The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-06 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

T. amendment nagruvad without a (Irvine, end Ur
report nn wry. and annum eerier up and agreed tu.
The East India Loan bill we ma a remind time.
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The Reserve Volooter Faroe of fkomen Bill went through
munition _ . . .

The Poor-law Beard (Payment of Debto) Bill. the Cha-
ritable and Provideat 8 wieti.s Bill, the Militia Laws
Amendment Bill, wete also paes.d through committee.
Other bills were advanced, and the beam adjourned at
2 o'clock.

VACANCIES, APPOIA'TYNNTS, AND PROMO-
-2IONS IN TEE CIVIL SERVICE.

Ecclesiastical Commission.—There are vacancies
to this office foe actor clerks. Commencing salary, 9°f. per
annum. Law -Department: The Judgeship of County
Courts, Circuit No. 2.6—Wolverhampton, Wideall, Oldbury,
ke.—has become vacant by the death of Mr. derjeant
Clarke. The liecordershipa of Lincoln, Newark, North-
ampton, and Waloall, have become vacant by the death of
Mr. &demi Clarke. The Admiralty: The Head-Mester-
ship of the Lower school, Greenwich Hospital, has become
vacant by the death of Mr. E. Hughes. Salary and alon-
eness 4001. a year. Peymaster-Gentware-offiee : A vacancy
has been crested In the Paymasteiceeneres-office by the
resignation of Mr. Ernest Albert Hoffey, Assistant Pay-
muter-General. War-office: Mere. William Gamble,
Herbert Eliot, and George TI200:11111 Jelly bevel parsed their
examinations, and received ceramics from the Civil tiersdne
Commussloaers for temporary clearablpe in the
Registry of &amen's-office Mr. W. C. Bradstreet bas
raexahis examination, and received a certificate from the
mination,Service Commissioners for a third clue cletkabip In
the Seamen's Registry-office. Customs: Mr. John
Iklrlaway has been eppointod a clerk in the Milne of the
Inepiwor-General of import. and Exports, Loudon; Mr.
G. B. Helium be. been appointed a clerk in the Tea sad
BOA India department, London; Mr. Thomas Myees
has bees appointed a clerk in the Long-nom,
Liverpool. Inland Revenue Department, Stamps end
Taxes Branch : Mr. Francis Brown has panned his
examination as a Sujemanteruy Surveyor of Taxes in Beg-
lend. Three s ill be, in a short time, vacancies for junior
clerks in Som,rset-house. Commencing salary, 901. per
annum • Mr. T. Gibson, Supervisor, Charlestown, has been
appointed to Burnley district, vice Spruckley, mind; Mr.
J. &Modell, Supervisor. Market Harborough, has been ap-
pointed to Northampton district. Ireland.—A judgeship in
the Court of Bankruptcy hoe become vacant by the deans of
the Hon. Patrick Plunket; MOWS. George Haddock,
James Fennell Kieby, end Thomas Smith have paned their
ruminatione for cleraehips in Dublin. East Indies.—Mr.
T. Garrett has been appointed Poatmaater of Cakutta ; Mr.
R. P. Harrison ben been eppoinied Accountant to the go-
vernment of Bauer' ; Mr, D. Simnel has been appoictill a
Commimiewer in Gude ; Major J. W. Carnegie has been
appointed a Deputy-Commissioner of the first-der • Mr. A.
One ha been appointed to dictate as • member of Lae
Board of Revenue ; Mr. H. M. Reid has been appointed to
officiate as Commissioner of Rtvenne.—Citil Serene
Ortutte.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
(From lest night's Gazette.)
WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 6.
let Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant-General Sir
Thomas William Brother:on, K.C.8., from the 15th Light
Mailroom, to be colonel, vice General the Earl of Cath-
cart, 0.C.8., demised.
15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Major-General Emend
William Beaver*, to be colonel, vice Lieutenant-General
Sir Thom.. William Brothertoo, transferred to the let
Dragoon Guards.
DIEMORANDUM.—Major-Gaueral Bonnets has repaid the
difference between the full price of a Cavalry and Infantry
lieutenant-oolonelcy, be hiving been. upon half-pay of
