The Press. — London, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

DECEMBER 17, 1853. FOUR NNW WAki STEAIIIIIS were recently launched at different French ports, —At Cherbourg. the Beaumanoir, brig of the Ist class ; at Brest, the Duquesne. screw Une-otbattle ship, with engines of 00 horsepower; at Lorient, the Annitkal, of WO guns, and 850 horse power; and at Toulon, the Florrux, 100 gun screw-ship, and On horse-power. NEw FRENCH LOAN.—There are rumours that the French Government is about to contract a new loan to the extent of eight millions sterling ; but only a portion of this is intended to be introduced upon the London market... TUEMiI' lan: I.IUHARY established in the metropolis will be ()pencil in Jaunuu'•, 1..451. It is called the Maryle bone Free Library, and is situated at 27, Glowester-place, New-road. Its doors will be opened to the public gratui• tously from ten a.m. till ten p.m. This will enable all classes to avail themselves of its advsntages, and the collection of books is such as to gratify a large variety of readers. THE LATE DUKE oF BEAUFORT possessed for many years a stud of skewballed horses of great beauty. Ills grace's equipage, drawn oceasionally by a pair and some does by four of these animals, will long be remember 1 by park loungers. The demise of the duke has led to the disposal of a portion of Ilia stud. Iris Excellency Count. Walewski has secured four of the beautiful skowlialls, nn acquisition which will materially add to the brilliancy o f the carriage appointments of the French Embassy. A Den. took place at Pau on the Nth inst. with fatal Inuits. Some dispute hat ing arisen between between M. It. L—, AU AVOW`, RIIOI M. L. L—, a merchant, their mutual friends did all they could to et 'et a reeoneiliat• . Their efforts, however. were fruitless, and a hostile meeting was appointed to take place in the commune of St. The ratel was the welvon selected, and (levy ',recant ion was taken by the seconds to render the meeting harmless for both parties. The adversaries, who were phwell at an unusually great distanee. were ordered to tire at a signal given, and, as neither of them was accustomed to firearms. it waa hoped that no injury would be done. l• nfori ttnately. at the first shot M. L. I. was struck in the breast, near the heart, and died almost instantaneously. Warranta were the astute day issued against the remaining prineipal and the two tweonds, who hate fled. THE 'WEE OF BRUNSWicE sonic time ago purchased the hotel No. 11, flue Beanjon, in Paris, formerly occupied by the notorious Lola Montes, and the adjacent hotel, No. 9, was at the satire time sold to M. Cohnet, an artist. The seller was a person named Roses. Before the sale he took IOFt yards of ground from the dependencies of No. awl added them to No. 11 ; but this change was not mentioned in the conditions of axle. When comielpiently 111. Colmet entered in possession of his purchase, he demanded the restoration of the 105 yards. or an indemnity. A sum of 3,400 f. was offered him, and he accepted it. An action which he had commenced was then dropped, and the matter was considered at an end. lint the I take of Brunswick, on his part, alleged that the demand of M. ('ohnet had prevented him from taking immediate possession of his hotel, and had obliged him, Pn attendant the settlement of the affair, to take apartments for himself Mel his suite; and tie therefore brought an action before the Civil Tr'. banal to obtain 50,004. damages. The tribunal awarded him 7,ttOttf. M. Colmet appealed against this decision, and the duke, on his part, not thinking the imletunity sufficient, also appealed. The ease was heard OA Saturday last by the Imperial Court. The Court quashed the judgment of the tribunal, dismissed the duke's demand, twit condemned him to the costs. Ins. An(i.