Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-29
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INTERESTING FOREIGN ITEMS BY THE
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= According to private accounts from
St. petersburg, great distress is expe-
rlenced IN that city, and much dissatis.
faction prevails at the hardships imposed
by the war. 1t is mentioned that i'm all
the churches prayers are now offered for
peace. As religious services in Russia
are subject to the direct control of the
government, this statement is some.
what remarkable.
- Recruiting for the English army is
proceeding in Switzerland with decided
success. The bounty much exceeds that
offered by the Pope and the King of Ma:
Piles, both of whom have been drawing,
large numbers of young Swiss into their
service. In the Bernese Oberland, the
French Jura, and in the neighborhood of
Geneva work is scarce, and those dis.
tricts will doubtless yield large number
of recruits.
- The Avisatore Alessandrino states
that the Sardinian Government, at the
demand of England, will authorize the
latter to recruit, IN the country, among
the Sandman citizens, who have accom-.
plished their time of military service,
and among those who have drawn a
number exempting them from the con-
scrption.
= According to the Russian accounts,
the Emperor Nicholas will have the fol-
lowing armies in the field next Sprins /.
viz: l. The Crimean army of 12O, 600
men in the field and 80, 900 in Sebasto-
pol; 2. The Tchernomorish (Cossacks 8
of the Kuban) army, 10000 men 8.
Danubian army, 10000 men: 1. The
army in Dithunia and Volhynia, l2O, 900
men 5. The Baltic army, GO, 900 men !;
e. The reserve army, $4,000 men. You
will hardly fail to observe that no men.
ton is made either of the Guard and
Grenadier corps in Poland, or of the
Caucasian army. The garrison of Odessa
has been frequently changed lately, but
1t is probably exaggeratiOn to say that it
is now $4,000 strong.
- General report gives out that on the
22d, and not far from Odessa, more than
$50 foot soldiers and several Jewish car
ters perished in q snow storm. The
causes of death were the want of ade-
quate warm clothing. and the sudden
set in of frost; and it is also said that
the wagons and teams had gone on be-
fore the men, who were thus left behind,
and as the soldiers had on wet clothes
from the previous rain, they froze into
crust of ice when the frost began. They
looked about for bridge, but could not
find any. The day after, groups of fro
zen dead bodies were found, and between
20 and 80 men lay in each heap.
"A Private letter from St. Petersburg
states that the Crown serfs have offered
the Emperor Nicholas q contingent of
20 600 men, who are to be employed as
sharpshooters. Among them are to be
all the ermine hunters, who are estimat-
ed at 90 600. They are said to be skill
ful narksmen, who pass their whole
lives on the banks of the Oural or the
Oby, in the chase of The fox, the beaver,
and the ermine. The whole of these
hunters, so the letter says, are to be i'm.
mediately ordered and sent to the Grim
ca. They are to be armed with the
MIME rifle.
- There is said to be good reason for
believing that it is intended to add 7 900
to the British naval forces in the forth.
coming estimates for the year 1866,
making the number to be voted for this
service 10000.
= Gen. Lord Cough is named in the
military circles at Vienna as the success
or of the late Brigadier General Du Plat.
as the representative of England at Aus
tsian headquarters.
- The Emperor Of France has pre-
sented the Grand Gordon of the Legion
of Honor his highness the Emperor of
Austria.
- On the lst instant, the English
residents at Pau presented a handsome
silver chased coffee service to Madame
Basquet, the mother of tie French gene
raj who so gallantly brought up the
troops under his command to the aid of
the British at the battle of Inkermann.
- NJ. Frossard, Protestant clergy.
man, has been sent to the Crimea, to or
ganize body of Protestant chaplains to
minister to the spiritual wants of the
members of the French army belonging
to the reformed religion.
A rumor is prevalent in Paris of a
project for making the Archduke Louis,
brother of the Emperor Froncis, King of
Poland.
= The Pope has admitted Cardinal
Wiseman among the cardinals composing
the sacred congregation Of the Index.
= The SuItan's brother'in.law the
ex Grand Vizier Mehemet Ali Pacha, has
been condemned to restore to the treas
ury $4,000 piastres-a bribe which, it
appears, had been accepted during the
interminable judicial inquiry set on foot
respecting the affairs of Djezaeulu, the
Armenian banker.
MIR. Mark Sill, an emigrant from the
north of England, writing from Australia,
says: "I took the other day load of
vegetables to Melborne, and sole them for
fl3, which will show you that mark ct
stuff is very dear in this country. About
a fortnight previously, | took load, and
made f14 Of it. Eggs are cd. each, but