The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

A. S. Jones to be Lien.

John Hudson to be Lieu-

THE PRESS.

50th Foot—Captain Heathfield James Frampton to be
Major, without purchase.
63rd Foot—Lieutenant A. Wybergh to be Captain;
Lieutenant Thomas Coot. Grant to be Lieutenant ; En-
sign T. L. Twiston to be Lieutenant.
64th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George Evans to be As-
sistant-Surgeon.
67th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Basil Tuite to be Cap-
min, without purchase; Ensign Malachy Nugent to be
Lieutenant, without purchase ; Hugh Robson Evans,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase.
71st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Henry Gilborno to
be Assistant-Surgeon.
78th Foot—Ensign F. H. Walsh to be Lieutenant.
79th Foot—Ensign Neil Campbell to be Lieutenant,
without purchase ; Ensign James Bell Campbell to be En-
sign, without purchase.
82nd Foot—Lieutenant R. C. Dalrymple Bruce to be
Captain, without purchase ; Ensign Charles Stuart Mann-
sell to be Lieutenant, without purchase; Ensign Graham
Mylne to be Lieutenant, without purchase.
88th Foot—Ensign Theobald Burke to be Lieutenant,
without purchase ; Lieutenant Rowley Miller to be
Ensign, without purchase ; William Howley Burder, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
90th Foot—Ensign M. B. Parcel! to be Lieutenant.
Ist West India Regiment—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
L. 8. O'Connor to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without pur-
chase; Brevet-Major G. Robeson to be Major, without
purchase ; Lieutenant W. N. Watts to be Captain, without
purchase ; Ensign W. Kenrick to be Lieutenant.
2nd West India Regiment—Ensign Henry Carvell to be
Adjutant.
3rd West India Regiment—Ensign W. R. Mulliner to
be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Russell Harris Vieth,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Charles Dyneley Baynes, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant W. H.
Humphreys to be Captain ; Ensign R. G. Macdonald to be
Lieutenant, without purchase.
Laud Transport Corps.—Major W. E. Evans to be
Assistant-Director-General ; Captain William Mayne to be
Major. To be Quartermasters of Brigade—Superintendent
, Richard Sedley, Lynch John Keogh, Gent.
British Italian Legion.—Vivian Ryan, Esq,., to be Pay-
master of the lat regiment.
Unattached.—The undermentioned officers to have their
Brevet converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal
Warrant, 6th October, 18.54 :—Brevet-Lientenant-Colonel
Arthur James Herbert, 23rd Foot; Brevet-Major C. C. de
Morel, 67th Foot.
Provisional Depot Battalion.—Quartermaster J. Desmond
to be Assistant-Quartermaster.
Hospital Staff —Surgeon Joseph Ambrose Lawson, M.D.,
to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class.
Ordnance Medical Department.—Staff-Surgeon of the
Second Class Edward Schaw Protheroe to be Surgeon.

BREVET.

Major W. E. Evans, Assistant-Director-General of the
Land Transport Corps, to have the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel in Turkey while so employed.
Captain J. N. Macartney, of the 7th Dragoon Guards, to
be Major in the Army.
MEMORANDUM.— The appointment of Quartermaster
Thomas Cassidy, as Paymaster of the Invalid Depot at
Scutari, to bear date 1 lth April, 18bb, in lieu of Bth July,
18415, as previously stated.
The undermentioned promotion to take place in the East
India Company's army, consequent on the death of Lieut.-
General Richard Tickell, C. 8., of the Bengal Engineers,
on 3rd Aug., 1850, and of Lient.-General Archibald Wat-
son, of the Bengal Light Cavalry, on the 22nd Aug., 1865.
To be Lieutenant-Generals--Major-General John Henry,
Madras Infantry ; Major-General Chas. Ramsay Skerdon,
Bengal Infantry.
To be Major-Generals—Colonel George Grantham, Ma-
dras Infantry ; Colonel Henry Cracklow, Bombay In-
fantry.
The undermentioned officers of the East India Com-
pany's Service, retired upon fhll.pay, to have a step of
honorary rank, as follows ;
To be Lieut.-Colonels—Majors George Poyntz Ricketts,
Bengal Light Cavalry ; Thomas Dickson, Bombay In-
fantry ; John Hunt, Bengal Infantry; Charles Young
Basett, Bengal Light Cavalry.
To be Major—Captain Frederick Augustus Carleton,
1 Bengal Infantry.

FROM AN OFFICIAL RETURN made up to the 19th
inst., it appears that the total number of deserters
from her Majesty's regular army was 330. Of this
number the Foreign Legion contributed eleven and
the Land Transport Corps ten.
A BODY of three hundred of the Land Transport
Corps has just left the barracks at Horfleld, near
Bristol, for immediate embarkation to the East. They
are a portion of the body of " drivers " now being
raised, and for whom Bristol is head and training
quarters.

THE FRIENDS or Unit. PALIIIII6 62nd Regiment,
reported in the list of the 11th as missing, have been
informed that he is a prisoner, but quite well.
THE magnificent new schools which were com•
menced at Dowlsis by the late Sir John Guest, and
which have been finished by his widow, the Lady
Charlotte Schreiber, were opened last week in the
presence of the Bishop of Llandaff and a brilliant
assembly of the surrounding gentry. The building
consists of seven school-rooms---one for infants, and
three each for boys and girls. The number of children
for whom the means of education have been provided
exceeds 1,400.

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ST. JAMES'S PARK.

