The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-04 00:00:00

MILITARY FORCE OF FRANCE.

The following is a correct statement of the actual
military force ot. Fram:c, according to the last re-
turns made by the Minister of War for 1830 :

GENERAL STAI.F.
12 Marshals of France
491 General Officers
2,09 S Field Officers and others

2,604. Total.

THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.-(GARDE DU CORPS.)
1,409 Officers_(G►rdes du Corps Cavalry)
41'1 Noll-commissioned officers and privates—(Cent.
Swiss InEntry)
1,826 Total.

GENDARMERIE ROYALE.
16 Officers d'Elite Garde Royale (Horse)
301 Non-commissioned officers•and privates (ditto)
609 Officers commanding the gen- These form nn
trartnes in the departments part of the
14,452 'Non-cmainissioned officers and Garde
privates Royals
15,376 Total.

INFANTRY.-(GARDE ROYALE).
534 French officers
10,056*N0n-commissioned officers and privates

192 Swiss officars
4,414 Non-commissioned officers and privates
192 Soldiers' children—(Enfans de troupe)*

15,378 Total, Royal Guards.
DITTO, TROOPS OF THE LINE.
7,026 French officers
113,021 Non-commissioned officers and privates
361, Swiss officers
7,460 Non-commissioned officers and privates
1,976 Soldiers' children—(Enfans de troupe)

145,225 Total of Infantry.
CAVALRY.-(GARDE ROYALE).
520 Officers
5,820 Non-commissioned officers and privates

DITEO 01 THE LINE.

2,513 Officers
29,392 Non-eonunissioned officers and privates
377 children—(Enfans de troupe)

36,622 Total cavalry.
(There is no Swiss cavalry in the French service.)
ARTILLERY.
100 Officers t Garde
1,403 Non-commissioned r•flicers and privates S Royale.
1,170 Officers t Of the
14,492 Non-commissioned offices and privates S Line.
262 Enrans de Troupe

17,428 Total,

ENGINEERS.

238 Officers
4,512 Non-commissioned officers and privates
Enfans de Troupe

4,874
MILITARY EQUIPAGES, OR WAGGON TRAIN.
49 Officers
664 Non-commissioned officers and privates
12 Enfans de Troupe

725
GARRISON COMPANIES OF INFANTRY AND ARTILLERY.
8 Officers S Garde
222 Non-commissioned officers and privates Royale.
220 Officers
5,557 Non-commissioned officers and privates
113 Enfans de Troupe

6,120.

* Two children belonging to soldiers are admitted into
every company, and receive half the pay of a private, and
are clothed and educated at the charge of the State.
These children mu►t be two years old, born in wedlock,
and belong to a st,blier's wife attached to the corps. as
washerweman, su•tier (virandiere), &c ; they are under
the immediate care of an officer, wits trust see they are
taught to read, write, and cipher, to swim, and practised
in gymnastic exercises. They follow the regiment from
one station to nother, but tint on foreign service ; they
are in that ease sent to the military depot of the regiment
to finish their education, military as well as moral ; at
16 years of age they may be admitted into the regiment as
volunteers ; they arc then placed on the muster roll and
receive full pay, and are considered effective, and their place
is then filled up by other children of the same class.

A RADICAL KING.—It is stated in a Paris
Paper, that the poems of the King of BAVARIA have been
intellicted in Austria, as having e republican and seditious
tendency.

A French physician has discovered that scro-
fula may be cured by a preparation of gold, which same
disease another of the same faculty, with wonderful simpli-
city, denominates a species of yellow fever. Such, indeed,
are all diseases that gold will cure.

POWER" OF ARREST.—It is a fact of con-
siderable importance to the traders of Dublin, and one
which, we believe, is not generally known to them, that
the late bill of Mr. PEEL, putting a stop to arrest on ine%ne
process
under 201. can be avoided in Dublin by proceed-
ings in the City Court. The jurisdiction of the LORD
MAYOR and RECORDER is not affected by Mr. PEEL'S
Bill, and they can hold to bail parties indebted to others
from the smallest to the largest amount by the process of
attachment against the goods.— Dublin Morning Register.

Notwithstanding the vigilance of the pre-
ventive service along the coast, a considerable business is
carried on inthe smuggling line. Dui ing the last two or
three weeks, spirits and tobacco have been hawked in
Beverley almost as openly as Irish linen, and last week, as
Mr. MILLER, one of the officers of excise, was 'going his
round, he observed two persons, at the sign of the Plough,
who appeared not to savour his presence : their ominous
looks induced him to kick a bag which lay on the floor
near them, at the same time asking if they bad bagged a
fox ? The rebound with which the contents answered his
foot, convinced him that it was a bag of " Moonshine,"
which he immediately seized : but the men in the uproar
of the moment, effected their escape. The bag contained
several bladders of brandy, and a pewter measure.—Bos-
ton Gazelle.
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DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday last,
the Old Diligence, newly-revived, called the Conspiracy,
broke down in the neighbourhood of Cork, by which fatal
accident the coachman, named EVIDENCE, was literally
smashed to pieces, and left dead on the spot. D—rv, an
outside passenger, is among the sufferers who have been
most grievously injured: Several individuals who had
taken places, merely on trial, had a miraculous escape.
The cause of this accident was the conduct of one O'CON-
NELL, who, in the act of too closely examining the pro-
ceedings-of the coachman, crossed the vehicle in the height
of its speed, and the whole concern upset.—Dublin
Morning Register.

SINGULAR ESCAPE.—Some days ago a
horse, while grazing on the face of a bill near Dollar,
slipt his foot, and rolled down a distance of forty feet.
Some peoph who happened to witness the circumstance,
were astonished to observe, that no sooner hail the horse
reached the bottom of the hill than he suddenly disap-
peared. On proceeding to the spot they discovered that
lie had fallen into an old coal pit, which notwithstanding
that it was twenty-five fathoms deep, it would appear had
nut been covered up. Although they had no hope that
the poor animal could he taken out alive, they itnme-
dirtely got ropes, with which, and the assistance of about
a dozen of men, he was, after considerable difficulty,
dragged up, and placed on his feet, when the party were
not more astonished than agreably surprised to find that
lie had escaped from his perilous adventure, without re-
ceiving the slightest injury..—Caledonian Mercetry.

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1829.

Despatches were brought to the Colonial-
office this morning by Mr. MARCIIESY, a King's
Messenger, from Sir FREDERICK ADAM, Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Isles. Mr.
MARCHESY was also the bearer of despatches
from Mr. DAWKINS, the British Charge de
A ffaires at Greece ; and from Sir PULTENEY
MALCOLM to the Admiralty. Despatches were
like%sise received from the Earl of BELMORE,
Governor-General of Jamaica.

Despatches were also brought by Mr. MAR-
CHESY to the Foreign-office, from the lonian
Isles ; and from the Right Hon. R. GORDON,