‘RFT BOIYOLAR has been tried and convicted at Norfolk, Virginia, for teaching coloured children to write. She was her own advocate, and spoke eloquently. On being found guilty. she was fined one dollar ; but the judge, in passing sentence according to the statute, will condemn her to imprisonment fur not less than six months. ON THE rOIITTAND 12.►ILWAY (U.S.) there is a point where certain trains have to cross the rails in order to get upon a branch line. Orders are consequently given to the station•rnaster never to allow any train to move until the convoy previously due according to the had actually gone by. One of these latter was lately mulch behind time, and the passengers for the branch line grew impatient at the delay. Three quarters of an hour elapsed and their remonstrances became urgent. The station-mas ter was inexorable. " I have orders to wait until the up train passed, - he said," and t obey them." " Ilut sup posing it never paws?" asked a passenger. " Why, I should wait for a week," he replied coolly, " and then I should consider of it!" At that moment the lagging train (lashed by and gave the lately indignant traveller a significant hint touching the importance of obe)ing orders in all motets connected with railway transit. SINI )PI. Thy• city of Slimy, call. d Snood) pry the Turks, is situated in Anatolia, on the south shore of the flack Sea. half way between Constantinople and Trebirond, and about WO leagues from each of those places. It is a dependency of the 'melodic of Angora, and laisseasea a population of eight or ten Omit-and souls. The town is built upon the isthmus of a peninsula which projects, prianontorywise, into the sea. This is the most southern point of the whole of that extensive coast. The harbour extends upon the east of the town, lint. as it is not shut in by moles, ran be conaidered as nothing more than a roadstead. It is de. fended by batteries and by the castle of the town, a massive building of square form, and dating its eonstniction bock to the time of the tireek Emperors. Ti' the west of the peninsula i. another anchorage, called Ak•Liman, or the Vhite Port. Sinope owe , its importance In the feet of being a ing arsenal. the only one, indeed. which Turkey possesses except Constantinople. Sliips•of.thedine and Frigates are built there. and the oaks cut upon the mountains surround ing the harbour furnish supplies of very• hardwood. Thus THE PRESS. the ship' built at Siuope are eelebritt-ii tor their strength and durability, and ',lifts for the hest in the whole intonian nary. The shipwrights in. principally forviceters and renegades mho have taken service in Turkey. 'l'll, , sork• nien an. Greeks front the interior, receiving average wages of Ad. or a day. . . The fortitleations of the harbonr an at olive unfinished and out of repair. In the year Ire*, at the time that Ad miral Duckworth with an Fuglist' Meet made his attempt against Constantinople, which was then defended by the French General Selau.tiani, the latter t.t.spatelied a corps of engineer of to Slings. to streivolwn and improt e its defences, well knowing the extreme importanee of that loon. to Turkey. These officers Itpoit the point of the promontory, so aecd to c ommand boli .bores of the peninsula and the entrance to the roadstead. They afterwards planned and *raved out other works o f defence, whereof some were never Iteemed. and others, though completed, shanstl the lot o f the test of th e r,, rt ig • cations, suit were allowed to fall into dilapidation. 'riots the place remained weir' t receiving any repairs for more than tOrty years. Very recently so 'works of restoration have been begun, hut had made but slight progress wlieti the etlected their recent 1 . 1 , 111 , . It may be easily imagined, therefore. that six hue othattle ships with their formidable batteries entering bt an open retulstutol could take no long time in pulverising H st airs of old 111151 crumbling forts, inailtsmately furnished wall 111411114 of resist mill'. If the. Oar Sllollltl cant ' dwiva the eoneeng tae• ill Eu►ope and .I%in, says a writer in the !h • 6al., it will l weealie a matter of prime conseeptenew with the Turks to recoil. 