The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

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TROOPS FOR FOREIGN SERVICE.
The following list of the regiments under orders for
Constantinople (qy.), with the dates at which they are di-
rected to hold themselves in readiness to embark, ap-
pears in the Dublin Mail of Monday night :
4th (King's Own) ...
7th (Royal Fusiliers) 2sth „
9th 6th ~ '
14th
(Royal North British Fusiliers)
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17th
21st27thanniskillingo
28th
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35th
38th
Highlanders) l3th
39th 2Bth ~
4241 (Royal 2d „
50th (Queen's Own) 3oth „
62d
(Cameron Highlanders) lBth „
63d sth „
79th
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(Connaught
. R...a.n..i.e.r. 5.).
27th
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90th (Perthshire Light Infantry)
93t1
95th
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The following regiments will be all remaining in the
United Kingdom to do home duty :—The 34th, 20th,
97th, 46th, 33d, 77th, 910, 12th, 19th, 23d, and the
Rifle Brigade.
It is intended early it the ensuing month that a camp,
consisting of 30,000 z:nglish militia, shall be formed
either at Chobham. Jr such other place as the general in
command of the —my shall deem fit.

EmIGRAToN.—It appears to have been notified by
of the Emigration Commissioners that the
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stem, which has hitherto discouraged the
gr 0 ch of self-respect on the part of the Government
p-ogrants and wasted the resources of the colonies, is to
be abandoned. Immediately after the gold discoveries
it was pointed out that the entire principle upon which
these matters had been conducted was erroneous. While
the emigrant at the commencement of a career requiring
only honesty and industry to insure unlimited prospe-
rity was degraded by a mode of charity which taught
no obligation to repay the help, so that it might profit-
ably return at a future period to assist others in like need,
the proceeds of the land sales, which should have been
applied to public works, were continuously drained_
Since that period a discussion of the question in Austra-
lia has led to an act being passed for the establishment
of a sounder practice, the spirit of which is now being
acted upon by the home authorities. Henceforth emi-
grants are to undertake to discharge the cost of their
passage in one or two years from the date of their land-
ing by entering the service of employers who will become
bound for them. At the same time, there are certain
provisions of the law which prevent the plan from ope-
rating injuriously to them as regards wages, and which
also enable them, under certain circumstances, by a
voluntary payment, to anticipate the expiration of their
terms of employment.
The dollars brought by the last West India packet
e ha e been sold at 00d, per oz., being an advance of id.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1854.

Distracted though our attention may be for a
while from the consideration of the latest phases
of the Eastern Question, by such discussions
within the walls of Parliament as that which last
evening in the House of Commons elicited the
brilliant and amusing speech of Mr. LUCAS, ana-
lytical of the failings and corruptibility of the
Irish representatives—we inevitably revert im-
mediately afterwards with redoubled interest to
the scrutiny of our foreign correspondence. Such,
in truth, is unavoidable. The imminence of war
renders us in a manner indifferent to everything
else, no matter how attractive in itself, or how
much more nearly it may concern the interests
of our home population. So far, indeed,
things promise little more than a partial so-
licitude on the part of the general com-
munity in reference to the promised explana-
tion of the New Reform Bill on the occasion of
the next Monday's sitting of the popular branch
of the Legislature. Scarcely one intelligent man
in the United Kingdom can, for the life of him,
preserve anything like a sustained regard for a
matter not directly connected with the probabili-
ties of a warlike struggle among the great races of
Chridtendom. The long-continued strikes which,
in the north of England, have so deplorably in-
terfered with the industrial operations of our
manufacturers have failed, except during brief
intervals, tp divert the notice of the multitude
from the absorbing topic of contemplation—the
enormous difficulties affecting the Turkish-Conn-
ells at Constantinople. The extraordinary rise in
the price of provisions, nay, more, even than the
dearnesa of bread, the almost unprecedented costli-
ness of coal during the winter season of 1853-1854,
barely in any way diminished the eagerness with
which the more economical classes in the three
kingdoms have perseveringly looked beyond the
circle of our own insular difficulties to those more
terrible and disastrous troubles which have more
orlessextended their influence from the tgrin
Prclvizekl of Moldo-
Wallachia throughout the
va Lions 'Powers of the European Continent. Po-
pular attention to the clianges of the Russo-Turk-
ish difference having thug far survived in Great
Britain the distracting nature of so many troublous
events prior to the reassernblinfr of Parliament,
it can scarcely with reason be expected that
the interest of the coma) .t
can 'l.v turned,
except as it were momentarily, from the
all-engrossing details of the War question,
by any incidents, however ingeniously contrived,
by the Ministerialists in the Imperial Legislature.
Especially now, at ft juncture of such rernarkahl'e
importance, when it appears more than ever prob-
able that the insensate AUTOCRAT will adventure
upon a collision with the combined forces de-
spatched against him (or, at any rate, for the
practical and energetic defence of the Turkish
territories) by the French and English Govern-
merits. When, in token of the decisive cha-
racter of the rupture between the great nor-
thern despotism and the two formidable Western
Powers, who are his antagonists, M. DE KISSE-
LEFF has quitted Paris, and M. DE BRUNOW Lon-
don—leaving the Courts of St. James's and the
Tuileries without that last guarantee of the main-
tenance of peace, the conti •
nued presence of the
Russian Ambassador. A •
juncture, indeed, when
the retirement of MM. DE B RUNOW and DE KIS-
SELEFF from the British and Gallic capitals, has
110 wed upby tile Drninni