplied from the funds of the State. Exercise for
the land and sea services of the second class shall
not take place during peace.
" 6. Persons belonging to the standing army and
war fleet on furlough at their homes, and those re-
leased from land and sea service, are not limited in
the choice of their place of abode either at home or
abroad, but must observe the regulations issued re-
lative to giving notice of their whereabouts. The
emigration of furlough-men belonging to the stand-
ing army and the fleet shall be simply governed in
future by those orders issued as to the emigration
of reserve men.

" 7. All men of the furlough class, whether be-
longing to the standing army or the fleet, or the
land and sea services, are subject to the civij tri-
bunals for criminal offences, except in the cases
stated in part 2, sec. 6, par. 1-5 inclusive of the
criminal code. Persons on furlough belonging to
the active army and fleet are not included in this
clause.

" 8. Sailors by calling are free from service in the
army during peace, who, upon entering the age
when service becomes obligatory, have served in
sea-going ships of the Prussian mercantile navy.
They are, however, bound to serve in the fleet
according to the following rules.
"9. The following classes belong to the war
fleet, which, like the standing army, is constantly
ready for war :-1. The active navy, viz., sailors in
active service, dockyard men, and marines on fur-
lough from the active navy up to their completed
27th year, or up to the completed seventh year of
service, reckoned from the date of their actual en-
trance. 2. Men bound to enter the naval service,
in the sense of the order of April 4, 1854, up to
their completed 27th year.
" 10. The active navy is composed of—a. Sailors
calling, viz., such volunteers or conscripts as have
served at least one year in sea-going ships of the
mercantile navy upon entering the serviceable age.
b. Voluntarily entered or conscript dockyard
labourers. c. Volunteers or conscripts for the
marines.

" 11. Time of service in the active navy may be
shortened by leave of absence from the marine au-
thorities for sailors by calling in proportion to their
technical preliminary training and their availability
for service in the war fleet. Shipped men of all
classes, on the other hand, whatever their time of
service, will not be discharged until after return to
Prussian ports.
" Young sailors by calling, who upon entering
the age for service have acquired the qualification
for a one year volunteer, or have passed the mates'
examination, fulfil their obligation towards the
war fleet by one year's voluntary service, without
being bound to find their own uniforms or pro-
visions. In the ratio of their qualifications they
shall be proposed and appointed where necessary as
sub-officers, deck officers, or supplementary offices
of the reserve. To these one year volunteers in
the war fleet the year shall be reckoned as three
years' service.

" 13. Sailors having to do substitute duty upon
entering the age of service, or if at that time absent
upon voyages, then upon their next return into the
King's dominions are bound to present themselves
before the substitute court to execute their service
duty. They cannot be mustered again for mer-
chantmen until they have satisfied the demands of
their military duties.
" 14. Entry or re-entry into the war fleet in time
ofpeace cannot be demanded from conscript (sec.
10 a) or leave of absence sailors (sec. 9, Nos. 2 and
3), who at reception of the order to join have actu-
ally taken service on board a Prussian merchant-
man after muster according to rule, or who study at
a Prussian navigation school, or school of naval
architecture connected therewith. Such actual
entry into service on board a Prussian merchant-
man releases also from presentation at the substi-
tute periods and the muster meetings, as also from
obligation to be present at the exercise drill on board
the school ships ordered in sec 17.

" 15. For extraordinary reinforcements of the
fleet in time of peace, the leave-of-absence men and
marine reserves are first called out, and next the
sea-service men of ages varying from 20 to 27.
Upon the outbreak of war, besides the substitute
men bound to service, the leave-of-absence and re-
serve men of the fleet, and the sea-service men of
the same ages, the sea reserve and classes of sea-
service men (sec. 16) attached thereto are, if neces-
sary, called out. In peace, as in war, the necessary
reinforcement is so arranged that the first-named
categories precede the later mentioned, and the
junior classes are called upon before the senior.
" 16. The sea reserve of the first class consists :
a. Of the men as a rule discharged from the marine
reserve into the sea reserve upon completing their
27th year. L. Of the sea-service men between their
28th and 31st year. c. Of other sailors by calling,
upon whom service is obligatory, who have not
served in the fleet, and have not yet passed their
31st year.

" 17. Yearly gun-drill, lasting eight weeks,
takes place on board the shooting schoolships for
seamen belonging by any age to the war fleet and
the first class of the sea reserve who have not served
on board the fleet. Each man liable to this drill
will, as a rule, have to attend twice.

" 18. The sea reserve of the second class con-
sists of all released from the first class and of the
sea-service men, aged from 32 to 36 inclusive, In

time of war it is employed, if necessary, to complete
and reinforce the navy.
" 19. All orders in opposition hereto are sus-
pended.
" 20. Our Ministers of War and of the Marine
and our Minister of the Interior are charged with
the execution of this law."