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Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint General the Right Honourable Fitzroy James Henry Lord Raglan, G.C.B., to be Field-Marshal in the Army, and the commission to bear date the 5th November 1854.—Lon- don Gazette, Nov. 21.

The Globe of Tuesday evening, remarking on Lord Raglan's promotion to the rank of Field-Marshal, says—" This is the first instance in which the new warrant regulating promotions for distinguished merit has been carried into effect. Formerly it would not have been possible to raise Lord Raglan to the highest rank in the Army unless he should outlive all his seniors of the rank of General ; and the strongest evidence of the ne- cessity of the new rule is supplied in the well-deserved reward now be- stowed upon the Commander-in-chief in the Crimea."

In consequence of the wounds received by Generals of Brigades and Divisions at Inkerman, changes will have to be made, and some have been named. General Bentinek will be succeeded in the command of the Guards by Colonel the Honourable George Upton, himself slightly wounded. Colonel Horn, of the Twentieth, takes the place of General Torrens in the Fourth Division. Sir George Brown has not lost his arm, but is doing well. In his temporary absence, General Codrington com- mands the Light Division. General Strangways is succeeded in the com- mand of the Artillery by Lieutenant-Colonel Jones Dacres.

The Lords of the Admiralty, " in order to mark their approbation of the gallant conduct displayed in the engagement of the fleet on the 17th tober," have promoted Commander Kynaston (1-852) of the Spiteful, and Commander Rogers (1847) of the Albion, to be Captains ; Lieutenant William Jones (1848) of the Firebrand, Lieutenant Henry Lloyd (1841) of the Triton, Lieutenant John P. Luce (1848) of the Lynx, and Lieu- tenant William Bowden (1847) of the Arethusa, to be Commanders ; Second Masters N. G. Arquimbau, of the Triton, and Edward C. Bail, of the Carodoc, to be Masters ; Assistant-Surgeon Sohn F. Pritchard, Al- bion, to be Surgeon ; A commission for the promotion of a Lieutenant to be a Commander has been placed at the disposal of Vice-Admiral Dundas and Rear-Admiral Lyons, respectively. " In addition to these promotions, the Board have directed Commissions in blank to be transmitted to Vice-Admiral Dundas, to be filled up by the pro- motion of officers, according to the following directions : provided that during the action the conduct of the officers to be selected was to the satis- faction of their several Captains ; but otherwise to be filled up with the names of any officers of the rank not distinguished in action. The senior Commander of the ships of the line on board during the action ; the senior Commander in command of a sloop engaged ; the four senior Lieutenants ac- tively engaged ; the eight senior Mates ; the two senior Assistant-Surgeons on board engaged ; the two senior second Mates actively engaged ; the three• senior Clerks actively engaged ; three chief Engineers of the second and third class, provided they were actively engaged, will be advanced one grade each ; and three assistant Engineers of each class will also be advanced one. grade, provided they were in the action. The three senior Gunners, Boat- swains, and Carpenters of the second class, will be advanced to the first class ; and the three seniors of the third class will be advanced to the second class"

It is remarked that the military authorities in the Crimea are begin fling to speak of the distinguished services of "privates." Private Francis Wheatley, of the First Battalion Rifle Brigade, who performed the exploit of clubbing his rifle and dashing an unexploded shell from. an, embankment above his head, receives notice in a special " Division order," from Adjutant-General Estcourt.

Noncommissioned officers are receiving' promotion as well as distinc- tion. No fewer than sixteen appointments of noncommissioned officers to the ranks of Ensign or Cornet have appeared in the Gazette since the 20th October.

Two Members of Parliament were killed at the'battle of Inkerman on the 5th,—Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Pakenham, of the Grenadier Guards, Member for Antrim ; and Lieutenant-Colonel James Hunter Ialair, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, M.P. for Ayr.

Captain Butler, of the Fifty-fifth, a brother of the gallant defender of Silistria, is among the list of killed at Inkerman.

Captain Eliot, of the Fifth Foot, whose name appears among the killed. at Inkerman, was the son of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Dunkellin, eldest son of the Marquis of Clanricarde, who fell iritti the hands of the Russians at Sebastopol, has been liberated by the Ifirt- peror. The Daily News supplies an apparently authorized account of the incident- " Lord Clanricarde has received a letter from Prince Dolgorouky,. the Minister of War at St. Petersburg,. informing him that the Emperor, recol- lecting. with pleasure the time when Lord Clanricarde represented the Queen. as her Majesty's Ambassador at the Imperial Court, felt real' satisfaction in

restoring to him his son, who by the chances of war had fallen into the hands of the Russians. Prince Dolgorouky adds, that it had been agreeable to his Imperial Master to have in this matter forestalled the proposal for an exchange of Lord Dunkellin, which Lord Raglan had addressed to Prince Menschikoff; and he beoes that Captain Kousowleff, the officer offered by Lord Raglan, may, if he should be in England, be sent to Russia. Lord Dunkel- lin will therefore be enabled shortly to return to active service."

