The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 24.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
Adam Wiener as Consul at Hong Kong for the Emperor
of Austria.
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BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 26.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and I'lantatio-ns have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Naples, en-
closing a translation. of a decree, permitting the exporta-
tion of macaroni an d biscuit until the end of the present
year, oa payment of a duty of one ducat per cantar.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 26.
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The Right Honor]. ble the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Made and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from h Y., Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
enclosing copy of an L nperial decree, fixing the duty upon
molasses imported for the purpose of distillation, as fol-
,lows : -
If imported from F, much colonies, in French vessels,
If imported from Indi V., South America,
Sand the An-
tilles, in French vessels, free.
IT imported from other • countries, in French vessels, 2fr.
per 100 kil.
If imported from Ind la South America, and the An•
tilles, in foreign vessels, 3 fr. per 100 kil.
If ir.vorted from other c nuntries, in foreign vessels, 3 fr.
per 10,Y kil.

WAR-OFF ICE. JULY 27.
BR EVET.
Major-General James Sim pson to be Lieutenant-General
in the Ai MTV.
Lienten ar(t-General Jamesi Simpson to have the local
rank of Ge n. weal in the Crim ea, and in the dominions of
the Sublime Ottoman Porte.
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 27.
3d Regime nit of Dragoon Guards—Edmund Waldegrave
Park, Gent., -.to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Corrigan,
promoted.
6th Dragoons Guards—Ensign Francis N. Astley, from
the 3d Foot to be Cornet, without purclease, vice Betty,
promoted
4th Light Drat 'toons—Lieutenant Richard Topham, from
the sth Royal La mcashire Militia, to be Cornet, without
purchase, vice Lo, max, who resigns.
10th Light Drat Tons—John Barker, Gent., to be Vete=
rinary Surgeon, vl4 Siddell, deceased. •
17th Light Drat;' )ons—Charles Weymouth, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Seymour, promoted..
Royal Regiment o -1 Artillery—Second Captain Frederick
William Craven 0. rd to be Captain, vice Colciough, se-
conded, being attach ed to the Turkish Contingent ; Lieu-
tenant Paget Walt( L'Estrange to be Second Captain,
vice Ord ; Lientenani Charles Edward Burt to be Second
Captain, vice Bent, seconded, being attached to the
Turkish Uoiatingen-M; - Lieutenant Consta_qinei Lemon
Hotham M`Ternan be Second Captain,. vielfalrediu,
seconded, being attr abed to the Turkish Contingent;
Lieutenant Hazlitt I r vine to be Second Captain, vice
Gordon, killed in acti on ; Quartermaster-Serpent John
Sargent to be Lientena it and Adjutant.
Corps of Royal Sap n ers and Miners—Quarterm,ister-
Serjeant Thomas Willi. Loa John Connolly to be Quafter-
master, vice Allan.
Ist Regiment of Foot— ?..rhename of the Ensign appoieod
on the 3d inst. is Gem 1;e Gilmour, and not George G.;.1-
more as previously stated '..
3d Foot—Ensign 11:: E. Sleeman to be Lieutenant. with--
out purchase. To be En signs, without purchase—Francis
Edward Brace, Gent., vice Sleeman ; Alfred George
Huyshe, Gent., vice 1311 inset, appointed Quartermaster.
To be Quartermaster—En sign Thomas Blisset, vice Stil-
well, deceased.
7th Font—To be Lieu? tenants, without purchase—En-
signs C. E. Hope and Hen ry Kerr. To be Ensign, by pur-
chase—John Somers Cock. ;, Gent., in succession to Lieut.
Lord R. H. Browne, pron r oted. To be Ensign, without
purchase—Musgrave Wats. n, Gent., vice Kerr.
Bth Foot—Robert Fanni a Stoney, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, in succession • to Lieutenant Craster, pro-
moted.
11th Foot—To be Emigres , without purchase,—Ensign
R. F. Stony, from the E;th F not, and .Tames Leslie Day,
Gent., vice Baynes, promote .d in the 63d Foot.
12th Foot— Lieutenant SS. Fairtlough to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brevet-Major .Fausbawe, promoted by pur-
chase to a Pro visional Battallit m ; Matthew Coke, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without pur chase; Ensign George Gibson
to be Adiutanl t, vice Foster, promoted.
14th Foot—. Tobn Taylor Casson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purcba se. vice Wall , resigned.
16th Foot—V Tilliam Hepp or Lorentz Moyle, Gent., to
he Ensign, with out purchase , vice Carter, promoted in the
63d 'oot.
20th Foot—Ti be Captains, by purchase—Lie utenant
P. G. Hewett, a Leet, vrho' retires; Lieutenant T. C.
Lyons, from the 16th Foot, vice Tnrner, who retires'.
