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London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

Naval and

Ltelligence.

Substantive Rank of Major, under the Royal Warrant of

3d November, 1854. -
Brevet-Major John Dwyer, 14th Foot, to have his
Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the

The 44th Regiment was at Madeira on the 6th of
Sept. in the Khersonese, boundfor Madras, all well.
The 77th Regiment, second division, under Lieut. -
Col. Deverell, was near the Equator on the 11th of
July, having had a good passage so far in the ship
Palmerston, for Sydney.
The Cleopatra steamship, with the 23d Royal
Welsh Fusileers on board, arrived, all well, at As-
cension, on the way to India, on the 14th of July.
The Ireland steamship left Portsmouth yester-
day with the following officers and troops for Kur-
i rachee :—Major Peyton, Capts. Cleveland, Rhodes,
Batt, and Ellerman ; Lieuts. Freeson, Gardiner,
Kay, Lloyd, Jones, Lewis, Blackett, alker, and
Brett ; Ensigns Woodward, West, Smith, and
Stewart ; Assistant-Surgeon Beattie, 20 sergeants,
7 drummers, 19 corporals, and 255 privates of the
98th Regiment. The Ireland sailed from Spithead

Royal Warrant 6th October, 1851.
HOSPITAL STIFF.
Inspector-General of Hospitals, with local rank, Daniel
Scott, M.D., to be Inspector-General of Hospitals.
Deputy nspector-General of Hospitals James Barry,
M.D., to be Inspector-General of Hospitals, with local
rank, vice Scott, who retires upon half pay.
Assistant-Surgeon James E. Clutterbuck, M.D., from
the 2nd West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Hatchell, appointed to the 60th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon!Francis L. Fitzgerald, from the 94th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Wallace,
appointed to 94th Foot.
To BE ACTING ASSISTANT-SURGEONS—Robert Dade,
Gent., and Harvey Rowe, Gent.
BREVET.
The following Officers to be promoted to the Brevet
Rank of Major in the Army :
Capt. William L. Merewether, of the 3rd Regiment of
European Infantry on the Bombay Establishment.
Capt. Edwin B. Johnson, of the Bengal Artillery.
ADMIRALTY, SErr. 24.
The following promotions, dated the 10th instant, con-
sequent on the death of Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir
William Henry Dillon, K.C.H., on the 9th instant, have
taken place:
Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Henry Prescott, K.C.8.,
to be Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Fairfax Moresby, K.C.B-,
to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red William Walpole to be Vice-
Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Henry Byam Martin,
K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley,
Bart., to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain John Kingcome to be Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Lincoln.—Sir Edmund Gonville Bromhead,
Bait, Henry Lionel Dymoke, Esq., Richard George Elli-
son, Esq., George Henry Haigh, Esq., Henry Handley,
Esq., John Hood, Esq., George Morland Hutton, Esq.,
Herbert Ingram, Esq., William Parker, jun., Esq., Geo.
Charles Uppleby, Esq., Richard Septimus Wilkinson,
Esq., and Thomas Dallas Yorke, Esq., to be Deputy.
Lieutenants.
Royal North Lincoln Militia.—Henry Metcalfe, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Robert Henry Owston, promoted.
Royal South Lincoln Militia.—Robert Cecil Kearney,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice William Barry Drew, re-
signed.
Royal Bucks King's Own Militia.—Russell England,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Baines, resigned.
Huntingdonshire Militia.—William Whitter Goldicutt,
Esq., to be second Lieutenant.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Regi-
ment of Royal Lancashire Militia.—Hallowes Henry
Bolton, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Corlett, resigned •
Frank Jefferson, Gent„ to be Ensign, vice Daly, resigned;
James Hardcastle, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bennett,
resigned ; Robert Edmund Haworth, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Fitzpatrick, resigned ; Ensign George Ainsworth,
to be Lieutenant, vice iVorrall, resigned.
Royal Laneashire Militia Artillery Regiment.—Charles
Williams, Gent., to be Lecond Lieutenant, vice McCandie
Campbell, promoted.
County of Surrey—George Thomas Nicholson, Esq., to
be Vice-Lieutenant.
3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—To be En-
signs—Frederick Goulburn Walpole, Gent. ; Adolphus
William Murray, Gent.
let Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Archibald William
Ramsay Davidson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Henderson,
promoted.
2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Captain John Gordon
Campbell, late 42d Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice
Trapand, resigned ; Ensign Francis Wallis Lipscomb to
I be Lieutenant, vice Wilson, promoted.
Forfar and Kinkardine Militia Artillery—Captain
Robert Todd Boothby to be Major, vice Laird, promoted.
Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery—
Major David Laird to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant,
vice Ramsay, resigned ; First Lieutenant Alexander Mon-
crieff to be Captain, vice Booth by, promoted; Second
Lieutenant James Beattie to be First Lieutenant, vice
Mencrieff, promoted.

