The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

Ocropn 22, 1853. Tist Foot —Ensign the lion. Ralph Ilarbord to he Lieitteinuit, by purchase, vice liiennerbasectt, who retires; Wyattllisuu Neave, tient., to be Ellhigll. by purchase, vice Ilse...rd. 33rd Foot--Aitaistant-Surgeoullium Sinelair, from the Stun', t West India o lin Assista R nt-Surgeon, vice O'Neill. alio resiwis. 2oid egiment—Ensign William Davis to be Lieu tenant. by purchase, vice Hunt, who retires ; Edward Vaughan Arbuckle, tient., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Davis. 3nl West India Regiment —James Watson, tient., to be En sign, a We n t purchaae, vier Taylor, pnlinoted. MEnottANDust.—The removal of tleorge Henry Pocklingtou from the loth to the b3nl ;Regburnt of Foot, on the fith of May, liar been cancelled. C SInNED I,oittb.l3EurENkm-rs. Comity Palatine et . LeileMeter—EllWeni Teetitl, Es.l., to 1.,• puty•ldeuteuaut ; Thomas Hudson Itatemtui. EA., to be I ',piny. I .ieutenatiL County of bildillesei—eth or Royal South Middlesex Regiment 4.fMilitia—k:usilltt tieorge Barrington tillabolli 61 be i. ; 11.ry Alexander Serlveu, (lent, to he Ensign; Simon !feudal), tient.. to be Eniggn. sth or Royal Eltlionw Light infantry Regiment of Mi d dlesex Militia—Jelin Akin Dyer, tube Lieutenant; Edward John Miller, lieut., to be Ensign. t'ounty of lbws—titith Regiment of North British sepli tioorge Esq., to be lieutenant. County of Betltord—lioLlfordshiro 14111tia—k:usigu George Ledger to be. Lieutemuit, vier Barium!, rehligued. fte gal Commander Edward Augustus bigletielsl (18141, in command of the Phirsaix, serew stesunsloisis, has been pro moted to the rank of captain, tier sera ices prrfoilliell in et oll• ing attires fur the relief of Sir Edward Beleher's exist , dition, and for previous elettiolls. at his own Cilielitte. in the Liatieloierew-iiteamer, up Smiths Sound to the open water of the Polar basin. Mr. Henry Chatfield, **natant of %Voolsich, has been prontisted to he 'nester shipwright of I teptford Dockyard, vice Willeox, supera tttttt sited. Hear-Admiral Price, the new eommander-in-elsief for the Piteitie, is in town to receive his tinal instructions pre• vientsly to rehoisting his tlag in the Pre.,idesii, NI, at Devon port, and sailing for his station, to relieve Itear•Admiral Moresby, CIL DEATH oF LIErtENANt IRV I , ItOwNINI:. Intelligence has been received at Woolwich of the sleittli of this voting officer, whilst ernising in his pleasure-yaelit in the Australian rivers, a sudden *mall of wind catching the sails and upsetting the boat, the whole of the I is on Island perishing. The bodies were sissittly tiller% all , picked up. and buried with military honours. CACTAIN: ALE x OF:It 1..1.1.1cE, milillitts tiler of the eonst guard, died suddenly on Saturday week from apoplexy. at tits• seat of his brother, the Hight lion. E. Ellice, ALI._ tilenquoich, N.II. The deceased officer entered the nary in 18041; and, as midshipman in the Tartar, 31, was pre sent, May lb, DON, in a severe aeti tttt of one hour and a half with a Danish flotilla near Bergen. In dime. 1809. he was transferred to the Victory. ItMI , g sg . s hip. i n I N. Baltic, of Sir James Ssuntars.r. From 1811 until 1813 h e was employed in the Mssliterrattean, in the /olio:tiros,. 38: and sitarist August 17, 1811, in a spirited skirmish with a powerful Neapolitan squadron in the Bay of Naples. H e wa s promoted to the rank of lieutenant Oet. 811, 1813. and joined the t'alrelunits, 1111, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth. He served in various other ships during the next ten years, among others the ilindess, in which he Was • present at the battle of Algiers. As eontutaitilor (a rank lie attained Feb. IR, 123) Captain Ellice was stationed for some months in 1831 off Oporto. in the Meter, 18 Attaining post rank on Dee. 20 in that year, lie was ap pointed successively to the °ream, Howe, and A.lrira, and afterwards to the packet service at Southampton. on Dee. 2, 1)4411, he succeeded Sir William I.:dwaril Parry in the comptrollership of steam machinery lie married. Sept. 1 8 , 1816, Lucy Frances, daughter of the bite Charles Locke, Esq., and grand-daughter of the late Duchess of Leinster. APPoINTMENTS.