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7 APRIL 7, 1855. Sittu nab' Volta. THE LIBEL CASE OF Bom v. WISEMAN, which was tried at Guildford last year, with the result of a verdict for the defendant, came on for re-trial at Kingston on the Home Circuit, on Tuesday last The application for a new trial had been founded and granted on the plea that the Chief Baron, who tried the cause, had improperly refused to admit secondary evidence of the contents of a letter written by the defendant, in which he admitted the authorship of the alleged libel, and that he had also ruled that the cardinal could not be called as a witness for the plaintiff, as his evidence would tend to criminate himself, and upon both grounds a new trial was directed. The plaintiff, it will be remembered, was a Catholic priest at Islington, who had been removed by Cardinal Wiseman, and afterwards spoken of in letters signed by that gentleman in certain French journals, as having been ignominiously dismissed from the Society of Jesuits and incurred other marks of disgrace. Evidence in support of the action was given at great length, Cardinal Wiseman sitting on the bench during the whole proceedings. The verdict at the close was for the plaintiff, with 1,0001. damages. _ _ _ AN ACTION FOR CAM. CON. brought by Mr. Evans, a gentleman of fortune residing at Leamington, against Mrs. Evans, was tried at Liverpool during the week. The proceedings lasted two days. This was also a second trial, in which the evidence of Mr. Field, the ex-detectivo police officer, together with that of other spies whom he had engaged to watch the defendant, was taken to a voluminous extent. The verdict was returned in an opposite sense to that at the former trial, judgment being given for the plaintiff, damages 5001. Mrs. RAMSBOTHAM, wife of a physician residing at Portman-square, who was charged last week at the Marylebone Police-court with having stolen four cambric handkerchiefs from the shop of Mr. Moule, a linendraper in Baker-street, was brought up for re-examination on Tuesday last. The evidence against her was completed, and she was committed for trial, but Mr.Broughton, the magistrate, consented to her release on bail, the amount of recognisances being fixed at two of 1,0001. each. ltt *mg. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 2. Corps of Royal Engineers.—Second Captains D. Galton and W. H. Barlow, to be Captains ; First Lieutenant E. M. Grain to be Second Captain ; Second Lieutenant W. S. Boileau to be First Lieutenant. Ordnance Medical Department— Acting-Assistant-Sur geon S. Roch to be Assistant• Surgeon. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Sergeant W Stewart to be Quartermaster ; W. Hue, Gent, to be Veterinary Surgeon. ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. Major-General to be Colonel Ci vates. -E. C. Whin Brevet Colonele to be Colonels.—E. N. Wilford, W. H. Pickering. Captains to be Lieutenant-Colonele.—C. L. Fitzgerald, P. R. Cocks, W. T. Crawford, P. H. Mundy, W. Henderson, W. J. Smythe. Second Captains to be Captains.—C. R. 0. Evans, G. Rotton, F. W. Hastings, H. A. Smyth, P. W. Phillipps, E. Monbray, F. H. Chancellor, C. Waller, R. K. Fteeth, C. W. , Grey F. M. M. Ommanney, E. Palmer, F.Vansittart, L. G. . • Paget First Lieutenants to be Second Captains.—F. Close, J. Sinclair, H. S. Talbot, W. J. Wilson, W. H. R. Simpson, L. W. Penn, H. R. Saunders, E. U, Snow, W. Morris, H. Ronny, C. P. Rotton, J. M. Savage, D. Jones, T. E. Byrne, E. Teddy, H. J. T. Tomkinson, J. B. Parkin, C. Johnston, T. S. P. Field, L. A. Bradshaw, J. M'C. Campbell, W French, E. A. Seymour. _ _ _ SeconciLieutenants to be First Lieutenants.—H. Y. Wort.: ham, H. B. Maule, C. W. Walrand, W. J. S. Neill, H. Le Guay Geary, W. B. Rice, G. U. Knox, W. N. Persse, O. H. Goodenongh, J. H. P. Anderson, J. N. P. Mason, H. C. Farrell, E. M`Laughlin, C. F. Roberts, A. S. Hunter, G. R. T. Stevenson, G. A. Crawford. Invalid Arlille'ry. —Second Lieutenant and Adjutant J. Campbell to be Lieutenant and Adjutant. CORPS OF ROYAL ENOTNFERS. To be General Commandant. Lieutenant• General G. Cardew. To be Colonel.—Brevet Colonel J. E. Portlock. Captains to be lieutenant•Colonels.—F. A. Yorke, G. F. Skyring, R. G. Hamilton. Second Captains to be Captain•.—H. Y. D. Scott, G. Ross, J. R. Mann, Brevet Majors J. W. Lovell, M. H. Synge, E. W. Ward, W. H.Jesse. First Lieutenants to be Seeond Coptains.—A. P. Smith, A. M. Lochner, P. Ravenhill, H. T. Siborne, C. S. Akers, B. A. Wilkinson, L. Nicholson, G. E. L. Walker, F. E. Cox, S. B. Farrell, C. W. Barry. Socond Lieutenants to be First Lieutenants.—A. Dirom, W. M. T. Campbell, D. G. W. Moncrieff, M. C. Molesworth, R. B. Rimmington, P. G. L. Smith, W. Daniel. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL fl. Rth Regiment of Foot...Lieutenant-Cie Macneil to be Colonel. THE PRESS. 