The Press.
London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

A West India mail has arrived, bringing dates from
Jamaica of the 12th ult. The islands were healthy,
with the exc,.eption of St. Thomas's, which was suf-
fering from yellow fever, but was confined princi-
pally to the shipping. At Jamaica eommercial affairs
had censidetably improved.

JUNE 9, 1855.

Cant and fastian.

The Queen has given several dinner parties during
the week, and held a Privy Council on Wednesday.
Prince Albert went to liydenham on Saturday to
inapeet the Horticultural Exhibition at the Crystal
Palace. On Tuesday her Majesty and the Prince
visited Gore house, to inspect the works of students
in the metropolitan and provincial schools in connec•
tion with the Department of Science and Art.
The titieen will hold a Drawing-room on Thursday
next, the 14th instant, and a levee, the last of the
season, on Wednesday, the 27th inst.
Her Majesty will inspect the regiments now sta-
tioned at the camp at Aldershott this (Saturday )
afternoon.
Prince Albert has signified his intention of being
present at the opening of the new Smithfield .market
on Tuesday next, the 13th inst.
A report which has appeared in the public papers
that her Royal Highness the Princess Alice had suf-
fered from an attack of scarlatina is without any
oundation. All the royal children are in perfect
health.
The Earl and Countess of Derby gave a grand
dinner on Wednesday evening, at their mansion in
St. James's Square, to their Royal Highnesses the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary. After
the banquet., the Countess of Derby gave a grand
ball, at which a highly distinguished company were
present.
Lady Londeshorough gave a grand ball on Monday
evening, at the family mansion on Carlton-house-
terrace. The reunion was fully and most fashionably
Attended.
The personnel of the French Embassy has been
almost entirely changed since the departure of his
Excellency the Count Walewski. It is now composed
as follows: The Count de Pensiguy, Ambassador; M.
Charles Baudin, First Secretary ; The Count do Jau•
cart, Second Secretary ; The Count de Chandordy,
Paid AtaChe ; M. Paul de Monicault, Attache; M. le
Due de Caderousse Gramont, Attache.
Lord Haddo, eldest son of the late Premier, who
has been so long absent from this countrylon account
of ill health, returned from Egypt by the Indus
steamer on Monday, and has taken his seat in the
House of Co"nmona for Aberdeenshire.
The Bedford Times states that Mr. Whitbread,
M.P. for Bedford, is about to be married to the Lady
'lsabella Pelham, third daughter of the Earl of Chi-
chester.
The Right lion. Sir John Trollope, has un-
dertaken to hunt the Cottesmore country, which
includes the best part of Leicestershire, the whole of
Rutland, and a part of Lincolnshire.

Mn. MECHT, of Tiptree-hall and Leadenhall-street,
has issued an address to the electors of Maldon,
announcing his intention of presenting himself as a
candidate on the next vacancy for the borough. In
his letter to the electors Mr. Medd says :—" I like
no half measures—they are uu British. Let Us do
in war as we do in business—try to find the right
man for the right place. I have taken a deep in-
terest in the improvement of our national agriculture
as a means of feeding and employing our industrious
million 4, and, although but a small landowner, I
have practised what I preached in my transactions
with my tenants."
THE MEMBER FOR CIRENCESTER, the Hon. Ashley
Ponsonby, who has lately returned to England to
attend the funeral of his late father, Lord Pe Manley,
was memorialised by a iininher of his constituents to
fulfil a promise made at the time of his election to
resign his military appointment when it should
interfere with his parliamentary duties. Captain
Ponsonby has sent a reply, in which he acknow-
ledges the promise, but states that, although he will
have duties to perform which must probably detain
him in England until after the present session, lie
shall then return to the seat of war, and resume his
military avocations. The gallant member, however,
says, that if, on the reassembling of Parliament his
constituents should repeat their wish for him to de-
vote his time exclusively to his lekislative duties, he
will then succumb to their desire, and redeem the
pledge be formerly made.
THE Loans OF THE Taxestmr, by minute dated
18th May, 1855, have ordered the survey of Scotland
to be carried on as follows :—For cultivated, popu-
kus, and mineral districts, on a scale of 25,344
inches to a mile; for uncultivated, highland, and
moorland districts, on a scale of 0 inches to a mile ;
the towns containing more than 4.000 inhabitants to
he mapped on a scale of 1.500 in 120.72 inches to a
mile; that plans on the 26.344 and 6-inch scales
shall be mapped, and copies made when required,
by the Anastatic process: that the general 1-inch
map of Scotland be proceeded with as rapidly as
possible.
A LARGE NUMBER of ornamental armlets for
ladies, bearing the portrait of the late Czar, have
been imported into Munich for complimentary dis•
tribution

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plant nub 6tntral.

