The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

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RUSSIAN ARM Y.

ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 12.—The llitliser of War has
just published the following ukase upon the dissolution of the
battalion of reserve of the corps of grenadiers and the six corps
of infantry, and upon the transforming of the second army of
reserve :

.1 War •office.--' In according conges for an unlimited pe-
riod, my intention was to relieve the treasury, and at the same
time diminish the number of troops under arms, without, how-
ever, injuring the organisation of the army. I wish, more-
over, to diminish the time of service of the soldick of the
active army, to enable them to return to their families
at an age when they may be useful to them. Conges,
given in this manner, commenced iii 1833, and this mea-
sure has not only succeeded, but has surpassed my expec-
tations. Soldiers with unlimited leave of absence have
always eagerly returned to their tiu:y when recalled. Be
sides, they havealwa}•s made themselves useful in the localities
chosen for their residence. Thus have they deserved our be-
nevolence under every circumstance. The Reports of the ju-
dicial authorities are the best proofs in their favour. Out of
150,000 men, but 116 have been in the hands of justice. This
result shows the possibility of fulilling our intentions to the
utmost. In consequence I ordain, that conformably to the
limitation of the State, the Sapa•n:e troops, soldiers on un-
limited leave, receive the following organization : —l. For the
Guard; for each regiment of infantry a 4th battalion sapasnje
upon the cadres; for each regiment of cavalry, an Bth squadron
sapasnje; for the Foot Artillery, three batteries of reserve and
three sapasnje; for the Horse A rtil'ery , one battery sapasnje. 2.
Corps'of Grenadiers. Infantry : —The battalions of reserve are dis -
solved, and a fourth and fifth battalion will be formed upon the
cadres for each regiment. Artillery :—'lhree batteries of re-
serve, and three light sapasnje ; o:le flying sapasnje. Of the
six corps of Infantry, the fifth battali, ris of reserve are dis-
solved, but each regiment will have a skeleton of a fifth and
sixth battalion. Cavalry of the line :—For each regiment
there will be formed two squadrons sapasnje. Artillery
Nine sapasnje batteries, eighteen batterieS of reserve, and
eighteen sapasnje foot batteries. These details are in part
contained in the ukase of the fOth of January (February) and
of the 23rd of December, 1841 (4th Jwtuary, 1842). 2. This
order will be put in execution immediately.
(Signed) " NtenoLas.
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" St. Petersburg, 25th January." (6th February.)

