The Press.
London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

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—Lieutenant 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.

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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.

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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.,
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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
nigh 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.
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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.

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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.