80th Regiment of Foot—l. William Robins to be Colonel. Thomas 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant G. T. Ricketts to be Paymaster. 9th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant R. D. Upton to be Lieutenant. 16th Light Dragoons—Staff.Surgeon of the Second Class William Ker Park to be Surgeon. Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign James Deacon to be Lieutenant, without purchase. 12th Foot—Lieutenant W. Rice Olivet' to be Paymaster. 17th Foot—John James Perceval, Gent., to be Ensign, without ,urchase. 18th Foot—Lieutenan t T. Esmonde to be Captain. 19th Foot—Alexander Brook Morgan, Gent., to be En- sign, without purchase. 21st Foot—Robert Cook, Gent., to be Ensign; George Wm. Furlong, Gent., Edward Thomas Bainbridge, Gent., to be Ensigns, without purchase. 23rd Foot—John Tilly Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 34th Foot—Hopton Scott Stewart, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 39th Foot—Ensigns John Daunt and E. Getty, to be Lieutenants, without purchase. 41st Foot—Arthur Vivian Bradshaw Blanchard, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 42nd Foot—To be Captains—Lieutenant H. C. Jer voise ; Lieutenant G. Fraser. 44th Foot—Ensign Philip Morton rat to be Ensign, without purchase. 46th Foot—George Philips, Gent., to be Ensign, with out purchase. 47th Foot—Spencer Edward Orr, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. bOth Foot—Lieutenant Robert Blackall, to be Captain. To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigns E. Leach and R. C. Goff. 63rd Foot-1 tenant• Colonel. T. S. Powell to be Lien- 58th Foot—Ensign John Homer to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Ensign W. R. Russell to be Ensign, without purchase. 60th Foot—Depat-Sergeant Major James Forbes to be Ensign, without purchase, and Adjutant; Robert Morris Hazen, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase; Assistant- Surgeon John Matthew Biddle to be Assistant-Surgeon. 66th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Charles James Daven port to be Assistant-Surgeon. 79th Foot—William Alexander Dobie, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase. 88th Foot—Edward Charles Mallett, Gent., to be En sign. 89th Foot—Second Lieutenant S. H. Hobbs to be Lieu tenant, without purchase. 90th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Charles Dawson Harwell, Gent.; George Robert Miller, Gent. 93rd Foot—Albert Vidler, Gent., to be Ensign. 95th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Stanhope Hunter Fasson, M.D., to be Surgeon. 97th Foot—Ensign J. Morgan, to be Lieutenant, with out purchase; Thomas Winter Sheppard, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. Rifle Brigade—Geoffrey Lewis Austin, Gent, to be En sign, without purchase. Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant John Henry King to be Lieutenant. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Christopher John Barnard, Gent., to be Ensign, STAFF. Major-General Arthur Wellesley Torrens to be Deputy uartermaster-General to the Forces. PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION. To be Paymasters--Captain H. C. Watson and Pay master T. M. Creagh. To be Quartermaster—Quartermaster William Doug herty. HOSPITAL STAFF. To be Staff• Surgeons of the Second Class.—Assistant- Surgeous Thomas Connor O'Leary, Edward William Thomas Mandeville, James Crerar, and Surgeon Arthur Wood, M.D. To be Acting Assistant•Snrgeons.—Richard Branwell, Gent. ; Frederic John Robinson, Gent. ; Geo. Leewortby Thorne, Gent.; James Maxwell, M.D. ; George Burnside Bryden, Gent. BREVET. The undermentioned officers to have the local rank of Major• General, while serving with the Turkish Contingent Force : Colonel Arthur Shirley and Colonel Michael William Smith. The undermentioned officer, having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be pro moted to be Colonel in the Army, in accordance with the provisions of the Royal Warrant for the Ordnance Depart ment, Nov. 3, 1854 : Lieutenant Colonel Charles William Wingfield, Royal Artillery. The undermentioned officers of the East India Com pany's Service to be promoted to a step of local rank in Turkey, while employed in the Turkish Contingent Force : Major John Richard Abbott, Captain John Geo. Jubilee Johnston, and Lieut. James Vincent Valentine. 'Re fare. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 29-4rßn. 6. •PPOINTMENTIL BREVET.—Corps of Royal Marines—Captain R. W. Me• hen: to be Major, the rank being honorary only ; First Lieutenant E. P. Dasher to be Captain; Second Lieutenant A. Donellan to be First Lieutenant. Commander-W. H. Llaaweil to the Plumper. 