at half-past 2 p.m.
The Chesapeake, 51, screw frigate, Captain
Watson, C. 8., left Spithead yesterday afternoon

for Calcutta.
Lieut.-Colonel C. Elmbirst, who has been ap-
pointed to the command of the third battalion re-
cently formed at Chatham garrison, has joined the
Provisional Battalion, arid taken up his appoint-
ment. The Third Depot Battalion will be quar-
tered in the huts at Prince Henry's bastion, and
Brompton barracks. Lieut. T. Lloyd, 35th Regi-
ment, and Captain A. J. 0. Rutherford, 70th Re-
giment, have joined their respective depot batta-
lions at Chatham.
Yesterday the head-quarters, consisting of the
A and E troops, of the 7th Dragoon Guards, ac-
companied by their band, arrived at Chatham from
Sheffield, under orders to join the troops of that
regiment quartered at Canterbury. The head-
quarters were under the command of Captain A.
R. G. Costello and Lieutenant and Adjutant D.
Scotland, and numbered 120 horses and men. A
detachment of the 7th Dragoon Guards, consisting
of the D and F troops, numbering 80 men and 103
horses, left Chatham yeSterday for Canterbury, ac-
companied by the following officers—Capt. T. E.
Dowbiggin, Lieut. and Riding-Master Blinkhorn,
Lieut. J. V. Cleland, Cornets W. D. Wentworth
and R. E. Echalaz. The 7th Dragoon Guards,
which number upwards of 500 men, are under orders
to embark at Gravesend on Oct. 2, on board the
Southampton, for India.
Col. Hogart, 7th Hussars, left London yesterday,
and proceeds to India by the overland route to
meet his regiment at Calcutta.
In the Quebec Gazette of Sept. 8 we road :
" Yesterday morning the left wing of the 39th
arrived here from Montreal in the steamer Quebe c
and this morning the head-quarters arrived in the
Canadian. On arrival the respective divisions
marched. up to the citadel barracks, where they are
to be quartered."
The left wing of the 9th Regiment, under com-
mand of Major Bethune, arrived in Montreal
on Monday evening, Sept. 7, in the Upper Canada
steamer. They number as follows :-1 field officer,
3 captains, 17 subalterns, 1 staff, 27 sergeants, 17
drummers, 339 rank and file, 26 women, and 32
children. The right wing was expected on the fob
lowing day.
The companies of Royal Artillery at Woolwicl

