The Press.
London, England, 1854-01-14 00:00:00

TIM STA.NNARIES.

Royal Cornwall and Devon Miners' Regiments of 111 i•
litia—First Lieutenant Frederick Martin Williams to be
Captain ; Second Lieutenant Robert Edyvean to be First
lieutenant; George William Cultue Soltau Symons, Geut.,
to be First Lieutenant.
COMMISSIONS SIONZD DT LORD LUDT/I:RANTS.

Warwickshire Militia—First Regiment—Ensign An-
gustus Frederick Harrison Shaw to be Lieutenant; En-
sign Archbold Mackdonnell Rawlins to be Lieutenant.
2nd Regiment—John Digby Winfield, Gent., to be Lieu.
tenant. . • _ _

West Kent Regiment of Militia—Edwin Balfour Kim•
berley, Gent., to be Ensign.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, Jais.lo.

BANKRUPTS. —JAmEs HART, Borougb•road, Southwark,
engineer—JOHN ltliAn, hart-street, Bloomsbury, licensed viv-
tualler—Wic. Mania Smclia, Dudley, Worcestershire, hatter—
JOSEPH THURMAN, Birmingham, woollen draper—THONAll Pit;
Haaelbury Plunekuett, Soutersetshire, girth web manufacturer—
JAILER HOWARD, Great Grimsby, Iducolnshire, shipowner—
JOHN ROTHWELL, Southport, Lancashire, grocer—Wu. FALLA,
Hulme, Lancashire, builder—Jens KA; Prestwich, Lancashire,
calico manufacturer.
SCOTCH SEQU EST RAT lON S.—J Ali s RElD,Coupar•Angus,
I'erthshire, bootmaker—Wli. BENNET, Dundee, merchant—WE.
TREADWELL, Port Glasgow, wine merchant—THus. MONTEATH
and WM. MONTEATH, Devonside, near Tellleoultry, woollen
manufacturers.

Friday, January 13.
BANKRUPTS. FRILDERICK MAYSTON, Great Yarmouth,
draper—PaznErticic CRATER, Wolverhampton, chemist—Jas.
FIELDING, Derbyshire, cotton spinner—J CrEoo, Liver—
pool, licensed victualler—SrzmEn Davis, York, furrier—Fak•
DERICI MILLER, Newport, corn merchant—Timm/A CURTI.
BIRD, Lee, Kent, baker—Joutuk WoonitELD, Hogley-green,
Yorkshire, fancy woollen-cloth manufacturer.

THE Gazette de France publishes the following extract
from a letter dated Rome the 25th ult., written by the
Countess Sophia Kisseleff, and it guarantees its authen-
ticity :—" I saw the Holy Father yesterday. What a bless-
ing! He deigned to bear my confession, and he gave me
absolution. I demanded for you also a blessing, and told
him that, you had made me question a table. We com-
mitted an enormous sin, and I shall ask pardon from God
for it all my life. The Holy Father condemns all these
practices, and these communications with souls. It is the
demon who takes all these forms ; it is, as the Holy Father
says, the sin of pride ; it is desiring to know what it is
forbidden to seek. The condemnation of such things is
in the Bible. What a happiness it is to be a Catholic,
and to be able to come to one who can absolve you! I
supplicate you, dear friend, to say everywhere as far as you
can that the Pope condemns all these practices of sorcery.
The tables are a manner of entering into communication
with the spirit of darkness."
THE STEF.ETKF.EPFALS of Paris have jnstbeen organised
into one division, composed of four legions. Each legion
has three battalions, each battalion three companies, and
each company four sections, making a total of more than
2,500 persons, men and women, employed every day in
cleaning the streets. The boulevards have lately been im-
practicable for ladies, or men who are not prepared to
plunge ankle-deep in mud, and it has been seriously pro-
posed to construct a number of Chinese bridges, to enable
foot passengers to cross.
THREE lirsotzeiwns of the daring gang of mounted
highwaymen who stopped the Id'lvor gold escort, and
plundered it of nearly 10,11(101. of treasure, suffered death
on the scaffold at Melbourne gaol, on the 4th of October,
in the presence of a large concourse of persons.
A Cr.rvEn SITARI'ER has been victimising the provincial
hotelkeepers in France. He makes a tour through
various towns, stopping always at the chief hotel, where
he represents himself as the avant courier of a troop of
forty mountain singers who are about to give a series of con-
carts at the place. Of course their patronage is eagerly
sought by the host, whose offers after much bargaining are
accepted, and the soi-disant delegate of the minstrels pro-
ceeds to hire a concert-room, and order decorations, for
which purpose he borrows divers small sums of money
from the landlord. After being sumptuously entertained
for two or three days he suddenly disappears, leaving a
large bill unpaid, and with no inconsiderable amount of
borrowed money in his pocket.
Is order to escape the innumerable " compliments of
the season " addressed to him in his official capacity. and
with the view of an official acknowledgment in the shape
of argent eumplurtf, the Buirgornaster of Brussels had ad vtr-
tised in the newspapers his intention of appropriating
in
charity a half-franc for every letter leas than a thousand
which be should receive during the Christmas week.
lie
has now announced the result of this ingenious advertuas
went. Only seventy-four complimentary letters have been
addressed to him, and lie has accordingly distributed.,
" with great pleasure," 403 f. among the poor. In addi-
tion, he acknowledges the receipt of 979 f. in money, 5,100
kilogrammes of coal, 200 of rice, and 38 of bread. fn'
private subscription, which lie has appropriated to the
same charitable purposes.

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