1 I The 13th Light Dragoons, which were quartered
t at Slough, Maidenhead, and Colnbrooli; during the King of
Prussia's visit to Windsor Castle, h?.'..e iii:trched into this town
E and Norwich. Previous to the regiment leaving Slough, a
• Court-martial was held at the Crown Ilo:el, on Sergeant Scott,
1 who was charged with neglect of duty and absence from guar-
) t tern. On the day following, the troops mounted, assembled,
l and the commanding officer read over the whole of the evidence,
' showing that the charges were clearly proved. The command-
[ ing-officer then pronounced the sentence of the Cour , that
[ Sergeant Scott be reduced to the rank of a private. The
ceremony of ripping off his stripes was then performed, and
' the man fell into the ranks. He had been in the regiment
fourteen years, and up to this period had conducted himself
with propriety. He appeared deeply to feel his degradation.—...
Ipswich Express.
The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
arrived at Marseilles by the last ltalan steamer from Reese*
land immediately continued ber.joeiney to Strasburg. .
- A letter from Bayonne says, " the Bay of Biscay,
which had been abandoned by the whalcs for the last SOO year., Is
again visited by them. Several have been seen during the last
week by the fishermen on the coast between Merril and Socoa."
The Correctional Tribunal of Clermond Fernald, in
the Puy de Dome, has been occupied for four days with the trial
of twenty persons, implicated in the late riots in opposition to the
census. Five of them were acquitted, and discharged, The rest
were found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment for various
terms, from six months to twenty days, with fines varying from 100
to 16f. One of the above is to be s.eijected to surveillance of the.
police after the expiration of his s! x months' confinement; and the
trial of another has been postponed till March, on account of the
absence of witnesses.
The crowds that continue to flock to the Cathedral
at Bordeaux, to hear the sermon of M. Lacordaire, are so great, that
as the journal of that city states, barriers have been put up in the
church, and soldiers are stationed at them to keep order. To we.
rlous parts of the edifice the public are admitted only by tickets,
and in order to get a chair, it is necessary to be there threeleatira
before the service begins.
The Maniteur Parisien has a letter of 7.Puesayd
from Boulogne, giving an account of what appears to 'have been a
drunken quarrel between some French and EngP:sl fishermen, off
the coast of England, of which the following
cir-
cumstances, but in which there is Ito ii`l„ do 'are the principal
, sotne exaggeration :
41 A Boulogne boat, while engaged in !".ishing, was hailed by another,
in which were two Englistimen.'who ask,' for torn, brandy, which
they would pay for in fish, when they had caught some. The
I.'''.. one of the Englishmen went on board with
a Frenchmenknife
knife,
de
terrefused,m il,
7,
..... to enforce his demand, but was driven back
into his own 'boat. The two Englishmen got a reinforcement of
five of tho,:a companions, making their number equal to that in the
Frenela boat. The Englishmen were, it i said, armed with knives;
the Frenchmen had nothing to defend themselves but the stones of
which their ballast was, (armed. 'I hree of the Englishmen at..
tempted to board the French boat, but were tumbled into the sea,
and, while their companions were engaged in picking them up, the
French boat stood out to sea, and made off. No lives were lost
in this conflict, but one of the Frenchmen received a wound in the
hand from the Englishman who had the audacity to make the first
attack alone against seven."
BRIGHTON RAILwAY.—List of the nobility, &c.,
who have travelled by this line during the past week :—Earl of
Clancarty, Countess Powlett, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord Rugby,
Hon. Misses Montague, Devereux, Ladies Fremantle, Goldsmid,
Sirs James Cockburn, Isaac Goldsmid, James Clark, Jeffery Wyatt.
John Key, Colonel Loftus, Mr. Stuit, M.P., Mr. Peel, Mr.
Irby, &e.

The Lyons papers state that, on the demand of the
Bishop of Agra, the Pope has authot bed the sending of some re.
ligioug sisters to the East Indies; that mission has been entrusted
to the Dames du Cuur de Jesus et de Marie of Lyons, and that its
a few days six sisters of that house will embark at Marseilles for
Calcutta. Among them are two French sisters, two Spanish, one
German, and one English.
A few days ago, a woman who was picking up
cinders on the Saiat.Etienne Railway, as she had for some time beets
in the habit of doing, although frequently warned of the danger.
became the victim of her imprudence. A train coming up, she
placed herself, with her sack on ter head, by the side of the road,
but the sack being heavy fell forward, and dragged her with it. The
train passed over her, and she was in an instant deprived of life.
RAILWAY DIRECT FROM CIRENCESTER, TO CHEY,
TENIIA.M.—it is with pleasure we find that arrangements are in
progress for bringing the matter in a tangible shape before the
public ; a preliminary meeting will very shortly be held. That
Cheltenham should be without a thil Nay direct to the metropolis,
while Brighton, Bath, and other fashiottable watering places pos.
sesi that advantage, is as inimical to her welfare as it is disgrace.
ful to her public spirit; more particularly so, when we consider
that a branch of the Great Western has for months past been open
to Cirencester, a distance of only 15 miles !—Cheltenham Journal
SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF' CANCER.—Dr. 811-
chanan presented, a few days ago, before the students in the lee.
ture.room of the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, a patient who had
been cured of cancer in the lip. Having cut the diseased part of
the llp away, the doctor cut a similar !mit off the chin, raised its
and anited it to the remaining half, by which a complete union
has been effected ; and, what is still more surprising, a new mu.
cous membrane formed, which, having a new action, gave reason
to expect a radical cure. Thus, by this operation, not only the
hideous appearance of the lip, but the saliva flowing from the
mouth, which would be a continual source of irritation to the pa...
tient, and tend to impair digestion, were entirely obviated.—G las.
goto Coairier.