comprising the heavy siege trains, are now fully
equipped, and are awaiting embarkation orders for
India. These companies have been exercised in
heavy gun drill during the past fortnight at the
Royal Military Repository on Woolwich-common.
A. portion of the Royal Artillery force of 1,503, re-
cently placed under orders for India, were ordered
to be in readiness to embark at the Royal Arsenal
pier this day ; but the embarkation has been de-
layed, in consequence of the vessel selected for
their conveyance having been rejected, after a care-
ful inspection, by competent officers connected with
the dockyard. Captain Desborough's field battery
will embark at Gravesend for Calcutta during the
present week. The three field officers appointed to
command the divisions of the Royal Artillery in
India—namely, Lieut.-Colonel H. W. Montrteer,
Lieut.-Col. G. Gambier, C.. 8 , and Lieut.-Colonel
Evan Maberly—are ordered to proceed by the
overland route.
Recruits are daily reaching the head-quarters of
the Artillery at Woolwich from the various pro-
vincial stations, and after being passed are forth-
with equipped and put through the necessary drills
for foreign service. Yesterday several parties
arrived at Woolwich for presentation from York,
Ipswich, Watford, St. Alban's, Portsmouth, and
some other localities appointed as recruiting sta-
tions of the corps. Numbers are rejected as being
below the registered stature, five feet four inches
being the lowest standard for admission to the
Royal Artillery.
Brevet-Major Ward's A troop of Royal Horse
Artillery, at Woolwich, has been medically in-
spected for service in India.
The completion of the screw steam-ship Edgar,
91, at Woolwich, is ordered by the Lords of the
Admiralty to be pushed forward, so as to commence
the Ansou and two other 50-frigates, with as much
despatch as possible. The Edgar is expected to be
launched about April next. The other two ships
are to be named the Repulse and the Barossa, of
2,100 tons each.
The screw steamship Great Britain steamed out
of the Mersey yesterday afternoon for Cork, where
she will embark between 1,100 and 1,200 men, with
rses, belonging to the Bth Hussars and 17th
Lancers, with whom she will sail direct for Bombay.
A large number of persons crowded the quays to
witness her departure, and wish her " God speed."

H E S UN, ro N D ON, FItI WA EVENI G, SIE P T'E M B E'R 25, 1 815 7

The ship's head being on the rock, her stern was
rapidly settling down into deep water ; the great
fear was lest she should at once slip off the reef, in
which case all on board must have been at once en-
gulfed. The troops and officers wore sent below ;
the pumps were set a-going ; the soldiers worked
up to their necks in water. " I assure you, though
we were in the most imminent danger, the most
perfect order was preserved, and not a man left the
place he was ordered to remain in, and all sat down
quietly except those who were employed." At
length the boats were got out, and the men all
carried to a higher reef between the wreck and
the shore, there to wait till they could be finally
landed. Thera they stood, those 800 men, reso-
lute and calm, the sharp coral cutting their hare
feet, the tropical sun blazing down on their
shelterless heads, the tide gradually rising, with
the full knowledge that when it was at its height
the ledge of rock which just gave them bare
standing room would be covered ten feet deep
in water. Silently and steadfastly they stood
there, the last detachment waiting for the last
boat, with all the order of the parade ground,
though another half-hour would have made that
boat too late to save them. So now let the
Transit pass into history, with cheers, three
times three, for the brave British soldiers she had
the honour to bear ; and with any sentiment
deemed most appropriate for the gentlemen of
the Admiralty, who, with ample warning, peril
led the lives of 800 men like these, in a tub like
this.--Dully 11 ews.

'ASTROLOGY IN LIVERPOOL.

Isaac Ransbury, a pale-faced, sinister-looking fellow,
about 30 years of age, was brought up at the Liverpool
Pol7ce-court, on Wednesday, charged with obtaining
money under false pretences. The prisoner was charged
with defrauding Ehz ,beth Dickenson, Jnhn Dickenson,
her husband, and Mrs. Jane Purshaw, of River-view,
Kirkdale, of 2/. 3s.
From the statement of Mrs. Dickenson, a rather good
looking young woman, it appeared that the prisoner,
who was known as a " wise man," had gone to her
house, and informed her, in the presence of her husband,
Mrs. Pursbaw, and her mother, that she was under the
effect of a curse, and would drop down dead at 2 o'clock
on the following Tuesday afternoon, unless his cabalistic
powers were employed to raise the corpse of her father
from his 2rave, whose presence alone could save her from
her fate. His charge for calling up the departed spirit-
was "4 half-sovereigns," but ultimately agreed to accept
three at the earnest solicitation of Mr. Dickenson and
his circle of friends. The terms being agreed upon, the
astrologer ordered all parties out of the room, except
himself and Mrs. Dickenson, and they accordingly with-
drew.