IN reply to Sir J. V. Shelley, who wrote respecting
the rumoured intention to carry a road across the
inclosure or ornamental water in St. James's-park,
the Chief Commissioner of Works bas written a
reasoning and explanatory letter. Sir B. Hall says,
in this communication :

For some time great inconvenience has been occasioned
to persons in carriages k not having the entris of St.
James's-park) being obliged to go by the way of Piccadilly
and Grosvenor-place from Pall-mall to . . . .
It was considered that if any new road was to be made it
should be so laid out as to afford the greatest accommoda-
tion to the public at large, and not be constructed merely
for the benefit of one comparatively small portion of the
inhabitants of the metropolis.

As Chief Commissioner of Works, I was therefore re-
quested by the Secretary of State to prepare a plan for a
line of road direct from Pall-mall to the Birdcage•walk,
by throwing a bridge over the water near the spot upon
which a bridge formerly stood, and terminating the road at
such a point in the Birdcage•walk as would give a direct
road to that densely-crowded part of Westminster which
now has only a most circuitous route to the park and the
northern part of Pall-mall, it being considered that such a
road, independent of the vast accommodation thus offered
to the great mass of the community, would at the same
time give easy scene to Pimlico and Belgravia on the west,
and a shorter rued to the Houses of Parliament and Bridge-
street on the east, and the whole of the borough of Lam-
beth, and relieve the immense traffic which during the
London season is much too great for Charing-cross. This
line, if made, will be open to carriages and cabs day and
night ; and those who remember the wooden bridge which
once crossed the water in the inclosure of St. James's•parko
will recollect the great number of pedestrians who passed
over it, and profited by the convenience of such a direct
connection between the north and the south of the park.
It has been stated in the public papers, that the Govern-
ment intended to avail themselves of the period when
Parliament was not sitting, to commence the road and
erect the bridge ; and it has, within the last few Jays, been
positively asserted in one of the London journals, that the
works have been already begun ! There is not one word
of truth in these statements; such proceedings were
never contemplated. Nothing will be done till Parliament
meets ; the public will then have an opportunity for consi•
daring the plans which will be presented to the House of
Commons, and it will be seen whether the accommodation
they offer is the best which should be granted, and whether
these plans do not obviate, wholly or sufficiently, those
objections which have been raised against the project.
The object contemplated by the Government is to make
such a line as would be most beneficial to the public in
general ; but not to construct a road for the convenience of
one particular locality.
Instructions were given to me with the above view, and
I repeat that it was never intended to proceed with any
works in relation to this object till Parliament should have
had ample opportunity to consider it in all its relations.
B. HALL.

RAILWAYS IN HUNGARY.

Two new companies are about to be formed for the
extension of railways in Hungary. The first line
which it is proposed to construct is to form a junction
between Waitzenszop and the existing main line,
thence to be carried on to Miscolez, via Balassa-
Gyarmath. In addition to this, a branch to Dohschau,
on the borders of the Zips district, is intended to be
constructed. The districts through which this line
will pass are rich in copper, cobalt, and other ores.
The most important requisites for a railway—namely,
iron, coal, and wood, exist in the neighbourhood in
great abundance. A quantity of iron, amounting to
nearly 800,000 cwt. per annum, is already being pro-
duced here. In the districts of Neograd, Obnitir,
Borsod, and Havas, coal is found in great quantity,
whilst. the abundance of wood is so great that a cubio
fathom in the town of Losoncz is sold at the price of
30 kreutzer (about Is.). The second project em-
braces the construction of a line from Dehrezin to
Kashau, by way of Tokai, at the head of which the
most influential names of the Hungarian aristocracy
stand. Since the necessary concession has been
obtained from the Government, this company has con.
siderably extended its original programme, and aims
at connecting this part of the country with the already-
established railways in the north. With this view, a
petition was presented to the Austrian Government
on the 3rd of July, praying for a guarantee of five
per cent. interest, and that the Szoltok-Dehrezin
line, together with the branch line, Puspokledany-
Grosswardein, which are now being constructed and
very nearly completed on account of the state, should
be made over to them, the company engaging itself
to construct :-1. The line Czegled, Miskolez, Kas.
chan, Eperies, Leutschan, Earmark, as far as Tar.
naw, the length of which is estimated at tifty.seven
German miles. 2. A junction between the above
line and Debrezin-Szerenc, twelve miles. 3. The
line from Torok St. Miklos to Arad and Temeevar,
twenty-five miles ; and several other minor branches,
yet to be ceded by the Government, amounting in
all
to no less a length than 119 German miles. It
expected that this petition will be granted. The im-
portance of this project, which will have the effect it
connecting Hungary with the Baltic, is so self.
evident that it requires no special comment. It is,
however, a question of no slight importance whether
the main lino will itself pass through the risk

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mining district of the Zips, or whether this
desideratum will be substituted by a branch.
The Zips possesses a great abundance of that de-
scription of iron-stone which is the best adapted for
working up into the finest steel manufactures, and
England and Germany would surely offer excellent
markets for the raw material. At the present time
900,00(1 cwt.. are produced yearly, in addition to which
the mines of the Zips yield 24,000 cwt. of copper,
from 5,000 to 6,000 cwt. of cobalt, from 12,004) to
15,000 marks of silver, and 1,000 cwt. quicksilver.
The importance of this railway has already at-
tracted the attention of foreign countries, and a
French• Belgian company has lately sent out two
engineers of great reputation for the purpose of ex-
amining the country, with a view to take part in
the undertaking.