The Press. — London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

AUGUST 27, 1853. 64th Foot—Ensipi Thomas Archibald Mackinnon to be Lien tenant, without purchase, vice AluHoy, deceased; Ensign Rich. Henry Willeocks to be Lieutenant. without purchase, vice Mac kinnon, whose promotion, without purchase, ou the 13th May, 11+13, has been cancelled. 96th Foot—Ensign John O'Neil Stewart Seagrave to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Frederick Jeasop Jones, who retires ; George Irwin Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, rice Seagrove. ('ape Mounted Riflemen—James Clepham Minto, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Somerset, promoted in the Slat Foot. St. Helena Regiment—John Joseph I'aterson Fox, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cornwell, promoted. ADMIRALTY, August 15. Corps of Royal Matinee—Brevet -Major Thomas Hurdle to be Lieutenant•Culougl, vice Fegen, retired on full pay ; Captain Thus. Pearl Dwyer to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Cbilatily, re• tired on hill pay; Captain Win. Clendon tube Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Heerle, retired on full pay; Captain John Land to be Lieu tenant Colonel, vice M•Arthur, retired on full pay; First Lieut. Julius Roberts to be Captain, vice Hurdle, promoted ; First Li•ut. Fleetwood John Richards to be Captain, vice Dwyer, promoted; First Lieut. Hugh Hamilton Gould to be Captain, vice Clentlim, promoted; First Lieut. Arthur Butcher to be Captain, vice Land, promoted ; Second Lieut. Joshua Rowland Brookes to be First Lieutenant, vice Roberts, promoted; Second Lieut. John Ed ward Westropp Scott to be First Lieutenant, vice Richards, pro moted; Second Lieut. Francis Win. Thomas to be First Lieu tenant, vice Goold, promoted; Second Lieut. Henry Dickenson Nightingale to be First Lieutenant, vice Butcher, promoted; First Lieut. Philip Harris appointed Lieutenant and Quarter master, vice Butcher, promoted• CoIIMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. - - Royal Berks Militia—Thomas Alderman Houghton, Gent., to be Ensign; George Wm. Barker, Gent., to be Ensign. Royal Radnor Militia—Win. Edward Prickard, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. West Somerset Regiment of Yemnany Cavalry—Francis Geo. Bernard, Gent., to be Cornet, vice W. Slade, promoted. The Earl of Cheater's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry— Edward Claudius Walker, Gent., to be Cornet ; Leopold Cuat, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Potts, promoted. Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Fred. Burnet Nel son, Esq., to be Captain. 2d Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Captain Geo. Francis Stuart, late of the 49th Regt. of Foot, to be Major; Captain Geo. Cornwall Leg'', M.P., from the Ist Regt. of Royal Cheshire Militia, to be Major; James Newton, Esq., to be Captain; Cle ment Swetenham, Esq., to be Captain. Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia—Lieut. Henry Cooper to be Captain, vice Bentinck, who retiree, retaining hie rank. let Devon Regiment of Militia—Charles Henry Webber to be Captain; Wm. Carew Rayer to be Captain: Richard Hall Clarke to be Captain; Poltimore Ridgway to be Lieutenant; Thomas John Dennis to be Ensign. Devon Militia Artillery—Win. Hole to be Major ; George Chichester to be Captain; John Francis Worth to be Captain ; Bury Russell to be Captain; Thomas Harrison Harrison to be Captain ; John Norris Marshall to be First Lieutenant ; John Fronde Bellew to be First Lieutenant; Halifax Wyatt to be First Lieutenant ; Edward Harwell to be Second Lieutenant ; Robert Brent to be Second Lieutenant; Juhu Beavia Bignell to be Surgeon. The Victoria Rifles—The Most Noble Arthur Duke of Welling ton to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant; George Drummond, Esq., Due de Melfont, to be Major; Henry Whittaker, Esq., to be Captain and Adjutant; Edward Clifford, Esq.. to be Captain ; Frederick Scipio Clarkson, Esq., to be Captain; Henry Win. Sole Esq., to be Captain ; Henry Cook, Esq., to be Captain. Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia--George Augustus Jocelyn McClintoch, Esq., late Captain 521 Regt., to be Captain. 