The Press.
London, England, 1855-01-27 00:00:00

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,aptain ,revet-Major
to the Royal Horse Artillery.
H. PaLus►a, Assistant-Adjutant-General.
WAR-OFFICE, Jam. 26.
BREVET.

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Major-General Sir Henry Somerset, K.C.8., to have the
local rank of Lieut.-General while serving on the staff of
the army in the East Indies.
Brevet Colonel Vl illiam Froke Williams and Brevet
Colonel Randal Burnley, Lieut.-Colonel of the Provisional
Depot Battalion at Parkhurst Barracks, to have the local
rank of Brigadier-General while employed upon the staff
of the army at Malta.
To be Majors in the Army—Captains John Woodford,
Charles Fitzroy Neynoe, Michael Goold Adams, John
Harpur.

To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army—Brevet Majors
B. P. Browne, John Woodford, Charles Fitzroy Neynoe.
Brevet Lieut.-Colonel William Slater, to the honorary
rank of Colonel in the Army.
To be Paymasters of Depot Battalions—Paymasters
John Wheatley, Alexander Fair.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—To be Surgeons of the First Class—
Staff-Surgeon of the First Class Francis Sievwright, Sur-
geon Charles Robert Boyes, M.D., Acting Assistant-
Surgeon Henry Browne Fisher, Assistant Staff-Surgeon
John Collis Browne, M.D.

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♦PPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.

APPOI

Commanders—J. P. Luse to the Ariel; Edward H. G. Lam-
bert to the Espiegle; Francis H. Shortt to the Spiteful.
Assistant-Surgeon—J. S. Ayerst to the Calcutta.
Acting Assistant•Surgeons--A. RaUray to the Nankin; A. 8.
Pratt to the Waterloo.
Master—David Craigie to be Master Attendant at Malta Dock.
yard.
Second Masters-0. F. Clementson to the Ajax ; J. Jones to
the Nankin.
Master's Assistant—Edward P. Hutcheson to the Himalaya.
Clerk to Secretary-. George Hickman to the Victory.
Clerk—Samuel Smyth to the Driver.
Clerks' Assistants—Alfred J. Boyton to the Belleisle; R. W.
Parish to the Perseverance; F. L. Page to the Duke of Wel-
lington.

PROMOTION.
Hsnoock, of the Espieglo, is p romoted

to be Captain.

THE COMMISSIONERS or Cusroms have ordered
that tobacco under seizure shall not in future be de-
stroyed, at all events during the present war, as here-
tofore, but that it shall be stored and packed up at
the several ports in casks, and transmitted to such
places as may be ordered for shipment, to be for-
warded to the Crimea.

THE PRESS.

`Jrelant.

A great number of the smaller towns of Ireland are
coming forward to avail themselves of the New Towns
Improvement Act, and obtain the application of its
provisions to their respective wants.
Letters patent having passed the great seal, ap-
pointing the following commissioners, viz :—the Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, Sir John Romilly, the Right
Hon. J. H. Monahan, the Right Hon. F. Blackburne,
the Right Hon. A. Brewster, Sir Richard Bethell,
Mountifort Longfield, LL.D., Q.C.; John David
Fitzgerald, Esq., Q.C., M.P.; and Hugh M'Calmont
Cairnes, Esq., for the purpose of inquiring into and
reporting upon the state of business in the Irish In-
cumbered Estates Court, anti of considering whether
it would be desirable that the said court should con
tinue permanent, or for any, and for what period,
and whether with any or what addition, alteration, or
modification in its powers, constitution, and pro-
cedure. The commissioners have, through their
secretary, had forwarded to each of the officers of
the court, and to other parties likely to afford infor-
mation on the subject, certain queries to be answered
by them. The commissione rs will not, it is under-
stood, hold any vive voce examination of witnesses.
The commission is dated 23rd November, 1854, and
is made returnable in one year from that date.
The boards of guardians of Ballinasloe, Loughrea,
and Portumna—the chairmen of which are the Mar-
quis of Clam icarde, Lord Dunsandle, and the Earl
of Clancarty—have memorialised the Poor-Law Com-
missioners for the dissolution of the Portumea board,
on the ground of the great diminution of pauperism
in that district.