14trIlet the fortilleati 111 l Of 1115111 'ern principles of million art. and tee render that place eapal.ts of resisting not only at i'W/10•th •//toisl stee•ll iltl it hits just ellwrieneevl• kit regular sires. ghnuld Itnssix now take poseree % ion o f it, whielt etc could do with little. eliflieulty In Its present eon• she 'night convert the peninsula and preemeentory into a !Waif impregnab l eto Nil attack. e on , th e and. by restoring the coital which 01114 , 011111141 between the anchorages on either shore• and making it the feeeme to at chain of leistiona, might turn gimps into a specie•et of raltotrupon the Turkish shore of the Feline. Eetablisheel in such a position, enabling them at oily time to disembark MI army, the Russians would hold in ebeek the whole centre of Asia Minor, and cut the commtmictittone between Constantinople and Erzereetim. Thu Turkish army in Armenia we title) then Met, inertly have to twee• HIV silk of Georgia, but would find a second hostile leave in its rear. The Porte must, therefore, in that case keep two armies on foot in Akin Minor. These entesielerettons have not escaped the foresight of the I{arop•an officer% who are now giving strategetical advice to the Ottoman generals. The town of Simile i eonstructed in great measure with the old materiels furnished from tlw t i reek city which n colony of Milesiatls built upon the peninsula. Minope was the leirtlipliwe of I tiogenes, and the capital of M ithri elates. Leteultue took posseasion ofit n.c. 71. Its I .sand fort i ficetion% contain It Milk it title of antique fragments confu sedly massed together. ti reek and Pophlagoninn inscript ions, hoop. and mutilated statues are embedded in the wane on every side. Travellers state that an entire figure is built henel downwards into the castle wall. All the towns of Asia Minor, once so flourishing in tutus and eivilisatinn, offer the same melancholy spectacle to the eyes tel Europeans. The Tuika !eve vegetated Air three centuries upon these• striking ruins without deriving from► them any of the lessons they so forcibly convey. At length they Perin themselves awakening. and the shriek which they have now experienced may perhaps prove beneficial to them in the end. TO Anil. WAR-OFFICE, Dec, 2 2nlli Regiment of Foot—MaJow.tienerel Item". r to to Cooltmel, ?lee )I.Joe.Oenerei kir Wheat Chalmers, removed to the ';tlt Regiment of Foot. DErryntn 9. sot,' T. Colonel Sir .101111 Cheap., K.C.11., of the Hohenwald* East ludfa 'osiapany•s service, to he an Honorary to her Majeely. Major Francis Wiisston, lath Font Major A rilidd Charles Fr. inmost. Mat Foot; Major Clement Alevatioler EJearils, loth Foot; Major Ainnietna Thoniaa Rice, blot Font, to be !Acute. toutt-Colonela in the rmy. Captain Archibald Nell Campbell, lath Font ; Captain William Tyrrell Prime, lAth Foot, to he Mikiora In the Army. MajorJoitepli Turton, Bengal Artillery; Major John 1t•.1.11. man, 10111 Bengal Native Infantry; Ifaj..r II:11, Ist M drat,' Fusiliers; Major James George NeIII. Ist Madras l'11.111.4.*: Major John Carne Boublerson, 811th Madras N 141 1 ,0 itiralllrY: Major Thigh Fraser, Bengal Engineers; Major George Craven Armstrong. 41th Bengal Native Infantry ; Major Henry Cotton, fi7tli Bengal Native Infantry; Major Chan es Samuel IteM, lien. gel Artillery—to be Lleittenant•Colonels ht t h e Army he the IF;atit Indies._ _ . ...... Captain William Augustin John Mayhew, lith Bengal Natixe Infantry ; Captain Syllenbiva ti...wge harlem !tetanal, Ist Ma dras Captain Grant Ard Madras Native In fantry; •t'aptairi Alexander Robert Ihllas. Ist Miwiews Native In. Wary ; Captain William ilor. , at Nitthall,ll44ll fiengal Native in fantry; Captain Albert }glebe, l'Oth Iteugal Native Infantry—le be MsJors in the Array in the East Indira. I)rezllarn 13. Megiment of T.igbt nralmons—Asalstant-f4nrgerm William Legge Reid, M. 11., from the Waft to be Asaistatit•thtrgeow, 'I ronetlell. promoted ou the Slott 10th I.lght Dragoons—Captain .1. hellerman We4.l..rioini, from halt pay iimittorhe,l, to he Captalli, %Ire 1.1111..,u114) f•II• Eliangea; Lieutenant Arthur John Loftus to he captain. I.y pur• ehatte, 'lee Wedderburn. who retires; Corms, J mut , Margii.i...o lliorn Murdoch to he Lieutenant, by purrhae.., %i. a tattle ; job!' ilUtiMoll. Gent.. to he Comet, by pueelialtr, tier Mot,torti. 