The Press. — London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

JUNE 9, 1855. Cant and fastian. The Queen has given several dinner parties during the week, and held a Privy Council on Wednesday. Prince Albert went to liydenham on Saturday to inapeet the Horticultural Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. On Tuesday her Majesty and the Prince visited Gore house, to inspect the works of students in the metropolitan and provincial schools in connec• tion with the Department of Science and Art. The titieen will hold a Drawing-room on Thursday next, the 14th instant, and a levee, the last of the season, on Wednesday, the 27th inst. Her Majesty will inspect the regiments now sta tioned at the camp at Aldershott this (Saturday ) afternoon. Prince Albert has signified his intention of being present at the opening of the new Smithfield .market on Tuesday next, the 13th inst. A report which has appeared in the public papers that her Royal Highness the Princess Alice had suf fered from an attack of scarlat i n a is without an y oundation. All the royal children are in perfect health. The Earl and Countess of Derby gave a grand dinner on Wednesday evening, at their mansion in St. James's Square, to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary. After the banquet., the Countess of Derby gave a grand ball, at which a highly distinguished company were present. Lady Londeshorough gave a grand ball on Monday evening, at the family mansion on Carlton-house terrace. The reunion was fully and most fashionably Attended. The personnel of the French Embassy has been almost entirely changed since the departure of his Excellency the Count Walewski. It is now composed as follows: The Count de Pensiguy, Ambassador; M. Charles Baudin, First Secretary ; The Count do Jau• cart, Second Secretary ; The Count de Chandordy, Paid AtaChe ; M. Paul de Monicault, Attache; M. le Due de Caderousse Gramont, Attache. Lord Haddo, eldest son of the late Premier, who has been so long absent from this countrylon account of ill health, returned from Egypt by the Indus steamer on Monday, and has taken his seat in the House of Co"nmona for Aberdeenshire. The Bedford Times states that Mr. Whitbread, M.P. for Bedford, is about to be married to the Lady 'lsabella Pelham, third daughter of the Earl of Chi chester. The Right lion. Sir John Trollope, has un dertaken to hunt the Cottesmore country, which includes the best part of Leicestershire, the whole of Rutland, and a part of Lincolnshire. Mn. MECHT, of Tiptree-hall and Leadenhall-street, has issued an address to the electors of Maldon, announcing his intention of presenting himself as a candidate on the next vacancy for the borough. In his letter to the electors Mr. Medd says :—" I like no half measures—they are uu British. Let Us do in war as we do in business—try to find the right man for the right place. I have taken a deep in terest in the improvement of our national agriculture as a means of feeding and employing our industrious million 4, and, although but a small landowner, I have practised what I preached in my transactions with my tenants." THE MEMBER FOR CIRENCESTER, the Hon. Ashley Ponsonby, who has lately returned to England to attend the funeral of his late fa ther, Lord Pe Manley, was memorialised by a iininher of his constituents to fulfil a promise made at the time of his election to resign his military appointment when it should interfere with his parliamentary duties. Captain Ponsonby has sent a reply, in which he acknow ledges the promise, but states that, although he will have duties to perform which must probably detain him in England until after the present session, lie shall then return to the seat of war, and resume his military avocations. The gallant member, however, says, that if, on the reassembling of Parliament his constituents should repeat their wish for him to de vote his time exclusively to his lekislative duties, he will then succumb to their desire, and redeem the pledge be formerly made. THE Loans OF THE Taxestmr, by minute dated 18th May, 1855, have ordered the survey of Scotland to be carried on as follows :—For cultivated, popu kus, and mineral districts, on a scale of 25,344 inches to a mile; for uncultivated, highland, and moorland districts, on a scale of 0 inches to a mile ; the towns containing more than 4.000 inhabitants to he mapped on a scale of 1.500 in 120.72 inches to a mile; that plans on the 26.344 and 6-inch scales shall be mapped, and copies made when required, by the Anastatic process: that the general 1-inch map of Scotland be proceeded with as rapidly as possible. A LARGE NUMBER of ornamental armlets for ladies, bearing the portrait of the late Czar, have been imported into Munich for complimentary dis• tribution THE PRESS. plant nub 6tntral. THE Eurine, which