21st Foot—Li eutenant J. H. Dunne to be Cap tain,
without purchase, - vice Brev et-Major Kirkland, wlaose
Brevet Rank has been convertod. into Substantive Ra uk,
Unattached, uncle ‘r the Royal 'Warrant of 6th Oat., 1814;
Ensign T. B. Hut ton to be Lie utenant, without purchas 0,
vice Dunne ; Ch a rtes .Tames Forbes Smith, Gent., to b e
Ensign, without a ,urchase, vice e Hutton.
23d Foot—To b a Lieutenan!ts without purchase—Ensi,Tn
C. F. Gregorie, nce Owen, deceased ; Ensign A. M. Lazy.
To be Ensign, by purchase--James Harford Welwyn,
Gent., vice Tob in, promoted. To bo Ensigns, without
purchase—Willis m Jolliffe Twyford, Gent. ; Henry John
Richards, Gent., vice Gregorie, promoted.
29th Foot—Ens itm W. Taylor to be Lieutenant, witl-
out purchase, vice Cihampman, appointed to the 55th Foot ;
Edward Gorton G e nt., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice+
Dane, promoted ; F •ederic Stirling Eckersall, Gent., to be
Ensign, without pure lase, vice Taylor.
30th Foot—Horace Sibbald Harrison, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Fitzpatrick, deceased.
31st Foot—Lieutens ent C. Prevost to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Gat vock, who has been promoted to the
substantive rank of 1 Major Unattached, under the Royal
warrant of Oct. 6., a t.
The promotion, of Ca, stain Frederick Spence to be Major,
to hear date Ju De 15, a lien of Julyl3.
33d Foot—Tx, be eutenants, without purchase—En-
sign B. G. Graham, vie Heyland, killed in action ; En-
BOregnatn., vice Be Dwell.sign F. e Marsh, killed in action. To be
Ensigns, velthout pmr cl ease—Lieutenant Henry Gillespie
Boyd, from the Roy: IA North Down Militia ; George
Gent. vice Graham; John Evans Freke
itoyblmerter, 31,
G The commission of Ensign
Richard Statham to boa r
date 10th March, 1855, in lieu of
13th of that month, as p., "evie .usly stated.
34th Foot—Ensign Jim nes L. Stack to be Lieutenant,
without purchase E tsl. gr. Isaac William Home, from
the Royal North Do,a m JsTii Itia to be Ensign, without
purchase.
39th Foot—Lieutena at No: rman Macdonald to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice %Ara, who retires ; Ensign H. L.
Nicholls to be lieutenant, wi Mout purchase, vice Milli-
gan, promoted ; Ensign. Oh ark Prichard to be Lieutenant,
b vice Mfkc,toutalc! •-William Blennerhasset,
Gent.,
taba,
eeEnsign.
'without p urchase, vice Nicholls ;
Lieutenamt C harles Bu rch Phillips to be Adjutant, vice
Milligan, yr' Jmoted,
41st Foot, —Lieut. J". A. leckhal -t to be Captain, with-
out pr rch; %se, vice 13revert-Major Conolly, whose brevet
rank 'has be en convened into the s• abstantive rank of Major
Uur.ttached, under the WnaTant of 6th Oct., 1851 ; Ensign
W. H. G. C ernwall to be,
'she Lockha ; Francis mieben• , Gent., to be Ensign.
without pure base, vice Lienten :ant, without purchase,
, Cornwall ; Quartermaster Alfred
Elford Grant , from tn' a 3cl West India Regiment, to be
Paymaster, v ice ureo .gh, appointed to the Depot Battalion
at Malta.
44th Foot— Liortf enant% R. Baillie to be Captain, without
purchase,vice Mat • asfield, died of I iis wounds; Ensign A.
S. Birch to be Liet [tenant, without purchase, vice Baillie ;
Henry Norm an Se Is, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Birch , promoted • Quartermaster Serjeant
Richard G. Thom sett to be Gartemaster, vice Walsh,
who retires upon I; ealf-pay.
46th Foot—The Commission of Lieutenant J. Cross, as
Lieutenant, to betantedated to the 9th March, in order to
place him in his • roper position ; Ensign C. J. Burgess to
be Lieutenant, thout purchase, vice Cross, whose
ion a
, vice Gre
pro-
motion on tb, 4ti [ May, has been cancelled ; Ensign F.
Grieve to be Lient enant, without purchase, vice Burgess,
wpuhroeshewpr,:ar
.dot- - 6th July, has been cancelled.
Murphy be L.
48th F not—capti ;in Frederick West to be Major, by
n, who retires.
Norman Burearj, Gen.
51st Foot-,Smeeten •
50Va Foot—Lie (t 3.. .W. Banbury to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice% "urchison, who retires ; Ensign T. T.
ant, by purchase, vice Banbury
dr, t., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Murphy. eute
Talker, Gent., to be Ensign, by
promoted.
purchase, vice S
55th Foot waffle' va, flea Hilton, Gent., to be Ensign,
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to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Conington, piomoted
in the 13th Foot.
