The Press. — London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

Jtri4'2s, 1843. , Devon Artillery--G . Sinslq Buck to be Lieutenant-Co lone/ Commandant; John LEtin to be Adjutant. Eastern Regiment--George Hetul Woods to be Lieutenant, via Lord Kinsale, promoted; tieorge Lane Dade to be Lieute nant, vice Cornish, retired ; John Tanner Davy to be EPsign, vice Dacia, promoted. North Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry--Charies Richard Jones to be Assistant-Surgeon. vice Coudray. resigned. Northamptonshire Regilll6lll,--iiOMO Devas, Gent., to be En- s Oxfordshire Regiment—Edward Campbell Stuart Cole to be ' Lieutenant, vice Preedy, deceased. Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—The Right lion. Henry Howard Molyneux. Earl of Carnarvon; to be Captain ' • Henry Scrap Scrape Shrapnel. Esq., late 3d Dragoon Guards , to be Captain; William Kingsmill, Gent., to be Lieutenant. 3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of Middle. sea—Robert Bruce billwen, Gent., to be Ensign. 2d or North Durham Regiment—John Salmon, Gent., to be Lieutenant. Royal Westmorland Light Infantry Corps Captain Joseph Spencer, from the Royal Cumberland, to be Captain ; Ensign Robert Wilson, jun.. to be Lieutenant. gkt Sabg• Two new candidates for the Pacific command have sprung up in the persons of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Lyons and Sir John Sinclair, Bart. • but now that Sir James Stirling has been again defeat4;ll at Chatham, of that he had the floveniment influence " in his favour, it is probable that he will condescend to accept the Pacific command in chief. The fleet at Spithead is to be kept in efficient sea-going order, and to be ready to sail on te leg raphic notice. The ships are ordered to victual for four months. THE SCREW FLEET.—Another line•of-hattle ship has now been added to the screw fleet at Spithead by the arrival of the Agamenuum. The screw fleet now includes the Duke of lireUingion, 131 ; Agamemnon, 91 ; Hogue, ss; Ajar, Blenheim, 58 ; Edinburgh, 58. The magnificent screw-ship St Jam i Alve, the firxt two decker on record that has been classed a first.rate, is pro gressing rapidly in her equipment. PROMOTIONS AM/ APPOINTMENTS. CLERK-4leorge A. Welch (1848), to the Terrible, stem-frigate, at Woolwich. NAVAL CADET—R. 1). R. Farquharson, to the Agamemnon, 91 screw steamship, at Portsmouth. CHAPLAIN—The Rev. S. K. Stothert, to the Hogue, 68, screw, at Spithead, vice Bailey, whose appointment has been cancelled. SURGEON—J. H. Patterson, to the re/swim, 6, steam-sloop. Gunner May, Boatswain Bideford, and Carpenter Jarvis, for merly in the Firebrand, have taken up their conunisaons at Portsmouth, on being appointed to the Terrible. Mr. William Donald has been appointed, from Jamaica, to be third•class clerk in Chatham boatyard. Commander Wilson and the officers of the Heck eteam-aloop have been appointed to the Vesuvius, deem-sloop, at Portantouth. Obitsarg. MR. MAUR/CE O'COMOtiq the oldest non of the once potent Irish" agitator," expired at his residence in Half Moon-street, on last Saturday morning. The hon. gentleman had been at the House of Commons up to the hour of its rising on Friday morning, and during the day complained of illness, hut, before medical aid arrived, sunk into a lethargic state, which terminated in death shortly after midnight. At the meeting of the first Reformed Parliament the O'Connell family had seven members in the House of Commons. Of these, the late Mr. Maurice O'Con nell was the most popular with his political adversaries. He never indulged in unseemly language, and never avoided any personal responsibility incurred by his public conduct. It was thought that he was opposed to the ultra-policy pursued by his family after 1E429, but he did not like to raise a political revolt against his father. He was no leveller in his political views, and had no desire to uproot the Protestant gentry of Ireland. He had seine literary talents, which he did not care to cultivate ; and the best of the Young Ireland ballads was from his pen. Mr. O'Connell had sat for the county of Clare during the session of ls3l, and in 1/432 was returned for Tralee, which borough he since represented, with the exception of a few months in 1938. His son, now the head of the house of O'Connell, is an officer in the Royal Navy, and has just returned from the West Indies on board the ill-fated Dauntless, having recovered from a severe attack of yellow fever at Barbadoes. His Excellency M. de Danish minister at the Court of St. James, died very suddenly on Satttr • day morning at the residence of the Danish legation, from disease of the heart. The deceased was much respected by the diplomatic corps. Madame de Me has suffered greatly from the shock, and re mains in a very precarious condition. His excellency attended the Queen's Drawing-room on Tuesday, and was out as usual on the day preceding his death. It is not a little remarkable that the late Danish minis ter at the Court of St. James's, Count Reventlow, died from a similar disease about two yearn since while on a tour in Scotland. THE venerable MARQUIS OF HUNTLY died on the I ith, at his town-house in Chapel street, aged 92. His lordship was Premier Martinis of Scotland, Knight of the Thistle, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Colonel of the Aderdeenshire Militia, and a Deputy- Lieutenant of the counties of