Infmtry when promoted to the rank of major•general.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Brevet-Colonel Janice
Alexander Robertson, from half Useittached, to be Route-
neat-colonel, paying the difference betweett Infantry and
Cavalry, vice Brevet-Colonel Hodge, C.B , who exchanges,
receiving the same; Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonal William
Charles Forrest to be lieutenant-colonel, by purchase, vice
Roberteco, who retiree; Captain Thomas Jones to be
major, by purchase, vice Famed ; Lieutenant John
Arthur Bragge to be cap:ain, by purchase, vice Jones;
Cornet Henry Edward Bridges to be lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vimrew.
7th Dragoon Guards—Cornet Edward Goldsmith, from the
18th Light Dragoons, to be cornet, vice Molyneux, pro-
moted.
Bth Light Dragoons—Major Edward Seeger to be lieutenant-
colonel, by porches-, via Naylor, who retires; Cement
Francis Edward Idacesghten to be major, by purchase,
via Seeger; Lieutenant Horace Montagu to be captain,
by purchase, vice Misimaghten- Cornet Herbert Cromwell
Collier to be Heineman, by purchase, vice Montego.
9th Light Dragoon—Surgeon Jona James Clifford, DI.D.,
from the Ma, to be memos, vies Franklin, who ex-
Gunge,.
10th Ltgbt Degrees—Smith Hill Child, abet, to be comet,
by porches', vice Ball, promoted.
18th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant William Palliser to be
captain, by purchase, vies Stacey, who retires; Cornet
and Adjutant Richard Saunders to have the rank of lieu-
tenant; Comm William Henry O'Shea to be lieutenant,
by ruckus, vies Palliser.
Royal Artillery—Stoond Captain Walter John Grimston to
be captain, vies Anson, placed on the second list ; Lieu-
tenant Robert Hodson to be sewed captain, vice Grim-
mest; Surgeon-Major John Beat, from the Staff, to be
surgeon-major, vice Charles Dempsey, who retiree upon
half-pay ; Surgeon-Major Charles Dempsey, retired upon
half-pay, to have the honorary rank ot deputy inspector-
general of hospitals, under the royal warrant of Ist Octo-
ber, 1858.
Grenadier Guards Lieutenant and Captain Frederic
Charles Hempel to be captain and thratenent-colonel, by
purchase, Mos the Hanoureble Arthur Frederick Egertoo,
who retiree.
tad Regiment of Foot—William Ward Bennitt, gent., to be
twigs, by numb's., vice Heresy, promoted.
4th Foot—Frederick Anna mht, gent., to be ensign,
without purchase, vice Puna., appointed to the 83rd Foot.
6th Foot—Assistant-mergeon George Simpson Cameron,
from the staff, to be maistans.surgeoe, vice Collins, ap-
pointed to the Staff.
9th Foot—Robert Dillon Hare, gent., to be ensign, wdboue
percher, vice Montage Alexander Scott, whose appoint-
ment, doted the 18th Nov. 1857, has been cancelled.
10tb Yoot—Lientesmot Thetiplattut Scott to be instructor of
musketry.
11th Foot—George Tbeobald, gent., to be ensign, without
purchase, vice Mil-s, promoted.
17th Foot—Etteign Henry Clement Wilkinson, from the 95th
Foot, to be lieutenant, by parchme, vice Banbury, who
retiree; the fourth Chriathin name of Ensign Beason,
appointed on the 19th July, 1859, is "Grime,' and not
Gyre," as then stated.
18th Foot—Henry Gordon Heath, gent., to be ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Lipscomb, promoted; beotenent
Edward Abbott Nobles to be instructor of masketry.
22nd Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Climes Hinds to be captain,
by purchase, vice Little, who retires; Ensign George
Henry Burt to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hinds;
Harry Bromley Pitman, gent., to be ensign, by partheae,
vice Burt
24th Foot—Captain William Flamer Gaskell, from the 94th
Foot, to be caption, vice Peacocks, who exchanges; Lieu.
tenant John Johnstone to be captain, by parchme, vice
Goottleon, who retiree • Ensign E. Henry S. &abridge to
be lieutenant, by purchase, Moe Johnstone ; Lieute-
nant Thomas Pierce Butler to to instructor of musketry.
27th Foot—Major Herman Stapy lan to he lieutenant-colo-
