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The following appointments and pronAfiensizoreb.:
made on Tilursday at the Athniralty :
F. 0. Powell, to the Gibraltar—Sub-Lieut. John-
stone, to the Excellent—John W. Dobbin, assist.,
burg., to the Hawke—BA3jamin Brewing, assist.-
surgeon, to the Canopus—Amos Pritchard, in the
Euryalus, and F. C. Kdson, in the Antelope, prc•
motel to acting engimers—and Samson Grundy,
the Fawn, promotud to first-class assist.-engineer.

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Earl Shaftesbury on the Volunteer

Movement.

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The trrnual inspection of the Dorset R lie Vilun-
teers took pltee at Malden Castle, Darchestcr, on
Thursday, belore Co:onel Hume and EAri Shaf:es-
bury, the Lard-LicutcnaLt of the ccunty ; at the
conclusion of the inspection hl3 I,lrdship addressed
the battalion. He said it wls a matter of certainty
now that whenever they were reviewed upon those
plains they had the praises, not only of the Lord-
Licutcnant, bat of the inspecting officer of every one
who saw their movements. What could he add on
the present occasion to that which had fallen from
Colonel Hume, a man whose opinions were founded
upon experience and long-tried warfare in the ser-
vice of his country, and, as they saw by the medals
on his breast, had received the reward of his hon■
ourable achievements ? Ho (the noble lord) could
only endorse what had been said, and hoped they
would attend to his advice, and follow that of their
gallant officer, Colonel Manse', to whom he thought
the whole county, and he f,aight add, the whole
Volunteer service, was, mutes. indebted. (Cheers,)
Now, this Volunteer arr.., ed passed from an
experiment into a certaint . ' a confessed when it
commenced he had some doubts about its 'perman.
ence, some doubt whether the men of England would
enter into it with so much heart and soul, soma':
doubt whether they would give up so much of their
time, sacrifice so much of their pleasure, and sur-
render so much of their property for the purpose of
maintaining this great cause—the defence of their
shores from any invading enemy. (Cheers.) This
service has now passed into an institution, an insti-
tution which no other country, as he had said be-
fore on previous occasions, but now said again, which
no other:country could possess, because no other na-
tion dared to entrust,arms and ammunition to 150,000
men without asking what they intended to do with
them. But the enemies of this country knew what
was intended to he done with them. They knew that
they were determined to defend these shores, and
had given a manifestation to the whole world that
they did not desire aggression, nor to interfere with
other men's rights and territories, but they were
determined to defend their own. They must let
him say that every one of them and every corps
represented the insignia of the Scotch Order of the
Thistle, of which probably they knew the motto,
which, in Latin, was "Nemo me impune lacessit ;"
or, in very good Anglo-Saxon, meant " You had
much better leave me alone." (Laughter.) This
was what they were saying to all nations, "We
will do no harm, but, so help us Heaven, if you come
here you will find to your cost you have mistaken
your men." But he must say, although they would
not only defend their shores, he trusted every one
would do what lay in his power, under God's bless-
ing, to make this country the refuge of the oppressed
and the asylum of those who sought its security for
civil and religious freedom. Let that be the hon-
our of England, and their duty and charge together
with the defence of their families, and they would
then defend those great principles which were the
security and safeguard of the human race. (Cheers.)
But they must let him say one word respecting
their drill. Drill was the life of their movement.
Necessary it was that they should be conversant
with firearms, that they should be good shots, and
upon occasion be able to meet an enemy in many
ways ; but drill was the life of the whole system.
Unless they could execute movements with precision
in he face of an enemy, all their skill, all their
courage, and all their determination would be of no
avail. He was delighted to see the manner in
which they had gone through it to. day, because it
showed the energy which had been devoted to this
the most trying part of the service. The drill had
tested their efficiency, and their success showed they
bad undergone that drill which was necessary for
the service; therefore, from what he had seen he
was convinced that the volunteer service was now
permanent, and that there was no body of men
which would take precedence of the volunteers of
the county of Dorset. (Applause.) They must
know that there was in the Houses of Parliament a
custom called "swearing off"—that was, when a
member of those Houses had attained a certain age
(he need not say what that age was) he had the
privilege of swearing off—that was, refusing office,
either because he did not like it, or because he could
not do it. Although he (the noble lord) might have
attained that age, yet under God's blessing, he had
not reached that point when he was too old or did
not like to come among them, It was one of the
greatest prides he could enjoy, one of the greatest
pleasures he could pursue, one of the most honour-
able positions that he could ever attain, which had
been conferred upon him by her Majesty's condes•
tension in being placed at the head of the Voluno
teers of the noble county of Dorset. In conclusion
his lordship said he would wish them goad morn'
ing, and hoped they would return to their hearths
and homes in happiness and peace, and there, in the
joys of domestic love, see what they had to fight for,
and so use their endeavours for their posterity to the
latest ages of their lives. (Loud cheers.)
His Lordship then distributed the prizes won at
the recent County Association shooting, after which
he left the ground amidst the cheers of the assemq
bled multitude.

