The Press. — London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

OCTOBER 14, 1854. ettltsiastitai. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. F. A. Dawson, 8.A.; to the Rectory of Buscot, Berks. The Rev. Henry Ashington, M.A., to the Rectory of Braunce well, with the Rectories of Dunsby and Aluwick annexed, Lincolnshire. The Rev.. John Barrow, M.A., to the Rectory of Gatcombe, near Newport. Isle of Wight. The Rev. Win. Hey, M.A., to the Vicarage of St. Helen, Stone gate, York. The Rev. Richard Dawkins, ILA., to the Vicarage of Weston Zoyland, near Bridgwater. The Rev. Hamilton Lowry, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Peter and St. Paul. Aston, Warwickshire. The Rev. A. G. Moore, MA , to the Vicarage of Romsey Hampshire. The Rev. Lewis Wevman Wood, 8.A., to the Curacy of 13u1- kington, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The Rev. George Bradshaw, MA., to be Chaplain to the County Gaol, Southampton. The Rev. Constantine Bernard Yeoman, MA., to the Rectory of Marholme, near Peterburongh. The Rev. H. 8. Anders, M.A., to the Rectory of Kirkby-la- Thorpe, with Asgarby annexed. The Rev. W. Mason, 8.A., to the Curacy of Burgh, with Win thorpe, near Swishy, Lincolnshire. The Rev. Narcissus George Batt, M.A., to the Vicarages of Norton and Leneburch, near Evesham , V.orcestershire. The Rev. H. Salmon, 8.A., to the Curacy of Long Compton. The Rev. Philip Henry Percy to the Curacy of Deal. The Rev. Charles Erskine Mayo, 8.A., to the Assistant Ministry of St. Philip, Haggerstone, Shureditch. The Rev. G. Butterworth, 8.A., to the Ministry of the Chapel of Ease. Banbury, near Bristol. The Rev. R. G. Kingdon, 8,A., to the Curacy of Strensall with-Haxby, near York. The Rev. A. Keene, 8.A., to the Curacy of Manningham, Yorkshire. The Rev. R. Gibbinge, M.A., to the Incumbency of Radley, Berkshire. The Rev, W. Prince, M.A., to the Incumbency of Peshill, near Henley-on• Thames. The Rev. Henry Grattan White, 8.A., to the Curacy of Bul laugh, in the Isle of Man. The Rev. Win. Milner to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. George's, Hulme. The Rev. Corbett Metcalfe Moore, 8.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Andrew's, Ancoats. The Rev Wm. Augustus Cornwall, 8.A., to the Stipendiar Curacy of St. Paul's, Kernell-moor, The Rev. Edward Ridgeway to the Union of Mothel. The Rev. Henry Radford, M.A., to the Rectory of Broughton Maley, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire. The Rev. John Jackson, M.A., to the Curacy of Great Bowden, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. The Rev. Charles Langley Maltby, M.A., to the Rectory of Neetou Wold. near Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire. The Rev. W. F. Sanders, M.A., to the Vicarage of Watford, near I)aventry, Northamptonshire. The Rev. Samuel Nicholson Smith to the Incumbency of Thurstouland. near Huddersfield. The Rev. Blythe Hurst to the Incumbency of Collierley, near Latichester. The Rev. Morehouse Thompson, M.A, to the Incumbency of Lucker. VACANCIES. The Rectory of Yediughatu. near Melton, Yorkshire; worth 2501. a year ; in the gift of Earl Fitzwilliam. The Curacy of Marton, near Southern, Warwickshire ; in the gift of the Rev. Randolph ftkipwith, S.C.L. The Chaplaincy of the Plympton St. Mary Union, Devonshire; in the gift of the Board of Guardians. The Rectory of Harford, near Ivybridge, Devonshire; worth 2501. a year; in the gift of Mr. T. Sanders. The Incumbency of Slaley, near Hexham; worth ICOI. a year; in the gift of Mr. W. B. Beaumont. The Vice-Principalship of St. Mark's College, Chelsea, at Christmas : worth 2001. a year, with rooms and commons. The Curacy of Temple parish, Bristol; worth 1001. a year. The Professorship of Divinity at Bishop's College, Lennox- Ville. Canada East, diocese of Quebec; in the gift of the Rev. Dr. Jacobson, Professor of Divinity of Oxford, and the Rev. Prebendary Pinder, Principal of Wells Theological College. ttt I,rmg. WAR•OFFICE, OcroBKR 13. - - . 