The Press.
London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 25, 1854.

Court aub

Her Majesty continues to reside in Windsor Castle,
where the course of court life has been lately marked
by no incident deserving special mention.
The birthday of the Princess Royal was celebrated
on Tuesday as usual in London and Windsor.
Cabinet Councils have been held on Saturday and
Monday last, and again yesterday.
Lord and Lady Palmerston arrived in Paris
yesterday week, and alighted at the Embassy. Next
day they visited the Emperor and Empress of the
French, at St. Cloud, and were most graciously
received. On Monday they dined with their Ma-
jesties, and on the three following days were invited
to banquets given by the French Ministers of State
and Foreign Affairs. The Home Secretary was
expected to return to England in the course of
yesterday.
Lord Bloomfield, British Ambassador to the
Prussian Court, left Dover on Monday for Paris,
where be arrived next day en route for Berlin.
The youthful Viscount Hood has been appointed
to the ensigncy of the Grenadier Guards left vacant
by the promotions consequent on the death in action
of his uncle, the Hon. Francis Grosvenor Hood.
The Earl of Sefton's eldest son, Lord Mulyneux,
has just entered the army, as ensign and lieutenant
in the Grenadier Guards.
A matrimonial alliance will shortly take place,
between Mr. Wemyss, of Wemyss Castle, and Miss
Kennedy Erskine, daughter of Lady Augusta Gordon
Hallyburton, and granddaughter of his late Majesty
King William IV.
Sir Hamilton Seymour, late British Ambassador
at the Russian Court, has been invited by the
electors of Marylebone to become a candidate for the
vacancy in the borough, caused by the death of
Lord Dudley Stuart.
Baron Brunnow, ci-devant Russian Minister at our
Court, was expected to arrive at St. Petersburg on
the 17th inst., from Berlin, to have an audience of
the Czar, and to hold conferences with Count Von
Nesselrode, the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

PROMOTION OF LORD RAGLAN.—Thursday's Gazette
contains the announcement that the Queen has
been graciously pleased to appoint Lord Raglan a
Field Marshal in the army, his commission to bear
date the sth inst., the day of the last known victory
of the allies. Since the death of the Marquis of
Anglesey no officer of the British army has enjoyed
this high rank as a reward for actual service, our
only field marshals having been H. R. H. Prince
Albert and his Majesty the King of the Belgians.
This also is the first instance in which the new
warrant regulating promotions for distinguished
merit has been carried into effect. Formerly it
would not have been possible to raise Lord Raglan
to the highest rank in the army, unless he should
outlive all his seniors of the rank of general. Field
Marshal Lord Raglan entered the army on the 9th
of June, 1804, as cornet of the 4th Light Dragoons.
The following are the dates of his succeeding com-
missions :—Lieutenant, 30th May, 1805, 4th Light
Dragoons; captain sth May, 1808, 6th garrison
battalion; appointed to 43rd Regiment 18th August,
1808 ; brevet-major, 9th June, 1811; brevet-lieu-
tenant-colonel, 27th April, 1812; captain and lieu-
tenant-colonel Ist Foot Guards, 25th July, 1814 ;
colonel, 28th August, 1815 ; major-general, 27th
May, 1825; appointed military secretary to the
commander-in-chief, 20th August, 1827 ; appointed
colonel of the 53rd Regiment, 19th November, 1830;
lieutenant-general 28th June, 1838 ; appointed Mas-
ter-General of the Ordnance, 30th September, 1852;
local rank of general, 21st February, 1854. Lord
Raglan received the gold medal for Fuentes d'Onor,
Badikjoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle,
Nive, Orthes, Toulouse; silver medal for Roleia,
Talavera, 13usaco, Ciudad Rodrigo. Lord Raglan is
the ninth son of the fifth Duke of Beaufort, and was
born in 1788. His elevation to the peerage and
introduction to the Privy Council took place in 1852.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY has made their
first acquisition of land in Lincolnshire, for distri-
bation amongst the members, being the twentieth
estate bought for the society. The property is situ-
ated at Alford, on the Great Northern Railroad, about
half-way between Boston and Hull, and about six
miles from the sea.
Mn. J. BRIGHT, M.P., was burnt in effigy at Man-
chester, the borough he represents, on Tuesday even-
ing, as a testimony to the indignation which his
"peace" letter has caused. On the effigy was M-
scribed, "Bright, the friend of Nicholas."
THE METROPOLITAN MORTALITY, shown by the
Registrar-General's return, was 1,309 for the week
ending Saturday last. This shows an increase on
the preceding return, attributable to the sudden
arrival of cold weather. As compared with the
corrected decennial average, the number of deaths
last week exhibits an excess of 183. Twelve deaths
are assigned to cholera during the week, and thirty-
one to diarrhoea,