RAILROADS IN RUSSIA.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 782, 12 October 1853, Page 3

RAILROADS IN RUSSIA.

The California Slants Zeitung extracts the following from the Berliner Wehrzeitung's Russian Correspondence, concerning the military affairs of Russia. The information is very important, and iu case of another war between eastern and western Europe, the measures taken will, undoubtedly, have a great effect on the final issue of the struggle. “By the construction of the great railroads from Moscow to Petersburg, Odessa and Warsaw, an entirely new and very important epoch has been opened for the future motions of the Russian army, and it u ill probably change entirely the old principles of preparations for war. When we look at the present stations of the large divisions of the Russian army, we find the active army composed of four corps of infantry, in a compact body iu Poland, Lithuania, Yolhynia, and Podolia. Between these and Petersburg the Grenadier corps is in Novogorod, and in Petersburg itself are the Guards. In the extreme southwest, at Pruth, is the fifth infantry corps; in Moscow and the immediate neighbourhood the sixth infantry corps. Heretofore when war was threatened iu the west it was the rule that active army should not move until Poland had been occupied by the fifth or sixth infantry, or by the Guards from Novogorod or St. Petersburg. For such movements mouths were necessary. But when the railroad from Petersburg to Warsaw shall he finished, scarcely a week will be necessary. Before the first rails were laid, the calculations were made for the benefits to the military to be derived from it. Thousands of transport —cars for troops are already finished and no expense has been spared to fit them for the proposed purpose. Every thing has been cared for; places for packing away arms, for hanging them up, for stowing away the equipments of the artillery and cavalry have been made. In three days the half, and in a week all of the Guards and Grenadiers can be in Poland, while the reserves can he moving up to St. Petersburg from Moscow. Whether the fifth shall move to the west will depend on the position of Turkey. In every case the active army will not be tied down, as it has been heretofore, for no government with any prudence could leave Poland without a strong guard, although there is now little danger there. The whole political and military importance of the new railroad to Russia lies in the possibility th it hereafter the entire Guards and Grenadier corps, instead of months, shall occupy only days in arriving in Poland. When the great artery from Moscow to Petersburg shall he connected with another to Warsaw and another to Odessa, Russia will be much nearer to all European affairs, and such a delay as occurred in the beginning and early progress of the Polish Revolution of 1831 cannot occur again.”