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The Commander-in-chief has issued some new regulations affecting promotion in the Army. Before officers are recommended for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant they must be recommended by a board of ex- aminers. They must be acquainted with the standing orders of the re- giment, a thorough knowledge of their regimental duties, both in the field and in the barrack ; they must be acquainted with the Queen's regulations, and familiar with the soldier's accoutrements and clothing. From Lieutenants who entered the Army after 1849, will be exacted in addition a knowledge of geography, acquaintance with the proceedings of courts-martial, the interior economy of their troop or company, the general regulations of the Army, and be able to take charge of a troop or company.

"The examination of officers for the rank of Captain, as far as relates to matters of regimental economy, detail, or discipline, IS to be made by boards of officers, to be appointed by the commanding officer at the station, consist- ing, when possible, of three senior officers not belonging to the same corps as the candidate for examination, and a report thereon is to be forwarded to the Military Secretary. "Any officer of the rank of Lieutenant in a regiment serving within the United Kingdom, who may have entered his name for the purchase of a troop or company, may apply, through his commanding officer, to be ex- amined in respect to his required attainments,. as specified in this order, upon which application the Commander-in-chief will give such order as may be proper and necessary."

General Peel has modified the army school regulations, so as to sepa- rate that part which relates to religious instruction from that part which relates to the general attendance, and at the same time remove any doubt which may exist as to the perfect equality and freedom of members of all religious denominations in respect to the former.

The Gazette of Tuesday announced the elevation of Sir John Yarde Buller to the Peerage by the title of Baron Churston of Churston Ferrell; and Lupton in the county of Devon. In the same Gazette also appeared a list of officers upon whom the Order of the Bath has been conferred. Major-General Franks, and Colonel Robert Napier of the Bengal Engineers to be Knights-Com- manders.

To be Companions : Colonels Charles Franklyn, 84th Regiment ; William Campbell, 2d Dragoon Guards ; Charles Hagan, 7th Hussars ; Percy Hill, 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade Richard Dennis Belly, 34th Regiment; -Henry Drury Harness, Royal Engineers' Lieutenant-Colonels Alexander Cameron, 42d Regiment; George Mowbray 'Lys, 20th Regiment ; William Fenwick, 10th Regiment ; Charles James Buchanan Riddell, Royal Artillery ; Edmund Cornwall Legh, 97th Regiment' Evan Ma'berly, Royal Artillery; James Macaul Hagart, 7th Hussars ; James Peter Robinson, Military Train ; Majors William George Le Mesurier, Royal Artillery ; William Chester Master, 5th Regiment ; William Alexander Middleton Royal Artillery; Dr. John M'Andrew, Inspector-General of Hospitals; 'Lieute- nant-Colonels James Duncan Macpherson 22d Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry ; Edwin Beaumont Johnson, Bengal Artillery ; Michael Galwey,- 1st Regiment of Madras European Fusileers; William Olpherts, Bengal Artillery ; George Wade Guy Green, 2d Regiment of Bengal Fusileers; Henry Alexander Carleton, Bengal Artillery ; Majors Lousada Barrow, 5th Regiment of Madras Native Cavalry; Herbert Bruce, 2d Bombay European Regiment ; William Arden Crommelin, Bengal Engineers.

Several diplomatic and consular appointments were likewise officially notified. Mr. William Garrow Lettsom, Secretary to the Mexican Lega- tion, is appointed Chargé d'Affaires in Bolivia, Mr. Mathew, Consul- General in the Russian ports of the Black Sea, succeeds Mr. Lettaom. Mr. Edwin Corbett, paid attaché to the Danish Legation goes to Florence as Secretary to the Legation there. Mr. Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, now third paid attaché in Persia, succeeds Mr. Mathew in the Black Sea Ports. Mr. G. P. It. James, the novelist, now Consul at Richmond, Virginias has been appointed Consul at Venice. Mr. Barber, Acting Vice-Consul Naples, succeeds Mr. James in Virginia. The latter appointment is worth 7001.

It is a curious fact that in the division list showing who voted for the resolution seating Baron Rothschild and who voted against it, there are only two members of the Govarnment in the majority and nine in the minority. The two were Mr. Disraeli and Lord Henry Lennox. Among the nine were Mr. Adderley, Sir Hugh Cairns, Lord John Manners, General Peel, and Mr. Walpole.

The Ministers, undeterred by the state of the Thames, ate their white- bait dinner at Greenwich on Saturday. It is stated that they were nearly all there ; from Lord Derby down to the " whips " to whose fine execution of their functions the great musters of the party on several occasions are supposed to be due.

The Speaker gave his annual dinner to the principal officers of the House of Commons on Wednesday.

