The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-23 00:00:00

John Yates to Ds

11th Light bragoons--Qui
Cornet and Adjutant.
12th Light Dragoons--Lieutenant John Wynter James
Gifford to be Lieutenant. •
pith Regiment of Foot—Somerville George Cameron
Rogge, Gent., to be Ensign.
23rd Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Henry Thomas Sylvester,
M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon ; Assiatant-Surgeon Henry
Hunter Raymond to be Assistant-Surgeon.
31st Poet —George John Hamilton, Gent., to be Ensign.
41st Foot—Ensign W. M'Clellan Lambert to be Lieu-
tenant; Robert Enatace Maude, Gent., to be Ensign.
46th Foot—Lieutenant George Frederick Dallas to be
Captain; Ensign Richard Coco to be Lieutenant.
Ildth Foot—Lieutenant Morton Robert Eden to be Cap-
tain; Ensign Henry Fraser Curwen to be Lieutenant;
Arthur William Turtle'', Gent., to be Ensign.
$l4ll Foot7Axsiptant-Surgeop Alexander Juloixton,
u•n., tP APSlsts24-sur-W. Hop.T.
69th Foot—Lieutenant time Alfred 41W7 to be CfAll"
Ulan: Ensign Henry Wood to be Lieutenant ; lientf
Clements fie ls
. .
Poir Bereaford, Gent., to belgasip.
7lat Foot—Ensign ti'edificic }YAM WOO W
14e049t,
/3 GPIIP, to UPign•
Foot— nsign(George Alexander Hairisson 1.0 !:41
Lieutenant; Ensign Donald Hay Mcßarnei to be lieu-
tenant ; Ensign Janes Bell to be Lieutenant.
*4th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Richard William Meadc,
to be Assistant-Surgeon.
97th Foot—Sergeant-Major William Duman to be En-
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3rd West India Regiment—Ensign Anthony Carlisle
to be Lieutenant.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Ensign John Mignon
Lines to be Lieutenant.
Provisional Depot Battalion—Staff Surgeon of the Second
Class John Hartley Sinclair, M.D., to be Surgeon ; Quar

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termaster John Remington Breading to be Quarter-
master.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon William Parry to be Staff-
Surgeon of the Second Class; Surgeon John Newton to be
Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class ; William Ferguson,
Gent., to be Acting Assistant•Surgeou ; Edward Canny
Ryall, Gent., to be Acting Assistunt-Sitigeon ; William
Henry Day, Gent., to be Acting Assistant-Surgeon ; Michael
James Griffin, Gent., to be Acting Assistant Sargoon.
BREVET.
Captain John Miller Adye to be Major in the Army.
Brevet-Captain Daniel Bayley to be Captain in the Army.
The und, :mentioned Cadets of the East India Company's
Service to have the local and temporary rank of Ensign,
during the period of their being placed under the command
of Colonel H. 1). Jones, of the Royal Engineers, at Chat-
ham, for field instruction in the art of sapping and
mining ; viz. :—David Ward, Geut.; William Frederick
Fnlford, Gent.; Charles Brodie Norman Penny, Gent. ;
John Hebblethwaite Moore, Gent. ; Billington Baines
Boyd, Gaut

THB CRIMEA. —This peninsula of Southern Russia
is connected by a narrow isthmus to ths gieat plain,
and its northern part is flat, partaking of the cha-
racter of the adjoining mainland, but on the south
rises a small but comparatively high range of lime-
stone mountains, very precipitous on the south face,
and sinking gradually into the plain on the north.
The highest points are Tschadyr-Dagh, 4,700 ft.;
and Babugan Jaila, about equal in height. Between
these a cruss valley runs with a pass at an elevation
of 2,000 feet. The south coast of the Crimea is quite
a distinct country, both in climate and vegetation.
The tract lying between the steep side of the moun-
tains, and the low sandy sea shore, is peculiarly
circumstanced. It is entirely protected from all the
rough winds of the north, while It is quite open to
all the warm breezes blowing from the southern
shores of the Black Sea. It consequently enjoys
an exceedingly mild climate, which allows 'the
vine, olive, pomegranate, and all the south Euro
pean fruits, to come to peifection. The prin-
cipal culture is that of the vine, but the wipes are
far inferior to those of Western Eprope. The vine-
yards extend at present into a number of the
northern valleys of the Tauric chain, but the wine
is much poorer than that of the south coast. Fruit
is, however, largely cultivated in the northern val-
leys, with an exclusive privilege of supplying Mos-
cow and St. Petersburg. The southern declivity of
the ridge is covered with forests of the Caucasiati
pipe, the region extending from 600 to 3,000 feet.
On the north side, which is much colder, they are
replaced by beech. Arbutus Andrachne occurs only
on the south side, from the coast up to 1,200 feet,
but usually solitary, and is supposed to have been
derived from seeds brought by birds of passage from
Anatolia.—A. Henfrey.

IMPROVEMENTS AT SOMERSET-HOUSE.—Acoong the
works of real utility as well as ornapieot now going
on in the metropolis, the new buildings by Waterloo-
bridge, intended as Inland Revenue Offices, stand
opt very conspicuously. Besides covering an awk-
ward space, and serving as a screen to the unsightly
backs of several houses—very prominent to the eye
oldie pedestrian in journeying from the Strand south-
ward—a highly ornamental frontage, commencing
near the river, of considerable width and elevation,
and combining the requisites of beauty, order, and
solidity, now presents itself, and is fast rising to corn •
pletion. Tpat portion of the work already finished,
near the bridge, with its elegant Corinthian columns
and handsome stone facing (architecturally and de-
coratively in harmony with Somerset-house, of which
it is part and parcel), gives an earnest of the im-
provement which will be effected on the completion
of the undertaking. The open space yet remaining
between the new buildings, which presented a great
difficulty in the way of completing the improvement,
will, we understand, be converted into a terrace (the
probable future Sornerset•terrace); while the houses
still unscreefied will be partly reconstructed, and a
stone facing given to them, so as to complete the
architectural frontage. Great facilities during the
progreks of the pork have been affqrded by the
proximity of the place to the fiver, from whence
stone has bepn readily lauded in vast quantities;
also by beviug so large and convenient a space for
the preparation of the stone on the spot., for oroa-
ment or otherwise, in adapting it to be waioua
of the new buildings.