15th Light Dragoons—Brevet Lieut.• Colonel Oswald Samuel Illachford to be Major; Lieutenant Thomas R. Crawley to be Captain ; Cornet Charles Steel to be Lieu tenant. 16th Light Dragoons—Lieut. John Edmonds Severne to be Captain ; Cornet James Stewart to be Lieutenant. sth Regiment of Foot—Lieut. James Wallace Dunlop Adair to be Adjutant 6th Foot—Arthur Angelo, Gent., to be Ensign. 15th Foot—Frederick Southampton L'Estrsaige Fitzroy, Gent., to be Ensign. 23rd Foot— Ensign Reginald Hugh Somerville to be Ensign. 26th Foot—George Hogarth, Gent., to be Ensign. 43rd Foot—Lieutenant Henry Trafford Trafford to be Lieutenant. 45th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Smyth to be Captain ; Ensign Edwards Gambier Eliot Atherley to be Lieutenant ; William John Saul, Gent., to be Ensign. 50th Foot—Ensign John Woods Dimond to be Lieu tknan' : Reginald Hugh Somerville, Gent., to be Ensign. bls.. Foot—Lieutenant Henry basil Houson to be Lieu tenant. 55th Foot—George Bell Coulson, Gent., to be Ensign. 77th Foot —John Fenton Barlow Fretoman Dodd, Gent. to be Ensign. 79th Foot —William Barclay Gordon Cleather, Gent., to be Ensign. 80th Foot—William Beaver Blayney Christie, Gent, to be Ensign. 81st Foot—Ensign James Alexander Deans to be Lien tenant. 88th Foot—John Evans, Gent., to be Ensign. 89th Foot--Henry Lewis Harvest, Gent., to be Ensign. 90th Foot—Ensign the Hon. J. Francis Pennington to be Lieutenant. Obth Foot--John Nooth Crealock, Gent., to be Ensign. 97th Foot—Ensign George Berthon Preston to be Lieu tenant; Robert Kyle Little, Gent., to be Ensign. THE PRESS. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Thomas George Hervey, Gent., to be Ensign. HOSPITAL STAFF.—John Vernon Beddall, M.D., Edward Parks Gamble, M.D., George Carleton Cleary, Gent., John Henry Hearn, Gent., Douglas Arthur Reid, M.D.,Edmund Sidney Wagon, M.D., and Harvey Ludlow, Gent., to be Acting Assistant• Surgeons. BREVET.—M aj or Francis William Henry Lord I3urghersh to be Lieutenant• Colonel in the Army. tillt gabs. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS. APPOINTMENTS Commanders—Francis Marten and Joseph Millar I.augtry to study steam at the Naval College. Lieutenants—John Townsend to study steam at the Naval College; John P. Palmes to the Royal William; William A. Smith to the Valorous; William John Hoyle Card to the Terma gant. Masters—William R. Madge to the Royal William; William Francis Greet to the Valorous; William T. Wheeler to the Royal Albert; Thomas J. Whillier to the Sanspareil; William H. Mal lard to the Valorous. Second Master—Frederick Townsend to the Algiers. Mate—Louis de la Chains to the Snake. Paymasters—Walter Burke to the Royal William; William Stanway to the Cressy. Naval Cadet—H. M. Ommanney to the Fisgard. Clerks—William J. Stevens to the Royal William; Charles Fisher to the Ajax. Clerk's Assistant—John W. Mallet to the Gladiator. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, October 10. BANKRUPTCTES ANNULLED.—FR►NCIs BURROW, Red ruth, Cornwall, draper—WILLIAM BECKETT, Gillingbam,Norfolk, cattle dealer—HENßY KEarooT, Bedford, near Leigh, Lanca shire, silk manufacturer. BANKRUPTS.—HENRY CRAY" ERIS, Lothbnry, City, mer chant JOSEPH TREVETHAN, Cambrian Brickfields, Lower Norwood, brlckmaker—THOlLAS WAOHORN, Rochester, Kent, draper ()ERROR Fox, Crombie's-row, Commercial-road East, clothier—Lavas Bsesarr, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshlre, grocer—JOHN HUGHES. Bangor, Carnarvonahire, innkeeper— DANIEL LONODIN, Manchester, ironfouuder—Joaseit BURGE GODFREY, Taunton, Somersetehire, coacianaker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—JAPES CALVERT, Glasgow, proprietor of the Queen's Theatre—Jsmes WiLsox,Haylee, near Largs—JoHN Simpson, Broornhill, Boss-shire—Joan GOLDIN and JAMES GRAY INGLIS, Glasgow, -ironfounders—JoßN Soo'rr and WALTER SCOTT, Glasgow, shiphrokers ROBERT GALLL CHER, Greenock, fishmonger. Friday, October 18. BANKRUPTS.