The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

tier of Turkestan, with 4 battalions ; and that of Siberia
with 4 batteries, in all from 72,000 to 84,000 men and
288 pieces of cannon. The regular army of Russia,
therefore, consists of 30 divisions, or 120 regiments, of
infantry, and of 15 divisions, or 60 regiments, of cavalry ;
and counts, at most, with the reserve and the depots, Shr
628,000 men and 1,540 pieces of cannon, to which must
be added from 30,000 to 50,000 Cossacks of various de- '—
nominations, with their light artillery, as well as the in- Si
tenor guard and the gendarmerie. Out of that number 2C
there can really be disposed of in Europe only the active
army, the body-guards, the grenadiers, and the two re- 1:
serve bodies of cavalry, in all 420,000 men, 72,000
horses, and 1,272 cannon—a considerable force certainly, 3.
but not greater than others of the first-rate powers can 2
bring into the field in time of war."
Gen. Osten-Sacken, aide-de-Camp to the Em- 2
peror of Russia, ihas just been named to the
command of the 3d corps d'armee, vice Gen. Offen-
berg, who is seriously ill.
The Emperor of Russia has promulgated the
following ukase :
"By the grace of God, we, Nicholas I, ordered by
our decree of the Ist (13th) August, 1834, that every
year levies of men should take place in certain parts of
the empire ; and now we decree : Ist. To complete the
army and the navy, and in conformity with a ukase con-
taining special enactments, addressed to the Directing
Senate, the tenth partial recruiting shall take place in
the eastern part of the empire, in the proportion of 7
men for 1,000, as was the case in 1852 in the western
part. 2dly. Independently of that, 3 men in 1,000
shall be levied in the governments of the eastern part of
the empire, to complete the 6 men in 1,000, which that
part supplied less than it ought to have done in pre-
ceding reeruitings. 3dly. In the governments of
Psok, Witepsk, and Mohilew, which were exempted
by the decrees of the 31st October, 1845, and the
26th September, 1846, on account of the bad harvests
of 1846 and 1847, the levy of the complement of
1852 (3 men per 1,000) shall be proceeded to. With
respect to the Jews of Witepsk and Mohilew, the
levy shall be made in the same manner as on the Jews
of the other governments-10 men in 1,000, on the
basis of the regulations for recruiting. 4thly, The levy
shall commence on the Ist November, and terminate
on the Ist December. Given at St. Petersburg, the Bth
20th) July, 1853, and the 28th of our reign.Nl 50
" CHOLAS." 20
Two other ukases are also published ; they fix the 11
details of the levies to be made. In virtue of 10
another ukase the odnodwures and inhabitants of
the governments of Kiew, Podolia, Wolhynia, 20
Minsk, Grodno, Wilna, and Kown, are also to 10
supply recruits. st.
The liamburgh Correspondent, under date of 5°
40
St. Petersburg, 21st ult., says :—" The armaments 25
in the interior of the Empire continue without 25
interruption. The battalions of reserve of the 4th st.
corps of Infantry are concentrated near Tula. The St.
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guard and the corps of Grenadiers still occupy the
positions in the camp, near Krasnoge Selo and near 50
Badost not far from Gotschino. The manceuvres . 25
of the two corps, which form an effective force of 100
100,000 men, still continue." St.
Count de Benkendorff, first aide-de-camp to the
Emperor of Russia, arrived at Frankfort on the g
29th ult. 20
The Augsburg Gazette quotes a letter from Rome,
of the 20th ult., in which it is stated that the poli- St
tical conspiracies lately discovered at Bologni,Forli,
St. lrcangelo, Cent°, and other places of Romagna, 7.1
had been all concocted in person by the ex-triumvir 1
of Rome, M. Aurelio Saffi, Mazzini's staunch friend.
The correspondent states, that at Rome people
shake their heads at Saffi's fool-hardiness in risking I.
his person within the grasp of the police, and are
generally surprised that he has not been arrested,
as his features are of remarkable and well-known
cast. Monsignor Matteucci has, however, sent
after him, calling upon the authorities to arrest
" Aurelio Saffi of Forli, a landholder and literary
man (possidente e letterato)" on a charge of high
treason.
A letter from Cetigne (Montenegro) states that
on the day of the patronal fete of the country,
there was a large assemblage of the inhabitants, at
which Prince Danillo made a speech relating to the
support that he had received from Austria, and
threatening to punish with great severity any one
guilty of offence against the persons or property of
Austrian subjects.
A letter from Damascus 26th June, says :

•" The

fanaticism of the Turks both here anis]. at Aleppo be-
comes every day more and more violent. The
Governor has convoked the Turkish and Christian
notabilities in order to impress upon them the duty
of concord. The Governor of Aleppo has arrested
30 of the most violent fanatics."