The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

IT.HE FOREIGN LEGION.

BERLIN, Dec. 23.—1 t has already been stated in
The Sun that the project of organising a foreign
legion in and by England had created great sensa-
tion and anxieties in Ministerial quarters at this
place and elsewhere in Germany, and that every
possible measure would be adopted to thwart and
counteract the project. The stringent laws con-
nected with Prussia's military organisation and
landwehr system render these obstructions the
more easy, and these again are facilitated by the
hold which local and general police agents exercise
over the personal movements of all, and especially
over the inferior classes. Spener's Journal of this
morning has the following on The subject, founded
upon an article of a Ministerial paper :
" As regards the proclaimed intention of the English
Government
aisekeaepftultieeiireye well upon those who
11k
legion, the authorities
,41. l berequired
to
ess to recruit men for foreign military
will
e itabu stion raise
service. According to all calculation, this will be pre-
vented on the grounds of our lives, as the criminal code
menaces with severe punishment both the recruiting
and the aiding or abetting the same, even when
the object is to engage non-military persons for the
service of not inimical Powers. Every Prussian, accord-
ing to our military code and the law of domicile (indi-
gence), renders himself guilty of a misdemeanour who
quits Prussia without leave, if lie do so between the
ages of 17 and 25, with the intention of evading his
duties in the standing arniy—as, according.to the last-
mentioned law, each Prussian, on accomplishing his
seventeenth year, is bound, on demanding permission to
be released from the circumscription of Prussian sub-
jects, to obtain a certificate from the district substi-

tat) committee (that is, the mixed military and civil
committee for the -periodical inspection and enrol-
tnent of recruits), to the effect that he does not make
the demand in order to escape his military obliga-
tions. Persons who quit their domicile without leave,
and do not present themselves to the district com-
mittee, lay themselves open to suspicion of this
intent. Relief men (recruits liable to service), and
reserve men (those who have served three years actively,
and must pass two years more in reserve before drop-
ping into first-class landwehr), are punishable as deserters
,if they quit the country without leave. This, according
to the Correspondence Bureau (says Spene;), is the point
of view which will he acted upon according to circum-
stances, and which may be carried out without reserve,
as the penal stipulations connected therewith expressly
relato in part to times of peace, and are laid down corn-
pletely independent of all external political relations. "

MARKET N#W's-/ THIS IM Y.)

HAY 2d.AKIS.ETS.

SHIVIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ 15s ; clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 511.5 s ; and straw, 1/ 2s to 1/ 10s per load.
A moderate supply and a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 16s to 51 OA ; clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 5115 i ; and straw, 11 4s to 11 104 per load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at late rates.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2118 s to 41 15s; clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 11l N; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ lth per load.
Trade rather dull.