14th I.lght Dragoons—Cornet (ieorge Me)riek Dew, Prom the 13th Light bragoesis, to be Cornet. vie. Howl, who retires. Coldstream Regmieut of root tittards--I.ientenset mid trap. tabs WWiatn Mark Woo.l to be Captain and 11.ioutenant.et , lotiel, by patchithe, thee Colotacl Fredetick rturt, who retire. , ; Lumen and I.leuteututt Henry Arnotege to he Lieutenant and copular. by 011-.114.4 1 , , tjrr Mark W 00.1; Mwtt:tel Walker I Irtiewire, t.. be 1:to.lot and Loue:mut, by intrehaso., lee Army tai•. :11l liegnuent of Foot- -Lieutenant Ibitgald atenart lltlhr to 1.. Coptoto, I. pitrato.e, vier %Introit:es; Second Lieu. tenant M'rwlit Marten, Won, the Ceylon Hide pediment, 10 be 1.11 . 111.1181111, by ifltreltame, trier Miller. dolitt Milton 'boy tor to be I.ietttonont. by iflteetio , .... %fee Illuestish, who retire'.; Janus Litalow nt., to be Froiltrn. by 0111 111141', Ore Tah.r. zoth Foot-• turgeott 11111 l Alexander, from the enth to be SllllOOll, Vice Machiggil, M 11 ., a 251,11 Foul-erittatts Robert Henry de Winton, hem the 91ttli Foot, to be l'utptatlts, %tee coda, a ht etelseneee. 39tt4 Foot-Cotentin 1 . 1166111.111 M.-.tail, from the 37111 Fait, to be Captain, %ice Itob..ter, alto etclilow , .. 3:th Foot- eoptolit John %%Moon Itolo , ier. (boo the 3Ju.l Foot, to he 40. w „%, 4MIII 1:46461-I.lotirlimit•c"limel Ilenrr *Monti.. from half pot, Itopeeting held Intker or mama in the joi l f a l l !M a n i la. 1,1 tie 1.11e11101164111•4 . .616,114 , 1, repal)ilig it,, ditto Er 116•6 •6 cfrr Itro,ot•col o nei How A. lbhell, alto exeltongeN; Mktor Iletwuntis Mk) , to 14 I.'ententult•col l ttt .1, by 1411'011W, lit'3l4llU., alt. , emir.'.; captain Andrew tireeit to be Minor, by pito Ina.,' halo' ; !denten/int William II envy Colette. to be ego tin , by ritrelte•at. tier lierett: I:tt.tett eltarle. I'errott Noel to he I.lellteliatif, hp ittwelloge, lee l'oirtiro ; 1:11011;11, by purchase, %lets Noel. it 1,0 b'oot-rdodtut Limey Iteieley Nit fool to 14 Lieutenant, by oireloote, vice Robert tient., to be Ett4lttn, by poreho.e. "lee NI it fool. 011th Foot--Fiat 1 lententoit I i 14. 1 .6". eltarle. Ilettry Water., Roan the Vey hot Hide Iteßtineuti, to be Fleet Li eo r etig i n t, Traver*, who retire.. %Wit half pat ; ! .. iwtr - Sursrenti of the t 4, •euntl VW.% 111.11 n 6111,1111%. hatooolf6,l, M li ,, 11. 1.6 Stitg.4lll, Vi t.* Atar tinder. appointed to the :loth Foos :0111 Foot-lieutenant Arthur Item). erto.lt ell Snow to be althorn otreloow, we IlitchAtion, alto retiree; rn‘lon William Wiltshire Lynch to be 1 {.,,tenant, by pttreloote, snon Thontoe Ithrhurd Ileverett‘ Itltteltoisi, tient, to be I:totlgn, by pundit's.% Vice Lytiell; Lieutenant A who sehrhernto to 14 .%.Ijittont. 11 . f. SlittM alto 11,1,51 v. ihr A.l,ottotte only. 7 lilt Foot - pitAlr surgoon tit lit. , Seetolid '1,1•661 .141.11104 11“.•beth. 31.11., to he Surgeon, %ice Prom% V.llll Foot• -rapt/till 1:6.1'11m . ‘1 1'0.141, Prot,, the 20th 1: out, to 1.0 ice 11.• Winton, alto e‘eloutee., I'llloll 1:111.• 11. t itt---Tltionos - 1)1.•r f 1 6 , 16 f,. h e Se. nice Marten, I , lOllOlNi ill the FOOL _ Ilo.rtrtt,l4Ttrst.