—Captain the lion. Joseph Denman, F.lt.S., to the command of the riehoria am? Albert, with Captain William Crispin as the seennd. Captain Denman is the second son of Lon' Denman.—Camain Stephen Fremantle to the ,linen, 20, at Chadian). lie will proceed in her to relieve Captain Sir Everard d. Home, Bart.. at New Zealand and Australis.—Captain William Peel ( sip ). son of the late Sir Robert Peel, has been appointed to commission the new 25irun corvette at Slwerness.—hear• Admiral Sir Edmund I.yonft. Bart., 0.C.8.. K.C.11., pro. ceisls to the Mediterranean its second in command t o Vice• Admiral Deans I►undas. Rear• Admiral bell. 1'.11.. died on the 111th 4144., at his residence at Aighurth. This gallant officer was on the retired 1W of IMIII. He served ►sixteen years afloat during the war, with great gallantry. Captain Ilenr• E. Napier (' POO). F.R.S., on the retired list of INIII, died on the 13th inst.. aged 04. He was youngest brother of the late distinguished general. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS. Connnander—John G. Pitman (1842), to study steam at the Metory st Woolwich Dockyard. I.tetitensntii--Nelson G. Spencer (147), to the Hogue. (O, screw dram-ship, at Portsmouth; William Graham (1e49), to study steam at the fartory at Woolwich Dockyard. Master--Peter Wellington recommission' the Tyne, More -04. at Woolwich. Bernd Masters—W. H. Searle, to the Fiugard, flag-ship, Wool wieh ; James Milton (la4s), to the Apollo, troop-ship, at Chat lon. Master's Assistant—W. 11. Hussey, to the President, SO, at nev"apfirt. Midshipmen—Thomas A•le 11hal, to the Duke of Ife/lington, 1:0, screw ritestmship, at Portsmostli. t inet Engineers—W. Anderson, to the Bulldog, steam-ship, at P.irtsmoutli; Allan M. Jones, to the vpitsfal, 6, .team-sloop. at Devonrrt; James Brown, t o the Erraoles. to, screw steam-ship, of 4oti- loess power, fitting with her engines by John Prim end Son. at Chatham. Engineer—Emanuel Piper, to the Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, at Portsmouth. Matt wain—licalpvil Drumv, to We linunttof. THE PRESS. !titre. to th, A..tiug 011 ml-ship, al. Pe%ouport. earrentera—.l. R. Foreman, to the /).sostless ; George Ilowe eating, to the lirein, 1. , stedul , •lo.l l ; Win. Mogson, to the Toysble glisullann. Westminster-bridge shows fresh symptoms of apiltslach ing decay. For some years past three or its 'whet have been closed to the river navigation,. and now it fourth pre rents an ominous g m., and is tabooed as dangerous to passers tinder. The Itsllal circulation trallio over the bridge has not as yet been considered datigerona. Au expedition started &bun felt th ill dime last to teat the mining capabilities of the southern coast 4 .1' in eouawpmrnrc Of a grant having been made by the King or lfrunitirk to a Mr. Lund,. The Ih.lphon yacht. of 'lli wt' tilted ,alt for the purpose, mid has now re turned, having .41. loard upwards of 16 tons of 1.111/IIST Ml', `4ill to average more than ~if !wt• cent. of pure uti•tal, and a great Villit.ty elf specimens of silver and real urns. Thu report of the adventurers is stated to Is' very satisfactory regarding the metalliferous character of the entire country included in the grant. The quantity or opium imported into England in the month ended the ritil ult. was 1i1,53•:11.5.. against •:3.01/Il6s. ill the *One 1111 1 11111 in the revelling year. A LARUE lit.As% Itru.nrvu uM the M irth side of the Vie' lace iu Keusitigusiegardens, fiornierlv used as a greenhouse. is now completely tilled with artieles pineliamed by the Government at the limit Eshibition of ISAI ill ll~dr park. comprising a vast collection of ores And other natural pike duct ions or ai t every country on the face or the g1..1w, many of which are of great interest and value. This build ing has Is temponwily used for the ion-pose Instil bir gements are made ter their depts4it ill a place Suited to thole reeepti 0000 . A new style of railway, substituting water for titmospbe. rie pressure. hits 64'11 Ibritp , PO'll ill 1:1111lee, with a view to economical working and security from accident. The t a.. lusting 110%tier in to be oblitillea by means of continuous water power between the rails by artitieial pressure. The water power is worked by peculiar meella 11l i l •al arrling.