The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-20 00:00:00

FEBRUARY.
6 I Liverpool Spring
NARCII.

Coventry 4
Doncaster Spring
Warwick Spring

Kipling Coates
Northampton .
Newcastle-on-Tyne S 23

Croxton Park 1
Catterick Bridge... 3
Epsom Spring:, 4
Newmarket Craven
The Hoo l2

Ma:ton l5
Newmark. First Spring 21
Abargavenay
Chester

31.
Newmkt. Second Spring 6
Rymouth Spring
E linburgh
Shrewsbury 8
JU
Ascot
arierley, Hell, &c 4
smpton ll
Manchester ll
Bibury

York Spring
Bath l3
Epsom

S. Lancashire (Newton) 18
Stockbridge
Winchester....
Newcastle

Ji
Newmarket
Carlisle .... ........
Llncaster
Worcester
,

x.
Liverpool . ........ .... 9
Stamford l5
Nottingham
Goodwood

AUGUST.
Ripon
Brighton 6 Egham 2;
Wolverhampton ll Derby 27
Lewes 13 or 14 I

SIPTEMBER.
Warwick
Radcliffe 8 Eglinton Park ... 23 or 24
Weymouth .. 10 Manchester Autumn.... 25
Doncaster
Sandbach,

OCTOBER.
Monmouth
Richmond
Chester

NOTE.

MBEli..

Worcester..

First week.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
FURTHER REDUCTION IN THE ARMY.—In conga-
sequence of it having been communicated to the
Colonial authorities at the Mauritius, that the mili-
tary force stationed there must in future be main-
tained out of the revenue of the Island, they have
requested that the 2d Battalion, 12th Regiment,
should embark for England, when on its arrival it will
be amalgamated with the Ist Battalion, now at
Chatham.
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN THE MEDITER-
RANEAN.—A statement has been put in circulation
to the effect that " Admiral Parker is expected to
come home passenger in the Powerful." We have
the best authority for believing that that there is no
truth whatever in the report, and that the Gallant
Vice-Admiral has no intention whatever of returning
in the Powerful.
CANDIDATES FOR COMMISSIONS. Lord Fitzroy
Somerset, Military Secretary, in his evidence before
the Committee of Army and Ordnance Expenditure,
stated that the number of candidates for commissions
during the last seven years amounted to between
1,000 and 1,200, and that upwards of 200 had been
on the list upwards of three years ; that it was not
the practice to give commissions by rotation, but a
selection was made by the Commander-in-Chief.
GIFT TO CHELSEA HOSTPITAL.—Lord John Russell
has presented to the library of the pensioners of the
Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, an interesting set of
books entitled " Hog's Instructor." This gift must be
considered as demonstrating the feelings of the Premier
as regards the continuance of that establishment, over
which he so ably presided some years since, and in
which he greatly corrected many irregularities, which
will always creep into institutions of the age Chelsea
Hospital had then reached. His Lordship always
took the warmest interest in the welfare of the re-
treat for the cld and worn-out soldier of the British
army, notwithstanding the many foul-mouthed at-
tacks made upon it by parties who are ever eager to
bring public departments into odium at the expense
of truth.
EMBARKATION OF TROOPS.—The ships La Belle
Alliance left the River on the 11th, and the Lady
Flora on the 16th of January, for Portsmouth, to
embark the 30th Regiment for Corfu, and the ship
Jaya left the River on the 16th instant, for Cork, to
convey the 47th Regiment to Corfu.
CAVALRY REGIMENTS IN IRELAND.—The follow-
ing Regiments of Cavalry stationed in Ireland, are
first on the roster for Great Britain, viz. :-6th
(Inni;killing) Dragoons, 17th Lancers, 4th (Queen's
Own) Light Dragoons, 7th (Queen's) Hussars, 6th
Dragoon Guards, Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards,
12th Royal Lancers, and 17th Lancers.
DEPOTS IN IRELAND.—The following depots of
infantry regiments stationed in Ireland are first on
Cie roster for Great Britain, viz.:-6th Royal, 54th,
73d, 59th, 41st, 49th, and 47th.
A DESERTER SHOT.—A soldier of a detachment of
the 38th Regiment, stationed at Sidney, Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia, was shot by Lieutenant Green when
attempting to desert.
THE FEVER AT ST. Tuomas's.—We announced
last week the death of Lieutenant Mooney, of the
Scorpion, surveying vessel, at St. Thomas's. He
I caught fever ashore. Of the ninety soldiers garri-
soning St. Thomas's, eighty-seven were laid up at
one time with the same malady. Latest accounts
state that the fever was abating.
SCARCITY OF BOYS IN THE SERVICE.—In CODS@••
' quence of the restrictions which have lately been put
by the Admiralty on the entry of boys into the navy,
arid the immediate promotion of boys as vacancies
occur on foreign stations, the number of boys are so
scarce at the different ports, that every ship fitting
out is short of her complement.
SOLDIERS BECOMING SETTLERS.—Between 200
and 300 men have been allowed by Major-General
Pitt,
isinNw Aland, to
has beene done partly
Ze
et.roolp,hs
purchase th ri commandingd i discharge. h thearg
to induce respectable men to become settlers. That
with the view of a reduction of the army, as well as
so many men are able to effect their discharge by
purchase is a striking instance of the improvement
in the morals of our troops, and we hope to see it
carried out with spirit amongst our soldiers in all the
colonial possessions of the British Grown.

