The Press. — London, England, 1855-04-14 00:00:00

APRIL 14, 1855. Obituarg. Ma. Wu.r.um N. Dunn died at Not wood on the 3rd inst., at the age of seventy-three, having been born the day the Royal George was sunk. For the long term of fifty-eight years Mr. Dunn had been associated with Drury-lane Theatre, having at fifteen been placed by Mr. Sheridan, his first friend, as assistant-clerk in the office of the theatre, where he remained till he became treasurer, and filled until his death the office of secretary to the proprietors constituted under the act of Parliament. By Mr. Sheridan, at whose house he at one time lived, he was often employed as private amanuensis, and was thus made known to some of the political celebrities of the day, and, in his vocation, to all the authors, actors, and artists of that period. Ho had never seen Garrick act, but he had known familiarly those who had lived and acted with him. He had known Suett, Quick, the Kembles, John and Charles Ban nister, Mrs. Siddons, Mrs. Jordan, Miss Pope, Irish Johnstone, his great friend and fellow-fisherman when they resorted to the Itchin, on the banks of which he was born : and, of course, he knew all about more modern artists, such as Munden, the elder Kean, and Mathews. He had a store of stories of Mr. Sheridan (whose memory he loved), of Cole man, Holcroft, Morton, and other bygone dramatic writers, and, with close powers of observation and the aid of an unimpaired memory, it may well be imagined how racy were the anecdotes he related. Mr. Dunn possessed without pretension a cultivated taste for literature and art; he aimed not at being a wit, but his quiet, quaint humour and gentle plea santry will long be remembered by a large circle of friends. He had lived for half a century amid a class peculiarly irascible, and never made an enemy. Mr. Dunn was a remarkable man, if for no other than for this reason, that having lived for nearly sixty years in every sense behind the scenes of a theatre, where all is unreal, he preserved a character eminently truth ful and simple-hearted. . _ . THE OLDEST ADMIRAL. IN THE NAVY, Admiral Buckle, died at his residence at Bath, on Sunday last, at the advanced age of eighty-five. He had been upwards of sixty years in the service, and had seen much service during the last war. ettitsiastical. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Hon. and Rev. John Gifford, M.A., to the Rectory of Wed worthy, near Honiton, Devonshire. The Rev. John Symonds, 8.A., to the Incumbency of. Baldin, near Truro. The Rev. Maurice Farrell, M.A., to the Rectory of Woughton. on•the-Green, near Fenny Stratford. The Rev. John Atkyna, M.A., to the Vicarage of Omberaley, near Droitwich. _ The Rev. John Mazon Luken, MA., / to the Rectory of Guest ling. Sussex. The Rev John Morley Lee, M.A., to the Rectory of Botley, near Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire. The Rev. T. Sheard, M.A., to be a Chaplain at Mossel Bay, Cape Town. The Rev. Matthew A. Pierpoint, M.A., to the Curacy of Trinity Church, Chelsea. The Rev. T. Rawlinson, BA., to the Curacy of St. Matthias Church, Stoke Newington. The Rev. J. M. Glubb, M.A., to be a Rural Dean for the diocese of Chichester. THE PRESS. Ete rnlg. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 10. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Regimental-Corporal Major Edwin Hayward to be Cornet, without purchase. 2nd Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant J. H. King to be Paymaster. 4th Dragoon Guards—Thomas Clark Gillespie, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase. 13th Light Dragoons—Cornet T. P. Gratrex to be Cornet, without purchase. 17th Light Dragoons—Cornet W. 1). N. Lowe to be Lieutenant. Ist Regiment of Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase —James William Bowen Thomas, Gent.; Thomas Henry Townahend, Gent. 3rd Foot—Richard Evans Sleeman, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 4th Foot—William Fagan, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 6th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—John Segrave, Gent. ; George Hunt, Gent. 11th Foot—Lieutenant M. L. M'Causland, to be Lieu tenant. 12th Foot—David Garrick Protheroe, Gent, to ;he En sign, without purchase. 16th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Richard Calvert Healy, Gent.; William Charles Wulseley, Gent. 20th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Waugh to be Captain. 245th Foot—Captain A. C. Pretyman to be Captain. 30th Foot—Lieutenant F. J. Connell to be Lieutenant, without purchase. 36th Foot—William C. Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 39th Foot—Major R. Newport Tinley to be Lieutenant. Colonel, without purchase ; Ensign E. V. Arbuckle to be Lieutenant, without purchase. 40th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Richard Armstrong, Gent.; George Hobbs, Gent.; Francis W. Osborne, Gent. 43rd Foot—Captain Edmund Hayter Bingham to be Captain; Lieutenant Hon. L. W. Mlles to be Captain. 