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The produce of the olive crops its Candia during last
year yieldltd from eleven to twelve millions of pounds of oil, Which,
at the average price of 75f. the 2001 h., were worth frogs 4,200,000 f.
to 4,600,000 f. About a fourth part of this produce was made
into soap or consumed in the island ; the rest was for exportation.
A good deal of the produce of 1840, which was unusually large,
was wasted during the late troubles in the island, and the same
cause hindered the inhabitants from coliecting the usual quantity
of sponges. In Corfu the produce of oil for 1841 has been estimated
at 100,000 lonian barrels, though at the time it was expected to
have reached 15(0,000. 'The price of Corinth grapes (currants) hat
fallen from 50f. the 2001 b. to 47f.

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TIIE DECLINE AND FALL OF BARBER-ISM.
—There has arisen in the metropolis a race of travelling barbers—
penny shavers, who travel to every point of the compasS. Several
of them exercise their vocation in the neighbourhood of Penton-
vilha in the dusk of the evening, uttering a low cry opposite to
every parlcur window, and down every area—" Hair cut to day_
whole family round sixpence—two cuts for a penny, and so forth."
It is presumed that there are about 200 of this tribe of tonsors ex_

011 Al 01latly
0!: sli,?;RoLb'scrt El'lte7ulas-.—carried about the.
ercising their calling in the metropolis.
evening
gßNZiaslGan SIR 1
effigy
village of Batley, and
lodged at Mrs. Sheard's public-howe, until
Tuesday d
eveni„g, when he was tried and condemned tube burned
YO theveninsga' which took place amid the Most vehemeat
clamour, tisfaction and gratification of the major par
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FRIGHTFUL DISTRESS. 7-:
A Dissenting Minister of th's
1i
pastoral visit last week to a family U•
comf?
of his members, learnt from oae of tm7 _ e
were in deep distress, in consequence of
morning received a letter from a near reIyMPIEI
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y_w ere in circumstances o
at Kidderminster con-
sistsfamily
of seven persons, the parents and five children :
the father is a steady, industrious, moral character,
and the mother a member of a Uhristian church. The
following is a copy of the letter penned by 'her, and
sent to her husband's brother, and which will show,
better than anything that we can say, the dreadful
situation of themselves and multitudes of others at
this terrible crisis : February 12, 1842.
DEAR BROTHER AND SISTER,—We write these few
lines to you, hoping to find you in good health, as
thank God, we are as well ai c.:.n be expected under
present circumstances. We have no disease among
us but the gnawings of hunger, of which none can'
give any idea what it is but those who are the fatal
objects of experience. We have no work, nor have
had but 10s. worth since the llth DeCember. James.
has had but six weeks' work since he was at your
house, and Ann has been at home all the winter out
of work. Mary has some at present, and that is the.
only one we have to bring in anything. She brings
in 3s. a week when she works all the meek, but that
is not always the case.; last week she got but 25., and
that is all we have, for we have no one to give us a
bit of anything, nor have with anything left to make
money of, :as we have parted we everything we pos-
sibly can, being so short of work so long before we
were out entirely. Our chief diet is potatoes, for bread
or other necessaries we cannot get, nor yet half
enough of potatoes, and I have been the day through
without a crumb of anything within my lips ; in
short, it is impossible for a farnly to be in greater
distress than we are, and live. 'lour brother often'
says, if it were not for an eternity, he certainly should,
make away with himself; and, to add to our trouble,
we look every day to have another added to our fa-
mily, without the least preparation whatever, not
even a sufficiency to dress it in. So dark does the
dispensation of Providence appear towa-ds us at pre-
sent, that there appears no way of escape ; but, mind
you, we do not send to you for relief, as we expect
you have enough to do to provide for your own fa-
mily, but we write just to let yJtt know how we are
situated, that, should we perish with hunger, or any-
thing else happen to us, some one belonging to us
might know something about us. So no more from
your affectionate brother and sister,
JAMES AND ANN .
This is one case out of many, for others could be
cited did not delicacy of feeling forbid,—Worcester-
shire Chronicle.