nel, without purchase, vice brevet-Colonel Usher Wil-
Hemmen, who retiree upon full pay.
30th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Wood to be captain, by pur-
chase, vice W Wittman, who retires; Ensign Frederick
kiaroeart Williamson to be llettUmest, by purchase, am
Wood ; Ensign David Matthew La Touche, front the 31st
Foot, to be amigo, vice Williamson.
38th Foot—John Verses Sparks*, gent., to be ensign,
without purchase, vice Hodges, promoted in the 76th
Foot.
43nd Foot—lienry Brooke, gent., to be ensigm, by perches.,
vice the lion. Henry Thomas Fraser, promoted in the
Scots Foal's. Guards.
44th Foot—Henry de Perny Rounick, gent., to be ensign, by
purchase, vim Hesse, promoted.
58th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew H. Rumen to be captain, by
purchase, vice Tithe, who retiree. Eneign Joseph Out-
rem to be lieutenant, by parchme, vice Russell ; Richard
Dane, gent., to be 'mien. by purcl.sao, vice Dutra= ;
Henry lUrzoli Rome Storks, gent., to ensign, without
purchase, vies Onslow, promoted.
59th Foot—Lieutenant lease B. Bornford to be captain, by
purchase, vice Etyma, who retiree. Ensign Lancelot C.
Brown to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice bomturd.
Stith Foot—Fames Wallace GrentelL gent., to be ensign,
by purchase, in sumeadon to Lieutenant Allen, deceased.
61st Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant William Fraser to be
ensign, without purchase, vim Flood, promoted.
66th Fah-Assistant-Surgeon George Alexander Moorhead,
from the Staff, to be assistant-surgeon, vice Milieu, ap-
pointed tot& Staff.
71st Foot—Lieutenant Coartensf H. S. Scott to be eeptain,
by purchase, vice Campbell, who retiree; Ensign Richard
Kane to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Scutt j Henry
Gleed Dods, gent, to be mean. by purchase, vice Clinton.
promoted in the Grenadier Guards.
76th Foot—Ensign Edward Han ison, from the 68 h Foot, to
be lieutenant, without purchase, vice W. Mc Donnell
Clark.e, cashiered by the sentence of a general court-
marital.
81st Foot—Ensign William Henry Manton Jackson to be
lieutenant, by purchase, vice iluesperem, who retiree.
86th Foot—Lieutenant Joshua James Boerne" from the
89th Foot, to be lieutenant, vice Sewell, who exchanges.
89th Font—lAsuanane Stephen William Sewell, from the
86th Foot, to be lieutenant, vice Boerne, who exchange. ;
Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Weigh, from toe staff, to be
aesistanb surgeon vice Roe, appointed to the etatf.
94th Foot—Captaa Thomas
elk weer. from the
34th Foot, to be captain, vice Gasket',
99th Foot—Perhes Loped Story, gent., to be ensign, by
purchase, vice Coate., promoted; the promotion of Lieute-
nant Burton and Elutes Townsend, vice William., de-
ceased, to bear date 16th May, 1859, instead of 15th of
that month, as previously stated.
St. Helena Regiment—Euaign William Russell Nash to be
lieutenant, by purchase,
TTACHED. vice Taylor promoted.
UNA,
Lieutenant Thome' George B. Atkinson, 46th Foot, having
been appointed a captain in the late Land Transport Corps,
General Orders in the Crimes pending her Majesty's
ure, to be captain, without purchase.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
&trgeon-Major Henry Frankiio, from the 9th Light Dra-
ePlengee66l,4,thwt.F;cobeAthtB7tu:ge°6664ent.ht.Fi Surgeonje. c:"Nroi:ebolirleTisce.FrgmfCoLorltiot4iffh.a"Lfwnrilif.i.
Collin., M.D , from the bth Foot, to be awboant-eargeon,
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BREVRT.
nyet-Colonel Usher William" retired fall pay 27th
Feat, to he major-general, the rank befog hontirery only.
ImionANDOn.—Lieutenantlwries McMabon Eager, having
obtained a firm class tertificate at the School ot Musketry,
at Hythe, has been appointed by the General Command-
ing-in-Chief, with the concurrence of the Secretary of
State foe War, to act as instructor of musketry to the
Kerry Regiment of Militia.

