The Press.
London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

PAMPHLETS.

Religious Liberty Bill. Lord Brougham's Speech in the
House of Lords, July 27, 1856. Ridgway.
Confirmation of Admiralty Mismanagement. W. S. Lindsay,
Esq., M.P. Effingham Wilson.
The Home and Grave el Byron. Longmans.
Circassian Exiles and Emigrants in Europe. Binns and

Goodwin.
Partiawentary Incongruities. James Acland. Varty.
A Letter on Army Reform. Jacob Omnium. Do.
Scheme for Church Episcopate and its Patronage in Wales.

Hardwicke.
Do.

4 Letter on Decimal Coinage.
First Report of the General Committee on di
Reform

Observations on the Fisheries of the West Coast of Ireland.
J. E. Symonds. Chapman and Hall.
What is Criticism? Hugh Miller. Hamilton, and Co.
Decimal Coinage. Adam Davidson. Blackwoods.
hutnections for Rules of friendly Societies. John Tidd
Pratt, Esq. Eyre and Spottiswoode.

PERIODICALS.

Freemasons' Monthly Magasine.

introduce ion to English Literature from Chaucer to Tennys;n,
H. Reed. J. F. Shaw.

int An q.

WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 17.

BREVET.

To be

Colonel

ham and Arthur Burton, C.B.

Richard Wilbra•

To be Lieutenant-Colonel Major Patrick Leonard
Dougall.
To be Majors—Captains John G. Rogers Alpin, Arthur
Tremayne, and Francis Topping Atcherley ; Lieutenant
and Captain George Lord Bingham; Lieutenant and Cap-
tain John Augustus Conolly ; Captains Montagne Hamil-
ton Dowbiggin, Archibald C. Snodgrass, Patrick Robertson,
and Claude Thomas Bourchier.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Dupuis to be Colonel,
under the Royal Warrant (Ordnance) Nov. 3.
Colonel John Edward Dupuis to have the local rank of
Brigadier-General in Turkey.
The under-mentioned officers, having completed three
years' actual service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to
be Colonels, under the Royal Warrant of the 6th October—
Lieutenant-Colonels Thomas James Valians and Frank
Adams, C.B.

Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Maximilian James Western
to be Colonel, the rank being honorary only.
Brevet-Major Charles Robert Shuckburgh, retired full-
pay, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieutenant• Colonel,
the rank being honorary only.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet•Major John Hardman Burke, of
the 88th Foot. to have his Brevet Rank converted into
Substantive Rank, Unattached, under the Royal Warrant
of the 6th October.

MEMORANDUK.—Major-General Henry Charles Bristow,
on half-pay, as a Major of 38th Foot, has been permitted
to retire from the Army by the sale of a Majority in 80th
Foot, from 17th August.
TURKISH CONTINOENT.—Captain Frederick John Gold-
amid, of the 37th Foot, Madras Native Infantry, to have
the local rank of Major in Turkey, while serving with the
Turkish Contingent.
The undermentioned Gentlemen having been selected
for service in the Irregular Cavalry, under the command
of Major-General Beataon, to have local rank in Turkey
while so employed:—
To have the rank of Captain—William de Norman, Esq.
and Lieutenant Richard Francis Burton.

To be Surgeon of the Second Class--Algernon C. W.
Norton, Esq.
To be Veterinary Surgeons, attached to the Horse Artil-
lery—J. B. Lord, Gent., and G. G. Nixon, Gent.
The undermentioned Officers and Gentlemen having
been selected for service in the Force under the command
of Major-General Beatson, to have a step of local rank in
Turkey while so employed
To be Majors—Captain Godfrey Rhodes, Charles Tho-
mas Wemyss, Esq., and Edward Shelley, Esq.
To be Captains—John Cox, Esq., and Edward James
Money, Esq. _ _

HOSPITAL STAFF.—The appointment of Dr. F. H. Brett
as an Acting Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, with local
rank in Turkey, has been cancelled from the Ist July.
Burris"' FOREIGN LILGION.—In the Gazette of the 10th
August, for Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John
Francis Palmer, &c., read Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel John Francis Power.

MICHORANDUM.—The Christian name of Colonel Hudson,
Military Agent to the Italian Legion, is Joseph, and not
James, u stated in the Gazette of the 10th inst.
ROYAL CHELSEA HOSPITAL.—IH the Gazette of tho 10th
inst., for Sergeant-Major James Ferrier, to be Quarter-
master, read Sergeant-Major James Father.