—James WARD, Jermyn•street, St. James's, licensed victualler and tavern keeper—WILLIAM HENRY BARTLEMAN Hawes. Strand, chemist—THOMAS HOUGHTON, Collyhurst, Lancashire, ironmonger—RlCHAßD BURGH, Bury, Lancashire, grocer—JOHN liEverrr, Leamington Priors, War wickshire. brickmakor—JAmes Dirsott, Huddersfield, draper— JAMES CORBETT, Stourhridge, saddler and victualler —Hangar SHEPPARD, Glossop, Derbyshire, grocer. THE NEW ASSESSED TAXES. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." Sir,—l ask for the aid of the PRESS as a suitable medium of conveying to the public the practical working of the recently-imposed assessed taxes as affecting the lower class of farmers in this locality. Having been summoned as a commissioner to attend a district meeting for the hearing of appeals against the said taxes, I am in a condition to puss an opinion (so far) as to their probable working and their ex tension to a new class of taxpayers, as well as to the moral consequences resulting from the system of enforcing the payment, or rather of ascertaining what persons are subject thereto. The appeals in this district were so numerous as to require a prorogation to a second day, and during the two days nearly six hundred appeals were heard by my fellow-commissioners and myself, the hearing of which produced on us the strongest conviction of the hardship of extending the tax on saddle-horses, vehicles, and servants, to a class so ill able to pay it, and, in point of fact, not possessing or using these luxuries in the sense usually attached to the term. In order to mike my meaning plainer I should state that, under the new extension, every cottier tenant or (so-called) farmer holding front six to ten or fifteen acres of land is subject to the tax fir a saddle-horse unless he can swear that he has not ridden the one horse (or mule) he possesses, even in a single instance, for the last year. The poor creating shandry, too, is liable to be taxed as a gig, and brings with it the further charge for a servant, unless the party be ready to swear that he himself has, in every instance, put to the horse, or a son of his under twenty-one. In case, also, of the farmer swearing that he is always aided by a servant boy under eighteen, his tax for a servant is diminished to the half, viz., 10s. 6d. This swearing in every instance, and on a wholesale scale, forms a revolting part of the new extension, which all practical men know is (to say the least) very undesirable. The glaring inequality, too, exhibited in the new system must strke every one who observes the working of it, for under it the large opulent class of farmers pos sessing twenty to thirty horses, and making use of their choice of these for riding or driving, are subject to no more charge than the small cottier farmers before alluded to, who are frequently in more ne cessitous circumstances than common labouring men. Such an imposition as this of the tax on horses for riding, &c., could never be intended ; for does it not assimilate in principle to a capitation tax, the 981 worst and most inequitable that can be devised? If horses for agricultural purposes are to be taxed at all, the fairest mode of doing it would be by taxing all the farmers' horses, laying on so emelt per horse, and then a fair proportion could be maintained be tween the possessors of many and of one horse. The tax alluded to cannot (in its present inequi table mode of operation) be long maintained; and it is a very pitiable thing that new Chancellors of the Exchequer have it in their power to experimentalise in this rash and crude manlier, often (it may be) from a determination to do something new, and dis turb the arrangements of their predecessors, however beneficial in themselves, as well as familiarised to the community by habit and use. It may be that in opulent districts in England, and where the farms are