The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-22 00:00:00

`kklntlentreWs. 'I..CORRESPONDENTE. & iktto& sf "Tbe Express." eintaimiag the new evesiets c,..sette,' is i.nbledvs:l every Teasley sod Praia, .411. is ger tor post. A maw lei err Exprsaa,.Lanlsa /main PRA; s.•-• e I I, Rant wiwittest, by Two Vaasa an the as. n( A Constant Ileader."—rtease wad the yaws. NM! WATER AT LONDON moos. 'frt. 141 —Wm.,. O. es.. ...... ..Aftsismk 066 no. Ttwaosemr—Mormusg. 0ft..........Atimm05a. LONDOA SATURDAI', JANUARY 22. IT is of consequence to know, if possible, how much ground there is for the new alarm that M aris ing about our wool, and how far the alarm extends. From the imperfection of some of our social machi nery, which much needs enlarging, it is a difficult smatter to ascertain either the one or the ether point. It is easy to ask the woollen manufacturers what they think and expect; but it is not easy to get an answer from them, for the sufficient reason that they do not know what to think and expect. One after another of them will say just this to an inquirer. There are two grounds on which they are entirely uncertain. They do not know, because no mortal knows, how many people in Australia, or going there, will be willing to attend to the sheep next year. For this year, they are hopeful. The clip has begun. The sheep are still there, alive and fleeced. That is some thiag ; more than some of us expected last year. The cost of labour is enormous; so that there seems to be no hope that the sale of the wool will answer to the grower. He would not hold on, of course, but for the hope of better future years. But there b wool ; and it is being shorn. The next misfortune's that the roads are so excessively bad as not only, to enhance the cost of carriage prodigiously, but to um iak the quality of the wool ; the same grievants, that is so vexatious about East India cotton, that gets full of dirt in coming down the ghauts. Here again the importer will lose. He, too, must look forward to future years for compensa tion. It is inconceivable that the evil of bad roads should long continue in colonies which may now be called well-peopled , and which arc richer than any other colonies ever were at their age—or at any age. Be the cost of labour what it may, it must be a saving to the gold diggers and everybody to have bridges and good roads; and therefore we have no doubt that when the colonists have abused the government a little longer, and the government has protested its helplessness for a few more weeks or months, the two parties will find out that the thing con be done, and how. As for the care of tho sheep, it is something that they have survived the last year, and been kept together till sow. There seems to be a strong and a growing hope that more and more people will drop back from the diggings into the sheep walks, believing from experience that their earnings at the stations mooed the average from gold digging. Even among those Australian crowds who seem mad for excitement, there are some—there must be many—who have a taste for repass and domestic comfort and quiet. The shortest way, we are as sured, to promote a good supply of wool is to send eat that prime article of domestic comfort, a wife, to such men as these. A vast number of the colonists lave left wives and children here. If we send out those wives and children, and as many more women, boys, and girls as we can convey, we may hope for an easier mind—Yorkshire and national—about our woollen manufacture. Mrs. Cmsnotm, with her train of 900 good women—respectable English wives mid daughters—is preparing the way for Yorkshire t• do a good business in times to come : and the weaver - here, the shepherd yonder, will send her name down, in a grateful way, to a future generation. The other ground of uncertainty is about the amount, even the sufficiency, of our home growth of wool. There is a vague supposition among the manufacturers that they are consuming beyond the limits of production; but, do what they can, they cannot make out whether it is NO Or no. They have done what they can. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce :has made great and repeated efforts to obtain the statistics of wool-growing, and they have always and utterly failed. They thought that observation and inquiry along the great lines of railway would help them to much of what they want; but they can get no reliable information. In the same way as the agricultural statistics of an isolated district are of no value in comparison with what they would be as a portion of a great whole. the statistics of a particular " interest " are a dela- Moe, if taken alone. In such a came as this of wool growing, the information is obtained with Ose utmost difficulty ; and what is ob tained cannot be relied on. The people along . the road fancy that the inquirer has some interest to serve, and are suspicious and re served ; or they have an interest, and see facts, and make answer accordingly. And so, for want of a good general system of returns of agricultural statis tics, all manner of mischief is going on to the =nuts.- turer weaver, grazier, and farmer, who might, if brought face to face, be one another's best friends. Why, in the ancient days, when the Romans set up our first woollen manufacture at Winchester, and when they sent such specimens home of our primi tive Southdown short wool that their emperors would dress in nothing less eminent than Winchester cloth, there was a more adequate knowledge of menu and ends in regard to wool-grewing than there is now. When, again. centuries later, the great ALFRED'S god mother used to entice her darling boy to bring his "boke" and read by her side as she span, when keg wool, as we see by this, was dividing favour witklhe Winchester short—it was one of the alibi bra roam of the country to know how the shiepiemstem•Aeir many . died in hard winters, and how alleeh Wad Mu growing within the range of certain imillista When EDWARD IV. allowed his sister Milani! to "NW money in her own royal way, by expos two the ▪ rams a year to Holland and the he. ther and sister knew very well how mash amp breeding might be allowed for exportation, over sod above what was wanted for home use. But we have no knowledge of the sort now. We are more igno rant of the statistics of sheep than our own fathers end grandfathers were. In the time of the late Rai Laming& it was a received fact, desilemi le be proved by anthem"' dosumeats , that the number if sheep in the United Hingdom had more than trehledin a century and a half. The impulse to the inquiryMna ins the extension of turniphusbandry.Wehave tank Impulse enough now for such an inquiry ; but wince are the authentio documents? WhenBAIRWILL had found how plastic a material the living was, and bad moulded it into the perfection " prime Leicester," he let his first ram for 17s. M. for the season. Within thirty years he let a ram for 1,0001. for the season ; and the Midland farmers were known to spend 100,0001. a year in the hiring of rams. This was in the last century. Improve ment in all rural production whatever has gone es rapidly since, and especially of late years; and we have everpeasihle assurance that our farmers and bare in them the spirit of