The following is said to be a verbatim copy of the order sent by Lord Raglan on the 25th October to the Earl of Lucan. It is supplied by the correspondent of the Morning Herald.

"Lord Raglan wishes the cavalry to advance rapidly to front, follow the enemy, and try to prevent their, carrying away the guns. Troop of Horse Artillery may accompany. French cavalry is on the left. Immediate. R. AIREY."

The Secretary at War has issued a requisition to the Colonels of the Militia regiments, for " as many volunteers as possible to the regiments of Guards and Line, and to the Rend Marines." Mr. Sidney Herbert states that the Government is aware that the efficiency of the Militia regiments will be impaired by this step ; but the maintenance of that efficiency, " important as it is, must yield to the necessity of strengthen- ing her Majesty's forces engaged in the operations of war abroad." The demand for volunteers is limited to 25 per cent on the strength of the regiment. Priority will be given to recruiting parties from regiments having county connexions; the Guards and Marines willsend recruiting parties to regiments generally. The bounty offered is 71., or 11. above the ordinary bounty ; and although the limit of 25 per cent is placed on the number of men the recruiting parties are empowered to raise, yet any larger number will be accepted provided their Colonel will consent to their discharge. Mr. Herbert makes this further announcement-

" The General-in-chief, sensible of the great exertions which have been made by Militia officers to bring their regiments to their present high state of efficiency, and of the sacrifice which they are now called upon to make, has authorized me to state, that he is prepared to place at your disposal, for any officer in your regiment, whom you may wish to name, an Ensigncy in the Line, without purchase, for the first seventy-five men who shall volun- teer from your regiment and have been passed and accepted in the Regulars or Marines, and another for the second seventy-five, and a third Ensigncy for a third seventy-five, if the strength of your regiment enables you to give them."

Colonel Clifford, of the Monmouth Militia, has induced 70 men to vo- lunteer into the Twenty-third ; and Ensign Lawrence, who brought the recruits, has been presented with an Ensigncy in that regiment, without purchase.

" J. S. Lillie," "an old soldier who accompanied the British army from its first landing in Portugal in 1808 to the conclusion of the war at Toulouse, in 1814," has in a letter to the Times said a word for the Turks who fled from the redoubts in front of Balaklava. The writer points to the fact that the redoubts were "imperfectly and hastily con- structed" ; that the Turks were without supports; that General Liprandi admits that they "maintained their post until 170 of them were killed"; and that they were overwhelmed by numbers, and expected no quarter from their inveterate foes. He calls in question the prudence of placing guns in advanced works so far from support, and describes it as an in- comprehensible proceeding. Had English or French soldiers been in the redoubts, they must either have run away or been made prisoners.

When our troops first landed at Gallipoli, a complaint was made in the newspapers that the tools supplied to our Engineers and Sappers were bad and useless. It would appear that there was truth in the statement : for, in consequence of complaints from Lord Raglan, Major Ord of the Engineers, and some Sappers, have this week examined the field-equip- ments at the Tower, and reported on their state. It is expected that a large number of new tools will have to be made upon a plan about to be submitted.

Lord Dudley Stuart, who had been ailing of late, died on the 17th in- stant at Stockholm. He arrived in that city early in October, and suffered almost immediately from attacks of cholera and fever. In about a fort- night he recovered ; had a long audience of King Oscar, and attended the sittings of the Chambers. But on the 11th of this month, he again be- came ill, breathing with difficulty, and finally sinking on the 17th. Lord Dudley Stuart was known chiefly as the great advocate of the Poles. He was a son of the first Marquis of Bute ; and had entered his fifty- first year. His wife, a daughter of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, died in 1847.

Lord Lorton, a representative Peer of Ireland, died on Tuesday, at Rockingham in Ireland, at the age of eighty. He was a General in the Army, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Roscommon, and Colonel of the Militia of the county. Lord Lorton was a Liberal in politics; and though a Protestant, he stood up for the liberties of his fellow countrymen of the Roman Catholic persuasion.