Aberdeen and Forfar. He is succeeded in the family honours and estates by his eldest son, the Earl of Aboyne, now tenth Mar quis of liautly. THE PRESS. WILLIAM ECCLES, Esq., the late member for Black burn, died in Preston yesterday week. Tilt REV. JOHN MAYOR, 8.D., of Lincoln College, Oxfbrd, and son of the celebrated Dr. Mayor, author of the Spelling-book, and many other popular works, was found dead on Sunday afternoon in his cell on the debtors' side of Oxford county gaol. Deceased had been confined for debt for upwards of nine years, declined to receive the gaol allowance, and subsisted entirely on the bounty of his friends. He had for a long time laboured wider illness, but invariably refused to see the medical attendant at the gaol, and has occasionally refused to touch any food for two or three days together. Mr. Mayor formerly held a living in Essex worth :150/. per annum, but it was sequestered about ten years ago to pay his debts, and had he lived until October next it would have been cleared and restored to hint. SANDWICH ISLAND LETTERS to the 16th of April report that the King had nominated as his successor to the throne his son Liboins. The HEAD and ANTLERS of one of those colossal animals of remote antiquity, the laisn Eta, were recently found in a peat moss near Blackwatertown. The antlers, including a portion broken off, measure about nine feet from tip to tip. The molar teeth are entire and in good preservation. It is now in the possession of Mr. Barton, Dungannon. JENNY LIND is again reported on the verge of the theatrical horizon. The Dresden Echo says that Madame Goldschmidt is to take the heroine's part in her husband's opera, TOchterlein (Little Daughter). Upwards of a year since a certain great composer is said to have prophesied this event. He then ob served to a friend, " The Lind is sure to return to the stage, and from two opposite causes, love and revenge." " How so?" demanded the other. " Why," retorted the maestro, i" if she should be Ilimappointed in her husband, and not find the domestic happiness she anticipates, she will seek for consolation and re venge in public applause ; whereas, if she be happy, and continue to love her husband, who has a turn for composition, she will seek to satisfy her vanity and affection by urging him to write an opera, and she will appear in the first part, in order to ensure it success, be it good or bad." A SPANISH FLEET of eight vessels has appeared off Ancona, after an experimental cruise in the Mediter ranean. For the last century and a half no Spanish fleet had been seen in the Adriatic. THE BAND OF THE BEtiD G lENT OF Holum UARDA stationed at Knightsbridge Barracks have commenced their performances in Kensington °ardent' for the summer season. SANCLEN Of EAST INDIA TEA have been transmitted by the directors to Mr. Fleming, secretary to the Manchester Commercial Association. These tear are grown in the Company's territory in the neigh bourhood of the Himalaya mountains, and are of very superior quality. SECOND EDITION. SATURDA Y EVENING. LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE (From our own Correspondents.) The latest tidings seem favourable to a peaceable settle ment of the Oriental difficulties, whether arriving from Paris, Vienna, or Odessa. From the first capital we hear of the suspension of the voluntary enlistments fur the fleet; from Odessa the revocation of the authority given to Prince Menschikoff to open all despatches on their pas sage. Be will in future be obliged to await the instruc tions from St. Petersburg. Now, the distance being seven days' journey, this obliges the somewhat hasty diplomat , to undergo the delay of a fortnight between his des patches and his acts. A no less important syrnp• tom is the mission given to the Fall of Carlisle. Great uncertainty has prevailed as to t h e real object of the journey of his lordship. The Viennese Mord affirms that his voyage to Constantinople has no political bearing, and that the noble lord is travelling in his capacity of pre sident to the. London Society for the Protection of Des titute Foreigners. But according to more trustworthy statements it would appettr that Lord Carlisle is commis sioned by the English Government to deliberate with Baron de Brick on the means of arranging the expected, though as yet unodered, mediation in the Russoliurkish conflict. This is certainly one of the most significant symptoms of the maintenance of the world's peace. Letters from Malta confirm the report of a grand defeat of the Russians in the Caucasus. 20,00 Russians, under command of lie neral Wreffky, received orders to attack the capital of the Circassian chief Sehamyl, who sueceeded in alluring the enemy into an ambush, and captured twenty-three cannons. Five battalions of Poles and irre gular troops went over to the Cireassians. Count karnicky will return to Berne sometime between July 1 a nd %o , when all refugees of which Austria claims the expulsion will have left Tessin, if n u t Switzerland. The return of the Austrian Chargir d'Affaires will be the signal fur thu cussativir of Um Austrian blyckadv, which has beeh found to *ere the ttsyMlr of AVMS ht INA as the Swiss citizens. Aka* poem Issllities here been introduced into the commtmicationa between It* and Switzerland. Chevalier Burger, the new governor of Lombardy, Wogs to the moderate Liberal party, and his hominatien b on sidered as a proof