THN Asczus or MosT BLAsc.--fiaturdry evening
last terrninitc4 the se op erthis exhibition. At the
conclusion a the peeormitigces Mr. Albert Smith
made grateful allusion to The support be bad re-
ceived 'crating the three yews of his exhibition, and
in closing the present season promised :—" To start
immediately for Chamonni, to see what fresh subjects
of amusement or interest may be collected on the
route, which will be entirely changed. Instead of
the Paris and Strasbourg line, I shall convey you to
Switzerland by Amsterdam, Holland, and the Rhine,
and thence by Berne to Geneva, and stop on our
return at Lyons and Paris." Nearly 300,Q00 persons
have attended this entertainment from its first open-

jug in 1t452, during which time t;qi representations
have been given. The end of November is the time
promised for reopening this performance.

A RAILWAY TUNNEL [fell in on Tuesday, during
the passage of a train; fortunately without doing
much mischief. As railways get older, this class
of accidents requires to be most carefully guarded
against. The accident happened on the Leeds Nor-
thern Railway, A Stockton train not arriving at the
customary hour, it was ascertained that the falling in
of a portion of the tunnel at Brarnhope, about seven
miles from Leeds, had taken place. It seems that
the train referred to is usually on Tuesdays a heavy
one, as Leeds market is held on that day of the week.
It was conveying between 200 and 3(H) passengers
through the tunnel (two miles in length) in twelve
or thirteen carriages. When about half way through,
the side on which the train was moving fell in and
severed the train in two, and burying two of the pas.
senger-carriages. The engine alone got through;spd
the remaining carriages Rot buried, when detached,
ran backwards in the direction or Arthington at a
quick pace, the line in that direction being rather
rapid decline. A collision was the consequence, its
progress not being checked until it came in contact
with a truckful of Irish reapers. The guard of the
train (named Porritt), \Om travelled in the van at
the rear, was seriously injured ; but the other pa.s-
sengers escaped without much injury.
POISONING BY TOBACCO.—A lady
the wife of a retired physician, fortiori,
ham, died at a lodging in New Brighton
ago from the effects of a decoction of
it is surmised, medicinally, without the
her husband, she having been long in a
of health. She had ordered the servant
half an ounce or tobacco in a pint of 'lin
drank the half of the decoction, said to
more than sufficient to cause death,
course produced death on the following
had payee been known to use tobacco bgq4
way.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, September 19.
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.—JAxrs Bp-too, liennond-
sey-wal, lime merchant—W' e. RUMBAS, Celbridge-placii, Weat-
baurtie-park-road, Paddington, house decorator.
BANKRUPTS. EBENEZI.R HEATH, Bridge-Louse-place,
Newington-causeway, leather mercer Joux ' CLAREE, ' NeW
Cavendish-street, Piirtland-place, and Upper'Marylebone-sti eat
surgeon Emu U•SY. AUER, Victorneterrice, Kenntogtolli
baker -- HErirty 40ux STEUART, JeTII3}D•SIIVOL, JAMBS
hotel-keeper-1 it.t.tAu CnotE, Jun., Rood:lane, East hid
merchant—Wm. ROLLASEN, Jun.,
_ Birmingham, tinplate wortd
—CHARLES pOODY, Stoke-upon-Trent, tailOr`JOHN MOATS. Sdo;
Spalding, coal tuerobant—GEogux LIILLArr, Barnsley, York'
shire, confectioner—Jolts bytALEa, Opeushaw; Idumashtro,
ironmonger.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—J. and P. BOAC), Leith, wool
dealers—S. M. F. Ili. t, coal agent—G.l3mm, tl*o7
gow, warehouseman BAncLAT and KERNE/A, OkSgOW,
plumbers—J. P. BitIiCLAE and Co., Glasgow, shit! .
Friday Septe,* 22-
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED- MICHAEL NavuLLg.
Liverpool, brassfoundcr—Giomit El:mums, Newport, grocet:'
BANKRUPTS.- Jaime gsutentge, Paddingtou-green, sots
dealer—Jos. 'V/ imports, Leicester, waulataple-WE. CLAIM,
Gloucester, licensed victualler—MicilAEL AUSTIN STUDDEMI
Launceston. gam manufacturer and leather merchant—FatbEßlClC
KERSHAW Sheffield, buiIder—CHARLES HICKMAN,
licensed victualler—WlLLl** WrfiT, Hackney-road, linen draper
WiLLIA* WALKEII, Manchester, builder—Joux
Blackburn, tailor and draper—SAMCEl. CLEOO, Crawford-etre-et,
neer Rochdale, blGOkfllillth—THOMAS ROBERTS, ahcbestei,
ironmonger—WlLLlAM ROBERTSON, Limehouse, shipowner
JONATHAN SMART, saffron Walden, 'cabinet maker—Joar/P
CAWLEY, Michael's-place, Brampton, up4alstersr Ho;
BASIL 13Lai, Coventry, grocer. •

named Watts,
ly of /lofting-
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tobacco, taken,
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a delicate state
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