The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-19 00:00:00

THE FRENCH ARMY.

The following is the substance of the new regu-
lations adopted by the Minister of War for organis-
ing the reserve. After stating that the army is to
be divided into the active part and the portion
called on to serve only on extraordinary occasions,
the document proceeds as follows :

For infantry, one or several depots of instruction
per department shall be formed, according to the
importance of the annual contingent of the depart-
ment and the extent of barrack accommodation.
After the departure of the young soldiers destined,
for the active battalions, those of the second por-
tion of the contingent shall be assembled in the
half-year extending from the Ist of October
to the Ist of April in one of the depots of instruc-
tion established in their department, to be exercised
the first year for three months, after which they
shall be provisionally sent home on furlough; the
second year they shall be again summoned to the
depots to be exercised for two months, and the third
year for one. After the third year they are to
remain subjected to the half-yearly calls prescribed
by the order of April 15, 1857 During the time
they are assembled in the depots the young soldiers
of the second portion of the contingent shall receive
the daily allowance made to the soldiers of their arm,
and an indemnity for going and returning. They
shall besides receive, on their arrival in the depots,
the clothing both of the full and undress uniform.
On their departure on furlough for their families
they are to take with them part of their effects,
and be bound to keep them until their liberation from
the service, the other articles remaining in depot.
The young soldiers, during the time of their in-
struction, shall, as regards administrative mat-
ters, be under the depots of infantry, but apart
from them, and without any confusion or cen-
tralisation of their expenses with those of corps
properly so called being made. The clothing
and the equipments for full and undress uniform,
required by the young soldiers, shall be supplied
ready made from the central stores ; and the
arms necessary shall be
i supplied, as usual,
by the establishments of artillery. In order to pre-
serve to the depots of infantry all the mobility
desirable, the things set apart for the young soldiers
of the second portion of the contingent shall, in each
department, be collected in special stores, and shall
be confined to the surveillance of the commander of
the depot of recruiting. The commanders of the
recruiting depots shall be charged to provide for
their clothing, equipment, and arming, and also to the
preservation and keeping in repair of the arms and
effects they may leave on going to their homes. The
young soldiers of the second portion of the contin-
gent destined for the cavalry and artillery shall be
united for their elementary instruction to the corps
of their arm which is the nearest, and as far as
possible in what are called the half-yearly periods.
They shall be subjected to all the obligations im-
posed on the men of the second portion belonging
to the infantry. They shall receive the usual allow-
ances, and also clothing and equipments for full
and undress uniform. The men destined for the
engineers shall be united to those of the infantry.
Except during the time at which the young soldiers
shall be assembled for their instruction, they shall,
in administrative matters, as regards recruiting, be
under the recruiting depot of their department. The
preceding regulations shall, from the present
moment, be applied to the young soldiers of the
second portion of the contingent of the class of
1859 who are still at home. In consequence they
are to be convoked, as were those of the portion
called to aetive service, and are to assemble by the
Ist Feb., 1861.

Bullier's Lithographic Sheet says :—Great ac-
tivity prevails at this moment in our arsenals.
Although there is no indication of war breaking
out, preparations are being made for every contin-
gency. All soldiers not considered capable of en-
during a campaign are about to be sent to the
depots of their regiments, and their places are to
be filled with efficient men who have already served
for six or seven months. The army will be ready
to commence a campaign in March. I repeat that
these are merely measures of precaution, which it is
to be hoped future events will render unnecessary.
As to the notice published by the Minister of War,
which commands field-officers to supply themselves
with horses by the Ist of February next, it is a mere
standing order which is published annually at this
period.

SALE OF GAME GUT OF SEASON.—Joseph Barns,
licensed dealer in game, of 12, Crown-row, Walworth-road,
was summoned to the Lambeth police court on Wednesday
to answer an information laid at the instance of the Asso-
ciation for the Prevention of the Sale of Game out of Sea-
son, charging him with the possession of seven head of
grouse on the 29th of December last, being nine days after
the time allowed by law for the sale of such game. The
defendant pleaded guilty, and urged in extenuation of his
offence that he was ignorant of the law on the subject. The
magistrate told him that as a dealer in game it was his
duty to know the law, and fined him 20s. and costs, his
licence being forfeited by the conviction.—The Field.
TIIE TRADE OF BOULOGNE.—The total number
of passengers arriving here or embarking, from or for Bri-
tish ports, in the course of the year 1860, amounted to
102,830, taking the arrivals and departures together. In
18.59 there had been a total of 86,582 passengers. The in-
crease on the preceding year was thus 16,248 passengers, or
181 per. The commercial treaty is beginning to exercise a
marked influence on the trade of Boulogne, and there has
been a considerable increase in the arrival of vessels laden
with coal and iron from British ports during the last few
months. The quay room of the harbour is fully occupied ;
but the new western quays, which will present greatly in-
creased facilities for the discharge of colliers, are rapidly
progressing, and will be completed by the autumn of the
present year. The works of the floating dock are also ad-
vancing, although momentarily retarded by the inclemency
of the season. The herring fishery has been very produc-
tive during the season, up to 31st Dec. last. The fish landed
at Boulogne by the 113 boats engaged in it had so far been
sold for 2,586,139 f. (£103,446), being an excess of 684,4761.
(L 27,379) when compared with the corresponding period of
the preceding season. In 1859-60 47,917 barrels of salt fish
were prepared at Boulogne. In the present season it is
thought the total will exceed 55,000 barrels. The new
bathing establishment, estimated to cost £20,000, is to be
contracted for on Feb. 12. The past year has altogether
been one of prosperity at Boulogne, both as a trading town
and a bathing place, and has been extremely healthy
throughout, notwithstanding the nearly uninterrupted con-
tinuance of wet weather,