General Egerton, an old Peninsula hero, and Colonel of the Forty- sixth Regiment, died at Eaton Banks, near Tarporley, on the 18th.

Sir Arthur Brooke, Member for Fermanagh County, died on the 21st, at Colebrook in Ireland. Though a high Tory, he had never, it is said, compromised himself with the Orange faction.

Sir Michael M. Beach, recently elected Member for East Gloucester- shire, died on Wednesday, at his seat in Williamstrip Park, Gloucester-

Science has lost a conspicuous son in Professor Edward Forbes, late of King's College, London, and of the Government School of Mines in Jermyn Street. His age was only thirty-nine. Quite recently he left London to succeed Professor Jamieson in the chair of Natural History at Edinburgh. On Saturday last he died.

The chair to which he suceeded, the Caledonian Mercury 'observes, " was with Forbes the highest object of ambition ; and had his life been spared it would have been dedicated to extending its already great reputation, so that no school probably in the civilized world would have equalled it in greatness. With this view, he had formed gigantic and most able plans, which through his great influence with the Government would have been liberally sup- ported, and we have no doubt ultimately carried out- But, arrived at the culminating point of his ambition, and at the commencement of his long- matured schemes of usefulness, he has, by a mysterious dispensation of Pro- vidence, been removed from us when we were beginning to appreciate his worth. A chronic disease, contracted when in the East, redxcited and ren- dered Violent by a severe cold caught last autumn on a geological excursion,

and which burst out with uncontrollable fury about ten days ago, was tie immediate cause of his premature death."

Mr. Frederick Knight Hunt, the author of "The Fourth Estate," a history of the newspaper press, and for some time editor of the Daily Hews, died on Sunday evening, after an illness of a few weeks.

Mr. Absolom Watkin of Manchester has not suffered' Mr. John Bright to remain without reply. He corrects Mr. Bright's summary dismissal of the public law as "a code full of confusion and contradictions," ece. ; which Mr. Watkin "hesitates whether to ascribe to want Of knowledge or want of candour." Admitting its share of human impetfection, he in. structs Mr. Bright, that the public law arises from the necessary disposi- tion of man, and the science of the actual relations of states. -It is neces- sary for the peace and welfare of the world that states should enforce a public law, which prevents one from encroaching on the rest. The law should have been enfoeced against Russia before, when she ventured to con- fiscate the Vixen for carrying salt to Circassia, and when he committed other acts of encroachment. But, overruled by the "delusive dogmas of the Peace Society," and " badgered by the penny-wise and pound-foolish school," our Government was too weak to resist Russian infraction of the public law. With the special-pleading of "an Old Bailey lawyer," Mr. Bright paints the, horrors of Alma, but omits those of Sinope, Sebastopol, and Balaldava. Grant that Turkey is an "immoral and filthy despot- ism," the public law must not be infringed' even in her., Turkey, how- ever, has ceased to be an aggressive power, and has spontaneously endea- voured to amend her internal institutions, and to satisfy the just wishes of her Christian subjects. At the worst, it is a libel to compare Turkey to Russia—really- the most immoral and filthy of despotisms; whose power was instituted by the "energetic savage," the beastly, drunken, licentious, and cruel Peter, and typified in the abandoned grandmother of the present Czar, whom Byron has " damned to everlasting fame" in his Don Juan. Mr. Watkin concludes with an intimation that he may have more to say hereafter.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Ten 'Weeks 'Week

of 1844-'63. of l814.

Symotic Diseases 2,604 ....

332

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 432 ....

49 Tubercular Diseases

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses • 1,127 ....

125

Diseases the Lungs,asinnddBlfotrevoessels Diseases of e ungs, of other Organs of Respiration ,

1, 7g4

2Sit

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 610 ....

71 Diseases of the Kidneys,Jic

• • • •

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Ac

g•

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Ac.

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc. 28

Malformations.

37 ....

7 Premature Birth 226

31 Atrophy 201

48 Age 450 ....

36 Sudden 95

11

Violence,Privation,Cold, and Intemperance

912

40

Total (including unspecified causes) 10,237

1.309

Lord Brougham will stay at his château at Cannes till the meeting of Par- liament.

Sir Edmund Head, the new Governor of Canada, has arrived at Quebec. The Count of Syracuse, brother to the King of Naples, has lost the use of an arm and a leg by an attack of paralysis.

General Narvaez has arrived at Orleans; where, it is expected, be will pass the winter.

Marshal Radetzky has been very ill of diarrhoea, but at the last accounts he was out of danger.

The Duke and Duchess of Brabant have left Inspruck to travel in Italy.

