The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

LUCIFER-MATCHES have been the supposed cause
of a fire at Deal, which broke out on the premises of
Mr. Chitty, miller, on Thursday morning. The
damage at present known is one very large barn,
several straw-stacks, and one stack of fodder, all
burnt to the ground. The sparks extended some
distance to property belonging to Mr. Monday, and
destroyed outhouses, stables, &c.; also to his tenant
Mr. Elliott's property, consisting of stacks of straw,
fodder, &c. The property of Mr. Chitty is insured
in the Guardian Fire-office. The fire is supposed to
have originated from some children playing with
Weider. matches.

Cif 'glring.

WAR•OFFICE, SEPT. 23.

64th Foot—Major-General James Freeth, to be Colonel.
let West India Regiment—Lieutenant-General ( Sir Geo.
Bowles, K.C.13., to be Colonel.
4th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant G. M. Morgan to be
Captain ; Lieutenant Robert Gunter to be Captain ; Cornet
G. A. Muttlebury to be Lieutenant.
13th Light Dragoons—Captain Henry Holden to be
Major; Lieutenant E. R. King to be Captain; Cornet Henry
0 Munn to be Lieutenant.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet H. B. Wright t) be Cornet,
without purchase.
16th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Armstrong to be Captain;
Ensign Henry Kelsall to be Lieutenant.
20th Foot—Charles Verey, Gent., to be Ensign.
28th Foot—Lieutenant James Williams to be Captain;
Ensign J. W. Kingsley to be Lieutenant, without
purchase.
33rd Foot—Sergeant Major George Toseland to be
Ensign, without purchase; Ensign G. Toseland to be
Adjutant.
38th Foot—William Gerard Byron, Gent., to be
Ensign.
39th Foot—To be Ensigns—Copner Francis Oldfield,
Gent.; Samuel Fyson, Gent.; John Bartholomew Con
ballis, Gent.
42nd Foot—Ensign W. P. Hesketh to be Lieutenant;
Fife Allan, Gent., to be Ensign.
47th Foot—Thos. Baillie Thomson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
both Foot—Lieutenant John Thompson to be Captain,
without purchase ; Ensign H. B. Chichester to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase ; George Edge, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase.
86th Foot—Captain Henry W. Gordon to be Captain ;
Lieutenant M. Lepper to be Captain.
88th Foot—To he Captains, without purchase—Lieu-
tenant W. C. Pearson; Lieutenant H, H. Day.
92nd Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Thorod to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase ; Brevet-Major
Robert M. Sutherland to be Major, without purchase.
To be Captains, without purchase—Lieutenants G. Stott,
E. C. B. Elphinstone, C. Parsons, and J. A. M'Donald.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigns P. F.
Gooch, T. Gordon, and W. H. Shafto. To be Ensigns,
without purchase—Ensigns H. A. Ellis, and Francis
Roberts.
97th Foot—Ensign A. R. N. Gould to be Lieutenant,
without purchase; Samuel Slater, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
99th Foot—Lieutenant F. W. Despard to be Captain,
without purchase ; Lieutenant L. J. Nunn to be Captain ;
Ensign Charles Will. Quin to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase ; George Richards Harvey, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
lst West India Regiment—Alexander M. William Sam-
son, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Ensign C. R. Wil-
liams to be Lieutenant, without purchase; Lieutenant
George Mignan Inner to be Adjutant.
St. Helena Regiment—Acting Assistant-Surgeon James
Jardine, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Land Transport Corps—William Handyside to be Second
Captain.
Provisional Depot Battalion— Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. James Lyon Browne to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Invalid Depot—Paymaster Charles Schomburg Thomas
to be Paymaster.
British German Legion: Ist Rifle Battalion—Francis
Warren, Esq. to be Paymaster.
Hospital Staff—Assistant-Surgeon James Fraser, M.D.,
to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class; Assistant-
Surgeon Andrew Leith Adams, M.D., to be Staff-Surgeon
of the Second Class ; Assistant-Surgeon Robert William
Woolcom be to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces.
BREVET.