2d or Edmonton Royal Ride Regiment of Middlesex Militia — Edward John Ottley, Esq., late Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia, to be Captain. sth or Royal Eithorue Light Infantry Regt. of Middlesex Militia—Richard George Grange, Esq., Captain Unattached, Bengal army, to be Captain; Sir James Lawrence Cotter, Bart., from the London Militia, and late 27th Enniskillen Regiment, to be Captain. The Life Guards are to have a pistol served out to them, and the cuirass taken away, as at present the carbine is useless, the men not being able to put the butt-end with any degree of firmness against the polished cuirass. Moreover, the cuirass so hampers the freedom of the arms that a sword-arm is almost useless. The colonelcies of two regiments are now vacant—that of the 21st Foot, by the death of General Sir Frederick Adam : and that of the lud Foot, by the death of General Lord Saltoun. The annual return of unclaimed army prize money, from 18th January, 1809, to the 31st December last is given in a parliamentary paper just printed. The debit side shows 1,412,0691. 2s. 5d., of which 1.139,050/. arose from forfeited and unclaimed shares of prize money, grants, &c. On the credit side, 723,3791. 15s. Oid. had been refunded to claimants ; 30,000/. had been paid towards the Royal Mi litary Asylum. The balance is stated at 931. 3s. 114 d Although the balance is as stated, yet there is in the Three per Cent. Consols 97,891/. 13s. 2d. stock. The existence of this amount arises from the investments in the stock having been made when the funds were very low, and from the sales thereout, as occasion required, having been from time to time effected when the prices were consi derably higher. Abe gabg. . . The Admiralty tour of inspection mind the various ports and dockyards commenced in Tuewlay, when their lordships visited Deptford. The party 7.onsisted of Sir James Graham, First Lord: Rear. Admiral Dundas, and Captain Alexander 'Milne, Lords of the Admiralty; Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Sirveyor of the Navy ; Lientenant-Colonel Greene, Director A Engineering and Architectural Works : and Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, R.N., Second Secretary at the Admiralty. Among other departments the visitors minutely examinee the new bis cuit-baking works, where steam machinery. aided by three or fonr hatids, can knead, roll. stamp, and hike 16,500 lbs. of biscuit per day. or in case of an emergency, and working day and eight, might make 40,0 )0 within the twenty four hours. On Thursday their lord sdips visited Woolwich Dockyard. THE PRESS. More stringent regulations in passing young officers for the navy are now in force at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. Midshipmen, or masters' assistants, on being examined for the rank of lieutenant or master, it' turned back at their first trial, will lose three months' time ; f o r the second rejection. six mouths; for the third. nine mouths ; and if at the fourth trial they are again mimic cestiful, they walla) dismissed from the service with dis grace. The Virago, tl, steam-sloop. ('ommeuuler Prevost, in one of her discovery trips along the coast of Yancouver'a Island, met with an accident by touching on an unknown reef', and sustained some damage. which it was believed, how ever, could be repaired on the station. It would appear that no blame was attributable to the Akers, for the loca lity had not been surveyed, and the reef was nut therefore in the chart. The large Channel fleet, which is now separated into divisions, each ordered on detached cruising service, will, it is said, form a junction in the course of the next mouth, and will all rendezvous at Queenstown, about the 17th or ISth of September, to meet the Board of Admiralty on their tour of inspection. The royal squadron appointed to attend on her Majesty in the royal visit to Dublin, consisting of ricioria cad :Merl, Captain Crispin, leaving the broad pendant of Commodore of the first class Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence; Encounter, 14, screw, Captain George W. D. ('Callaghan ; Tribune, 31, screw, Captain the Hon. 14. 'l'. Carnegie: Rorroconta, 11, paddle, Commander G. Parker ; Banshee, '2, paddle. Channel despatch veasel, Lieut. Commander J. Hosken ; lilac* Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master Commander J. E. Pettey; and Fairy, tender, Master Commander I). N. Welch, left Cowes on Sunday evening for Holyhead, to be in attendance on the Queen on her Majesty's arrival at that place, en route for Ireland. The reriblr, 21, Captain ('Callaghan, is also ordered to join the royal escort at Holyhead. Commander Pitman, who was dismissed the service by sentence of court-martial, at Devonport, in August, 11451, has been reinstated, by royal command, to the rank he formerly held. By the decease of Sir George Cockburn the office o f major-general of marines will be abolished. and the amount of salary will be appropriated to the retirement of flag• officers on service-pensions of 1501. per annum, the salary being 91401. per annum. There will be no less than six promotions of captains to the active flag list, which will include Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence, Captains the Hon. M. Stopfonl, and H. D. Childs, C.B. Commo dore Lambert, Captain A. 