sailed from Southampton on Monday with the India mail, took out 405,0001. in specie, for East India and China, principally in silver. The money weighed forty tons, and occupied fourteen of the large railway trucks iu its transit from London to Southampton. ACCORDING t•, a new ordinance just issued at Gib raltar, no printer will be able to print any publication not previously examined and licensed by the Go vernor's secretary under a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be levied by distress and sale of his goods and chattels, if not instantly paid. ZEPHANIAH Witizams, the Newport Chartist, who was transported with Frost and Jones to Australia, has made a discovery in Tasmania of a bed of yellow coal, of very superior quality, which bids fair to place him amongst the magnates of the laud. Os Saturday evening a grand banquet was given by tie Lord Mayor, in the Egyptian hall, Mansion• house, to her Majesty's judges. THE Opinione of Turin states that the thirty four monastic orders which are to be suppressed in Pied mont in consequence of the new law possessed 381 houses, inhabited by 4,543 persona. Cardinal Apto nelli has addressed a new note to the Piedmontese Government on the subject. THE BATH BI,ECTION terminated on Monday, when Mr. Tite, the vice-chairmap of the Adminis trative Reform Society, was returned by a small majority, The numbers stood at the close of the poll—for Mr. Tite, 1,170 ; for Mr. \\lateley, 1,128. Much excitement prevailed during the day, the con test being so close, and each candidate obtaining alternately a slight majority over his rival. A DAUGHTER OP BARON VON BRUNOW, the late Russian Minister in London, is engaged to be mar ried to Herr Anton Von Magnus, Prussian Secretary of Legation at Stuttgard, and sou of the banker of that name. A Review obtained by Mr. Miles, M.P., has been published, of the number, names, and localities of the private reformatory schools which have been certified by Government. The number of schools in the list is nineteen, and accommodation afforded for 1,791 boys and girls. THE NEW ROYAL YACHT got up steam on Satur day at Portsmouth, to try her engines for the first time. They are of six hundred horse power, on the oscillating principle, and worked remarkably well. It is expected that the yacht will realise the great speed of seventeen knots per hour. The general fit out of the vessel is rapidly progressing, and she has assumed a very handsome and imposing appearance. TIIE BOARD OF ORDNANCE invite tenders for con• structing temporary barracks in Colchester for 3,000 men. SIR MOSES M ONTEFIORE i 8 on his way to Jerusalem, where he intends founding a large hospital for his co-religionists. LETTERS FROM OPORTO continue to express unfavor able anticipations of the forthcoming grape crop in the Douro district, from the progress of the vine disease. The season is stated to he three weeks more back• ward than usual, anti uncertain weather still pre vailed. It is also asserted that the vines look much weaker, that the show of fruit is small and sickly, and that the oidium is general throughout the country, and at least a fortnight earlier than last year. ON Trinity (last) Monday a special general court was held at the Trinity-house on Tower-hill, at which his Royal Highness Prince Albert was unani mously reelected master, and Captain John Shep herd deputy-master, of that ancient corporation for the ensuing year. THE Rev. H. G. Linn Eu., Head-Master of West minster School, has been appointed by Lord Palmers ton Dean of Christchurch, Oxford, in succession to Dr. Gaisford. ON Wednesday last a Leicestershire shareholder of the Conservative Land Society took out the share No. 11,000, making the amount subscribed for by mem bers since the formation of the society in September, 1852, 550,0001. The withdrawals on this capital of half a million and upwards have been under 12,0001., and the amount of land sold exceeds 101,000/. THE HAMBURG AUTHORITIES imprisoned a British subject for enlisting recruits. The Consul-General demanded his liberation as belonging to the war steamer Otter. IT is rumoured at Manchester that a well-known banker of that city has already cleared :10,0001. out of the cotton speculations at Liverpool. A cotton broker is said to have realised 40,0001. THE CELEBRATED LOLA MONIES is expected in Paris, coming from America, accompanied by her last husband, a Californian miner, represented as possessing a fortune that completely throws into the shade the all but boundless wealth of Monte Christo himself. THE office of Counsel to the Admiralty, vacated by Mr. Phinn's appointment as Second Secretary to the board, will be filled by Mr. Atherton, Q.G. int Ittn 543 WAR-OFFICE, JrN BREVET. The undermentioned promotions to take place conse quent on the death of the following officers, vhs. : Lientenant•tieneral bir G. I/Aguilar, G.C.B. ; General Sir W. Mai:bean, K.C.8.; General Lord C. S. Mannera, K.C.B.:— Major• General lion. J. Yorke Searlett, being the senior supernumerary Major-General, to succeed to the vacancy on the fixed establishment. Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. W. Inglis to be Colonel in the Army. Major G. A. Durnforil to be Lient.-Colonel in the Army. Captain A. F. Jenner to be Major iu the Army. The undermentioned promotion to take place conse quent upon the death of the following officers, viz.:— General P. Bonham, General bir W. Macbean, General Lord C. S. Manners, : Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Maclaine, K.C.8., to be General. Brevet Lieut.-Colonel David Forbes to be Colonel in the Army, the rank being honorary only; Major Henry Edward M'Gee to be Lient.-CoLiu the Army ; Captain John William Reynolds to be Major in the Army ; Capt. Scrape Barnard, of the Tipperary Militia, attached to the Turkish Contingent, to have the local rank of Major while so employed. HOSPITAL STAFF. Inspectors-General of Hospitals, Walter Henry, M.D. end William Munro, with local rank, to be Inspectors- General of Hospitals ; Deputy Inspectors-General of Hoe pitals, Andrew Ferguson, M.D., and A. Melvin, to be Inspectors-General of Hospitals, with local rank ; Acting Assistant-Surgeon Henry Horlock has been permitted to resign his appointment. IikIITINEI FOREIGN LROION. Colonel John Kinloch to be Inspector. To be Assistant-Inspectors, with the rank of Captain while so employed—Edmund St. John Mildmay, Esq., and Michael Foster Ward, Esq. Deptit at Shorncliffe--John Francis Power, Esq , to be Major-Cornmendant, with the brevet ruuk of Lieutenant - Colonel while so employed ; Richard Allister 'Bowyer, Esq., to be Staff Paymaster ; ('harks Knight, Esq., to be stair Quartermaster; Fabian Samoje, Esq., to be Surgeon; the Rev. Heinrich Offermann to be Field Chaplain. Depth at Heligoland—Lieutenant -Colonel Henry Stein bach to be Commandant; Charles Addison, Esq., to be Staff Paymaster ; Edward Miles, Esq., to be Sta Quin termaster ; Patrick Gammie, Esq., to be Staff Surgeon, First Class. First Jager or Ride Battalion —Major Christian Sieg fried Von Bassewitz to be Major Commandant. First Line Battalion—Edward Kent Murray, Esq., to be Major. Commandant, with the brevet rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in the Army while so employed; Augustus Ferdi nand Shroer to he Ms or. Second Line Battalion—Hans Hurocmann Von Aller to be Major-Commandant. TURKISH CONTINGENT. George John Whyte Melville, Esq., being attached to the 'Turkish Contingent, to have the local rank of Major in Turkey while so employed. The undermentioned gentlemen, having been appointed to the Medical Staff of the Turkish Contingent, to have local rank as follows, viz.:—To be Staff Burgeon of the First Class—J. Forbes Watson, Esq. To be Stall Surgeons of the Second Claes—Frederick Lewins,Jantea A. Cooper, Alexander A. WDowall, Arthur F. Maoanlay, George A. Alloway, Archibald Irvine, M.D. To be Assistant-Surgeons —Henry (ramming, William W. Coleman, Charles Fergu son, Arthur F. Ferguson, James W. Cavanagh, James Viil- Harmon, George M'Gregor, Charles S. Richardson, Charles R. Williams, Ferdinand Odersine, John li. Posttett. To be Acting Assistant-Surgeons—French; L. Gunn, Richard G. White. JUNE 7. The undermentioned officers of the Hovel Engineers, selected for the Engineer Force of the Turkish Contingent, to have the local rank of Contain in Turkey while so em ployed :—Lieutenants Montagu Stopford Whitmore, Frede rick Edward Blackett Beatnont, George Longley, and John Popham Magnuy. Charles Anthony /Coed!, Esq , to have the local rank of Captain while employed in the Engineer force of the Turkish Contingent. Lieutenant R. J. Matlock, 111th Bengal Native Infantry, doing duty at the East India Company's depot at Worley donne the absence in Turkey of the officer holding that appointment) to have the local rank of CaptaM while so employed. Tut Russians have complained to Sweden for allowing the English to repair a ship on neutral ground (the Princess Alice* ing hauled up that iton a kind of slip at Faro); they re told i a n reply, was not. showing any favour, for if the Russians wo uld come to Faro, they ► should have the same privilege. Tax PORTLAND BREANWATF.R now extends nearly a mile from the shore. The piles comporting the staging are ninety feet in length, and are all "pickled " and rendered impervious to wet by We cteosote being forced into the timber by means of bout 1160 i mmens e steam preasure. The stone is now depo sited at the rate of 10,0()0 tons per week, a men being employed at this gigantic undertaking. There is no doubt when this harbour of refuge is completed, that it, will yle with auy in the British Channel. 4