enterprise, C iden ambition for improvement, and the pleasure in doing business well that are natural to =a ; —at all events to Englishmen. But they ere work. big in the dark, for want of knowing the broadest Irate about demand and rapply. This is no fault of theirs; and, whoever may be to blame, it is very ab oard. Re bate done great things for our woollen mann festuro—canoot we do this one thing more P We lave dam great things for agriculture by giving it freedom--ainnot we now give it light to do its by? We have transformed the primitive downs, that the Romans were so delighted et, into the modern Boutholowns, eageTly ref "the Southdown interest" before committees, when Free Trade was in qaull eall 7.74 have stocked our Australian pastures witip annals of merinos. Cannot we make out how mideiroolik would suit us to have from thence, or to obtain it home, if the colony cannot send it? The traveller sees that it must be a government work : but he pro nounces it a very practicable one. Traversing the downs of Dorsetahire, Hampshire, and Sussex, he sees the flocks on the sward like mites in a cheese; be could not count them; but a isoor-law or tax collecting machinery can count anything abort of the mode Oa the sea-shore ; and the sum would be easier by the variety introduced—the accounts of soils and production of all kinds, which must be given in a statistical return like that we want. In Wales, spin, what woolly swarms amaze the traveller!— ,TEE EXPRESS. SATURDAY spreading like a garment over the slopes Idris. and making whole ranges of bills alivls with bleating. Then, passing over the dirty anti ilziedsC tribes in Westmoreland and r camberland, fie tows to the Cheviot breed, w4tbidr long legs, intlidber facilities for keeping thernselvelsoinfortable sanest among the black peat bogs, and safe under the winter storms. In the Scotch islands, it might be possible to estimate the sheep and the wool which supply ns with the delicate fabrics that Queens and Peeresses wear over their shoulders and on their dainty hands; but what power, shut of an organisation can make out and add up the produce of our midland and eastern counties? Who would undertake to answer for Norfolk alone? And who would get the farmer to believe him if he said, " You had better give up what you are about, and attend to your sheep above every thing ?" The farmer says every body advises him to attend to one particular thing ; and no two to the same thing. How should he know whom to believe ? So he goes on as his father did before him; or, if he is an enterprising man, he may fail in a dozen speculations before he finds one that will answer. Ile must be aided, as our merchants and manufacturers are. We have not a Minister of Commerce, u some foreign governments have ; bat the functions of such a minister are fulfilled by our Board of Trade, and with much increased—though very, very far from complete—effect since the creation of its statistical de partment in 1832. The business of that department is to obtain and prepare statistical information, to be laid before Parliament. In spite of great errors.l such as might be expected to occur, the institution has been of inestimable value ; and now, the same thing must be done for agriculture that is already done for trade. This would be an indispensable de mand if agriculture alone were concerned ; but it is made urgent by the peculiar present embarrassment of one of our leading manufactures. Are Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. CARDWELL considering the need? If Prince ALBERT were to promote our plan for securing Agricultural Statistics, he would be doing a far greater benefit to Farming and Farmers than he is ever likely to effect by breeding any num ber of Prize Oxen—or Pigs. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY ETININO. The immediate excitement whichattendedthesadden announcement of the Emperor's intended espousal of the Countess of Thebs has now subsided; and in nearly all circles the formal declaration to be made to-morrow to the Senate and Legislative Body is con sidered to be " all for the best." The Preue, reproducing the official note in yester day's Mossiteur, adds that " it is infinitely probable (sse) that this marriage will be followed very soon by another imperial marriage, that of the Emperor of Austria, for a long time affianced, as is known, to the Princess Sidonia of Saxony, sister of Prince Albert of Saxony, himself affianced to the Princess Caroline Wass. At least the Gazette des Poste. of Frankfort announces to-day that the conclusion of this marriage is at hand." _ . The Moniker of this morning contains a decree extending to no lase than M articles, ranged under eight heads, and subdivided into numerous clauses, regulating the receipts, disbursements, and general management of the Imperial household for the future. It is announced, on authority, that the journey of the Emperor of Runge will give rise to important diplomatic conferences, and perhaps even to another interview between several crowned heads. The Czar will not return to Warsaw before April next. The Emperor Napoleon has ordered a gold watch, with a suitable inscription, to be presented to a young girl named Yictorine Barth, 13 years of age, as a re ward for her heroic conduct in an endeavour to save the life of a traveller who was murdered in August last under the walls of the Chateau Gaillac... There has been to-day an improved feeling on the Bourse, as compared with Wednesday last. It seems to be now considered that the Emperor's mar riage having been assented to by the Corps Diploma tique, the event will consolidate the domestic policy otFrance with the peace of the rest of Europe; hence the public securities nearly regained to-day the posi- I dea from which they fell on Wednesday, the Three c r Cents. closing at 79f. 95c., and the Four-and-a- Cents. at 105 f. The closing quotation of Bank Ilbser r however, was 2,800 f., being the same as on the ten days previous, after the serious decline in all Ida& of securities. A trifling advance was observ able in the rates of railway shares, but the improve ment is scarcely quotable. The only notice of the the marriage in the French poses is the Mowing note in last night's Pairs'. : The Msolcsur sasoasess that a meeting of the barest': aria *mu sad of the Legislative Body and of the Conn di 'Mate will tabs piste at the Tuileries at noon on Sa- Isoispr, wad that the *et of this meeting is to receive teas IN Dorms a vinsunnication relative to his marriage. The lower =Ms, Mlle. de Montijo, Duchess de Theba. Daughter of the Count de Montijo, who has left the most glorious military souvenirs, and who defended the cause of the French empire up to the walls of Paris in 1814, the future Empress is as distingatahed by her virtues sad her inexhaustible charity as by the most accomplished beauty. Grandee of Spain of the Bret clam, the Duchess Theba belongs to an illustrious family, which, for several cen turies put, has been allied to the greatest houses of Baroys. It appears, however, that on Wednesday ennuis another note was in type at the office of the Paine, and that some numbers were actually thrown off, when an order came to suppress thfl e as me tion. In that note, which appears . in