'F. E. Vidal, Captain Hope ; and the following to the reserved half-pay list :—Captains Percy Grace, H. Dundas, the Earl of Hanlwieke, J. Leith, and Lord Colchester. Upon these promotions taking place, four captains' good-service pensions and two appoint ments of A.D.C. to the Queen, together with the appoint ments of the eommand of the Royal Yaeht Squadron, flag captain, and captain superintendent at Sheerness, the se cond in ennemand in India, and the command of the Excellent and superintendentship of the Royal Naval College, will be relinquished, and fall to the patronage of Sir James Graham. Promotions of the usual proportion of commanders to the rank of captains, lieutenants to the rank of commander, itc., will also follow. NAVAL OBITUARY. Captain Joie: .1. /tallow (1851), on the Wired list of 1840, died on the 19th Mat., at Plymouth, in his Sixty-sixth year. He was midshipman of the Kent in the expedition to Egypt ; lieutenant of the Aisne, at the qtipture of the French West Indiamen, and senior of that ship at the cap ture of the French frigate Topnze, under the batteries of Guadalorme; and at the taking of the Saifites. in 1809 ; and in 1813 and 1811 was actively employed in the Scheldt, particularly in an attack on five French brigs, under Fort Life, with the boats of Amon and Amphion. Ile NAM made a commander for that service, but remained at that grade for thirty-seven years, when he was placed on the retired list of captains. Commander the Hon. A. R. Trallors ), on the reserved half-pay list, died on the `2llth inst., in the sixty sixth year of his age. He was second son of the second Earl of Winterton; entered the navy in 1799, and served seventeen years afloat, all during the war. He was in the Comae, with Sir Janie!. Saumarez, in his Algesiraa actions. Commander 3,04 Es ftlowAnn Tea as 1) 4 )21 died at Hasler Hospital, on the '2oth inst., aged fifty-eight. He entered the navy in 1811. was made a lieutenant in lre2rr, and for eight years commanded the Falmouth packet Ranger. His last service was in command of the Merlin steam.packet, in the Mediterranean. Retired Commander ( . 11 Itt.CS ROYER died in London on the 21th instant, aged 77. Ile was a midshipman of his Majesty's ship Swiftsure, 71. under Nelson, at the Nile, and served ashore with the army in Egypt, on the Bth, 12th, and 21st of March, I m1)1 ; was mate of the Chameleon. sloop. and served in her boats at the rapture of several armed feluccas, near Tarragona. in 18111 ; was lieutenant of the ,4mboneade, 44, in the Adriatic, and wounded in Athi in cutting out a vessel front under the hatterioi of Tremiti ; was second lieutenant of the .4strcea, in net' with the French squadron off Madagascar, in 1811 ; and late harbourmaster at Port Louis, Mauritius. APPOINTMF.NT 4 AND PRoMOTIONs. rlPTAlN4—Captliin Henn . Hyatt' Martin. C.ll. (1527), is pro moted to be a commodore of the Kecond elass, and appointed 1.10 hoist WS broad pendant on hoard the Mike of Wellington. 131, screw steamer. as a mark of her Majeaty's approbation of the part R4l ably perfortned by the cmillant °Meer at the recent review of the fleet in the presence of her )4 eteaty Captain Hon. Frede rick T. Pelham (154(t), to command the Blenheim, fin, screw steam guard-ship of 4rtn horse.power, at. Portawhoonth, in the room of Captain William H. liendemon, Cll., tn has resigned the cum 'nand of that ship. Comm V.KI , ER — H. N. Hillyar (1 5 53). late of the Sphrt.s, steam sloop. to the Agamemnon. 91. screw. Spithead, vice Horton. LTECTFNANTR — J. W. Armatmng (1 5 54 to the Dttke of Wel /ington; H. W. Corneck to the Edinburgh, 5.4, anew gunnery ship. MASTER—H. *AUXINS& lU the Ntromboli, 14011111.11100 p. PAYMASTER—W. F. Lep age. to the Ntnesboh. CLERIC IN CH/AWE—H. F. Budgie, to the belphim. Cu:Rice—Arthur 111. Dueller, to the l'iefory: J. P. Sargon acttag, to the Anse. In the VW` of the •• foreign correspondents" of the French papers. the Claud of Appeal of Rouen has decided that the Govt. lit has a tight to open letters at the postoffiee, and to convict criminally on the contents of them. 