337 Lieutenants—S. P. Townsend to the Boxer; E. %ids to Greenwich Hospital. Masters—J. Kellock to the Melampus ;G. F. M'Dougall to the Meander; A. J. Court to the Odin; D. Hall to the Asp; E. W. Brooker to the Spitfire. Chaplains--Bev. C. 1.. Bell, BA., to the Conway; Rev. W. W. Garrett to the Pylades. Acting Assistant-Surgeons—J. B. Murphy to the Ex mouth; J. T. B. Tourance to the Cesar. Second Masters—C. F. Puckett to the Janus; D. H. Speer to the Otter; S. Sibley to the Locust; H. L. Kelly to the Pylades ; J. W. Higgs (acting) to the Tyne; G. E. Green to the Hastings. Assistant-Master--C. J. A. Noddall to be Attendant at Malta-yard. Master's Assistant—J. W. Allen to the Hawke. Acting Clerk—S. U. Robinson to the Exmouth. Temporary Clerks—W. Smith to the Excellent; H. W. Potts and E. J. Keevil to the Duke of Wellington. Clerks' Assistants—E. D. Green to the Royal George ; W. H. Martin, E. H. Joll, J. Claughton, and T. R. John stone to the Royal Albert. - PROMOTIONS. Mate—J. C. Patterson, of the Amphion, to the rank of Lieutenant. -W. B. Baikie, M.D., to the rank Or PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. Robert Foster, M.A., to the Flowage of Burpham, Sussex. The Rev. Nolland Lomas, M.A. to the Incumbency of Holy Trinity Church , Walton lireek, M.A., . . The - Rev. John Goldsmith Orger, M.A., to the Curacy of Slay ton, near Thrapetone, Northamptonshire. The Rev. Stephen Lea Wilson, M.A., to be Chaplain to the ni g h Sheriff of Sussex. The Rev. J. Coleridge Patteson, M.A., to be a Missionary for New Zealand. The Revs. John Escreet, M.A., James Wallace, M.A., William Sykes, M.A., and J. lYArcy Preston, M.A., to be Chaplains for the Seat of War. The Rev. James Russell Woodford, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Kempsford, Gloucestershire. . . _ . . The Rev. Henry Gough, MA., to the Rectory of Enham Knights, near Andover. The Rev. Henry Milwarcl, M.A., to the Prebendal Stall of Esst Harptree, in Wells Cathedral. The Rev. William John Shield, M.A., to the Incumbency of North Moor.green. The Rev. A. Beard, M.A., to be First Mathematical Master Is the Collegiate School of Chester. The Rev. William James Stracey, MA., to the Rectories of Skeyton and Oxnead, end the Vicarage of Buxton. The Rev. W. Hutchinson, M.A., to the Incumbency of Armen, near Goole. The Rev. Edward Brown, M.A., to tho Vicarage of Adding. ham, near Penrith. VACANCIES. The Rectory of Crostwight, near North Walsham, Norfolk; worth 1001. a year, in private patronage. The Curacy of Acton, near Birmingham; worth 801. a year, In the gift of the Rev. George Peake, M.A. The Incumbency of Kirkdale, near Liverpool; worth 2001. a year, in the gift of trustees. THE QUEEN has directed a largo quantity of bis cuits, jellies, jarng, and confections to be consigned, at her expense, to Lady de Redcliffe for the use of the sick and wounded at Scutari. IT has been decided by the commissioners of the Chelsea board, which has been sitting at Chatham, to give a pension of 9d. per day to those who have either lost a finger, or otherwise been slightly wounded. ILL lAXY, the son of the late Abbas Puha, has addressed an autograph letter to her Majesty's Consul• General in Egypt, inclosing a draught for lOU for the Royal Patriotic Fund. A LETTER of the 24th ult., from Rome, in the Piedmonte of Turin, states that the Bank of Rome is in so precarious a condition that it is preparing to wind up its affairs. It is to be succeeded by another hank, to be established by l'rince Torlonia and Messrs. de Rothschild. MR. H. BERKELEY, M.P., has given notice that he will bring forward his annual motion for the ballot soon after Easter. Vv AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION has been pt.(' nounced by the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. It has established definitively and unalterably the title of Colonel Fremont, the cele brated explorer, to the richest portion of the gold districts of California, known as the " Mariposa Tract." The decision makes him, in the estimation of geologists, bankers, and merchants, the richest man in America. GREAT activity has lately prevailed in the Tower in shipping saddlery, sabres, lances, pistols, ac coutrements, picket-posts, halters, and nosebags, to the seat of war; large quantities of the above-men tioned stores were also sent to Plymouth and Southampton, at which ports they will be taken charge of by the cavalry detachments about to pro ceed to the Crimea. Tim following clergymen have been appointed chaplains for the seat of war under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts : the Rev. John Escrefit, M.A., curate of Camden-town Chapel, St. Pancras; the Rev. James Wallace, M.A., curate of Littlebury; the Rev. William Sykes, M.A., late curate of Ingoldesthorpo, Norfolk ; and the Rev. J. D'Arey Preston, M.A., curate of Kenilworth.