the I Beige of Thursday, nothing is said of ills. Montijo's charity; her beauty and accomplishments only are spoken of It is further there stated that the mar riage would be celebrated to-morrow week. I am now warred that it will take place the day after to- morrow. Orders have been given to all the Parisian journals not to allude to the subject and few of them dare so much as to copy the paragraph in the Palm. Mademoiselle de Montijo has a great many more titles than I was aware of. She is not only, it ap pears Duchess of Thetis, but according to the royal Spanish alumina* Duchess of Banos and Mora, and is entitled to use the names and arms of de Gusman, Fernandes, de Cordova, Leiva, and La Cerda, besides an infinity of others. Her father, besides being Crept do Montijo, wee Duke of Penaranda. Her mast was at one time first lady of honour to the Oman of Spain. This distinguished post she owed to General Names, who was on terms of more than ordinary intimacy with the Montijo family. She has not hitherto need the title of Duchess a. Po merania in Paris. One of her sisters married a Fun if. do Lomeps, the father of the M.For &and is es well known in 1849 as French grabegaadgit at Another son of this vas Goggled of bein g an accomplice of Oso i r e g sad Loapiaanno, in the Lyons plot. I barge the Emperor has wisely detindaed not to roman as tombs of Voltaire and Raman from the Pantheon. The priestly . party has mad, inseam efforts to emmummato this desecration, and the Univers has devoted several articles to no other ob- jest. But the Emperor knows that the whole literary world of Paris would be indignant at such a stupid act of intolerance, and begins to think he has done enough for the priests already. A boss not worth repeating is attributed to M. Romieu, the director of the Beaux Arts on the occasion of his conveying the Emma.% final resolution on this subject to the Archbishop of Paris. The archbishop observed that he could not reconcile himself to the idea of saying mass over the ashes of such heretics as Rousseau and Voltaire. "Monseigneur," said M. Romieu, "you must admit that you could not do anything to annoy them more." If this not unimportant matter be thus finally settled, as I believe it to be, the decision is creditable to France. The scruples which pie vented the erection of Byron's monument in West minster Abbey may be respected if not justified. But supposing a corner of that sacred pile to have been consecrated to Byron. memory for half a cen tury, no proposition would ever have been made to violate the sanctity of the tomb. It appears that a report of M. Itanien's occasion from the direction: of the Beaux Arts is without foundation. . . . . A great many of the invited guests to the second grand ballet the Tuileries to-morrow are exceedingly loth to exhibit themselves in the regulation silk or velvet breeches. They affect to doubt the meaning of the order published in the Mona *tear, and contend with much show of reason, the Academy dictionary in their hand, that the expression habit habilis does not necessarily comprise breeches. There is in fact a rebellion against the order. To evade it, re- sort will be had to every description of uniform, civil or military, foreign or domestic, and it is more than probable that personage of too much importance to be osfased admission, will present thellajelem phi* blo c k pantaloons, and thairestabhsh 'a prece dent .foe a liberty ma* more paid 'than political freedom--liberty of dress. Yon may remember that a decree of the ,provisional go , vermoent, requiring all the members of the Consti tuent Assembly to wear white waistcoats, was' laughed to morn. The order was simply disobe witnout remonstrance and without objection. At ball to-morrow Mdlle. de Montijo will of course sp.' ear in the character of the betrothed bride of the Emperor. PARIS, TIIIIRSDAT aVIXI3IO.I The question of the abolition of the claque in the *Nitres has just received the solution which Will foreseen. After a few representations without hireid applauders, during which a fatal coldness had replaced the animation produced by the elaqs•eurs, the direc tors have received a communication permitting them - - to return to the old system. Yesterday, therefore, these noisy legions resumed their habital place under the lustre, and, thanks to the forced repose that they have undergone, their enthusiasm was never moue warmly manifested. The sub-prefect of Doullens has transmitted to the Minister of Justice the following letter from M. Sobrier : Sire,—The great voice of Frazee having declared itself against the ideas for which for the last five years I have loot my liberty, and having definitively confided to you the care of her glory and of her happiness, makes it imperative on me to bow before the powerful resolution which she has just taken, at the same time that it engages me to address myself to you in the hope that, comprehending what are the thousand pains attached to the position of the prisoner, you will deign to put an end to it by restoring me to liberty, be anylfamily, and to my affections. If, in order to return lava private life I must pledge myself on my honour to &ban*. he ever that policy which, after so many diseneha*Mmole hes deprived me of my liberty, that engagement I IMP into towards you from the bottom of my heart, for, gamma as any one, I know how to submit to the will of new% whose voice has just given you the right and the pewee to bring her back by progress to that apogee of glory and of superiority which was taken from bar by those bad rigs's** which since 1816 have weighed so fatally on her destinies. The clemency of your Majesty will, I hope, extend to me, whose health, long since weakened, is every day failing under tho rigisis• of captivity; deprived of strength, 1 have only enough left me to make this appeal to your heart and to the generous sentiments of which the echo has reached me, and which will, I hope, guide it on this occasion, for I feel convinced that you would not be acquainted with my present deplorable situation withont r s wish to apply a remedy to it. I therefore await with amp fidence, sire, the decision which you will come to walk regard to me, persuaded that your generosity will yet ea end to my numerous and indescribable sufferings, which you alone can make me forget by opening to me the gates of that prison which, without your clemency, will be my tomb. In this hope may your Majesty deign to accept the assurance of my profound respect. stemma. The Handcar, after giving the above letter, adds : "The pardon of M. Sobrier has been granted." SWITZERLAND. The Vienna Press* says, that at the beginning of last week despatches were sent off to Radetzky, in structing him to demand instant satisfaction for the expulsion of the Lombard Capuchins from Ticino. The Gazette of Sacoy states that General Kalber matten, who has been for many months breaking the laws both of Switzerland and Piedmont, by secretly enrolling soldiers for the Pope, has just been ex pelled from the states. The Royal Carabineers at the station of Evian had arrested in that town four young men, from 22 to 28 years of age, who came from Switzerland by SG Gindolph, and were demand ing the address of the generaL these men were