Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-25
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The average height of the Of the class of 1851
the that of 1850 viz: One ga milmetres
probably less average height than is obtained in any
other civilized nation The French army is remarked by
all strangers to be composed of very small But in
these days. when heavy and arms used
they not the less efficient soldiers for that They
wiTys and sinewy men, encountered with extra hesh
capable Of performing long marches and enduring great
fatigue The small stature the Of the present day
in France is attributed by to the wars Of the first
Napoleon which consumed all the tall and Of the
country 1t from the army records, as find from
work French statistics before me- that the
of the in France is constantly diminishing and this
fact has caused the successive enactment of several laws
diminishing the legal height required for military service.
In 1918 the height Of the composing the regu
lar army 1910 metre; 6 feet $40 inches.) In
1887 lG64 metre in 1910 it was 659 metre; in
1852 was, above stated lG54 Is feet 51-l0inches
The number of exemptions for want of legal stature is
every year considerable The report above alluded to
informs US that on the ls January 1858, after the dis
charge of 943 men, whose of service about
expire, the effective force Of the French army consisted
Of 36 0 men, whom 304 sG4 in service in France
at Rome and II 237 in Algeria. The reserve at the
time being composed of l26,S89 men, the total eff
fectve military force is stated to have been 502 $50
on the lst January 1853 Since then several DEGREES
have issued calling additional numbers under arms The
regular contingent of conscrpts annually about 00
find that the degree of instruction of the conscrps has
remained about onary for the last forty fifty years.
Perhaps slight progress may be detected in proper
ton about equal to that by which the stature of the
scripts has diminished during the same period.
1t is officially announced that NJ. DE MoSTHoLoN,
ex-Consul Of France in port Of Virginia. and still
more recently ConsuiGeneral and Charge dAaires at
Quito IN South America, has been appointed to the i'm
portan post of of France at New or in
place Of Mr.. T. LAcosTE, deceased This of Gen.
MoSTHoLoy, the devoted attendant and testanenary
ecutor Of Napoleon who died recently in Paris under
such mysterious circumstances Of retirement and dsfavor
with regard to the Empire audi chief Napoleon Ill
Gen. Montholous is the only Of seeming ngrattude
and neglect of former friends chargeabe ppon the pre-
sent Sovereign Of France within my recollection All his
other devoted adherens during his doubtful and adren
turous prior to 1919 have been carefully and
well provided for that reasonable to presume that the
Of the obscurity and neglect that marked Gen.
erals latter days is attributable himself rather than
Napoleon III.
Yesterday marked by the almost simultaneous
veyance to their last silent abodes in the famous
lis Of Pere la Chase OF OF the most ilustrious
of France, d. DE LAAENYAs and Admiral RoussIS; men
distinct is their characters and lives as in the circum-
stances which marked yesterday their respective funeral
ceremonies. The one was pure intelligence, known
only by the immense influence Of his mind exercised by
his pen and through the press upon his day and
ton. The other was Of action of brute ply
steal force who has carved his name with his sword upon
the tablets Of Immortality brave sailor and soldier,
and but little if any thing more De Lamennais was
borne A. NJ. the humble heorse used for the poor
est Of the poor followed only by some forty or fifty rea-
tves and friends from lis humble abode during life to his
henceforth distinguished resting place in the city Of the
dead Admiral Roussn, the contrary was buried
With all the pomp and ceremony religious and military,
that accords so we'll with the character Of the man and
Of the actual Government The gorgeous temple Of the
Madeleine hung with black and the whole Of its vast
interior was bedimmei with burning incense An i'm.
mense and spendd funeral car drawn by six richy.ca-
parisoned horses conveyed the body Of the Admiral
brother admiras his palbearer an imperial aide
decamp in court equpage followed it in procession,
with long train of ceremonial carriages and military
escort Of all arms extending far as the eye could reach
from the Madeleine along the Bouevars towards Pere Ia