The Press.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

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The vacant appointment of aide-de-camp to the Queen
has been given to Captain Sir William Symonds, ex-Sur-
veyor of the Navy, who has a pension of 5001. per annum,
and is a civil C.B.
Rear-Admiral Sir W. F. Carroll, K.C.B, the newly-ap-
pointed commander-in•chief at Queenstown, has had the
time for hoisting his flag postponed from the 20th to the
28th inst.
Lieutenant Gustavus Spicker Baker (1824) died on the
12th, aged 47. The deceased had lately been in the coast-
guard service.
Commander Arthur Davies (1846) died a few days since.
He was on the retired list of 1890, and in receipt of the
lieutenant's out-pension of Greenwich Hospital. He was
a lieutenant of 1808, and married a niece of Lord Nelson.
Commander Benjamin Dutton (1853), also on the re-
tired list of 1830, died at Hastings, in the 73rd year of his
age. He was a lieutenant of 1811, and served thirteen
years afloat, and in many a gallant action.
It is announced that her Majesty will, on her next visit
• to the Isle of Wight, early in August, review the Channel
fleet, which will then number several more ships than
those at present at anchor at Spithead.
Captain Henderson has been appointed commodore of
the second class, to the /mason, at Port Roval, as second in
command in the West Indies, vice M'Quhie.
Mr. Wilcox, the master shipwright of Deptford Dock-
yard, has sent in his resignation► of that appointment, in
consequence of continued ill-health.
The Watenritch, 8, Commander A. 11. Gardner, on the
African station, is condemned as unlit for further service,

JULY 23, 1853.

and has been sent to join the commander-m-eniet, prv.pa-
ratory to being sent to England.
It is stated that a new screw 90 -gun bhip is to be built
at Woolwich, ten feet longer than the Agamemnon, but on
similar lines. She is to be called the Edgar, a name well
known to fame in the navy.
THE SLAVE TRADE.—Captain Cospatrick %title Ha-
milton, late of the Vestal, in the West Indies; Captain
schomberg, who was in Lord Dundonald's Hatt-ship in the
West Indies; and Commander Nolloth, late of the Plumper,
screw, when in the West Indies, have been summoned to
give evidence before the parliamentary select committee at
present making inquiries into the slave trade, as carried
on between the coast of Africa and Havaunah.
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.
Comatssmeas—Hugh Entwistle and Frederick Lewis, retired,
on the hat of 1880. hare been plated on the list of 1816.
MAlErsit—Mr. Thomas, to the Impregnable guardship.
Marts—W. R. Boalton. to the IVeterioo. 120, Rou.ship, Sheer.
nen; T. G. Baillie and S. M. Wilson, to the Terribk, 21. steam.
frigate ; H. L. C. Robinson, to the Ajax, 88, strew, Spithead F.
Stanley, to the Queen, 16, Plymouth Sound.
MASTERS' ASSISTANTS—H. G. Carteret, to the St. Jean tf Acre,
101, screw; J. T. Gowilond, to the Rhesdamanthaa ; J. NV Ashton,
t) the Terrible: B. S. Jackson, to the Sybilk ; S. C. Tracy, to the
Astpition ; C. Evershed, to the Tribune; W. H. Adiani, to the

6.lte.
Luirrvien—Lieut. S. T. Dickens (1846), to the Water/so,
120, flag-ship, Sheerness.
Caartairs—The Rev. Francis Hannan, 8.A., of the Imaust,
Port Royal, to the Queen, 118. Plymouth Sound, vice the Rev. $.
Beal, appointed Chaplain and t.eval instructor to the Terrible,
91, steam-frigate, Spithead; the Rev. J. W. L. Bonfield, to the
/memo, 'nee Ifannan.
ASSISTANT•SCRDr. Thomas Murray, acting, to the
Victory, flag-ship, Portsmouth.
CLERKS—Thomas Goodman, to the Hero, bB, screw guardship,
$
ASSd.STANT Ettookat—Robert Gray (first chisel, to the
Terrible.
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The ship which conveyed General Wolfe on his expedi-
tion to Quebec is still afloat under the name of the Wont
and .dnn. She was built in 1759 for a bomb-ketch. and is
now engaged in the Honduras and African timber trades.
In the Confiance, which arrived at Geelong on April 13
with 415 Government emigrants, twenty-seven deaths had
occurred from hooping-cough and dysentery. The ship
Winchester, with coals on board, was destroyed by fire in
Port Phillip on the 16th of April. and the barque Duke of
Wellington wrecked off Cape Liptrap on the 3rd of April ;
passengers saved.
A letter from Vienna of the 15th, published in the Cologne
Gazette, says:—" A domiciliary visit was yesterday made
by the police at the residence of the Times correspondent.
Several persons have been arrested, among whom are
some Italians, the sons of high functionaries. It is said
that the persons arrested are charged with being engaged
in a conspiracy against the State."
A number of Magyars were lately taken into Pesth under
a strong escort. They occupied no fewer than seventeen
carts. They were arrested upon the statement of a dying
man, that they bad killed several Austrian soldiers in their
quarters during the revolutionary war.
Count Charles Bentinck passed through Berlin on the
17th, on his return from Vienna. It appears that there is
every probability of the gallant general's long-contested
cue being decided in his favour in the course of the cur-
rent year.
At a meeting of the Submarine Telegraph Company held
on Wednesday, the chairman, Lord be Manley, stated that
the number of messages sent during the last three weeks
was 2,760 ; and the amount received was 1,3151., au average
of 4341 per week ; or a gross annual income of nearly
23,00:'1. per annum, which would be at the rate of 151 per
cent. on a capital of 150,000/.
A comet has been seen by the passengers on board the
steamer Singapore, when nearly 500 miles to the west of
Ceylon. European astronomers have given us no tidings
of this celestial visitor.
A gentleman in Anglesea wrote a letter to his servant,
desiring to have one of his horses shod immediately. rile
man, ignorant of English, had the epistle read to him,' and
shot the animal. This may be taken as an old Joe Miller,
but, says the North Wales Chronicle, it is true notwitle

standing.
The quarterly meeting of the ironmasters of South i
Staffordshire, Shropshire, and East Worcestershire ter-
urinated yesterday week Prices have been and are to be
fully maintained. The demand continues to be extremely
good, and the prospects of the trade, so far as the manu-
facturing department is concerned, are highly flattering.
A new rifle-practice ground. extending to 1,001 yards,
has been formed in the Woolwich marshes, and covered
with cinders from the blacksmiths' forges in the Royal Ar-
senal. Platforms have been put up at every fifty yards of
the range, all level with each other, so that the experi-
menters with the new arms may be better able to judge of
the proper elevation when firing. A practice-ground has
also been constructed on the beach at Hythe, where it is
intended to have a permanent school of instruction, and
where detachments from each of the line regiments will
assemble during the season for practice.
Two young ladies. arrived by a Preston train at the
Warrington junction, claimed protection from the station-
master, declaring that their father was carrying them off
to a convent against their will. The father, who followed
them closely, dared the station-master to interfere. One
of the county magistrates coming up at the time was also
appealed to, but was unable to interpose, and the young
laAlie.4 were carried off. The magistrate. it is said, tele-
graphed to London for advice, and received an answer
from Sir Richard Mayne that no law at present in force
could sanction interference, unless the persons were
paupers.