The net proceeds of the two fetes at the Crystal Palace at which the band, of the Guides performed were 3598/. ; which sum has been allotted to the funds for the relief of the widows and orphans of soldiers and seamen. The cost of conveying the Guides from France and back, and their maintenance in London, was defrayed from the gross receipts. The railway companies carried the Frenchmen, and the English bands who assisted, gratis.

In answer to an inquiry from the Marylebone Committee, Captain Webb, Assistant-Secretary to the Patriotic Fund, announces that the Royal Com- mission will relieve all widows and orphans of soldiers, whether the men "married with leave" or not.

The General Committee of the Central Association are to meet next week to consider the rule under which relief has been refused to some widews whose husbands misbehaved when they enlisted.

The tea-merchants of London have generously offered to provide tea and sugar for the invalids in hospital at Constantinople ; but the Duke of New- castle informs them, with thanks for the offer, that those comforts are already provided by the Government. We understand that the Electric and International Telegraph Companies are making arrangements for the conveyance of telegraphic despatches from officers in the East to their relatives or friends'at home, and that it is in- tended to transmit such messages free of charge over their lines from the Hague to any of the companies' stations in Great Britain. It is hoped that these arrangements will be the means of more speedily relieving the anxiety which naturally exists in this country respecting the health' or safety of those officers engaged in the siege, or who may be under medical treatment at Constantinople.—Times.

General Brown's grey charger• received eleven bullets at the battle of the Alma : he was sent to Constantinople, where the bullets were extracted, and he is now fit for duty.

An official investigation has been opened into the loss of the Forerunner ; at which Admiral lleechey presides, assisted by Mr. Yardley, the Thames Police Magistrate. Captain Kennedy described the voyage and the wreck much as he did in the letter from which we quoted largely last week. Just before the ship struck, Captain Johnstone ordered her head more tithe land.

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After the disaster he was quite bewildered; there was an abdication of all command—a cessation of all discipline. The boats:were leaky, insufficient in size, and the Forerunner herself was unfitted for Atlantic navigation. He believed that the captain, after the ship struck, was mostly below, saving chronometers and money : he did not go, below to save the lady passenger. Lieutenant Bedingfleld, R.N., a passenger, stated that the vessel was bumped on the bar three times on coming out of the Bonny river ; she was nearly wrecked on the Arguin bank. The leadsman often gave incorrect soundings, from ignorance. The captain went below to save his money. There was no attempt to save the lives of the passengers. The rock on which the Fore- runner struck is 200 yards from the shore; it is on the chart, and-well known to mariners. He considered the ship strong and safe, but the was

not properly navigated—the lead was not used enough. James Stewart, chief engineer, in the course of his evidence said, he got into the life-boat ; the captain ordered him out, but he told him he would not go. Admiral Beechey—" Was that a remark to make to the superior officer ?" Stewart- " I thought it was my duty to save my own life." Admiral Beechey—" Is it the duty of officers first to rush to the boat to save themselves, or to wait and assist the passengers ? " "I did what I thought best under the cir- cumstances." The inquiry, continued on Wednesday, was again adjourned, to allow Captain Johnstone time to prepare his defence. Mr. Macgregor Laird, Managing Director of the Company, deposed that he had warned Captain Johnstone against the in-shore passage. Mr. Yardley—" You do not au- thorize those close shaves' in the navigation, as they are called ? " Mr. Laird—" No ; on the contrary, every incentive is held out by the Company to induce the officers to secure the safety of the ship." Some of the sailors were examined. Admiral Beechey condemned the conduct of the crew in forsaking the ship. Whereupon Evans, one of them, retorted—" I consider our lives are as sweet as the passengers' : it is every one for himself." Admiral Beechey—" Well, I am sorry to hear such an opinion expressed by a sailor ; and I hope I shall never hear it again." Evans repeated—" I think it my duty to look after myself."

The Yankee Blade, a large steamer, has been wrecked near Point Con- ception, on her voyage from San Francisco to Panama. There were a thou- sand passengers on board, most of whom were saved by the Goliah. The loss of life is not accurately known ; probably from thirty to forty, though some accounts place it much higher. The master is severely blamed, for negligently losing the ship, and then abandoning the wreck, leaving the ruffianly crew to plunder if not murder the passengers.

The "smoke nuisance" in Paris, arising from the consumption of coal in manufactories, is to be prohibited ; the Prefect of Police having given six months' notice to that effect. The object is stated to be the prevention of the blackening of the fronts of public and private buildings.