48th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—John Rawlins, Gent. ; George Granado Graham Foster Pigott, Gent. 51st Foot—Captain Hon. D. Erskine to be Major, without purchase ; Lieutenant W. L. F. Sheaffe to be Cap tain, without purchase. To be Ensigns without purchase —Charles Leslie Hamilton, Gent.; William Charles Edward Scott, Gent. 68th Foot— John Augustus Tighe, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 60th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Charles James Philippe, Gent. ; George Ffrench Stehelin, Gent. ; Edward Cockburn Allen, Gent. ; James Farrell Hogg, Gent. ; Burnett Bell Forsyth, Gent 63rd Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En signs C. C. Pye and A. Grey. William Gordon, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 71st Foot—Ensign Le Marchant James Carey to be En sign, without purchase. 74th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant• Colonel John Irnpett to be Captain ; Lieutenant J. T. Evans to be Lieutenant. 79th Foot—James Dixon Mackenzie, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase. 92nd Font—Lieutenant W. A. Swift to be Lieutenant. 93rd Foot—Ensign G. C. Gooch to be Ensign, without purchase. Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Anthony Taintsll to be Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigns C. G. Anderson, G. A. Robert- son, and J. K. S. Henderson. • /3 REVZT. 355 48th Foot—Ensign Henry James William Wilkinson to be Ensign, without purchase. 57th Foot—Ensign Thomas H. Traggett, to be Ensign without purchase. 68th Foot—Lieut. H. L. Edwards to be Captain. 77th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase.—En. signs W. S. Lefeuver and J. G. Skene. Stith Foot—Robert Freke to be Ensign, without purchase. 90th Foot—Henry Carver Treacher, Gent., to be En sign. 97th Foot—Ensign R. T. F. Hamilton to be Lieutenant, without purchase. Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant T. Clark to be Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase—Ensigns H. R. Sykes and W. W. W. Johnston. &It:VET. Major-General Henry John William Bentinck to have the local rank of Lieut.-General in Turkey. To be Majors in the East Indies—Captain s Ed w . J o h n Lake and Charles Herbert. STAFF. To be Paymasters of Provisional Depot Battalions— Paymaster Edward George Cubitt, and Julius Henry Stirke, Esq. UNArfACIIED. Lieutenant W. G. Sutton to be Captain, without purchase. .. _ 110 SPIT AL STAFF. Surgeon Duncan M`Pherson, M.D., about to ho em• ployed with the Turkish Contingent Force, to have the local rank in Turkey of Inspector•Gencral of Hospitals while so employed. To be Acting Assistant•Surgeons—Christopher Thomp son, M. 8., Thomas Henry Burton Crosse, Gent., and David Bridges, Gent. Re gals ADMIRALTY, Aran. 7-11. ♦PPOINTMENTB. Commander—V. G. Hinkley to the Childers. Lieutenants—W. F. Johnson to the Orion ; Mark 12. Pechell to the Exmouth. Masters--J. R. Fittock to the Fisgard; James Milton to the Childers. Acting Second Masters—J. Reeves to the Ajax ; E. Col burne to the Hawke ; H. J. R. Pearch to the Russell. Chaplain—Rev. J. Caweton to the Centaur. Surgeons—J. Jeffcott to the Childers, and W. M'Dermott to the Waterloo. Assistant•Surgeons—Randall M`Donnell to the Light ning ; Alexander Fisher, M.D., to the Neptune. Paymaster—J. H. Jackson to the Childers,and S. Fisher to the Duke of Wellington. Assistant-Paymaster—G. W. Welch to the Wellesley. Clerk—C. K. Foulkes to the Chillers. Clerks' Assistants—J.R.Horniman to the Impregnable, and N. B. Denny. to the Lightning. Temporary Clerks—W. E. Gardner and F. Fesenmoyer to the Duke of Wellington. PROMOTIONS. Commander—John liurlase to be Captain, and appointed to the Melampus. Second Masters—G. A. Stabb, J. P. C. Clements, H. W. Inglis, and H. P. Ward, to the rank of Masters. Assistant•Surgeons—H. M. Speer, A. Brown, and C. L. Lester to be Surgeons. Second Master—G. S. Aldrieks to be Master. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, April 10. VACANCIES. The Vicarage of Towaester, Northamptonshire; worth 3001. a year, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield. The Curacy of St. Peter's Church, Cheltenham ; worth 751. a year, in the gift of the Rev. W. Hodgson, M. A. The Curacy of St.. Gilea's Church, Reading; worth 1001. a year, in the gift of the Rev. J. Cecil Grainger, M. A. The Head Mutership of Wolverhampton Grammar School ; worth 3501. a year, in the gift of the trustees. A LETTER, of the 6th, from Genoa states that the English steamers destined for the conveyance of the Piedmontese army to the East had begun to arrive at that port. There were lying there, at that date, the Europa, Thames, Charity, Cleopatra, Bajona, and the Mary Anne. A NUMBER of Russian prisoners, taken at Bomar sund, are about to be removed from the Ile d'Aix for Corsica, where they have obtained permission to work in clearing the land. They will proceed to their destination in charge of a