The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAITIO RETURNS.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending April 28,
1855 ..................................... ..... 21?,524 5 3
Corresponding week last year .................... 11,845 1 6
Total of the half-year to this date, 1855: ..... 172,92; 15 2
Total of the half-year to this date, 1851.
.... 181,U29 17 8

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending April 28, 1855 £16,055 9 2
Corresponding week last year 15,414 2 7

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Increase in 1 5 £64l 6 7
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAT._Trattic re-
turn for the week ending April 28,•1855 25,596 8 0
corresponding week last year 5,564 4 5

Increase in 1855 £32 3 7

The trial of the soi disant Count Scherr Those is post-
poned•
claimed to be tried by a mixed
jury.
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Tan WAR IN THE EAST. T.
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to the next Middlesex Sessions, the prisoner hay-
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Horse-Guards, April 25, 1855.
In order to remove any doubt which may exist as to the
rank and precedence of the Officers of the Hon. East
India Company's Service, it is her Majesty's pleasure that
Officers of the Hon. East India Company s Service, whose
Commissions shall be signed by authorities duly deputed
to do so by her Majesty, shall have rank and precedence
with Officers of her Majesty's regular army, according to
the dates of their Commissions, in ail parts of her Ma-
jesty's dominions or elsewhere.
WAR-0 FFIC E, MAY L

sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Henry Ellis White,
Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Hampton,
promoted, May 1.
6th Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon William Richard
Grylls, from the 19th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Boate, who resigns, May 1.
2th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant R. H. H. Jary to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Marr, who retires ; Cornet F.
T. Blunt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jary, May 1.
17th Light Dragoons—Henry Marshall, Gent., to be
Cornet, without purchase, vice Clevland, killed in action,
May 1.

Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain the
Honourable R. Monck, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Jolliffe, who retires,
May 1.

gcots Fusilier Guards —Willoughby Sandilands Rooke,
Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase,
May 1.

fat Regiment of Fcot—To be Lieutenants, without pur-
chase—Ensign W. Freeborn ; Ensign C. H. Proby, vice
Fenwick, appointed to the 93d Foot, May I.—To be En-
sign, without purchase—George Turner, Gent., May 1.
4th Foot—Captain James Leatham, from half-pay York
Chasseurs, to be Captain (repaying the difference), vice
sVelman, who exchanges ; Lieut. J. P. B. Forster to be
Captain, by pure...lase, vice Leatham, who retires, May 1;
George M Billiugton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
in succession to Lieut. Hamilton, promoted, April 30 ;
Henry Arthur Grey Todd, Gent., to be Ensign without
purchase, May
.1. _

hth Fo-ot— E !ward Studley Lewis, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Colt, appointed to the 7th Foot,
May 1.
7th Foot—The Hon. Howard Moreton to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Hope, promoted, May 1.
Bth Foot.—Lieutenant J. B. Campbell to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Hest, deceased ; Ensign H. V.
Lillicrap to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Camp.
bell, Jan. 27.

9th Foot.—W. H. Errington Ridable, Gent., to be En-
t without purchase, May 1.

-I.:.th Foot.—:Enr .rd Birch to be Lieutenant,
pecliase,-iiciPiich,.whe retires; JohiThomas Lyon
C )13haul, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Birch,
May 1.
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14th Foot.—lver Mclver, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase ; Lieutenant A. Gordon to be Adjutant, vice
Fairtlough, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, May 1.
kith Foot—Second Lieutenant Francis Ball, from the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Oldfield, pro-
moted, May 1. _ _ _

IGth Fuot—Arthur Matt, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase. May 1.

17th Foot-LHenry.Hollis Howett, Esq., to be Pay-
master; vice Telford, who retires on half-pay, May 1.
18th Foot—Ensign A. Cottee to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, May 1.
19th Foot—Assistant-SurgeO"n Samuel Joseph Bayfield,
from the staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Gulls, ap-
pointed to the 6th Drag,,ons, May 1. -
20th Foot—Lieut. A. E. Warren to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Waugh, who
retires, May 1; Conroy Fabie, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Gethin, whose appointment, by purchase,
on the 29th March, has been cancelled, April 29; John
Carden, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to
Lieut. Warren, promoted, April ; William F. F. Gor-
don, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Mason,
promoted,, May 1.
21st Foot—Ensign T. H. Green to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, May 1.
. . _

Foot-Z-To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signsi T. Ft
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36; William D. Bloxsqtne, Gent., May 1.
'tte lirtaoynl,. GTenot.,beAEprild
24th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Petras Geneste, to be
Paymaster, vice Ferrier, deceased, May, 1.
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27th Foot—Ensign G. S..W.bite,to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Birke, appointed Paymaster of a De-
pot Battalion ; ;Robert Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice White, May 1.
28th Foot—William Seaton, Gent., to bo Ensign, with-
out purchase, May 1.
29th Foot—Ensign E. W. Kent to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Pery, who retires ; Ensign John Dane, from
the 9th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase; Nathaniel
Polhitl Ledgard, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Kent, MIS, 1.