The fine art events of the day at Rome are the completion of some statues for the Crystal Palace, executed in the new material invented by Dr. Braun. Very large models of the Coliseum and Pantheon are also about to leave Rome for the Crystal Palace. They will form very interesting objects, as they are executed on a Beale from which a correct idea of their grand proportions is perfectly conveyed. Mr. Gibson and Mr. Macdonald, the two best-known British sculptors in Rome, are each executing works for her Majesty.— Horning Post.

Message; have been transmitted by the submarine telegraph between Genoa and Bastia. The works between Corsica and Sardinia are proceed- ing rapidly.

The receipts from customs-duties in France for the first ten months of this year exceed those of the like period of 1853 by 4,405,581 francs.

Preparations are making in Canada for a proper representation of the pro- ducts of the country at the Paris Exhibition.

At the last advices from Victoria, a short line of railway, between Hobson's Bay and Melbourne, had been completed.

The Police of Melbourne is much imprpved, and robberies and violent out- rages are less frequent.

There is a great depression of general trade at Melbourne; but the price of sheep and cattle is rising.

Nearly three thousand Chinese ;are working at Bendigo Diggings. At Avoca, some diggers have gained great sums in a few days.

The municipality of Turin, in consequence of the high price of food, has commenced baking bread to be sold to the poor below the market rate.

The Agricultural Society of Clermont, in the department of the Oise, has recommended the use of that agricultural nuisance couch-grass as a substi- tute for malt in the making of beer.

According to a circular issued by M. J. Franke, a wine-dealer of Cette, the whole produce of the vineyards in the South of France this year scarcely reaches one-sixth of an average. Prices are "enormously high," but with only a year's consumption in hand there is not "the slightest thane a of a fall."

There was a heavy snow-storm at Liverpool on Wednesday. Snow has also been seen in London this week.

The first snow for the season in the New England States fell at Boston on the 4th instant.

A woman is on her trial at Philadelphia for murdering her five children.

In the first ten months of this year 273,551 immigrants landed at New York, against 235,636 during the same period of last year; but this year there has been some emigration to Europe.

Mr. Frederick Gedge, President of the Lexington Railroad, in the United States, has committed suicide by throwing himself under a train : the mo- tive is supposed to be some dishonesty on his part regarding the bonds of the Company.

More " religious " warfare in America. The Yankees tried to destroy a Catholic chapel at Williamsburgh ; the Irish retaliated by an attack on a Methodist chapel.

The United States furnish a great railway accident. On the 1st, at mid- night, a train on the Rock Island Railroad, when near Minoka, ran over a horse, which threw the engine and care off the track, breaking the ribs of the engineer, and killing and wounding between thirty and forty first-class pas- sengers. Many of the latter were so dreadfully scalded that no hope of their recovery was entertained.

Many more American failures are announced by the last mail ; discount rules enormously high ; the Funds have declined greatly.

The Recorder of San Francisco has decided to administer the usual oath to Chinamen, instead of their own formula, under which they have hitherto testified.

The late Mr. John Hincliff, of Notting Hill, has left munificent bequests to a number of hospitals and other benevolent societies, which will become pay- able on the death of his widow. The total amounts to 14,0001.

A cave beautifully adorned with stalactites hanging from the roof and sides has been discovered at a limestone:quarry at Oystermouth in Glamor- ganshire.

The new water-weed, Anacharis Alsinastrum, is supposed to have first ap- peared in the loch of Dunse Castle in Berwickshire, in 1842 ; it is now eradicated : some swans which were kept in the loch lived upon nothing but the weed, on which they greatly thrived and multiplied ; since they have consumed this weed they have rapidly died off, refusing other provender.

A traveller, who wishes well to his countrymen, has sent us the subjoined table of Mediterranean morality ; it may be termed the rascals' barometer, or a ready way to gauge virtue. As thus : 2 sews make 1 Genoese ; 4 Genoese make 1 Maltese; 8 Maltese make 1 Greek.—Morning Post. [The

traveller has forgotten to add the continuation, that 40 Gre, ks make Pole. The sum is an example of a common casuistical clitt : by borrowing- the forms of arithmetic it invests a random absurdity with an air of ex ia:ajppr

tic precision, and filches a squib into the pale of the exact sciences.] - A married woman eloped from Manchester with a dashigglitif en, a carried off a considerable sum of money belonging to her Hils graphed to Liverpool, and the lady was detained. Soon after, the b asp:mu-4.a arrives, and regains his money : but the Irishman was welcome to the wife, if he liked to take her minus the cash.