extensive, and their holders nearly in the class of gentry, the effects of this tax do not manifest themselves in the same way as in remote parts of Wales, to which my remarks are most applicable ; but I think what I have said will prove that in such localities as the one coming under my observa tion the hardship of ifs working is extreme. Now, can any humane person feel otherwise than saddened at seeing the slight indulgences of late years conceded to the lower class of farmers so far abridged that one can no longer drive his wife with her basket of butter or poultry in his uncouth shandry to market, or take his family in it on Sun days to public worship, without being subject to what (to him) is a heavy charge Your attention to this subject in any manner which may seem to you most likely to attract public notice to the crying abuses resulting from the new changes in our system of assessed taxes will oblige your constant reader and admirer, A NORTH WALES TAX COMMISSIONER. A letter from Balaklava, in the Courrier de Mar seille, states that on the morning of the 2tith ult. the seamen on board the fleet saw a dense mass of smoke rising over the town of Sebastopol, and soon after an immense mass of flames rose to a great height. To wards noon there was a terrible explosion, and frag ments were seen flying in all directions. The ge neral opinion was that the Russians had endeavoured to destroy some buildings, or perhaps a whole quarter of the town, which might, if left staudiug, afford fa cilities to the besiegers. The Emperor and Empress left Paris on Thurs day morning for Amiens, for the purpose of being present in the cathedral of that place at a Te Leung in honour of the victory of the Alma. They returned to the capital in the evening of the same day. The slight wound on the breast of General Can robed, during the battle of the Alma, would pro bably have been a very serious one had not a medal that be wore on the occasion, and which was presented to him on the eve of his departure from Paris, happily prevented it. M. Barbes has rejected the Emperor's pardon. and has challenged a frest arrest, as he still avows his former Socialist opinions. If not accepted he in: tends to retire into voluntary exile. The Central Association in Aid of Soldiers' Wives and Families, Widows and Orphans, is making pro gress. 3,500 mothers, and 1,000 children, are at this moment under the vigilant care of the amcciation. More than 200 women have been provided with situa tions or set up in business. More than BM children, most of them orphans, have been provided fox entirely. A COURT MARTIAL is to be held at Sheerness on Captain Sir Edward Belcher, of the Assistance and Phenix discovery-ships, and the officers, for the loss of the vessels left in the ice. Commander Sherard Osborn, who was superseded and placed under arrest by Sir Edward Belcher in July last, has come home in the North Star, and on the arrival of that ship at Woolwich an Admiralty order was sent on board to relieve Commander Osborn from the arrest imme diately, and he has now applied for a court-martial, that all the circumstances of his case may be made known. When the courts ma. tial are over a court of inquiry is to take place at the Admiralty, to ascer tain what has been done by the recent Arctic expedi tions in carrying out the orders they received when appointed to the service on which they were em ployed in the Arctic regions. The court of inquiry will include amongst it members hear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, Rear Admiral Beechey, and other admirals who have Lad experience in Arctic service. Eight more regiments of the English militia are to he embodied for permanent duty. ginntg glarket ad it nttiligratt. FRIDAY EVININO. THE dulness which for some time past has pre vailed upon the Stock Exchange has, during the current week, amounted to an absolute stagnation. The uncertainties of the times, political s.ndcommbr-