THE Eurine, which sailed from Southampton on
Monday with the India mail, took out 405,0001. in
specie, for East India and China, principally in silver.
The money weighed forty tons, and occupied fourteen
of the large railway trucks iu its transit from London
to Southampton.
ACCORDING t•, a new ordinance just issued at Gib-
raltar, no printer will be able to print any publication
not previously examined and licensed by the Go
vernor's secretary under a penalty of one hundred
dollars, to be levied by distress and sale of his goods
and chattels, if not instantly paid.
ZEPHANIAH Witizams, the Newport Chartist, who
was transported with Frost and Jones to Australia,
has made a discovery in Tasmania of a bed of yellow
coal, of very superior quality, which bids fair to place
him amongst the magnates of the laud.
Os Saturday evening a grand banquet was given
by tie Lord Mayor, in the Egyptian hall, Mansion•
house, to her Majesty's judges.
THE Opinione of Turin states that the thirty four
monastic orders which are to be suppressed in Pied-
mont in consequence of the new law possessed 381
houses, inhabited by 4,543 persona. Cardinal Apto-
nelli has addressed a new note to the Piedmontese
Government on the subject.
THE BATH BI,ECTION terminated on Monday,
when Mr. Tite, the vice-chairmap of the Adminis-
trative Reform Society, was returned by a small
majority, The numbers stood at the close of the
poll—for Mr. Tite, 1,170 ; for Mr. \\lateley, 1,128.
Much excitement prevailed during the day, the con-
test being so close, and each candidate obtaining
alternately a slight majority over his rival.
A DAUGHTER OP BARON VON BRUNOW, the late
Russian Minister in London, is engaged to be mar-
ried to Herr Anton Von Magnus, Prussian Secretary
of Legation at Stuttgard, and sou of the banker of
that name.
A Review obtained by Mr. Miles, M.P., has been
published, of the number, names, and localities of
the private reformatory schools which have been
certified by Government. The number of schools in
the list is nineteen, and accommodation afforded for
1,791 boys and girls.
THE NEW ROYAL YACHT got up steam on Satur-
day at Portsmouth, to try her engines for the first
time. They are of six hundred horse power, on the
oscillating principle, and worked remarkably well.
It is expected that the yacht will realise the great
speed of seventeen knots per hour. The general fit
out of the vessel is rapidly progressing, and she has
assumed a very handsome and imposing appearance.
TIIE BOARD OF ORDNANCE invite tenders for con•
structing temporary barracks in Colchester for 3,000

men.
SIR MOSES M ONTEFIORE i 8 on his way to Jerusalem,
where he intends founding a large hospital for his
co-religionists.
LETTERS FROM OPORTO continue to express unfavor-
able anticipations of the forthcoming grape crop in the
Douro district, from the progress of the vine disease.
The season is stated to he three weeks more back•
ward than usual, anti uncertain weather still pre-
vailed. It is also asserted that the vines look much
weaker, that the show of fruit is small and sickly,
and that the oidium is general throughout the
country, and at least a fortnight earlier than last
year.
ON Trinity (last) Monday a special general court
was held at the Trinity-house on Tower-hill, at
which his Royal Highness Prince Albert was unani-
mously reelected master, and Captain John Shep-
herd deputy-master, of that ancient corporation for
the ensuing year.
THE Rev. H. G. Linn Eu., Head-Master of West-
minster School, has been appointed by Lord Palmers-
ton Dean of Christchurch, Oxford, in succession to
Dr. Gaisford.
ON Wednesday last a Leicestershire shareholder of
the Conservative Land Society took out the share No.
11,000, making the amount subscribed for by mem-
bers since the formation of the society in September,
1852, 550,0001. The withdrawals on this capital of
half a million and upwards have been under 12,0001.,
and the amount of land sold exceeds 101,000/.
THE HAMBURG AUTHORITIES imprisoned a British
subject for enlisting recruits. The Consul-General
demanded his liberation as belonging to the war
steamer Otter.
IT is rumoured at Manchester that a well-known
banker of that city has already cleared :10,0001. out
of the cotton speculations at Liverpool. A cotton
broker is said to have realised 40,0001.
THE CELEBRATED LOLA MONIES is expected in
Paris, coming from America, accompanied by her
last husband, a Californian miner, represented as
possessing a fortune that completely throws into the
shade the all but boundless wealth of Monte Christo
himself.
THE office of Counsel to the Admiralty, vacated by
Mr. Phinn's appointment as Second Secretary to the
board, will be filled by Mr. Atherton, Q.G.

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543

WAR-OFFICE, JrN
BREVET.

The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent on the death of the following officers, vhs. :
Lientenant•tieneral bir G. I/Aguilar, G.C.B. ; General
Sir W. Mai:bean, K.C.8.; General Lord C. S. Mannera,
K.C.B.:—
Major• General lion. J. Yorke Searlett, being the senior
supernumerary Major-General, to succeed to the vacancy
on the fixed establishment.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. W. Inglis to be Colonel in the
Army.
Major G. A. Durnforil to be Lient.-Colonel in the Army.
Captain A. F. Jenner to be Major iu the Army.
The undermentioned promotion to take place conse-
quent upon the death of the following officers, viz.:—
General P. Bonham, General bir W. Macbean, General
Lord C. S. Manners, :
Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Maclaine, K.C.8., to
be General.