without passports, and one of them bad a letter directed to General Ealbermatten. After under going a long examination, they at length avowed that they had been enlisted in the canton of the Valais by a recruiting agent to serve in the army of the Pope, and that they were going to the general to be definitively enrolled by him, and receive their pass and travelling allowance. The government understanding by this avowal that General Kalber matten, and a certain M. Desjardin, calling himself his aide-de-camp, were engaged in enlisting for a foreign power, ordered his immediate expulsion from the territory. The four recruits were conducted by the Carabineers to the frontier of the Valais, by which they re-entered Switzerland. General Kal bermatten's occupation in Savoy has long been no torious, but positive legal proof of the enlistments have been difficult to obtain. GERMANY. PROSECUTION OF OERVINUS. The Heidelberg Hue and Cry of Jan. 17 contained the following official citation : " To Professor G. G. Gervintis of Heidelberg, charged with inciting to High Treason, and with en dangering the public peace. " The Grand Decal State-prosecutor of the Chief Court of the Circle of the Lower Rhine has pro ferred an indictment against Professor G. G. Glee vinus, charging him with inciting to high treason and with endangering the public tranquility. The charge is made in respect of the printed book called Introduction to the History of the Nineteenth Century,' written by the said Professor, and published by William Engelman at Leipsio, and par ticularly in respect of the passages marked in the document published by this court on the 12th instant. " Proceeding, according to section 42 of the press law, we have appointed Friday, Jan. 28, for the hearing of this cause in the court of this circle. On this day, therefore, at 9 a.m., Professor 0. G. Gee vinu, who, according to the report of our officer, is absent from his ordinary place of abode, and whose present residence is unknown, is summoned to ap pear, and so much the more as that on his making default, the facts alleged in the indictment will be treated as proven, and no ulterior means of defence will be permitted to the accused. "Grand Ducal Bailiff XRAIT. " Heidelberg, Jan. 14, 1853." At Munich, on the 15th, the police entered the shops and warehouses of the tradesmen who had refused to disclose the names of purchasers of the forbidden trea tise, and seized their day-books and journals, hoping thus to obtain the desired intelligence. Ia cease. queue of this proceeding the leading firms met, and agreed to present at once a memorial to the royal government. The King, it may be remembered, is absent in Italy. SPAIN. According to a table published by the Gazette of the 16th the Boating debt of the Treasury, which amountel on theist December last to 354,628,487 reels (88,667,122 f.), had fallen on the Ist instant to 348,196,180 reels. During the month of December the Treasury Bonds were negotiated at from 8 to 9 per cent. per annum for the public, and at 6 per cent. for the bank, The Clamor Public° of the 14th, and the Esperanza, the Norio's, and the Diario Espanol of the 16th, had been seized. _ The Diario Espanol says :—" There is a talk in the financial world of different propositions made to the government by foreign houses, before M. Aristi- 1 sabel left the ministry of finance, to purchase the bonds of the purchasers of the national property, which amount to 100 millions of reals, at the rate of 87 per cent., bearing an annual interest of 6 per cent., and 2 commiss►on." ITALY . The Parma Gazette of the 15th announces the session by Parma of two islands on the Po to Aus tria, and the taking possession of an island, named Fawn Carus, cede to Puma in return by Ana tria. At the election for a deputy which took place at Genoa on the 15th, the constitutional candidate, M. Poleri, was ele2ted by 154 votes against 64, given to M. Piola, the absolutist candidate. The Bing of Bavaria arrived at Rome, on the 10th, under the usual incogito of Count of Werden fels. .~. TURKEY. The journal des Debate haa the following from Constantinople : It is known that, some months ago, the Turkish autbori , ties ordered that nimbi on their arrival should be visited by the quarantine agents, in order to ascertain if the lists of the crew and passengers were exact; so that M every boar of the day and night the sanitary agents ?assumed into JANUARY 22, 1853. tho iamb, of the vessels, in spite of capitulation.* (which ought to be more strictly maintained than um), and of the sanitary tegulations, which expressly interdict the Turkish autherides from entering French ships. Complaints on the subject were made from all parts to the Fronde embassy. To the violation of treaties and regulations were joined the vexations of all kinds which them visits occasioned. Prejudicial delays wen awed; and there was indecency in allowing women who might be on board to be subjected at any-hour of night to the inspection of subal tern agents, mast of whom were unqualified for their deli cate minion. The marquis de Lavalette demanded of the Porte some time ago that these measures should be abandoned. Evasive replies were given to him. At leagth, a few days back, the Ambassador declared to the Turkish government that, after waiting patiently so long, he was determined not any longer to allow treaties to be violated to the prijudios of the honour of the French flag, which ought to protect our ships; and that he would call On the commander of our fleet in the Levant, which was 'mimed at Smyrna, to second him. The Porto was obliged to yield to this energetic protest, which was based on the most indisputable right. Immediately orders were sent to all the quarantines that the measures complained of should cease to be executed on board French ships. PS .1 MONTENEGRO. The Journal els Constantinople states that the Turkish Governor of Scutari, Osman Pasha, had chased the Montenegrins from Piperi and Zabljak, and driven them imperiously to within their own frontier. This is merely another version of the news previously published in these columns. Twenty-five thousand imperial troops were to be assembled, and it was believed at Constantinople that the moun taineers would be reduced to subjection in a month or six weeks. George Petrowitch Negoesk, cousin of Prince Daniel, arrived at Vienna on the 17th. PERSIA. Letters from Bagdad announce the arrival in that town of the brother of the Shah of Persia, who though aged only 14, is said to have been compro- mised in the recent plot against the Shah. The same letters make known that the Persian government has placed a tax of 12 per cent. on all Persian goods destined for Bagdad. Letters from Teheran state that Hassan-Ali-Khan, adjutant-bachi, was about to be sent to Constantinople as Minister-Plenipotentiary of the Shah. THE MEDJ PoaTamorrn, JAN. 21.