When asked by the magistrate why he had permitted
his wife to be a?one with the fortune-teller, Mr. Dicken•
son naively replied, amidst the laughter of the crowded
court, " Well, because I were soft, and that's the truth!"
When alone with her in the room, the astrologer pro-
duced a long tape, marked with figures, and told Mrs.
Dickenson, as the first step in the divination, that he
must take the measure of her body all over, and he at-
tempted to lift her clothes, but she objected, and after a
few observations about her " planet" the astrologer de
Glared the seance ended, and said he would work out the
oracle at home.

Mr. Garnett (the magistrate's clerk)—You gave him
three half sovereigns, then ?
Husband—Yes ; they were part of my wages that I
had saved up, and I would ha' gi'en him three and forty
half sovereigns if I'd had 'em to save her life ! (Laughter.)
Superintendent Clough—You are not a Liverpool
maul
Husband—Naw, Naw, I coons frae Yorkshire !
(Laughter.) a glass.blower, and har bin here frae
ten till twelve months.
Magistrate—Did you give him any more money ?
Husband—Naw, but he wanted 41. to give to 't Lord
Chancellor, he said (Laughter.)
After the necromancer had concluded the interview
with Mrs. Dickenson his services were called into requi-
sition by Mrs. Purshaw, who, fired by female curiosity,
was also anxious to consult the fates. The prisoner
offered to rule her stars for 25.6 d., but eventually took 2s.
In the private interview he made similar overtures with
the measuring tape to Mrs. Purshaw, but these being
unsuccessful, he went away after obtaining her age and
date of her birth-day. In a day or two he cams back
with her " fortune" written out on a sheet of note paper,
headed with the usual hieroglyphics. The ," aspect of
the planets" was produced is court, and the following is
a copy of the strange document, for which Mrs. Pur-
shaw paid 2s,
" This is the figuer of the Heavins at the Birth of the
questioner. She is a genttle disposion and Somewhat
adopted to jealousy And I find her a rough sperit but
very forgiving. She will change from Lodgings on the
following year 1858, and will live in a new built house
of her own. She will get on verry prospourie Well for
the first 3 years in her new undertaking, but She Bigin
on a line of grocorey o.a her third year after go id a New
house and by this buisness She will not Do well, but on
her Cheange from buisness she shall again get comfort-
able and Prospouris no kind of buisness will prosper
with you put a public housekeeping, and if you Bigin
poor in that time you will get on well. You will have
to take good care of your younger child at the age of 7
years or you will Loose her by Watter. You will not
meet maney trubles But you will never leve much riches
behind you will live to a old age will see a famt-ley of 3
gills and 2 boys grow up to you. You will go through
this life without ever coming to much want, But will
never spear much still sufficient to miotain life you will
be allways of a suspicions caracter on a count of your
husband he is of fond of Drink and sport and will min-
tain it all life But he could be verry ready made to Drop
Drink and be quite also for the cast of 3s you Could
have it done, but you are Better make your mind easy
and not suspect anything of his bad habits."
Mr. Garnett—And did you give him any more money?
Mrs. Purshaw—Yes, sir ; he came to me and said
my husband was taken with another woman, and that
he would charm him for Bs. 93.—(laughter)—but that
if I would not give him he would make him go with
another woman besides. He told me then he wanted the
measure of my bopy, but I wouldn't let him have it.
Magistrate—And did you give him money to charm
your husband -
Mrs. Purshaw—Yes, sir ; for it was partly true what
he'd said._ (Laughter.)
Mr. Garnett (to the prisoner)—You are charged with
telling fortunes.
Prisoner—l acknowledge it's all true.
In answer to further questions, the prisoner said he
came from Belfast, and had only been in Liverpool about
five weeks; but the Bridewell keeper said he believed
Ransburr was convicted at Liverpool some years ago,
and had only lately returned from transportation.
Trite magistrate ordered the prisoner to be committed
for three months, and kept to hard labour, as a rogue
and vagrant.
The following is a copy of the prisoner's "business
card :"—" Isaac I. Ransbury, A.D.D. astrologer (from
London), planet ruler, and foreteller of future destiny.
A true intelligence of lost property, money, or legacies,
is ascertained by the planets. Please see my books for
information. I. I. R. also um all sorts of herbs to cure
diseases. Charges very low, but different according to
age, from one shilling upwards."