THE CLOSE OF THE LIFE OF LADY HESTES
STANHOPE.—FinaIIy this eccentric lady settled at
Dar Joon, in Syria, not very distant from St. Jean d'Acro.
Whilst there, her spiritual visions assumed a distinct
shape. The Milennium was close at hand, and she was
the chosen bride of the Messiah of Nations—chosen from
before the foundations of the earth were laid—whose ad-
vent she hourly expected, and not less confidently after,
by the lapse of time and the indulgence of vicious habits,
she had withered into a smoking, chewing old crone,
whose chief occupation was swearing at the black
beasts," her servants. Many persons from Europe visited
her at Dar Joon. The most distinguished of them was
M. Lamartine, who, in his "Eastern Travels," plentifully
bedaubs her with plaster of Paris, artistically coloured.
Lady Hester had condescended to prophecy high things of
the French poet; her chief avowed reason for assuring him
that he would rise to eminence in his own country being,
that although he could not pretend to an exalted instep
like her owa, which a kitten might creep under, water
would flow beneath his pedal-arch without wetting it.
Lamartine positively repeats this craziness as if he were
transcribing the sayings of a Plato. Lady Hester
also vouchsafed to show M. Lamartine two foals, curi-
ously marked on their backs, upon which the Messiah
and herself would make their entry into Jerusalem I The
chosen bride of the Messiah had, strangely enough, o,rown
oblivious of the maxims of common honesty. A pension of
£1,500 per annum must be an enormous income at Dar
Joon, but her ladyship could not somehow or other make
both ends meet. Creditors became clamorous, and some of
the wiliest of them instructed agents in London to apply to a
court of equity for relief. The pension—at least a consi-
derable portion of it—might, they thought, be set aside for
the liquidation of her ladyship's debts. That, however,
could not be done; but Lord Pal.nerston. then Secretary
for Foreign Affairs (1838), apprised of the circumstance
by Colonel Campbell, the English Consul at Beyrout,
wrote to her ladyship, politely intimating that payment
of the pension would be suspended unless she would
make a bona fide effort to settle with her creditors. This
"impertinence to a Pitt" was warmly resented by Lady
Hester, and, not condescending to reply direct to the
Foreign Secretary, sha addressed a letter to the Queen
of England herself, threatening to give up her pension
and with it the name of an English subjet and, the slavery
which it entailed. As to Col. Campbell, her ladyship had
half a mind to shoot him, either herself or ley proxy; he
having richly desrved that fate, " for having alienated
from the Queen and her country a person whom
great and small must acknowledge had raised the
English name in the East higher than any one had
before doze, besides having made philosophical researches
of every description for the benefit of mankind in
general." The final renunciation of the pension was,
however, postponed ; and soon a more potent creditor
than those who had invoked the intercession of Colonel
Campbell put in his claim. Lady Hester Stanhope died
suddenly in June, 1839. The favourite and beautiful niece
of the great William Pitt fills an obscure grave in the
Syrian wilderness, her only bequest to the world being the
sad moral of her life.—Seeentric Personages, by William
Russell, LL,D.