—The Medina, 4, steam packet, Lieutenant Commander Reynolds, arrived from the Mediterranean at noon to-day. Her dates are Malta, Jan. 4 • Gibraltar, Jan. 12; and Lisbon, Jan. 16. The mail s teamer Beutinck, with the heavy portion of the homeward bound Indian mail, bad not arrived at Lisbon, being over-due three days. The agents there of the Penin sular and Oriental Steam Packet Company requested the Medina to report this circumstance. It could not be con jectured what was the canes of this delay. The weather, as it wu experienced by the Medina, could not account for it. At Lisbon great excitement prevailed in reference to the reduction of the interest on the national debt, the Queen and the government being openly aced loudly accused of their breach of public faith. It was anticipated that this excitement would rather increase than decline. The pre mium on English gold was 2+ per tent. The mail packet Banshee was the only vessel at Malta. Vice-Admiral Dundee was at Gibraltar, being indisposed from tin doloareux. The following ships were with him. — Britannia, 120, flag; Trafalgar, 120; Albion, 90; Belle rophon, 78; Arethusa, 60; Retribution, 28, steam frigate Niger, 14, screw sloop ; Sampson, 6, steam sloop; and Antelope, 3, steam vessel. He was a•vaiting the arrival of the mail from England, on receipt of which he was to sail , with the fleet for Malta. The fleet was healthy. I At Lisbon there were--the Sansparell, 81, Mew steam ship ; and Inflexible, ft, steam sloop. The Medina touched at Algiers for coal, but what she g ot was so very bad that she had to take in more at the Tagus. At Algeira there was a Fresh steam squadron, of which the Monteauma frigate sailed fur Marseilles on the same day es the Medina left. The following oaken have come home in the Medina :—Commander Howat, late of the Albion; Lieut. Sault', from the Bellerophon; Lieut. Grant, on his promotion, from the Britannia; and Mr. Gil land, of the Vengeance, to rejoin her, having been left at Gibraltar Hospital invalided. She has 24 invalid seamen and marines, and a small mail from Lisbon. The Medina was commis sioned in January 1851, and has been i i e j as for tunate regards health, having entirely cep cholera when it was prevalent in every other ship of the fleet. She has come into harbour to coal, after which she will sail for Woolwich to be paid off. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. The government emigrant ship Caucasian, bound for Australia, was towed out of Sout ha mpton docks yester day ; she has about 220 emigrants on boar& This is the first ship that his started from Southampton sines the latter I has been made a government emigration port. The emi grants have been residing in a building in the dock fitted up ae a temporary emigration depot. Bach emigrant has received a packets of tracts from the Religious Tract So- ciety, and also a Bible and Testament from the Christian Knowledge Society. The clergyman of the dock district and dissenting ministers of the town have attended to the spiritual wants of the ensigrAnte during the stay of the latter in Southampton, and divine service has been per formed daily at the depot or on board the Caucasian. Many of the emigrants are of the agricultural clue, or ihey have been mechanics and artisans in rural districts. Greet numbers of them have been comfortably of, but having large families are anxious that their children shall strive where the straggle for comfort and independence is not so severe as it is in this country. I was particularly struck with two families who were going out. They were singing hymns as I passed by their apartments la the emi patios building. The head of one of the families was a Hampshire carpenter. Ile had wanted for nothing, but he had • large family. The head of the other family I did not see, but the wife was an elderly and respectable matron. She stated that she had been settled in Oxford for 40 eau, and never dreamt that she should leave old Bagland ; but she was going out for the sake of her childless. There were some remarkably fine young men and wawa among the emigrants, and the children, who were very serous, appeared healthy and intelligent. The mail/ram were evi dently of the temperate, serious, and striu-l•-do.well dam They were cheerful, but very susceptible of religion impressions, 'Act's, no doubt, from the important step they were about to undertake, the separation from relatives and friends, and the long voyage they would have to un dergo. They did not appear, however, to entertain any of those vague apprehensions of the voyage which existed some years ago, owing, doubtlese, to the rapid and sueeseshil voyages to Australia that are now made, and the hundreds of ships that are continually traversing the Australian route. There is every reason to believe that there will be a remarkable exodus this year, and that the south-western counties will be perfectly drained of their superabundant population. Go where yea will you hear elderly persons regretting that the gold discoveries were not made years ago, that they might have emigrated; and you hear of young men pre paring to start. Many well-to-do tradesmen would emi grate, but there is a great difficulty in disposing of a busi ness. It Is stated that in one of the public departments in Southampton, a large portion of the officials will throw up their situations during the present year, and emigrate to Australia. THE AMERICAN MINISTER AT BIR- MINGRAM. Last night, the American Minister was entertained at a pnblie dinner at Birmingham. About 160 persona were present, including Lord Ca'thorn', Mr. Spooner,ld.P., Mr. Bch°lefleld, M.P., and Mr. Booker, M.P. Mr. Munn, M.P., presided. The health of his Excellency was proposed by the chair man, and minuet enthusiastically received. In the coarse of a most eloquent speech, Mr. Ingersoll generally viewed the position and prospects of both countries, as well as their Identity of in terest, and he expressed a hope that the cordial relationship now subsisting, might long be perpetuated. A generous rivalry and a generous emulation would (in his opinion) conduce to the permanent prosperity of both countries. Of all the kindness that he had experienced in England, none had inspired him with such depth of feeling as this reception of bin by Birmingham men—a town so largely interested in American trade and so largely bite rested in the prosperity of the country he represented. All the speakers cordially concurred in the expression of • hope, which Mr. Ingersoll stated met with his approba tion, that England and America should unite to check the encroachments of despotism and go on to protect the liber ties of peoples. The company uparated at midnight. SWINDLING AT PARia.—The Tribunal of Correc tional Polies of Versailles tried two days ago a man, named Escaille, representing himself to have been running foot man to Charles X. and Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, for swindling. In July, 1851, he waited on the Mayor of St. Cloud, and obtained his permission to give a fete in the Park, in which men were to run against horses ; and he then went to restaurant, coffee-house and public-house keepers, and obtained from them different sums to cover bis expenses; representing to them that his fete would attract a great number of strangers. To excite their con fidence he exhibited • bill, in which he declared that, in 1827 end 1828 he had run three times round the Champ de-Mars in 15 minutes, and went from Paris to Versalli a and back in 75 minutes. But after obtaining their contri butions he disappeared, and no fete was of course given. Nothing was seen of him till the Ist of this mouth, whea he was discovered and arrested in a lodging-house in the Rue de l'ilotel-de-Ville, at Paris. The Tribunal con demned him to three months' imprisonment, and twenty five francs fine. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, JAW. 21. The Queen gave the third of a series of dramatic performances this (meninx at the Castle. A new and original comedy, in three acts, by Douglas Jerrold ( acted), was represented, ectitled, " St. Cupid ; or, Dorothy's Fortune." Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the elder royal children and the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Leiningen, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, accompanied by the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke and Duchess of Northumber land, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, and Viscount Torrington, entered the Reben's Room at eight o'clock, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and took their seats on a /taut pas, opposite the temporary orchestra. The performance immediately commenced, the parts being filled according to the following programme : ST. CUPID; OR, DOROTHY'S FORTUNE. Mr. Under-Secretary Zero Sir Valentine May (his nephew) Mr. Walter Lacy. Doctor Budd (a schoolmaster) Mr. Harley. Ensign Bellefleur (his nephew) Checker Mr. Ryder. Hawke Mr. F. Cooke. Trundle Mr. J. Chester. Officer Dorothy Budd (daughter of Dr. Budd) Mrs. Charles Kean. Queen Bee (a Lipsey woman) Mr. Wright. Juno (servant at Doctor Budd's) Director Mr. Charles Kean. Assistant director Mr. George Ellis. The theatre a-ranged and the scenery painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance. In addition to the distinguished guests comprising the Queen's dinner circle, the following party had the honour of receiving invitations to witness the dramatic perform ance :—Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and the Counter of Dornburg, Lady Emily Seymour, Lady Carolise and Miss Barrington, Cul. the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Lady Farginhu, and Mrs. Clive, Captain the Hon. Mortimer and Mrs. Sackvills West and Miss Dallas, Major-General and the Hon. Mrs. Scott, Sir John and Lady Jane Walsh and Captain Walsh, Cap tain and the Hoa. Mrs. Tottenham, Mr. and Lady Sophia Tower, Colonel M'Donall, commanding officer, Lieut. Howard and Mr. Tardrew, of the 2nd Life Guards ; Col. Angersteiu, commanding officer; Lieut.-Col. Hamilton and Captain de Honey, of the 3rd battalion, Grenadier Guards ; Mr. and Mrs. Challoner and Mr. and the Misses Grenfell. Refreshments were served to her Majesty's visitors during the evening. The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, had the honour of laying before the Queen yesterday a nugget of pun gold, weighing 281 b., and valued at about I,Boon, found in the colony of Victoria, Australia, and presented by the loyal inhabitants to her Majesty. Prince Albert, with the Prince of Leiningen, accompa nied by the Duke of Newcastle, Viscount Palmerston, and Viscount Sydney, went out shooting this forenoon, attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage this afternoon. Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour were in attendance on horseback. The following had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday: The Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Leiningen, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke and Ditchers el Bedford, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Spetb, Vie count and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount and Vie. countess Sydney, and Viscount Torrington. The bend of the 2nd Life Guards attended in the Castle during dinner, and played the following selection : Marsh Von Remy. Overture, " Don Juan" Montt Waits, " Die buthelland" Grand eider:tie; " 1 Marilri" Donieetti. Ballad. Swipe Oiri." Sole Imams Utley. Quadrille, "L Paste" YAK Polonaise Gap OM =melee gam Her Majesty's private herd ebrewards attended, and performed the following eseapaitkies : Overture, " Le Lee des Piles" Antler. Intred " Le Pre aux Clem" Devoid. Seleetluu" Gustave" Luber. ICUllaer. Straus. .. _ Mr. Macgregor, M.P., had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Pretely had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. R. W. Wilbraham has been appointed second pri vate secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office, yesterday, to the Governor General of Canada and the Governor of the other North American provinces. Lient.-General Lord Raglan, Muter General of the Ordnance, has appointed Hear Admiral Houston Stewart, C. 8., to be his Military Secretary. THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE. MB. JERROLD'S NEW COMEDY, "ST. CUPID, OR, DOROTHY'S FORTUNE." For Mr. Jerrold, of all modern dramatists, has been reserved the high honour of having his play submitted in the fist appeal to royal judgment, ant the high bred criticism of the court, and of thus going forth with &stamp of approbation which will hardly fail to Ise recognised and confirmed by the general public. The pictorial newspapers have already made familiar the appearance of " The Ruben's Chamber" at Windsor Castle as arranged for dra matic representations, so that in noticing the performance of last evening it will not be necessary to go into length ened description of the arrangements, which are simple and efficient, and which were only altered on the present occa siun by the substitution of such new scenery as the business of the play rendered necessary. Her Majesty entered the room with her usual punctuality at eight o'clock, accom panied by. Prince Albert and the royal children, and, having taken her seat in the chair of state, the general company soon absorbed the limited accommodation of the room, cal culated, as it is, for only about eighty persons. The band at once commenced playing a sprightly occasional overture, arranged on well-known Jacobite airs, amongst which "Johnny Cope" held a prominent place, and on its termi nation the curtain rose for the comedy. The " period" of the play is the reign of Cleo. 11., when the machinations of the Pretender were most active, and the rising of the cur taro discovered Mr. Under-Seeretory Zero, • vigilant Hano verian politician (Mr. H. Vining), and his nephew, Sir Valentine (Kr. Walter Lacy), discussing at the house of the former the contents of • mysterious missive, which, some how or other, bad found its way into the under-emretary's despite's box. This turns out to be neither more nor less than a love letter or valentine, signed "Cupid," addressed generally "To all whom it may concern," sad is. dicating pretty plainly the direction in which a love chaos must be followed up, if undertaken. The nephew looks upon it as • genuine article, and determines in • youthful spirit of adventure to follow it up, while the astute senior sees treason lurking in the folds of • billet don:, looks upon the professions of femialne love as so many horrible plots in cypher, and with an equally keen Kent, hut far different objects, sets all his Ingenuity to work to discover the author and his or her whereabouts. The double action of the uncle and nephew then forms the key of the subsequent