Earl &afield, of the Scotch Peerage is to be raised to an English Peerage. He has been a representative Peer of Scotland since 1853.

Rear-Admiral Lord Edward Russell has been appointed Admiral Superin- tendent of Malta Dockyard to replace Admiral Sir M. Stopford, promoted.

Letters from Cologne state that the Count de Chambord received a visit in that city from the Prince Regent of Prussia. A number of the French residents also paid their respects to his royal highness during his stay there.

Fuad Pacha, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has paid a visit of ceremony to Mademoiselle Eveillard.

The Northern Ensign states, that since his arrival at Wick, Sir Roderick Murchison has been indisposed, and that he has therefore been unable to proceed on his tour. He is staying with Mr. Traill, M.P. The Society of Arts has awarded the prize of two hundred guineas for the best essay on finance to Mr. Edward Capps, of 7, Cheshunt Terrace, Grange Road, Bermondsey.

Mr. George Bartley, the actor, died on Thursday week. He was seized with paralysis when present at the performance of Christy's Minstrels. He was in his seventy-second year, and he only quitted the stage in 18.53.

Mr. John Clarke, clerk to the Central Criminal Court, and Clerk of the Peace for the City of London., died on Wednesday of diptheritis. He Was appointed clerk in 1829. HIS salary was 3000/. a year.

Advices from Venice announce the death of the bishop of that diocese, Monsignor Canova, brother of the great sculptor.

Some of our contemporaries have fallen into a strange mistake regarding the squadron which is to accompany her Majesty on her visit to Cherbourg. It is not, nor, we believe has it been at any, time intended that her Majesty should be escorted by a large fleet of line-of-battle ships and screw frigates, as stated. Only two ships of war, properly speaking, are likely to fulfil this duty, and in all probability they will be the Royal Albert and the Renown. The other vessels constituting the squadron, besides the Victoria and Albert, will be the yachts Osborne, Black Eagle, Vivid, and Banshee, containing the Lords of the Admiralty and their friends, with the troop ship Urgent, which will be fitted up for the accommodation of a number of naval and marine officers. As at present arranged we believe her Majesty will embark at Osborne about three o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday next, the 4th proximo.—Globe.

A suggestion has been made to convert the Leviathan into a war-steamer to cruise off Cherbourg. She need not, it is said, carry a single gun, but by having the weight of the guns spread over her sides in iron plates, she could, by her own momentum, prove very destructive to any fleet against or amongst which she was propelled!

A list of all pensions granted between the 20th day of June 1857, and the 20th day of June 1858, and charged upon the Civil List, was issued on Wednesday. They are as follows : Mrs. Harriet Wright Williamson, (in consideration of the literary merits of her son, the late Hugh Miller, and the reduced circumstances in which she is placed,) 30/. Edward Capern, (in consideration of his literary merit, and the narrow circumstances in which he is placed,) 401. Mrs. Charlotte Rowcroft, (in consideration of the civil services of her husband, the late Charles Rowcroft, her Majesty's Consul at Cincinnati, who died while in discharge of his duty,) 50/. Mrs. Eliza Mary Hillier, (in consideration of the civil services of her husband, the late Mr. Hillier, Consul in China, who died from the effects of the climate, and of the destitute condition in which she was left at his decease,)501. Mrs. Mary A. Jerrold, (in consideration of the eminent literary acquirements of her husband, the late Douglas Jerrold, Esq.,) 100/. Dr. Robert Archibald Armstrong, (in consideration ef his philological labours, as Gaelic Lexico- grapher,) 40/. Miss Mary H. L. Lander, and Miss Emily Lander, (in con- sideration of the eminent services of their father, the late Mr. John Lander, who died from the effects of the climate, whilseexploring the River Niger, and of the straitened circumstances in which they were placed at his decease,) 501. each. Stephen Henry Bradbury, (in consideration of his contributions to literature,) 50/. Louisa Catherine Paris, Fanny Cresswell Paris, Jane Gregor Paris, Rosa Caroline Paris, and Sarah Eleanor Paris, (in considera- tion of the scientific acquirements of their father, the late Dr. Paris, the benefits be conferred by his addition to the knowledge of geology, and of their present scanty means,) 150/. Mrs. Rachel Catherine Andrews Mont- gomery, (in consideration of the contributions to theology and poetical litera- ture by her husband, the late Rev. Robert Montgomery,) 501. Dame Isa- bella Letitia Barnard, (in consideration of the services of her husband, the late Major-General Sir Henry W. Barnard, K.C.B., who died in command of the army at the siege of 2001. Francis Davis, (in consideration of ti a contributions to Irish literature,) 501. Miss Jessie P. Ho,gg, (in con- sideration of the literary merits of her father, the late James Hogg, the Scottish poet, familiarly known as the " Ettrick Shepherd,') 401. Mrs. Elizabeth Dick, (in consideration of the merits of her husband, the late Dr. Dick, as a moral and theological writer, and of the straitened circumstances in which she is now placed,) 501. 'The Honourable Isabella Elizabeth Antuibella Anson, (in consideration of the services of her husband, the late General the Honourable George Anson, Commander-in-chief of her Ma- jesty's Forces in India, who died of disease when in active service,) 2001.

