The Press. — London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

SEPT. 22, 1855. jortign ;Art, Sittraturt, Vi c. THE PARIS ITALIAN OPERA Will open on the 2nd of October, under the direction of Signor Colzado. The singers engaged are mostly old favorites, beginning with Grisi and Mario. The prime donne, De Roissi and Penco, are new for Paris. Both have sung with success at the St. Carlo, Naples. The contralto, Borghi-Mamo, is also engaged, and will appear again in the Trovatore, and other operas where a good con tralto part is to be found. It will be seen, from the following list, that the company is strong in old favorites:—Primi soprani assoluti : Mmes. Bocca badati, De Roissi, Fiorentini, Orisi, Penco, and Pozzi. Primo contralto assoluto : Mme. Borghi- Mamo. Primi tenon assoluti : MM. Carrion, Mario, Mongini, and Salvi. Primi baritoni assoluti : MM. Everardi and Graziani. Primo basso profondo : M. Angelini. Primo buffo assoluto : M. Zucchini. In selecting the operas to be given this season, the direction, it would appear, bas sought to reproduce these standard works which are always well received in Paris and London. The pr gra►ome gives the following operas to be given this season :—Rossini's Semiramide, Otello, Mose, Assedio di Corinto, Bar biero di Siviglia, Cenerentola, and Matilde di Shabran ; Mozart's Don Giovanni ; Bellini's I Puri tan{, Sonnambula, Norma, and Capuleti e Montecchi; Donizetti's Lucretia Borgia, and Lucia di Lansmsr more; and Verdi's II Trovatore and Ernani. The two operas new at Paris will be—Leonora, by Mer cadante ; and Fiorina, by Pedrotti. The opera com posed expressly will be Bottesini's Aasedio di Firenze, dedicated to Prince J. Poniatowski. Among the medals struck during the Congress of Verona, in 1822, is one in honour of the Emperor Nicholas. Surrounding the bust is "Emperor of Russia, Verona, Oct., 1822," and on the reverse these significant words, " I should like Constantinople." ME. J. BRETT passed through Turin on the 14th, on his way to Cagliari, where the steamer with the telegraphic submarine cable which is to join Sardinia and Africa had arrived. He engages, if the sea con tinues calm, to despatch a telegraphic message from Algiers to Paris before twelve days. THE ItEcEirrs of the theatres, balls, and concert looms of Paris amounted, during the month of August, to 1,462,504 f. Those of July were only 1,180,249 f.; so that the balance in favour of August is 282,255 f. 4 ,rmg. WAR-OFFIr,F„ SEPT. 21. 7th Regiment of Dragoon cartney, to be Captain, without purchase. 3rd Light Dragoons—Sergeant-Major James Alexander Dixon to be Riding Master. 9th Light Dragoons—Col tenant, without purchase. 10th Light Dragoons—Cc tenant, without purchase. Royal Artillery—Lient. Chas. Carpenter to be Second Captain. To he Veterinary Surgeons—Fred. Sprat, Gent ; Jonathan Briggs, Gent ; Major Thomas Atchison, of the Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery, formerly Captain in the Royal Artillery, who was dismissed from the service in the veer 1824. by sentence of a General Court-martial, has been restored to his former rank of Captain in the Royal Artillery, and permitted to retire upon the full pay of that rank, from 16th June, IMO, but without any claim for arrears of pay, or to he restored to his original place in the Royal Artillery ; Second Captain and Brevet-Major Samuel Enderby Gordon to be Captain; Lieutenant Wm. Gilly Andrews to be Second Captain. Grenadier Guards—Captain F. G. Stapleton, to be Lieutenant and Captain. 7th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Gurney to be Ensign, wiihout purchase; Thomas Burton Vsndeleur, Gent., to be Ensign. 16th Foot—Lieutenant W. H. Carter to be Lieutenant. J. N. Ma• 19th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Ad jutant. 22nd Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Peach (2), to be En sign, without purchase. 23rd Foot—Captain Robert Bruce to be Major, without purchase. 30th Foot—The proper designation of the Ensign appointed on the 2,5 th of January, 1835, is Hyde Sergison- Smith. 3'2nd Foot—Lieutenant William Power to be Captain. 33rd Foot—Lieutenant Murray Doveton Valentine Trea sure Grant to be Entign, without purchase. 34th Foot—Ensign E. W. B. Vilien; to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; David W. Balfour Ogilvy, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 315th Foot—Richard Trinsen, Gent., to be Ensign. 38th Foot—Ensign William C. Hill to be Lieutenant 45th Foot—Ensign G. C. Close to be Lieutenant. 48th Foot—Ensign H. J. Hitchcock to be Lieutenant. 47th Font—Ensign E. P. Newman to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Ensign John P. Mallett to be Lieute nant, without purchase. 48th Foot—Charles Richard Pennington, Gent., to be Ensign. 49th Foot—Frederick Platt Blackmore, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. A. S. Jones to be Lien. John Hudson to be Lieu- THE PRESS. 50th Foot—Captain Heathfield James Frampton to be Major, without purchase. 63rd Foot—Lieutenant A. Wybergh to be Captain; Lieutenant Thomas Coot. Grant to be Lieutenant ; En sign T. L. Twiston to be Lieutenant. 64th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George Evans to be As sistant-Surgeon. 