machinery of the piece. The nephew starts off first, and the second scene is the suburban academy of Dr. Budd (Mr. Harley), at which V6llllStiall arrives in search of the fair Dorothy, the doctor's daughter (Mrs. C. Henn), and the suspected author of the love letter. He offers himself as usher, and is appointed at the munificent salary of tea pounds a year, while the sight of the doctor's daughter changes what was originally a mere frolic into • warm end lasting attachment. He finds under Dr. Budd's roof a young officer, Belle deur (Mr. E ), who is actually hatching trea son unknown is the worthy pedagogue and his daughter, and also in love with the latter. Jealousy of course springs up between the young men, Belief eur mistakes Valentino for a spy, and their words are becoming of the very hottest, when the old doctor rushes in and makes peace. But a fresh trouble here arises. In his pur turbatien he has dropped the name of Bellefleter in the hearing of • real spy of the Under-$e eretary's (Mr. Ryder), who had just arrived with the pretended mission of finding an academy for his boys. On hearing the name I the spy retires precipitately, promising with marked em- phasic to send his boys" to school, meaning a party of soldiers to arrest Bellefleur. Valentine and Dorothy are left alone, and a sparkling dialogue ensues, in which the former swears by his patron saint that they shall have good Christmas sport. She asks playfully who is his patron saint, and he replies, " Saint Cupid,' and the curtain falls on the surprise of Dorothy at the coincidence between the name and the signature to her own love lettei. The second act finds the pretended usher installed, and introduces a new cha racter, Queen Bee, an old gimey woman (Mr. Wright), who alarms the doctor, a stanch loyalist, by telling hiss there's a traitor is the house, and pointing suspicion at the new usher. Dorothy, like a true woman, is only the more delighted at finding her lover to be a hero in disguise, and vows to save him at all hazards. Another floe dialogue follows between her and Ira/engine, full of dark hints on the one aide, bewilderment on the other, and a succession of cross purposes in both. She vows she would die to save her lover in such a situation, and he, thinking she means Belle fluor, is rendered savage by the inopportune approach of that personage. He snatches up a violin and plays • minuet, requesting Dorothy to donee, in order that the serious nature of their conversation may not be discovered, and, for Belief cur's peculiar delectation, he changes it suddenly to " Johnny Cope," which he plays with such vigour as to bring in the old doctor, perspiring with loyal horror at the sound of the treasonable air. Hot words again ensue, followed by a challenge and a blow,after which all the parties leave the ewes except Valentine, who is soon disturbed by the entry of the gipsey, seeking, like an arrant impostor as she is, the best market for her treachery. The great comic strength of the piece may be said to lie in the ensuing scene between these two. Valentine frightens her by turning fortune teller himself, and predicting a dreadful series of " Bride well," " oakum-picking," and " whipping," of which con fidence strengthens the probability. The "Engineer is Wet by his own petard," and Queen Be. is about to pitiable perturbation to "tell all she knows," whew Dorothy enters and follows the two retreating, dying with a laudable curiosity to know the nature of their conver sation. As " The darkest morn is that before the dawn," the third act finds every complication more complicated than ever. Fatentine is suspected by Dorothy of treason. but clears himself by his protestations, and, in a fit of prudent generosity, determiues to get rid of his rival, the real traitor, by favouring his escape. At this juncture, Mr. Under-Sseretary Zero himself arrives, armed with powers to arrest, and immense fun arises from the discovery that the gipsey has all along been his spy, but has gone over to the enemy in consequence of his parsimony. The Jacobite officer escapes, the wader-secretary and his myrmidons are made fools of by a substitution of keys, and Sir Valentine dis covering himself in his true character, wooes and wins the fair Dorothy, the curtain Whey upon their marriage. The public representation of the comedy at the Princess's will of course give opportunity for more detailed criticism, so that at present we, shall content ourselves with saying that on its first performance last evening, it received applause ea marked and emphatic as was consistent with the strict etiquette of so august an assemblage. The complications of the plot kept the interest pormanently alive, while the brilliant dialogue, which was fully up to the author's re putation, produced repeated indications of mirth and appreciation. The capabilities of the sever.,l actors seemed to have been carefully studied by the dramatist, so admirably were they fitted in parts, and every one evidently acted with a full appreciation of their author, and of the distinguished audience by whom they were to be judged. It is hardly necessary to say that Mrs. Hean's Dorothy was a chatming impersonation, or that Mr. Walter Lacy gave full effect to the charact er o f Po/tontine the young lover. The public will also anticipate that Mr. Harley was at homo in giving life to the per plexities of Dr. Budd, but they can hardly anticipate the treat there is in store for them in Mr. Wright's Queen Be., the gipsey womae. Nobody who had Great him at the Adelphi would have recognised the " chartered libertine" of that locality in the careful actor and geuuiao comedian of the Ruben, Cnamber. In his performance of last even ing the subduing effect of the courtly atmosphere was most palpably and beneficially perceptible, while quite fun enough remained to elicit universal applause, especially from the royal children, who more than once exceeded the prescribed formula of approbation in recognising the eget tions of their favourite. We have only to add that new and elegant scenery had been provided under the superinten dence of Mr. Grieve, and that the quaint though rich cos tume of the period, its flowing peruques, velvet coats and diamond shoe buckles, were represented with artistic accu racy and precision. (PROM LAST XICHIVS GAIIITTI.) WINDSOR CASTLE, JAN. 19.—The Queen, ns Sove reign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, ha s been gra ciously pleased, by letters patent under her royal sign manual, and the great seal of the order, bearing date this day, to dispense with all the statue s and regulations usually , observed in regard to installation, and to grant unto the Most Noble Algernon, Duke of Northumberland, and the Most Honourable Charles William, Marquis of London. derry, Knights of the said Most Noble Order, and duly in vested with the ensigns thereof, full power and authority to exercise all rights and privilges belonging to Knights Com panions of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, in as full and ample a manner ea if they had been formally installed, any_decree, rule, orusage to the contrary notwithstanding. GITEHALL,JAN.2I.—The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, appointing Arthur, Duke of Wel lington, Master of the Horse to her Majesty. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 21.—The Queen has been pleased to sanction and allow the subjoined Ordinance of the Governor of Ceylon :—Ordinances enacted by the Go vernor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Le gislative Council thereof. No. 2, 113.52. G. W. Anderion. To repeal the export duty on Cinnutnon.—Whereas it is ex pedient that the duties of customs chargeable on the ex portation of cinnamon from this island should cease to be levied; it is enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the Ist day of July, 1853, so much of the Ordinance, No. 9, 1847, entitled, "For regulating the duties of customs payable oa goods imported into, and exported from, this island," as enacts that the duties set forth in figures, in the table marked B, annexed to the said Ordinance, shall be raised, levied, and collected in respect of cinnamon, upon the ex portation thereof from this island, shall b e repealed; and that from and after the said Ist day ofJ uly, 18.53, the duties of customs which are now levied and collected upon the exportation of cinnamon from this island, shall cease to be charged, levied, and collected. Famed, in council, the 25th day of August, 1852. (Signed) E. RAWDON Pow's, Act ing Clerk to the Council. Published by order of his Excel lency the Governor. (Signed) C. J. MACAMIT, Colonial Secretary. WAR OFFICE, DEc. 24. 39th Foot.—Major-General Richard Lluellyn, C. 8., to be colonel, vice Lieutenant-Geaeral George Burrell, C. 8., deceased. Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards.—Thomas Lewis Hamp ton, gent., to be cornet, by purchase, vice Bolton, ap pointed to the bth Dragoon Guards. 11th Dragoons.—Henry Fullerton Richmond, 'gent., to be cornet, by purchase, vice Honourable R. J. Annesley, promoted; Roger Palmer, gent., to be cornet, by pur chase. Dragoons.—Ellie Fletcher, gent, to be cornet, by par chase ; Richard George Glyn, gent., to be cornet, by per. cheer let Regiment of Foot Guards.—Robeyt Anetruther, gent., Mbe ensign Ind lieutenant. by purchase, vice Kinloeb, promoted. 2nd Foot.—Anthony Pemberton Ilobeon, gent., to be en sign. without purchase, vice Mackie, whose appointment has b ‘en cancelled. Ird Foot.—Ensign William Stewart, from the 39th Foot, to be ensign, vice W. W. King, promoted. Ith Foot.—Lieutenant Patrick Robertson to be adjutant, vice Knott, who resigns the adjutancy only. 10th Foot.—Percy Beale, gent., to be ensign by purchase, vice Henderson, promoted. 13th Foot.—Lieutenant Henry Hogge to be captain; by purchase,Wade, vice wbo retires ; Ensign Wilson Henry Jones to be lieutenant, by nurchase, vice Hogge. 14th Foot.—Ensign Charles Monck Wilson to be adjutant, vice Strode, who resigns the adjutancy only. Z6th Foot.—Lieutenant Thomas Andrews to be captain, by purchase, vice Edgar, who retires; Ensign Charles ri Fredeck Elwes to be lieutenant, by purchase, mice Andrews. 28th Foot.—henry Clark Worthington, gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Oubbins, who retires. 30th Foot.—Ensign Charles Jocelyn Cecil Sillery, from the 78th Foot, to be ensign, vice Falkoer, promoted. 31st Foot —John Willjam Townsend Fyler, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Herbert, promoted. 32nd Foot—Charles John Roberts, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Ricketts, promoted. 34th Foot —Robert John Browne Clayton, gent., to be en sign, by purchase vice Boyce, promoted. 38th Foot.—John Frederiek Clinton Boyle, gent,, to be ensign, without purchase, vice Gordon, promoted. 39th Foot.—William Stewart. gent •,. o Foot.—William Stewart, sent., to be ensign, by pur chare, vice Wadman, appointed to the Ist Dragoon Guards. list Foot.—Frederick Ball Dickson, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Bush, promoted. Mad Foot.--Captain Rustace Henry Rose, from the 60th .Foot, to be captain, vice Macquarie, appointed scathe 63rd Foot. 62nd Foot.—Gentleman Cadet Charles Norton, front tke Royal Military College, to be ensign, by purchase, vies Champion, promoted; the Honourable Frederick Le Poer Trench, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Gavle, promoted. 67th Fott.—John James Stott, gent., to be aesistant-surf gun. 60th Foot.—Captain Francis Charles Annesley, from the 63rd Foot, to be captain, vice Rose, appointed so the 42nd Foot. 62nd Foot.—Lieutenant James White Minchin to hemp tele, by purchase, vice O'Callaghan, who retires; &deign Emanuel Roberts to be lieutenant, by purchase, vise Minehin. 83rd Foot.—Captain George W. Macquarie, from the 42nd Foot, to be captain, vice Annesley, appointed to 60th Foot ; Ensign Frederick Edward Osuotlett hu been per witted to retire front the service, by the sale of his am- - - mission. 69th Foot.—Lieutenant Thomas Harvey to be esplain, without purchase, vise Dunn, who retires upon fall-IWI: Ensign Thomas Henry Charleton to be lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Harvey. 70th Foot.—James Greeo, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Freemantle, appointed to the 52nd Foot. 73rd Foot.—Assistant-Surgeon Wellington Poole, from the staff, to be assistanksureeon, vice Bolton, who resigns. 76th Foot.—William Boyd O'Malley, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Gemmel', promoted in the 22nd Foot. 78th Foot.—George Digby Barker, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Week's, promoted; Charles Jocelyn Cecil Sillery, gent., to be ensign, without purchase, vice Mar tin, deceased. 79th Foot—Donald Hay M'Barnet, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Stevenson, promoted. 84th Foot.—James Richardson, gent., to be ensign without purchase, vice Antrobus, appoasted to the 50th Foot. 85th Foot.—Walter Ashe, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Hering, promoted ; William Hallowes, gent., to ensign, by purchase, vice Blooms, promoted; James Scott, gent, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Lord Taylour, pro moted. 89th Foot.—Savage Hall, gent , to be ensign, by pashas*, vice Dawes, promoted. 90th Fook—The Hoc. Joaslyn Francis Pennington to be ensign, by purchase, vice Crealock, promoted. 91st Foot.—William Henry Gregg, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Hibbert, promoted. 92nd Foot.—Georee Hubert Parker, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Parsons, promoted; William Humphreys. gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice M'Donald, pro moted. 95th Foot.—Joseph P. O'Loghlin, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Taylor, promoted. let West India Regiment.—Frederick Drage, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Conseil, promoted. 3rd West India Regiment.—Robert Bruce, gest., to be ensign, without purchase, vice Greatrez, appointed to the 73rd Foot. Theerrechnn.—Lieutenant J. B. Priestley, [rem the 25th Foot, to be captain, without purchase. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 18. Corps of Royal Marines.—First Lieutenant and Quarter master William Alfred Garner Wright to he captain, vice Pearce, retired on full pap; First Lieutenant John Charles Downie Morrison to be quartermaster, Ors Wright; Second Lieutenant George Oliver Evans to bit tint lieutenant, vice Wright, promoted.