Major-General Sir J. L. Pennefather, 1C.C.8., to have
the local rank of Lieutenant-General in the Island of
Malta.
Colonel Edward Macarthur, Unattached, to have the
local rank of Major-General in Australia.
Colonel James Robertson Crawfurd, to have the local
rank of Brigadier-Ceneral in Turkey
Major and Brevet-Colonel A. G. Blachford, of the 34th
Foot, having been promoted to the Brevet Rank of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel on 7th June, 1849, for service in the field,
and having consequently completed six years service in
that rank on 7th June, 1855, to be Colonel in the Army, in
conformity with the memorandum dated Ist May, 1855,
his commission to bear date 7th June, 1835.
The undermentioned Cadets of the East India Com-
pany's Service to have the local and temporary rank of
Ensign during the period of their being placed under the
command of Colonel Sandham, of the Royal Engineers at
Chatham, for field instructions in the art of sapping and
mining :—Henry Cecil Moore, G ent. ; Harvey Rhodes
Faber, Gent.

SATURDAY,

The undermentioned officers, having been selected for
service with the Turkish Contingent, to have a step of local
rank while so employed :
To have the local rank of ➢lajor—George Caldwell
Dickins, Esq.
To have the local rank of Captain—Lieutenants Joseph
Hind, F. C. Harbin.), Williams, and Newton Charles
Chichester. _ . .

To have the local rank of Assistant•Surgeon—William
Isaac Spencer, Gent.
To have the local rank of Acting Assistant• Surgeon-
- Ernest Simpson, Gent.; George Barnes Mowbray
Black, Gent.
The undermentioned officers to have a step of local rank
while employed with the Irregular Cavalry under the com•
mand of Major• General Ileatson :
To have the local rank of Captain—William Gill V. O.
Bridgman.
To have the local rank of Lieutenant in Turkey—W. 11.
Ward, Gent.
The undermentioned gentlemen to have the local rank
in rurkey of Veterinary Surgeons while attached to the
Land Transport Corps of the Turkish Contingent—Fred.
de Fair Elkes, Gent, and Charles Moir, Gent. _ _

, ,
The undermentioned gentlemen to have a step of local
rank in Turkey while attached to the army serving under
his Excellency Omer Pacha :
To have the local rank of Assistant Inspector of Hospi-
tals—Alexander Farquhar, Esq.
To have the local rank of Surgeon—Frederick Le
Mesurier, Esq., S. D. Bird, Esq., Thomas Buzzard, Esq.,
George Robert Cubitt, Esq., Horatio Edsall, Esq., Charles
Frederick Edward, Esq., John Bake Husband, Esq., Rout.
Brudenell Carter, Esq., John Netten Radcliffe, Esq.,
Richard Forde Foote, Esq.. Augustus Pont, Esq., Habeeb
Risk Allah Effendi, James Phillips, Esq., Henry Kiallmark,
Esq., and John T. Jenkins, Esq.
The local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Turkey, while
serving in the Irregular Cavalry under the command of
Major-General Beatson, conferred on James St. John
Munro, and published in the Gazelle of 31st August, IS,
has been cancelled.

Captain Taylor, 9th Regiment, is appointed to take
charge of the sick and invalided soldiers returned
from the Crimea, on board H.M.S. Britannia,
hospital-ship at Plymouth.

On Saturday morning orders were forwarded to
the respective commanding officers of the Ist Bat-
talion of the Grenadier Guards, 2nd division of the
Coldstreams, and 2nd Battalion of Scots Fusiliers, to
hold in readiness for embarkation for foreign ser•
vice the following reinforcements, viz.:—The Ist
Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, to consist of
1,200 men ; two divisions k four companies of 100
men each) of the Coldstreams, and the same num-
ber of the Scots Fusilier Guards, making a total of
2,000 bayonets. It is expected that the troops will
proceed direct to the Crimea the first week in Oc-
tober.