that the administration Austrian Italy is to proceed upon more temperate principles. The dismissal of Count Striped& is sail is be • ptmithellint for his conduct in the last ostbeeak. The Hanoverian Diet rejected, onJane 11, the proposi tion Om readmitting the pommels of Equestrian estates into the First Chamber, from which they ware ezcluded in INS. The Government hare decimal this the most important of their propositions, and that its rejection left them no alternative but that of resipirig or submitting the question to the Germanic Diet. The result is the more remarkable as part of the Opposition voted with the tlovernsaent. The King of Bavaria returned on June SO to Mitnich ftom his voyage to Italy. Count tichintittelp.nninck, Dutch Ambassador at Berlin. has left for the Hague, where his daughter is to marry the Minister Van Hall. M. Lightenvelt, minister of the Catholic faith in Hol- land, left the Hague on Juno II tbr Rome upon a diplo matic mission. THI4 heist Aisemblee Ststesaufe announces that not only have the " good °Meets " of Austria with neglect to the ffeaMern question been offered, lint that " it has been already agreed to, at least implicitly, by the two contending parties, and has already produced some preliminary reenhs." With respect to the occupation by Russia of the principalidee, the same paper sajs " that is a question to be disclosed between Russia anti the Pude, the only contracting parties ;" and it odds, " It is nut likely that the Porte, though op• posing that oeretpition, will consider it a ease* belb. It will probably matte it the 'subject of a protest, which will become the foundation of new negotiations, which the good *word of the other powers will wntribute, no doubt, to bring to a happy termination." DANUMAN PItiIIetPALIVES.—A despatch of the gth trout Jassy states that two Bossism agents had arrived in that city and taken up their quarters in the house of the Russian Consul. The greatest excitement prevailed dimwitted the country. Thu British Consul had sent a special courier to ford Stratford de Redelide. SYRlA.—Letterm from Syria announce that the Porte has authorised the countivAion it a Roman Catholic church at Antioch. This measurecompietes the reparation accorded to France in consequence of the event« of Aleppo. SWITZEKLAND.—Fribtug was tranquil on the Nail . Nevertheless the eivlc grants were under arms and on duty throughout the muttons. Mvits.—The Queen ham appointed Senor Pastor, Minis• ter of Finanee ; Senor Morino, Minister of Agriculture ; and Senor Calderon de la Bares, Minister of Foreign At , fairs. Plalanky, Throe o'clork. The transaetlens in the funds hay., been extremely limited, but the market is decidedly less Ann. Consols close W 4. The railways may, generally *prating. he quotAxl about 11144. per share lower than yesterday Foreign funds a shade flatter. The IlnnlltM NoiereArteor took place yesterday, when Mr. Mowbray came forward as the Conservative, and Sir Charles Douglas ea deo Liberal, candidate. 'f he show of hands was adjudged to Sir C.Deuglas, and spoil demanded on behalf of his rival, which will be onmpleted tieday. The proceedings seemed to attract very little interest. At lenrreiroot. Mr. Roliernion Oladatone has declines, In be placed in nomination in oppnedtion to the Conservative candidates. llvettures have, it be said, also been mode, to Mr. Hugh Huntley, ono of the oldest and most substan tial mercheints in the port, who has likewise expressed his unwillingness to enter upon the eoutest. Tim following gentlemen having undergone the neces sary elbirnillfttiollll at the RnYAT. COLIAMOY. or Sumo:otos were admitted members of the college et last night's meet ing of the Court of lizarniners : 11. 0. Hturkey, leacharen, Tre- W. A. Kuser, lienainutoo. anon, Montgomeryshire. W. Orlmts, - I.lttle Eamon, Dun- Pendlobury, Rotten, Law mow, liesex. omhire. .1. Barker, Durham. If. D. Tuttlett, Venthor, Isle of ri. 11. Pratt. Montreal yf . Canada. I. Hiker, Haord Waren, Wißt►tlt. D. smart, Haleham, Cam- oxforeshire. brielejemleire. Mas. Celimiso, who, it will be remembered, was some months ago the subject of an expensive and=ted commission de lemodiro e n quirredo 'lied last y at her residence in St..lohn'oewond, *Om physical infirmities, consequent upon advanced age and the incessant anxieties to which she was subjected by time lunacy commission, and the further proceedings that were to have taken place, but for her death. it..lonx O'Comiteti. has left thiblin for Trake. He is not to stand es ft candidate for that borough, as was reported ; but gees to advocate the cause of his linsher, Mr. Daniel O'Connell. The prevailing impression in Traleu is that this gent/ennui will be elected. 9'ute IlEss Itift OP MR. MAERICR O'CONNIML, M.P., were in • terred on Thursday morning by the side of thore of his father, in Olsoinevin Cenvetairy. Tits ' , VDU"( Coeur or Cosmos PLEA% has been occu• pied (luring the week with the case of " Selina lievereua v. the London and Connty Insurance Company," which was AR onion flw the amount of a policy effeeted on the life of the mother of the plaintiff, Mrs. Hvangelique `)ere rout, of Cartioinnannos, county Wexford. The remark able feature in this case was that the ladydied en the night of the very duty WI which the flint payment waa made to the itisitranee company. 'fhe jury found for the full tusoUnt of t h e claim, 1,54/01., damps awl cysts.