The Press.
London, England, 1854-04-29 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Lieutenants--Charles G. Crawley to the Jasper; James Hunt
to the Pigmy; W. A. J. Heath to the Otter.
Chaplain—E. L. Bowman to the Tribune.
Naval Instructor—E. M. Johnstone to the Edinburgh.
Master—Philip C. D. Bean to the Fisgard.
Second Masters—William C. Pyper to the Pigmy; Richard C.
Dyer to the Jasper; J. H. Allen to the Otter.
Marten' Assistents—James R. Harris to the Autphion; G. G.
Brown to the Gladiator; Louis F. Chevalier to the Dasher; W.
J. Grundy, Bertie Rowlandson, and Henry Llndguist to the Edin-
burgh.
Paymasters—James C. Pinhorn to be Secretary to Commodore
John Adams; John Retallick to the Comm; Charles Richards to
be Secretary to Admiral Sir William Parker; Augustus Ili Gil-
bert to the St. George; George W. Anderson to the Rosamond.
Clerks—Augustus Grey to the Eurydice; W. S. Freeman to the
Waterloo; G. F. °rigor to the Ajax; W. H. De Carteret to the
Victory.
Acting Clerk—J. A. W. Nicholls to the Majestic.
Clerks' Assistants—W. F. Simmonds to the Miranda; Thomas
Boyle to the Megara; S. E. C. Sullivan to the Waterloo ; A. C.
Blatchley to the Hannibal; J. F. Ravenetock, F. M. H. Somer-
ville, Gilbert IL Rybot, W. H. Blayney, and E. W. Russell to the
Britannia.
PROMOTIONS.
Clerks—Luke Masterson, of the Dee; Joseph Whitten, of the
Waterloo ; Frederick Lucas, of the Mionsidon; Frederick G.
Bulgin, of the Dolphin; William L. Wright, of the SIINOOIII ;
George A. Eversfield, of the Rifleman; Henry J. Kelly, of the
Grecian; Alexander C. Yule, of the Salamander; William F.
Huyghue, of the Impregnable; Charles Saunders, of the Porcii-
pine; James E.Terry, of the Resistance—to be Paymasters.

THE New York Herald mentions a report that several
Americans, headed by ex-Alderman Wesley Smith, of that
city, accompanied by a Russian officer, left in the Baltic on
her last outward trip, to engage in a contract with Russia
to destroy British and French ships of war that approach
near enough to Russian ports by means of Taylor's sub
marine armour and Colt's submarine battery. They have
also an invention called the catapult, a vessel with double
bows, armed with long sharp iron beaks, to break the sides
of hostile ships. It will be propelled by steam, which
drives a wheel in her bottom. It is so arranged that jets
of scalding water are thrown from the vessel on all attempt-
ing to board her.
THERE has been a large emigration of lawyers to Aus-
tralia, and, from inquiries made by correspondents as to
the regulations for practice there, it would appear that
many are contemplating the same step. Let us give to
such a timely warning. There lies now before us a letter
from a young lawyer who had gone to the land of gold with
the fullest confidence that fortune was to be certainly and
easily secured. Bitter has been his disappointment. He
finds that lawyers are but little wanted there; that for
such business as there is the competitors are so numerous
that no one can thrive. He has been obliged to turn his
hand to labours for which he had received no previous
training. The day-labourer was better off by far than the
barrister or the attorney. He had seen gentlemen belong-
ing to both branches of the profession glad to earn a main-
tenance as porters, ostlers, and waggoners—even as
domestic servants. Trade, too, is overdone, and is not
profitable, because everything is so expensive. Let those
of our readers who may have entertained thoughts of enii
gration to Australia pause before they resolve ; and, if they
go, it should not be as lawyers, or with any hope to thrive
by the law—Lato Times.