'MIr is still, it appears. another appeal possible. iutd the defendants intend to avail th e m se lv es of it. M witch, the thirsty capital of Bavaria, is menaced with a drought of beer. The daily mm*1'1110(11% of man liquor in that city is set down at '2,000 laurels, and it appears that the total stock in the forewent cellars did not exceed 145,P.100 barrels On the 10th instant: KO that, unless brewers set to work manfully More the wonted time, only six barrels of beer will be forthcoming on the Ist of October Our old friend the sea-serpent has been seen off M`Nab Island, but it was only twenty feet long. riche Earl of Ellesmere arrived at Halifax on the ;Ird instant The 3lonib'ur publishes a list of all the mediae awarded for meta of humanity and courage during the first aix mouths of ISM. The number of gold medals is only two, but that of the silver medals amounts to 416, via., thirty first-class and :186 reeotal-class. There is also a bronze medal. awarded to a w ttttt an for her zeal in restoring ace , tam drowned persons to life. Lola Moues has married again in Ameriea. The new adventurer is Mr. Hall, late editor of the San Francisco Herald. A very considerable fall has taken place On the Continent in the price of grain, in consequence of the re• as.ti tttt in the larger corn markets of Europe, a proof, it is said, that prices had been artificially forced up. A bright comet has for some evenings past been visible a little above the N.W. horizon at dusk. (hi Saturday, at nine o'clock, the nucleus was brighter than the well. known star ('or Carob, which is of the second magnitude; a short tail could be distinguished with the naked eye, but was waved to a much greater distance with au ordinary night glass. The comet is at present on the borders of -, Leo and Ursa Major. The tail streams off directly from the head, without any appearance of divisiot., and the comet is altogether a very pretty object when viewed with a low magnifying power. Professor Stillman, the eminent geologist, discredits the opinion advaneeel by some that the gradual wearing away of the rocks of Niagara Falls may pessibly result in draining Lake Erie. In a recent lecture he remarked :—" They will nut halt at their present station, but retreat slowly and surely ahead two mike+ further, when they will stop again for an unknown period, and probably for ever, since at this place the hail limestone will form both tetrar and top of the falls, and thus stop the destruction of the rock. Some have thought that t hey would finally reach Lake Erie, and that then the lake would be completely drained. Such an event is impossible. At the point already mentioned the torrent will gradually wear away the surface of the limestone, form ing a rapid, and thenceforth Niagara will be one of the lost wonders of the world." The application of electric gas as a motive power hes been discovered to possess extraordinary advantages: • machine appended to a steam-engine will generate gas sufficient to supply as much power as the ordinary furnace& The London and North-Western and the South-Eastern Railway Cotnpanies have, it is stated, already entered into contracts with the Electric Gus Company fur the use of their lovomotives. , It is reported that the French Government, to show its friendly feeling towards Turkey, is tatout to permit the erection of a mosque in l'aris, and to assign a apecial buriabground for the interment of Alussulmans. The Prievincial Meta of Saxony, Prussia, and Wei 4 phalli' are convoked for the end of September. Sir Frederirk Thesiger, it is understood, is going to give tie public " a full, true, and particular amount ' • the great Smyth fraud. It is stated that a vein of rich auriferous ore has bees discovered, at five fathoms depth. in Wake. A large number' of navvies are wanted for the Manches ter and Southport Railway; and the " want" (an unusual one of these useful 'individuals) induces the contractor to offi.r " liberal wages." The. Prince elf Echmlihl, Puke of Atterstsult, only sou of the celebrated Marshal Itavoust, has just died in his forty third year, after a painful illness, against which he waggled for six yearn. He served in the short expedi tion to Belgium in IS:II, and timed as an 'Aver of the staff, under Mantled Gers44,, at the siege of Antwerp in tic Is:e.t. He ' wits Mlttelelllielltl3l !ended will the order of il Leopold, 'M appointed too din g t Regiment of Lancers. The mineher of nunneries flyspain is 1403, and the num• ber of nuns in them 20,61:1. ,• 1 A public banquet is to be wen to General Sir Joseph Thiwkwell by the mayor,.tuunicipal authorities, and citi zens of tiloucester. Th., niyitation has been accepted by Sir Joseph, and the festivity ? will take place about the end of the month. From returns of Scotch agricultural atatiaties it appears that in the county of Haddington the steam and water power of engine* applied to agricultural purposes is equal to hiss host's. There are in use PIO steam•enginea, 81 water-wheels, and 107 horse machines. The Giornale di Catania announces that the great mole, or breakwater, of the port of Catania, u gigantic under- taking which has been in hand several years, is an the eve , of completion, only one coffer-dam more remaining to ba. sunk for the purpose.