French officer. The Princes Bonaparte of Rome have been in vited to Paris by the Emperor, and are not likely to return to Italy, as their villa and their palace in the eternal city are offered for sale. DURING the past few days, a vast quantity of stores and ammunition for the Turkish contingent in the Crimea, including no less than 3,000 tons of the newly-invented shells, have been deposited for ship ment in the premises of Orsi and Armani at Old Shot tower wharf, Lambeth. The shells are taken in barges down the river to Woolwich, where they are charged with the combustible material prior to trans mission to the Crimea. A STATUE is about to be erected at Montrose to the memory of the late Joseph Hume. THE Scotsman says that the Government is about to issue a commission to inquire into the condition and management of lunatic aaglums in Scotland. The undermentioned officers, having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be pro moted to be Colonels in the Army, in accordance with the Royal Warrant for the Ordnance Department. dated the 3rd of November, 18.54:—Royal Artillery—Lieutenant- Colonels Alexander Tnlloh, Henry Poole, Henry George Teesdale, and Noel Thomas Lake. STAFF. Quartermaster Timothy Morris to be quartermaster at the depot at Scutari. HOSPITAL STAFF. John Charles Fuller, Esq., employed on the medical staff of the Turkish army, to have the honorary rank of In spector-General of Hospitals while so employed. James Scott Robertson, Gent, to be Purveyor in Chief to her Majesty's forces serving in the East. School of Musketry, at Hythe—Brevet-Major G. 13. C. Crespigny to be Paymaster. WAR-OFFICE, A PRILI 3. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet George Price to be Riding-Muter. 7th Light Dragoons—Captain James Borton to be Pay. master. 7th Regiment of Foot—To be Lieutenants without pur chase—Ensigns Heathcote Plummer, H. N. C. Thurston, L P. Traherne. 18th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase— Ensigns J. S. Theobald, M. J. Cunningham, H. J. Faircloth. 21st Foot—Ensign S. G. L. Fox to be Lieutenant, with out purchase. 23rd Foot—Ensign James Williamson to be Lieutenant without purchase. 28th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En signs E. F. Angelo, and T. E. Adams. 42nd Foot—Ensign W. Green to be Lieutenant, without purchase. 43rd Foot—Ensign H. J. Berners to be Lieutenant, Arthur R. Close, Gent., to be Ensign. 45th Foot—john Charles Kingsley, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchise, BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—WY. BICKLET, Stoke-upon- Trent, Staffordshire, draper. BANKRUPTS.—OKORGE CHRISTMAS LONG, Dartford, Kent, draper—JOHN DAWSON, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, cattle salesman—Wm. ATTACK, Canning•town, Essex, engineer—JOHN ROLLASON and JACOD ST►NLET LISTEN, Morley Iron Works, near Allston, Staffordshire, ironmastere—MsrrHsw RICHMOND, RTZELZ, Leicester, liuendraper—Js Doss MINEss, Itedruth, Corn wall, grocer—JosxPH LAHrrica, Sheffield, Yorkshire, butcher— (3lCOßOE MILNEK, Sheffield, Yorkshire, brickmaker—JicasmiAlt New, Sheffield, Yorkshire, saw manufacturer—Gr:mon WIL• LIAMSON, Rochdale, Lancishire, cotton cloth manufacturer— GEORGE RICH, Leigh, Lancashire, Joiner—SYLvairrsa Lzwie SAMUEL, Liverpool, watch manufacturer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—JAHse M'CALL, Gies gow merchant-oEolton MuaitAT, Broom, Perthshire, farmer. Friday, Apra 13. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED—Jostra GIBD, Blue Lion yard, Grays-inn-road, livery stable keeper—CHARLES KING VVI-rr, New Sarum, Wiltshire, grocer—Ronsax NtcHoLsoN, Kingston-upon-Hull, sail maker. BANK RTJPTS.—C HA Huts K No R'irr, New Sarum, Wiltshire, grocer—WILLIAM MEAD, Milk-street, Cheapside, commission agent—PAUL SAMPSON, Hythe, Kent, boot and shoe maker — Louts LIPMAN, Charles-street, Northampton-square, goldsmith and jeweller —FREDERICK THOMAS DODDINOTON, Alderegate street, City, manufacturer of lacefalle—THomAs Stumm Cam bridge, cooper—WILLIAM SUTCLIFFE, Bradford, Yorkshire , joiner and builder CHARLES Almon, James-street, Long-Acre, licensed victualler—JOHN WILSON DAVIS, Deptford, grocer— SARAH NUrFALL, Lower Tunstead, Lancashire, innkeeper— JAMES GRANT, Birmingham, taiIor—CHARLES HARGREAVES and MICHAEL HARGREAVES, Bradford, Yorkshire, whiteamithe—JOHN BLAKEY and Ozonos BLAKEY, Kelghley, Yorkshire, tea dealers —WM. HOLLADAY and JAMES CLZMITSON, Watling-street, City, warehousemen—J.lam LAMB. EDWARD Lawn, and WM. Thom. ALLUM, Wouldham, Kent. cement manufacturers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. —JANET lionEwrsoN, Dun fermline, gas manufacturer—JAHN' and JOSEPH FISHER, Dun tocher, merohanta—ALsgANDEx BAER, Glasgow, POIIIISIWP -- JAMES STEEL and SONS, engineers and ironfounders—V , lLLux COWIE, clothier, Glasgow. CRYSTAL PALACE.—EASTER WEEIL—The number of admissions for the current week amounts to 26,1•17, a considerable number over the average of former weekii