R
GEM Y.
It is an accepted fact that a fAN ull understanding has
been come to by Austria and Prussia as to the basis
of the new executive power for Germany.
Tne Voss's Zeitung of this morning contains the
following article :--
~ The differerces said to have arisen in Dresden, are,
we believe, arranged. With respect to the constitution
of the supreme executive organ, an understandinm has
bet,,a effected, and thus the secondary States will be pre-
vented from continuing to play the part they acted
throughout the last summer with some degree of success.
It is already known that Austria favoured The scheme of
Bavaria—that of having a third Power in the Executive
beside Austria and Prussia—a third element that was to I
represent the rest of Germany. Bavaria thought to
secure the influence of this third element, and thus to
smu2g,fe itself into the council of the two great States.
Perhaps Austria had, in Bre gene, promisedrtuosia, butsiuppor
itself, t
this scheme, which would d be damaging to p
could not injure tJelf, for Prussia in the Bund having
only a Gerfaan territory wou!d have been on. an equal
footing with Bavaria, whilst
Austria entering it
ROYAL ARTILLERY--. .
with its large non-German States would remain the Wool.wicli, JAN. 17.—The whole of the Royal Horse,
great Power that it is. Austria would be the prepnn. Artillery, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
consisting o
deraring Power in Germany, which Bavaria and Prussia Bell, and six field batteries, co • •g of . one f four 12-
would necessarily have to follow. Prussia opposed this pounder guns, two of four 9-pounder
guns each, and
plan, and was fully supported in its opposition
by the three of four light 6-pounder guns each, under
' t nder Lieu e-
small States, which are ready to accept the supremacy of cant-Colonel Anderson, assembled on the common at
Prussia, but will not recognize Bavaria as a great half-past ten o'clock to-day, in heavy marching order,
Power. Prussia proposed either that an Executive and were drawn up in line along the road separating the
should be organized containinn• a Dualism (itself end barrack field from the common, for the inspection of the
Austria) as in the Provisional Commission of the Bund, commandant. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Down-
or that all the German States should take a share in it. man, C.B. and K.C.H., arrived on the ground at a
" After a long and warm debate, it is understood that quarter before eleven o'clock, accompanied by Brigade.
the Dualism is rejected, as well Major Bingham and Captain Tylden, Deputy Assistant
third element, and the system chosen by -which the Ex-
as the Executive with a
I Quuartermaster-General of Artillery, when the whole
ecutive power will be shared by all the States. It will lof the troops and batteries marched past at a walk, and ;
consist of a Directory and a Supreme Excutive, in ! then proceeded past the Royal Military Academy to ' which each State, according to its influence and ability I the Shooter's-hill-rogd, and returned by the road lead.