ADMIRALTY, ABOIIBS 6. APPOINTMENTS.—
Chaplain J. B. Harbord, M.A. (1836), to the Donegal, 101,
&crew steam ship, at Devoagoet.
Second Mawr D. J. May (1861), to the Donegal.
Assistaat Paymarter J. M. Forster (1862), is confirmed as
paymaster la the Madagearsr state .hip, at Rio de Janeiro.

WOOLWICH, Acorn 6.
The Admiralty deem pieta Vivid, Master-com-
manding Henry Liles, arrived in harbour this evening at
Ma o'clock, having bean at the service of a commission ap-
pointed to intife,t and report se to the condition of Vatiote
parts of the British coast and the necessity misting for addi-
tional defectors. Admiral Hamilton mad other officers, who
have been engaged in the seem, disembarked at the Dock-
yard, and proceeded to Lasko.

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Thantday
toonsiag • soldier Wafting to the 84th, lamed 3143isa•
mu discovered ly%g is the Imo* rem the eallvri• aP"
penally dead. He was removed to the garrison hospital sad
medically impacted,whes It watt foaled thatliisbarkaad three
of his ribs were broker, sad he wes otherwise so seriously
fitjared that he Is not sayeetad to bee. Hehen his mast have
fallen late the trench the previous evening, won
way across Chatham lines to the hots at Brompton. The
11 poor fellow has a wife sad one child ; he hie been 13 years
in the earvios.

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TUC .Vonoteur annum= a genseel disarmament ,
by sea and land, and streightway Lard CLARZIOCE
P .0.17, on behalf of the Government,proposee a mea-
sure for increasing the efficiency of the navy. This
course, paradoxical only in appearance, is in reality
logical, prudent, and pacific. It ia a practical denial
of the unbound assumption, encountered is England
even more frequently than in Frames, that the
oeranic improvement of our belligerent services must
necessarily epring from an unworthy distrust of tie
nearest and most powerful neighbour. The reform of
these 'enlace is a concern far too important to be
pursued or relinquished according to the changing
aspects of foreign effete.. The canoes which impel
as to eerie* the material and personal constitution of
the navy are sot exclusively or essentially political.
'racy are to be found in eselcient number, as we
sue it candidly and honourably admitted in the last
*umber of the Reeme des Deux Mi‘ides, in the noto-
rious negligence of past years, in the new conditions
of naval warfare which have grown up with the
use,, extensive ass of steam propulsion, in the int-
prearaments in marine artillery, and in the universal
eserislioe that the expedients by which our fleets
were maimed in the time of the last great naval
war one no mare be matted to. Three were the
mends ea which honourable members on both
sides of the House last night &reneged the question
et oew Naval Reserve.

" Your Majesty peewee in the Merchant Service
" elements of naval power, such as no other Govern-
. meet is the world enjoys." Thee are the words
of the COMM IfiSIOWS appointed to consider the beet
geode of Manning the Navy. They are an echo of
as apparent truism, cm which too many are apt to
rely without farther inveetigatiou and inquiry, sad
of an asearanee which is too readily entertained by
the public, that ander any emergency the require-
meats of OW ships of war will always be amply sad
immediately supplied by the reeourees of the mer-
cantile marine. It would, of coarse, be idle to dozy
that what is now commonly termed the Merobaat
Navy cannot bat prove a valuable auxiliary to that
of the Queen bat it is a simple delusion to suppose
that, neglictcd in time of peace, it can safely be
relied on to furnish a sufficient body of trained
seamen to man half the Channel fleet on the tint
outtreak of war. We mast look to other sup.
plies, and must devise some surer remedy for an
suit the magnitude of which is admitted on all
handy, and increases rather than diminishes with the
lapse of years.

