The Press.
London, England, 1855-01-20 00:00:00

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♦PPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS:
♦PPOINTMINTB.
Commanders—Richard 1). White to the Desperate; Walter J.
Pollard to the Orion.

Lieutenants—C. H. Smith to the Caner ; Joseph S. Rundle to
the Impregnable; Henry Hugh M. Magrath to the Himalaya;
John A. Perry to the Imperieuse; John F. Tottenham to the
Ajax: Arthur W. Gillett and Frederick W. Pym to the Nile; Ed-
win T. Hinde, Robert G. Douglass, Bedford C. T. Pim, John K.
Simcoe, and Mark B. Pechell to the Orlon; Riohard Roche to
the Archer; William Hewett to the Merlin.
Masters—W. H. Sharp to the Pylades ; William Byford to the
Coast Guard; James S. Hill to the Orion.
Mate—Arthur L. Galbraith to the Geyser.
Surgeons—Jason Lardner to the Orion; Thomas W. Jewell to

the Desperate.
Chief Engineer—Charles Kerr Renwick has been promoted
from the Third to the Second Class, and appointed to the Fleet.
Acting Chief Engineer—William Oliver has been confirmed as
Chief Engineer of the Third Class. and appointed to the Fieet.
Assistant•Enginee: of the Second Class—Horatio Percy Webb
to the Fleet.

Assistant• Engineers of the Third Class--James William Mad-
dlson, James Jones, James Davidson, William J. E. Johnson,
David Mason, and James Draper Mead to the Fleet.
Gunner—Francis Bossy to the Merlin.
Boatswain—George Drake to the Perseverance.
Paymasters—Edward J. Giles to the Desperate; Alexander
Robinson to the London; Joseph E. Ante, to the Leander;
James D. Gilpin to the Tribune ; Matthew F. Moresby to the
Firebrand; Robert T. Raynes to the Curlew; Robert Lorey to
the Orion ; James Biggs to the Himalaya; Robert H. Mullen to
the Conway.
Midshipmen—T. G. J. Purcell and G. 0. Storey to the Esk.
Clerks—Edwin R. Miall (in charge) to the Spitfire ; Edmund
B. Walker to the Vulture; Edward Foster to the Edinburgh;
Charles Fisher to the Orion.

Clerks' Assistants—William Carter to the Desperate ; Hamil-
ton N. Cole and Charles D. Lee to the Orion; John E. Adam to
the Duke of Wellington; Edmund M. Russell to the Melampue.

PROMOTIONS.
Commanders—Arthur MeHersh, of the Rattler; Edward P.
Charlewood, of the Coast Guard—to the rank of Captains.
Lieutenants—kPLeod B. Cockcraft, of the Imperleuse; Cow-
per P. Coles, of the Agamemnon ; Charles Vesey, of the Britan-
nia; Francis N. Clerk and Richard Joachim, of the Coast Guard
—to the rank of Commanders.

THE Por.tex or PARTS last week made a descent on a
house near the French Opera, where they had learned that
private gambling was carried on to a large extent. On
arriving at the apartment of a Mme. J—, they found a
number of persons, somo of whom were known to be
gamblers by profession, seated round a large table, tran-
quilly enjoying a game at loto. Search was made every-
where through the rooms, but nothing seemed to intimate
that any clandestine gambling was carried on. At last,
one of the police bethought him of the propriety of examin-
ing the table itself, and, being somewhat of a mechanician,
soon discovered that, by an ingenious contrivance, some
moveable flaps turned noiselessly on binges, and in a mo-
ment, when necessary, covered over the real table, which
was found provided with all the implements of play, and
having on it the money which had been staked when the
police entered, and the protean table underwent its meta-
morphosis. The persons present were immediately called
en to give their names and addresses, the furniture was
seized, and Mme. J— was carried away prisoner. The
night after, the police entered a house in the Rue Cau-
martin, and came unexpectedly on a considerable number
of persons engaged in play in the apartmeent of a Mme.
D—. Amongst the company were three very handsome
women, known familiarly by the names of the Belles Bor.
delaises. All the persons present had, as in the former cue,