67th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Basil Tuite to be Cap min, without purchase; Ensign Malachy Nugent to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Hugh Robson Evans, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 71st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Henry Gilborno to be Assistant-Surgeon. 78th Foot—Ensign F. H. Walsh to be Lieutenant. 79th Foot—Ensign Neil Campbell to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Ensign James Bell Campbell to be En sign, without purchase. 82nd Foot—Lieutenant R. C. Dalrymple Bruce to be Captain, without purchase ; Ensign Charles Stuart Mann sell to be Lieutenant, without purchase; Ensign Graham Mylne to be Lieutenant, without purchase. 88th Foot—Ensign Theobald Burke to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Lieutenant Rowley Miller to be Ensign, without purchase ; William Howley Burder, Gent., to be Ensign. 90th Foot—Ensign M. B. Parcel! to be Lieutenant. Ist West India Regiment—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel L. 8. O'Connor to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without pur chase; Brevet-Major G. Robeson to be Major, without purchase ; Lieutenant W. N. Watts to be Captain, without purchase ; Ensign W. Kenrick to be Lieutenant. 2nd West India Regiment—Ensign Henry Carvell to be Adjutant. 3rd West India Regiment—Ensign W. R. Mulliner to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Russell Harris Vieth, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Charles Dyneley Baynes, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant W. H. Humphreys to be Captain ; Ensign R. G. Macdonald to be Lieutenant, without purchase. Laud Transport Corps.—Major W. E. Evans to be Assistant-Director-General ; Captain William Mayne to be Major. To be Quartermasters of Brigade—Superintendent , Richard Sedley, Lynch John Keogh, Gent. British Italian Legion.—Vivian Ryan, Esq , ., to be Pay master of the lat regiment. Unattached.—The undermentioned officers to have their Brevet converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant, 6th October, 18.54 :—Brevet-Lientenant-Colonel Arthur James Herbert, 23rd Foot; Brevet-Major C. C. de Morel, 67th Foot. Provisional Depot Battalion.—Quartermaster J. Desmond to be Assistant-Quartermaster. Hospital Staff —Surgeon Joseph Ambrose Lawson, M.D., to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class. Ordnance Medical Department.—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Edward Schaw Protheroe to be Surgeon. BREVET. Major W. E. Evans, Assistant-Director-General of the Land Transport Corps, to have the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in Turkey while so employed. Captain J. N. Macartney, of the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Major in the Army. MEMORANDUM.— The appointment of Quartermaster Thomas Cassidy, as Paymaster of the Invalid Depot at Scutari, to bear date 1 lth April, 18bb, in lieu of Bth July, 18415, as previously stated. The undermentioned promotion to take place in the East India Company's army, consequent on the death of Lieut.- General Richard Tickell, C. 8., of the Bengal Engineers, on 3rd Aug., 1850, and of Lient.-General Archibald Wat son, of the Bengal Light Cavalry, on the 22nd Aug., 1865. To be Lieutenant-Generals--Major-General John Henry, Madras Infantry ; Major-General Chas. Ramsay Skerdon, Bengal Infantry. To be Major-Generals—Colonel George Grantham, Ma dras Infantry ; Colonel Henry Cracklow, Bombay In fantry. The undermentioned officers of the East India Com pany's Service, retired upon fhll.pay, to have a step of honorary rank, as follows ; To be Lieut.-Colonels—Majors George Poyntz Ricketts, Bengal Light Cavalry ; Thomas Dickson, Bombay In fantry ; John Hunt, Bengal Infantry; Charles Young Basett, Bengal Light Cavalry. To be Major—Captain Frederick Augustus Carleton, 1 Bengal Infantry. FROM AN OFFICIAL RETURN made up to the 19th inst., it appears that the total number of deserters from her Majesty's regular army was 330. Of this number the Foreign Legion contributed eleven and the Land Transport Corps ten. A BODY of three hundred of the Land Transport Corps has just left the barracks at Horfleld, near Bristol, for immediate embarkation to the East. They are a portion of the body of " drivers " now being raised, and for whom Bristol is head and training quarters. THE FRIENDS or Unit. PALIIIII6 62nd Regiment, reported in the list of the 11th as missing, have been informed that he is a prisoner, but quite well. THE magnificent new schools which were com• menced at Dowlsis by the late Sir John Guest, and which have been finished by his widow, the Lady Charlotte Schreiber, were opened last week in the presence of the Bishop of Llandaff and a brilliant assembly of the surrounding gentry. The building consists of seven school-rooms---one for infants, and three each for boys and girls. The number of children for whom the means of education have been provided exceeds 1,400. 