The proposition which the SECRETARY to the
ADMIIZALTY submitted to the House of Commons
last night is based on the recommendations of the
Royal Commission. It ie proposed to form a reserve
faros of 30,000 men. Every man is to be enrolled far
Eve years, to receive five pounds per annum, and be
called out far drilling twenty-eight days in the
year. Garth* these twenty-eight days they will
receive the pay of non-continuous service men ac-
cording to their rating as stamen. At the end of Eve
years the men will have the option of retiring from the
force, or of enrolling themselves for five years
longer. At the end of the ten years they will be
eligible for pensions. If the country should be in-
volved in war, these men will be liable to be called
upon to serve in the QUEEN', service in any part of
the world. The country will have a claim on the
service of the men for three years dur'ng war, and
for two years 'etre on giving them an increase of
pay equal to that of continuouu service men. Bo
that the Government might count on the service
of these mentor tire years. This plan, of course, mast
be considered me to a great extent experimental.
Mr. LINDSAY, speaking from great experience of the
merchant service, think, it will not answer the ex-
pectations of its authors; while Sir ClisaLes
N itstElt no sooner hears of it than he is ready to
depart in peace, :convinced that the Admiralty is at
lest going the right way to work. That we have
considerable lee-way to make up is apparent when
we look at what forethought has done in a country
where the difficulties to be overcome were much
gre►ter.

At the present moment the number of French
seamen actually afloat or in barracks, ready at mace
to be put on board ship, is 25,600, while 15,000
additional could be procured in a fortnight, making
• grand total of upwards of 40,000. In a month
12,000 more could be borrowed, partly from the
" Inscription " and partly from the " Etcrutement,"
and in two mouths the same sources would yield
20,000 additional, all, be it remembered, thoroughly
efficient, and capable of discharging every duty of
men-of-war's men, Thus, in two months from the
firing of the first gun, France could command the
service' of 72,000 *cornea, every one of whom has
previously served for a writs of years on board a
vessel of war, hoe been moulded to habits of diact-
p",ne, and has, moreover, been practised in every
variety of naval evolution—a most essential portion
of a sesmaii's education, but nevertheless, nowa-
days, utterly neglected by our authorities. As
we recently took occasion to observe, we have
now afloat, in every ses. bet 31,400 seamen,
end ran hardly venture to sekelete epee Rote this
:10,000 reverves from all @mem A large propor-
tion of three would foe a time be comparatively
ve'oriees, an they could only have served previously
in merchantmen or coasters. It is calculated that
upwards of 46,000 British seamen are receiving per-
manent employ on board American and other foreign
vseeelr, and it is not impassible that those among
them who have not been naturalised and habituated
to sew associations may, in the hour of England's
need, return to fight on her behalf; but this is a'
moat unreliable and uncertain prop to treat to, aid
ought cot to enter into a prudent calculation. Te
bring even our available reserves forward would to.
flair* time and no small expeeihrors; and it is pro-
bable that at the end of two month•, after straining
every nerve, we should not be able to collect 60,000
able seamen. Io round oumben,then,the probabilities
are, that the French would be able to outnumber as
be some 10,000 or 12,000 men. There are many
who will deem due ►s isoignifkent prepondi ranee,
aid who, having regard to the teelticiest crews es

board French ships at the latter end of the war
(1811-14), will conclude that we can well aillbrd to
contend spinet far heivier odds. We must, however,
not lose sight of the important fact, that Bridal'
ships would, in the event of • war, have to bia
scattered over every distant see, while the
French could concentrate all their energies
upon a comparatively narrow Held of operations. It
is obvious, then, that with fewer seamen and a neces-
sarily much larger fleet, or rather with many fleets,
each vessel moat be short of her proper complement.
and would have to fight at a serous disadvan-
tage. That the disadvantage would be more than
atoned for by the indomitable sturdiness and gal-
lantry of both officers and men we fully believe;
but, is it fair that all this unflinching valour and
endurance should be thus immoderately tested I'