A detachment for the British German Legion has
arrived from Canada. The detachment consists of
0 officers and 184 rank and file. The names of the
officers are Captain Carlenton, Captain Tremacki,
Captain Corpini, Lieutenant Poldeski, and Lieu-
tenant Shennan ; Ensign Samsay, Ensign Terar-
giver, Ensign Ritter, and Assistant-Surgeon Rich.
Major-General Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8., has
been appointed to command the troops at Malta,
with the local rank of Lieutenant General, in the
room of Lieutenant-General Sir James Ferguson,
K.C.8., appointed Governor of Gibraltar.
Colonel Edward Macarthur, for some time past
Deputy-Adjutant-General in New South Wales, has
been appointed to the command of her Majesty's
troops in the Australian colonies, in succession to
Major-General Sir Robert Nickle, K.C.8., deceased.
Colonel Philip M'Pherson, C. 8., of the 17th Regi-
ment, has been appointed to the command of the
York district. Colonel M'Pherson was lately in com-
mand of a brigade in the Crimea, hut was obliged to
return home in consequence of ill health.
The two vacant colonelcies have been disposed of,
Major-General Freeth obtaining the 04th, and Sir
George Bowles the Ist West India Regiment. M‘jor-
General Freeth was in the principal actions in the
Peninsula, and bears the war medal and eight clasps.
He has for some years filled the important office of
Quartermaster General with credit and efficiency.
Sir George Bowles was also a sharer in the most
remarkable events of the late war.

Colonel Windham, C. 8., has been appointed Com-
mandant of the portion of Sebastopol occupied by the
British (Karabelnia.) This gallant soldier, whom
the despatches cover with so much glory, was a
guardsman, having spent his early military career in
the Coldstreams. Ho entered the army in 1826,
acted during the campaign as Assistant-Quarter-
master-General of the 4th Division, and about a few
weeks since was appointed by General Simpson to
the command of the second brigade of the second
division, upon Brigadier-General Lockyer's appoint-
ment to the Ceylon command.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, Sept.2.s.

BANKRUPTS.—GEORGE PARKER, Southampton, pastrycook
—WM. ASHTON, Loughborough-road, Brixton, Surrey. builder—
GEOROE SPEIGHT, Goswell-street, Middlesex, confectioner—
JOHN PATTIRON, Alpha-road. St. John's-wool, surgeon—Moses
YEARSLEY, South-bank, St. John's-wood. Middlesex, wine mer-
chant—RTcHAßD THOMAS Frretterr. Hanover-street, Hanover-
square. taiIor—THOMAS Kimonos, Netherexe, Devon, cyder
merchant—Wm. OULTON, Liverpool, chemist—THOMAS AI.LEN
and THOMAS CUTHBERT COOKSON, Manchester, Italian ware-
housemen.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATTONS. Jona Goya, Laurence-
kirk, innkeeper—Duncaw Ailwrosw, Glasgow, commission
agent.

Friday, September 28.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED —FRANCIS STEPHEN FOLEY,
Goldsmith-street, warehousemen— Wm. JEFFERSON WESTOE,
and Turnuts Mimi, South Shields. alkali manufacturers.

BANKRUPTS.—CHARLES JOHN MARE, Blackwell, ship.
builder—GEn Roe Fox EAMES. Paul-street, Finsbury, oil and
colourman —BARNETT BIM RE e a:Snow-hill, Birmingham, general
dealer—TH(l'4as Luwanan, South Shields, ship builder-4mm
Prrr, Birmingham, retail brewer—Jon n DUFFIELD, Oldbury,
Worcester. publican—Jemes F.t.t.ls, Spring Head, Warwickshire,
timber merchant—SAMUEL BRIDGE, Manchester, builder.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—Rev. JOHN MILLAR, Jed-
burgh, Master of the Nest Academy— ANDREW SCOTT, Dunferm-
line, paper manfaoturer.