—Sttegoon .11etithiler Foloott, M. b, from the iltll Foot. 4. by Ntatr•Sitrizoott of tin. Seeoisil Iris ; A . otiMil4lli'Sllrg.'llii (4441 FF0111%41,11, M. 0., from *Moan) 1.1 14 ht I ororNow, tulw stoot•sorreoti of the See‘ Mil I lash, t ice St .11.6014..., ell 1.. the 60111 F.M.I ; J„h i , ci etr k e , G o ut., t o I. '%urgeou to Ihr rove., tke H o ld, iwpotutiitil t.. the 3E41 Lielit I intgootio, UNAT r . liLI.. Lieufrioloit tlllllMla 1'...1.ne, /bon lialtiii k y Foot, Ste (Meet of l'clit•iotici 1.. to 1..• I iilluiti 1.411'• dome. M KM.) ItA 1)1' --1110 ('hrlMiiiu 11111.11' of I.lritii Ham 'AM ”1:10., Of the 7th ruin, la " Nllll u , d ".1 /1111111, - 111. 1111 . %11111141y stated. C0mm...1167(g ntosri. lIC•AN I U. Month I iiirhwdl 11Pllilaelll'' , 10 be I ltoyal !tomtit Illourrater 1.1m6t Infantry Iteirlitient of :Militia • Hobert...it, F.ll , ill he I dela s WWI Inmetamlot l'yrke to be vivo 1:411.111-41 :•F. Ilelkylvy, ; A.l - Jaia.. Hobert 44. ii, late Iti miestaitt in the ".nth Ilealamitt 1 , 1 he CaPtUin, by Ilrei ; Eiodmit Chitidopher John Barnard to be lieutenant, flee ',roomed. Itoyal Sollth Mallow I amain William Pore,. Coat, late of the Madras. I'mairy, hi to. Captain, r‘rilll4lsl , 4l / 11411 the North I.meolut Iteglitteot. 1'.841 Kehl Regiment of Mlllllll. -llenry Manion Moon, tient to be lieutenant , Fredeti. k 1.. ith, i. oil., 1.. be tettionand. 'Royal Pentitroke%ltire iv corp. Alllltlit—,hottea Jo l iet. to he liettleitaut ; Andrea l t re.lerlek Innottetiille to be t hot I.lentenant, ....... 4th, or Royal %until Mi.1.11e...‘ Iteglmettl of 111111thi—Etlytottl 1 tient., 141 b. Fos , h4st. Royal fthirn Y..mmitiry eitvalry-11141.1ea rt.orthllloehr, Esq., to 1.4 Coptalit, vies liklittril Pettrutlthicke re• ulened. OFFICV (►F t•t:Dx.% xer, Orr. 7. Corps of Ito)ol reictinerps—Liettlettatti General Sr ( balk. Wllllam l'agley, K.C.H., to be Colonel tousuisaidtud, %icy sit ♦ u• Guido, de Iloilo, dreetutetl. Ste rabg. TOP: NAvAr. Co %sr Vatt••• - of the ear• tain•supeeintetident ti, this hoer is to lw I INNN, a ”.mr. The tither esiontitios are to rucei%e Msg. a yellt I•I/1'11, fora in tie, and hlta, a day fer attlislittliee, sea I7N. Itll. a day for travelling /AIN '11141 , 1 VI 111 II *54111,01411 111 WI it stations on duty. A conniisiiiles will lie attached to each captain, and II paymaster to 1.141.11 division. The Pay of these sulkers will Ise per a 1111 l 1511 , and tit & g day for OfitilkiNtelire or travelling nosey. Hoirgetitis will also be attached to every ststien. Al►\lfl;.~l.'l'l', i. The follorrittg protairiliono. ham e thl• flay taken Otiose. emit e• efi the death, on the 4111 Inrlru t. 4 Vire•Adosit el Jame.* itioilorrol I►eere. —lt.•rr•Amituhni of the White hti Wilitim Fait • broodier Carroll, to he lieer,toltioirtil of the 11..1; Neat• .• r the Blue Ptoeo Willlwrn l'i , rry to he Hear.A.l• mold of the White; eepteiti the 1101. Motitavo teiettoil to I.• Rear Admiral of the filto—, It, tiled t epieln Wiillete If othein, lime Alen been lereetnerteil to I.a. itetire.i Itr•ar•,lduural "is 11,e ternie i.r..poar•d 111 list' terrteb.ot tot 0.1 Mrhlrumhel, 1 , 10, *Mount letereaiee of pay. I ori M. • -• • • . rum.% a Royal Marlsims— Nry(4l4l Wiltol 11.1rt , .1i hp I ir.4 I.6.lltellillst. ice Ffileol 111.110'1m111 Al.llllllllrr Slithrentpl, drees.f,l. API4)ININENTN AND PIIOIIOTIONm. eproaSTOlll/CIN. l'rederlek 11. Kerr (Im*.l). to the 'Pole/ ?.+. l.letatematne—tiettrg• /Intneea (1/141t). to the relisehttrph Lord liporge (044), la the /tor oven. JOllll 11. Cave (Ian)). to the l'retenroa kora; Cloaks It. Ilotaant (lett)), to the ernstitrr ; 1.. A. E. Ridge (1$48), to the Pont“.md; Trcteheu P. Dude (10 , 1 G), anal /fear, Hervey (1047), to the lio!rol veotee. I ('harks T. l'eather (1011), 1.. the Trirvet4 por k fel. A. tint.; A.siolAnt•filirrei.n— Thtltert Ilttrrow% elPrtft)• to the Ile. deer. N add] I tiornetor—ll. . siountlet (1P%0). 1., th e Thv en tre n . 1)0 111 (Is:o1), to the /I..m.owra; William 11. titu44 I , !.:31. u. lII.' ibAresto•rt , Ilatehartl,tu the flovairea. etateond llaater-4.tataaluit Cl•ntentoon (lAtel), to the Psalter. Molder's Asetatant—D. V. Hutdattoth to the Svocairea.