Provisional Depot Battalion—Brevet-Major H. D. Fan-
shawe, from the 12th Foot, to be Major, 14-purchase, vice
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Paschal, who retires ; Brevet-
Mejor Graham Le Fevre Dickson, of the 30th Foot, to be
Assistant-Adjutant, vice Logan, who resigns.
BREVET.
Captain the Hon: Augustus G. Freid. Jocelyn, of the
_914..g,90t, to be Major in the, Army.
TIOSPITskir-STATT:- •
Surgeon James klenderson„ M.D., from tie 82d Foot, to
be Staff-Surgeon of the First Class.
Surgeon John Steuart Groves, from the 6Sth Foot, to be
Staff-Surgeon of the Second. Class, vice Fowler, appointed
to the Sld' Foot.
Acting Assistant-Surgeen Edward McGill to be Assist-
ant-Surgeon, vice Macarttioy, appointed to the 60th Foot.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Terrain Orton to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Tweddejl, promoted.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon Clement Williams to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Murphy, appointed to the 60th
Foot.
To be Acting Assistant-Surgeons—William John Clapp,
Gent.; John Robert Cole, Gent. ; William Sharpe, Gent.;
James Alfred Turner, Gent. ; William Henderson, Gent.;
Patrick James Mullarky, Gent. ; Edward Baker Stephens,
ent. ; Henry Bolton Clarke, Gent. ;
Milton, Gent.

BREVET.

Francis Sankey, Esq., late Major in the Egyptian Ser.
vice, to have the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Tur
key,. while employed with the Irregular Cavalry under the
command of Major-General Beatson.
Lieutenant Richart'Pittman, of thO Bombay Artillery,
to have the local rank of Captain in Turkey, while em-
ployed with the Irregular Cavalry under the command of
Major-General Beatson.
The undermentioned officers, having been selected for
service with the Turkish Contingent, to have the local
rank of Major while so employed :
Captain Frederick John Goldsmid, of the 37th Regi-
ment Madras Native Infantry.
Captain Whitmore, of the 62d Regiment.
Captain John Luther Vaughan, 21st Bengal Native In-
fantry.
Captain Richard Pattinson, late 16th Lancers.
Captain Henry Piercy, late 6th Foot.
Captain Frederick Rice Stack, St. Helena Regiment.
Lieut. George John Power, late Royal Artillery.
Lieut. James Castnajor Farquharson, 2d Bombay Ca.
Capt. A. /.,,4nnox Peel, of the Vd Foot, attached to the
Turkish troops, to have the local rank of Major in Turkey
while so employed.
The commission, as Major in the Army, of Major Wm.
Wean, 79th root, to be antedated to 12th Dec., 1854, but
not to carry back pay.
MEMORANDUM.—The second christian name of Brevet-
Najor Wheatstone, whose commission as Major in the
army was antedated in the Gazette of 20th July, 1855, is
Butler and not Batley, as previously. stated.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 10th Instant.—For Captain
Methuen Edmund Stedman, late Captain 10th Hussars,
to have the local rank of Captain while employed with the
Turkish Contingent, read, to have the local rank of
Major.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 13th instant.—For the
I undermentioned officers to have the local rank of Staff-
Surgeon of the Second Class while attached to the En-
e.ineer Force of the Turkish Contingent :—James Olgnin,
Ecq. ; Isaac John Gillam, Esq.—read the undermentioned
offilers to have the local rank of Staff-Surgeon of the
Second Class while attached to the Turkish Contingent—
Joseph Olguie, Esq. ; Isaac John Mate.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Worm tershire—Benjamin Littlewood, Esq.,
to be Deputy-Lieutenant.
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Ensign Jonathan
Christian Thomas to be Lieutenant, vice Willett,resigned.
MEMORANDUM.
Worcostershire Regiment of Militia—The Commission
losft SMuaryg,e°lllBBssh,irshleyoU which appeared in the Gazette of the
should have been dated the 2d day of
April, 1855.
invent of Militia—Frederick
Brecknock Royal Rifle Reg
George Mogg. Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal Monmouthshire Militia—Bryan Sheehy, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant.
76th or Highland Light Infantry Regiment of Militia-1
vice Dwyer, promoted.
John Rose, Esq., to be Ensign ; John Archibald Young,
Via—Edward Black, Gent.,
Esq., to be Ensign • Garden Duff, Esq., to be Ensign.
sth Regiment dßoyal Lancashire Militia—Lieutenant
eenifttaelion ; George Davenport Edward Dwyer to be Captain, vice Bellew, retired ; Ensign
tCharlesoEba.esEtynMiller i
in augmentation
iabmuegeLnlnti
Free-
man to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Earl, promoted.
3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—William Thomas, Gent., to be Ensign.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia—Captain Edward Deane Freeman to be
Major, vice Bowdoin, resigned.
4th of Royal South 'Middlesex Regiment of Militia.—
Memorandum.—The commissi of Captain George Burs-
Lem is cancelled from the 7th net