•• mein, end it is proposed to place the apparatus at ( fi s tsta4.l of 300 r....t along the line. The Soeiety for the Eneouragentent of rat' I Industry in Eranee have 'Wiz.' of I I tttt fur Ihi . tine "fill the ev ils attending the universid csuisultipti.ut o f the 'Hondo as all ',Miele of roo4l. - 7'ri,,ter /,rilitsig status the lwr of vessels that have entered the 'maul, 4if the 51111119 15um the 3lst of August to the 11th of Septeinlier to he IN, and :II to have cleared out. At the last sounding there were tli fret of water. The Meant-dredges had worked on the 3lsl of Au gust and the tlnd of September, atitl hail removed only seven barges full of mud. A thiek or fine ewes, all in lands. and amounting to nearly 940, were closely folded one night list week upon u piece of mud Imatwheat id New Barn farm. iii the parish of Ca thl the shepherd paying a visit to his flock next morning, 1114 of them were already dead from the effects of gross feeding: the animals getting blown, they were soon choked and turned over on their b ut .k. 4 , without the remotest hope of saving them. The lovers of the pretermitural in Berlin have lately been much interested in a machine invented by a musician of the name of Wagner, which is said to bring the phenomena of the turning-tables to such perfeetion that the instrument, under the imposition of hands. spells answers to questions by pointing to the letters of an al• phabrt on the table. or even writing its answers or its own observations, de., with a pencil. Most of the niernbere of the corps diplomatique, sonic of the 1 1l l sisters, and m an y of the nubility, either possess these instruments or have been present at the experiments. and iu a few days one is, it is said, to he shown to his Majesty. The Sixpenny Savings Hank recently established in New York is already doing a thrii lug business. The total deposits up to the present time amount to nearly '20,111141 dollars, and are rapidly increasing. Interest at the rate of ti per cent. is Ahmed of 01 aecumulathae, under SIR, 41..1 lam and 5 per vent. upon all above that snug. I 41e of the first depositors; in the Sixpenny Hunk was on urchin with• out shoes or stockings. Ilk first deposit was S vetati4, and before the end of the week it reached '2l cents. AnglwErctielt company ftpplied lat e ly to the I inv e rt'. meta for a coneession of the transatlantic packets, the port from which they would start being Dieppe. The .foscsal fin !lucre states that the application has been fa ' vonrahly received, and it even appears certain Iliad the company in question has Leen antloaisell to intrisinee, free of all duties, a certain numher of fiqpign•built stentnery4 I esuemateufur Irtueoleettnie tutviuntiim. Plal Cad at anb City FlapAy En.NiNo. Tin funds have continued very depressed during the week, notwithstanding the continued purchases on the part o f the public. Stock continues scarce, and, as a matter of course, the Bank of England, bankers, and capitalists lend their stock to the jobbers, for which they receive a premium, and lend on call at 4 per cent., or discount bills at 5. The effect of the purchaites on the part of the public are neutralised by these operations, and therefore speculative sales have the effect of depressing the market ; added to which we have no dottbt. the Lank have Ineu selling Excheluvr Lills 597 ou (immanent recount, and thereby gradually pre paring Am& for the payment of the South Sea dis sentients in January next. Money is very abundant in the Stock Exchange, there bein►t scarcely any demand for it, and out of doors it 1. decidedly more plentiful. We can vons'h for large ipuintities of bills having been discounted Ili Ai per veld.; the bankers are full of money, and the discount houses in lAanbaril street have paid .btr large sums lett on eall, not being able to employ them. Nevertheless high rates are being charged on corn a n d Australian paper. ►a u l ois evident that the m al l ow( Caution is being exervised in the moneyed world, and we believe them never was a 'saunter state of affairs. 