Brevet Lieut.-Colonel David Forbes to be Colonel in the
Army, the rank being honorary only; Major Henry
Edward M'Gee to be Lient.-CoLiu the Army ; Captain John
William Reynolds to be Major in the Army ; Capt. Scrape
Barnard, of the Tipperary Militia, attached to the Turkish
Contingent, to have the local rank of Major while so
employed.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Inspectors-General of Hospitals, Walter Henry, M.D.
end William Munro, with local rank, to be Inspectors-
General of Hospitals ; Deputy Inspectors-General of Hoe-
pitals, Andrew Ferguson, M.D., and A. Melvin, to be
Inspectors-General of Hospitals, with local rank ; Acting
Assistant-Surgeon Henry Horlock has been permitted to
resign his appointment.
IikIITINEI FOREIGN LROION.
Colonel John Kinloch to be Inspector.
To be Assistant-Inspectors, with the rank of Captain
while so employed—Edmund St. John Mildmay, Esq., and
Michael Foster Ward, Esq.
Deptit at Shorncliffe--John Francis Power, Esq , to be
Major-Cornmendant, with the brevet ruuk of Lieutenant-
Colonel while so employed ; Richard Allister 'Bowyer, Esq.,
to be Staff Paymaster ; ('harks Knight, Esq., to be stair
Quartermaster; Fabian Samoje, Esq., to be Surgeon; the
Rev. Heinrich Offermann to be Field Chaplain.
Depth at Heligoland—Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Stein-
bach to be Commandant; Charles Addison, Esq., to be
Staff Paymaster; Edward Miles, Esq., to be Sta Quin-
termaster ; Patrick Gammie, Esq., to be Staff Surgeon,
First Class.
First Jager or Ride Battalion—Major Christian Sieg-
fried Von Bassewitz to be Major Commandant.
First Line Battalion—Edward Kent Murray, Esq., to be
Major. Commandant, with the brevet rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Army while so employed; Augustus Ferdi-
nand Shroer to he Ms or.
Second Line Battalion—Hans Hurocmann Von Aller to
be Major-Commandant.
TURKISH CONTINGENT.
George John Whyte Melville, Esq., being attached to
the 'Turkish Contingent, to have the local rank of Major
in Turkey while so employed.
The undermentioned gentlemen, having been appointed
to the Medical Staff of the Turkish Contingent, to have
local rank as follows, viz.:—To be Staff Burgeon of the
First Class—J. Forbes Watson, Esq. To be Stall Surgeons
of the Second Claes—Frederick Lewins,Jantea A. Cooper,
Alexander A. WDowall, Arthur F. Maoanlay, George A.
Alloway, Archibald Irvine, M.D. To be Assistant-Surgeons
—Henry (ramming, William W. Coleman, Charles Fergu-
son, Arthur F. Ferguson, James W. Cavanagh, James Viil-
Harmon, George M'Gregor, Charles S. Richardson, Charles
R. Williams, Ferdinand Odersine, John li. Posttett. To
be Acting Assistant-Surgeons—French; L. Gunn, Richard
G. White.
JUNE 7.
The undermentioned officers of the Hovel Engineers,
selected for the Engineer Force of the Turkish Contingent,
to have the local rank of Contain in Turkey while so em-
ployed :—Lieutenants Montagu Stopford Whitmore, Frede-
rick Edward Blackett Beatnont, George Longley, and
John Popham Magnuy.
Charles Anthony /Coed!, Esq , to have the local rank of
Captain while employed in the Engineer force of the
Turkish Contingent.
Lieutenant R. J. Matlock, 111th Bengal Native Infantry,
doing duty at the East India Company's depot at Worley
donne the absence in Turkey of the officer holding that
appointment) to have the local rank of CaptaM while so
employed.

Tut Russians have complained to Sweden for
allowing the English to repair a ship on neutral
ground (the Princess Alice* ing hauled up
that iton a
kind of slip at Faro); they re told ian reply,
was not. showing any favour, for if the Russians
would come to Faro, they ►
should have the same
privilege.
Tax PORTLAND BREANWATF.R now extends nearly
a mile from the shore. The piles comporting the
staging are ninety feet in length, and are all
"pickled " and rendered impervious to wet by We
cteosote being forced into the timber by means of
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immense steam preasure. The stone is now depo-
sited at the rate of 10,0()0 tons per week, a
men being employed at this gigantic undertaking.
There is no doubt when this harbour of refuge is
completed, that it, will yle with auy in the British
Channel.

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