913 ST. JAMES'S PARK. IN reply to Sir J. V. Shelley, who wrote respecting the rumoured intention to carry a road across the inclosure or ornamental water in St. James's-park, the Chief Commissioner of Works bas written a reasoning and explanatory letter. Sir B. Hall says, in this communication : For some time great inconvenience has been occasioned to persons in carriages k not having the entris of St. James's-park) being obliged to go by the way of Piccadilly and Grosvenor-place from Pall-mall to . . . . It was considered that if any new road was to be made it should be so laid out as to afford the greatest accommoda tion to the public at large, and not be constructed merely for the benefit of one comparatively small portion of the inhabitants of the m etropolis. As Chief Commissioner of Works, I was therefore re quested by the Secretary of State to prepare a plan for a line of road direct from Pall-mall to the Birdcage•walk, by throwing a bridge over the water near the spot upon which a bridge formerly stood, and terminating the road at such a point in the Birdcage•walk as would give a direct road to that densely-crowded part of Westminster which now has only a most circuitous route to the park and the northern part of Pall-mall, it being considered that such a road, independent of the vast accommodation thus offered to the great mass of the community, would at the same time give easy scene to Pimlico and Belgravia on the west, and a shorter rued to the Houses of Parliament and Bridge street on the east, and the whole of the borough of Lam beth, and relieve the immense traffic which during the London season is much too great for Charing-cross. This line, if made, will be open to carriages and cabs day and night ; and those who remember the wooden bridge which once crossed the water in the inclosure of St. James's•parko will recollect the great number of pedestrians who passed over it, and profited by the convenience of such a direct connection between the north and the south of the park. It has been stated in the public papers, that the Govern ment intended to avail themselves of the period when Parliament was not sitting, to commence the road and erect the bridge ; and it has, within the last few Jays, been positively asserted in one of the London journals, that the works have been already begun ! There is not one word of truth in these statements; such proceedings were never contemplated. Nothing will be done till Parliament meets ; the public will then have an opportunity for consi• daring the plans which will be presented to the House of Commons, and it will be seen whether the accommodation they offer is the best which should be granted, and whether these plans do not obviate, wholly or sufficiently, those objections which have been raised against the project. The object contemplated by the Government is to make such a line as would be most beneficial to the public in general ; but not to construct a road for the convenience of one particular locality. Instructions were given to me with the above view, and I repeat that it was never intended to proceed with any works in relation to this object till Parliament should have had ample opportunity to consider it in all its relations. B. HALL. RAILWAYS IN HUNGARY. Two new companies are about to be formed for the extension of railways in Hungary. The first line which it is proposed to construct is to form a junction between Waitzenszop and the existing main line, thence to be carried on to Miscolez, via Balassa- Gyarmath. In addition to this, a branch to Dohschau, on the borders of the Zips district, is intended to be constructed. The districts through which this line will pass are rich in copper, cobalt, and other ores. The most important requisites for a railway—namely, iron, coal, and wood, exist in the neighbourhood in great abundance. A quantity of iron, amounting to nearly 800,000 cwt. per annum, is already being pro duced here. In the districts of Neograd, Obnitir, Borsod, and Havas, coal is found in great quantity, whilst. the abundance of wood is so great that a cubio fathom in the town of Losoncz is sold at the price of 30 kreutzer (about Is.). The second project em braces the construction of a line from Dehrezin to Kashau, by way of Tokai, at the head of which the most influential names of the Hungarian aristocracy stand. Since the necessary concession has been obtained from the Government, this company has con. siderably extended its original programme, and aims at connecting this part of the country with the already established railways in the north. With this view, a petition was presented to the Austrian Government on the 3rd of July, praying for a guarantee of five per cent. interest, and that the Szoltok-Dehrezin line, together with the branch line, Puspokledany- Grosswardein, which are now being constructed and very nearly completed on account of the state, should be made over to them, the company engaging itself to construct :-1. The line Czegled, Miskolez, Kas. chan, Eperies, Leutschan, Earmark, as far as Tar. naw, the length of which is estimated at tifty.seven German miles. 2. A junction between the above line and Debrezin-Szerenc, twelve miles. 3. The line from Torok St. Miklos to Arad and Temeevar, twenty-five miles ; and several other minor branches, yet to be ceded by the Government, amounting in all to no less a length than 119 German miles. It expected that this petition will be granted. The im portance of this project, which will have the effect it connecting Hungary with the Baltic, is so self. evident that it requires no special comment. It is, however, a question of no slight importance whether the main lino will itself pass through the risk