'llie state of the weather, and the apprehensions a a sc arcity of food, which is grelltl) ItgintlN Steil by the iineertainty as to 'wave lwing maintained, keep the market that. added to which the clielltilige.S re main unlavtatrahle ; long as gold is exported on balmier the Money Market will continue in g feverish and tinsatistaetory state. We cannot too often, and to o se ri ous ly, itupre►la Ott the tioveniment and the mercantile w o rt,' h o w ne cessary it is to alter the provisions of the Batik Charter Act, which is a fur weather act, unit cannot work in times of difficulty. flitetitations in the funds have been ver y i n . eonsitlerable during the week. The highest price of eons , Is hits been 111 1, mid the l o w es t lift F A chequer Bills continue at 4s. to Ms, premium. Very genenil despondency exists as regents tho various gold companies once so lunch iu favour with the public; and great eomplaints aro made of the paucity of information afforded to the shareliohleis not only as regards their lirottperts, hut as to the actual position of their accounts. It is touch to be regretted that the shareholder+ 111/ not take more active measures for the protection 14 their own in terests. and that the laws regulating are sti miserably defective in their work ing that shareholders have but little power us against the slireetorit. Coming events will fore,. this *abject 1111 the attention of the Legislature during the next FoIll.:14;N FUNDS. The transactions in hireian funds are very limited, and will continue so until the question of peace or %lir is decided. Is would be utterly impossible, its the present Iltate of t h e Money Market, for any foreign power to raigtl it loan ; and therefore we give no ,reele•uee to rumours of loutim fo•r Austria and lttess,ia. We understand the latter "sovier is trying the eontinental markets, but, for the sake of the 'settee of the world, we hope with out sueeess. It is very probable that the next packet from Mexico will bring In ws of importance for the bond holders. 'Alexieo is in that position that, fortunately for the bondholders, she will be compelled to Lek honeht ; and we should not he surprised to hear that. a national bank will be establislad, which ',mild farm the revenues and guarantee the bondholders their dividend. RAILWAYS. The public continue to purchase railway Aorta, of which a ;treat Keareity still exists ; but the ume depreto.itip inEttoseell which ketp the funds flat su also en tbe share amulet. The Hattie• confine. .4 Immt goatihfeetory, eonbider ing the cheek mule ham rerviNed from Bo tunny cattmes. The for the w, rk have been com paratively trilling. French railway I' bomb are bravY• PRICES CURRENT. JUTISH PUIDS.— 111,0#1 Moss. QUO'rATI O I 4 . Nand. Ned. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for A evo mitt 3 per 'eta 14 per relit* Long A 'amities' Rook Swek, 7 per CePt India 14t4.4,104 per CSC F.%1 Is. 11111.. kJ. per Mole lush& Bonds, (LOW) 11l ' •1 i til ti2 l t 1 21M to, 21 1/1 poi ; I t. :111 VI7 I 2404 7 1.1 111 01l 94 94$ 4 5-11: del E. 1 311 !Iti 01 4 M p d 4 pi I 7 9 par 4 91) 011 9: 91 MO 1 1 iM WI WV 11$ 115 II 4 p - - - • BANE OF !NOLAND. An Aeenunt, 'termini 10 the Aet 7tll Heel itll Vienett, I sp. 32, fur the week eliding ob haturslo), the llh Jr) Ili t., 1.111.4141 ME I. Notes Issued U5,679,67b llnvenmleut 1004 . A 11,015, 1 00 I other V. 9044.9011 lioid Coln d Itullluu 11.117v,1 4 15 Silver Maim& i 4,1 9, ,, ~ „ 2 - ''' I 1:40,6:20176 RANKIN.* UNPANTNIIINT. PrOpTirtOlN . Capital 411,660.000 lioverianireit Secti• Re.it Public Drim,ritis* 6.700,14:4 Dead Wright AO.) £12,4663•1 Other In•pn.na I:Wynn I/ay h utlivr Notes DIU* X3 7 1.1m 1,339 • 111.1.1.1thg liastrimps' lista+, C. NALivial lit kW Liridcud Ae‘vtusts. I