We understand that Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy has invested twenty-five lacs of rupees in the Four per Cents for the due maintenance of the title which has become hereditary in his family. The interest of this sum, amounting to "10,0001. a year," is entailed upon the future successors to the baronetcy, who will be required to assume the patronymic of its founder. The mansion at Mazagon is in like manner entailed, and Western India Will, we trust, never be without a Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, inheriting, alike the virtues and fortune of the good old man still with us, who has won the approbation of his country and the favour of her Majesty the Queen.—Bombay Thnes.

As the 12th August approaches the accounts from the moors become more aPecific. They still represent the grouse as generally abundant and strong on the wing, and partridges as more plentiful than they have been for masiy years. On some moors a mysterious disease has appeared among the birds.

Workmen have already begun the task of " restoring " 'Winchester Cathedral on the authority of the Dean and Chapter.

The Bishop of London has received an intimation from the Queen that her Majesty will graciously contribute 100/. to the improvements in St. Paul's for the services.

Prussia is a charming place for employCs ! There the post-office clerks are obliged to wear uniform in the streets, and the Prussian Government now intends to impose the same uniform on the employs of railways and telegraphs. To distinguish, however' these three classes of functionaries, those of the post-office are to have on their caps a horn, those of railways a wheel, and those of the telegraph an arrow.

The return of the Registrar-General shows an improved state of health in the Metropolis ; a result ascribed to the full of the temperature. Last week there died 1132-25 less than the calculated average. Ten deaths are ascribed to cholera. "It will be evident that if the average mortality were derived from seasons as free as is the present from epidemic cholera the pre- sent state of the public health would not appear relatively so good as might be inferred from the above comparison. If the deaths of last week had been according to that which may be termed 'the healthy rate,' derived from those districts in England where the mortality is least, they would have been 799. The excess arising from circumstances that constitute the comparative insalubrity of London is 333."

A furious storm of wind swept over the country from the south-west on Saturday night and Sunday morning. It blew very severely in London, and did much damage among the trees. In the provinces the fruit trees were relieved of their burdens. Trees were torn up, unfinished houses blown down, and crops were laid low. At sea its effects were not fatal. Many ships, however, which had gone to sea had to put back ; some were driven ashore ; but no lives were lost, at least no such losses are reported. Heavy rains fell during the gale.

In Northumberland more rain fell than in the past six months. At Aln- wick it caused great floods and did much damage. The beautiful grounds of Alnwick were "made desolate " ; bridges were blown up, and walls were thrown down.

The insecurity of life in Constantinople has lately been illustrated by the murder of M. Candibert, a French merchant, in the open day. His skull was fractured while transacting business in his warehouse. The object of the murder was plunder.

A young woman in the Puy de Dome married a man, not for love but for money. After the ceremony she retired at once to the house of her brother and refused to see her husband, who frequently endeavoured to assert his conjugal rights. One night the wife cried out that her husband had "fallen" into a well. The neighbours ran in and fished him up ; but his wounds showed he had been thrown in. A jury declared the brother and sister guilty "with extenuating circumstances." They were sent to hard labour for twenty years.

It has been reported that Sir John Dean Paul is hopelessly mad. The story proves, however, to be totally unfounded.

A few days since a young lady, with a foreign accent and rather eccen- tric manners, dressed all in white, with yellow boots, alighted at the Peter- borough Railway station. Her luggage was addressed as follows—" Her Divine Majesty, The Zion Holy Ghost, Empress of the Universe, Beloved Bride of Heaven passenger to Silverdale, near Lancaster." She stated that she was an angel from Heaven, and presented one of the clerks with a tract,

i written partly n Latin, partly in French, and partly in English.

The late Sir R. Sutton, Bart., who was in hunting and sporting matters a second Nimrod, killed in 17 years, from 1828 to 1845, the following enor- mons quantity of game—Grouse, 3467; pheasants, 12,774; partridges, 22,795; hares, 7829; rabbits, 4483; woodcocks, 182; snipes, 165; wild ducks, 35; quails, 14; landrails, 4; plovers, 4; dottrels, 4. Total 51,765.