30th Foot—Lieutenant T. G. Peacocke, from the 84th
Foot, to be Lieutenant; Lieutenant Alexander Thomas
Ewens, from the Dorset Militia, to be, Ensign, without
purchase, May I.
39th Foot—Samuel Handy Halahan, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Palmer, promoted, May 1.
40th Foot—Captain J. E. D. MacCarthy, from the 94th
Foot, to be Captsin, vice Gardiner, who exchanges, May 1.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—William Thomas
11`Grath, Gent., vice Armstmng, promoted ; Henry Ross-
Lewin Morgan, Gent., vice Lloyd, promoted, May 1.
42d Foot—Stair A. Agnew, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, in succession to Lieutenant Macpherson, promoted,
April 30; William Thomas Fraser, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Farquharson, promoted, May 1.
43d Foot—Captain H. B. H. Rocke, from the 96th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Hon. L. W. Miles, who exchanges;
Lieut. H. Wilmot to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hon.
H. W. C. Ward, who retires; Ensign H. A. Brett to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilmot; Henry Gorton,
Gent, to be Ensign, by,purchase, vice Brett—May 1.
45th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George William Peake,
M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Allen,
,who resigns, May 1.

46th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Charles Marsack from the
Leicester Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, May 1.
47th Foot—Lieut. John Blake, from the 4th or Royal
South Middlesex Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase,
May L. - -

48th Foot—To be Ensign, without purchase—Lodge
de Montmorency Prior, Gent., May 1.
49th Foot—Lieutenant C. E. Gibson to be Adjutant,
vice Earle, promoted, May 1.
51st Foot—Riland W. Oldham, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purdhase, May'l.
54th Foot—Captain William Ker Gray, from the
Northumberland Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase,
May 1.
55th Foot—Lieutenant T. M. Rozby to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Hannay, who retires ; Lieutenant Arthur
Fitzwalter Bigg Wither, from the Hampshire Militia, to
be Ensign, without purchase, May 1.
56th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Richard
Bedford Ponlden, Gent., vice Campbell, promoted in the
33d Foot, April 30 ; Charles John Hampten, Gent., vice
Daunt, promoted in the 39th Foot, May 1. To be
Quartermaster Colour-Serjeant James M'Grath, vice
Dougherty, appointed to a Depot Battalion, May 1.
57th Foot—Major Henry J. Warre to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, March 9 ; Charles Frederick
Houghton, Gent., to be Ensign, withput purchase, vice
Russell. promoted, May 1.
60th Foot—Quartermaster George Charles Kelly to "be
Ensign, without purchase, and Adjutant, vice Dawson,
promoted, May 1.
62d Foot—Lieut. A. 11. Wombwell to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Grylls, who retires, May 1.
63d Foot—Ensign G. W. Clutterbuck to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Magnay, promoted; Aubrey Pal-
grave Powys, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Cliitterbuck, May 1.
65th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Blewitt to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Slegg, who retires ; Ensign C. J. Urqu-
hart to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Blewett, May 1.
66th Foct—John Win. Hughes, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, May 1.
74t1.Foo,t—Ernest Henry, Gent., to be Ensign, without
May 1.
73d Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase—Jas. Knox,
Gent., vice Simpson, promoted in the 77th Foot, April 30;
Thos. Win. Shore Miles, Geut., vice Young, promoted,
May 1.
•
7th Foot—Basil Henry
without purchase, May 1. Browne, Gent., to be Ensign,
80th Foot—William Maclean, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out. purchase, May 1- .
84th Foot—Brevet-Major A. West
tc to be MGarjeoern7idthe:
• Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel -
out purchase, vice R.
C• Stewart to be Captain, ,without
ceased ; t • Ensign E. H. Brackenbury to be
pnrcbae,
without,vice West
Purchase, vice Stevirrt, May 7.
Lieutenant ,0 ka Ensigns% without purchase--Finch
85th 143° • 02041140, prazoto4 gift sot 4
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Staff-Stugeon Second Class Henry Cooper R,eade.
TO BE STAFF-SURGEONS OF THE SECOND CLASS.I

Assistant-Surgeon Charles Robert Robinson, from the
92d Foot, vice Reade.
Assistant-Surgeon James Leitch, M.D., from 78th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon George Hyde, 211:D., from the 69th
Foot.

Assistant-Surgeon James Hamilton Bews, from the 83d
Foot.

Surgeon Sandford McVittie Lloyd, M.D., from the
Royal Newfoundland Companies, vice Surgeon John
Hartley Sinclair, M.D , of the Depot Battalion, at Birr,
who retires upon half-pay.
Edward Campbell, Esq., to have the local rank of
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals in Tarkey, while
employed with the Turkish contingent force.
Surgeon Frederick Harrington Brett, M.D., of the East
India Company's service, to have the local rank of Staff-
Surgeon of the First Class while employed with the Army
in the East.

The undermentioned gentlemen being about to be at-
tached to the medical staff of the Turkish Contingent
force to have the local rank in Turkey of Staff Surgeon of
the Second Class while so employed :—Thomas Littleton,
M. 8., Henry P. Bennett, Esq., Thomas Coutts Morrison,
Esq., Christopher Wolston, Esq., William Druce Cattle,
Esq , Robert Boxall, Esq.
To be Purveyor to the Forces—Charles Coward, Gent.