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

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 25.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Cornelius Kort-
right, Esq., to be President and Senior Member of the
Executive Council of the Virgin Islands.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 28.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, unto the Right Honourable Francis Graham 3foon,
of Portman-square, in the county of Middlesex, Lord
Mayor of the city of London, and vthe heirs male of his
body lawfully begotten.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 30.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverent
John Stevenson, D.D., to the church and parish of Lady
kirk, in the presbytery of Chirnside, and county of Ber
wick, vacant by the death of the Reverend William Alex.
ander Corkindale.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 27.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Dsspatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en-
closing an Imperial Decree modifying' the duty on raw
wool, aa follows :--
If imported direct in French vessels from countries be-
yond Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, other than
Australia and Cape Colony, including Cape Town, viz. :
Unwashed, 10c. ; cold washed, in fleeces 20c., waste
10c. ; hot washed, in fleeces 30c., waste 15c. per kil. If
otherwise impoi ted, the present rates of duty.
'Vol from the neck, feet, and tail, alone will be con-
sidered as waste. •
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 27.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
PriYy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, acopy
.of a.devatolz -from, her Majesty's Ambassador at ~is,
enclosing a copy of a French Imperial Decree, removing
the export duty on slack lime.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 27.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Miaister at' Berlin,
stating that the Prussian coasting trade has been opened
to British and Dutch vessels.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 1.
MEMORANDUM.
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 rarmy, according to
the dates of their Commissions, in ail parts of her Ma-
jesty's dominions or elsewhere.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 1_
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.
12th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant R. H. H. Jary to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Mari., who retires ; Cornet F.
T. Blunt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jury, May 1.
17th Light Dragpans—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.
Scots Fusilier Guards —Willoughby Sandilands Rooke,
Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase,
May 1.

let
Regiment of Foot—To be Lieutenants, without pur-
Ohase—ensign W. Freeborn • Ensign C. H. Proby, vice
Fenwick, appointed to the 93d1 Foot, Mav 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 tho difference), vice
Welman, who exchanges ; Lieut. J. P. B. Forster to be
C4tain, by purchase, vice Leatham, who retires, May 1;
George M. Billington, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
in succession to Lim. Hamilton, promoted. April 30;
Henry Arthur Grey Todd, Gent., to be Ensign without
purchase, May 1.
sth Foot—Edward 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 Hext, deceased ; Edaign H. V.
Lillicrap to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Camp-
bell, Jan. 27.

Oth Errington Ridsdale, _Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase. May 1.
11th Foot.—Ensign Edward Birch to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Finch, who retires; John Thomas Lyon
Cobham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Birch,
May 1.

1-4th Foot.--Iver Mclver, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase ; Lieutenant A. Gordon to be Adjutant, vice
Fairtlough, who resigns the Adjutant cy only, May 1.
15th Foot—Second Lieutenant Francis Ball, from the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Oldfield, pro-
moted, May 1.
16th Foot—Arthur Platt, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, May 1.
17th Foot—Honry Hollis Howott, 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-Surgeon Samuel Joseph Bayfield,
from the staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Grylls, ap-
pointed to the 6th Dragoons, May 1.
20th Foot—Lieut. A. H. Warren to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Waugh, who
retires, May 1; Conroy Fable, 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. W'arren, promoted, April 30; William F. F. Gor-
don, Gant., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Mason,
promoted, May 1.
21st Foot—Ensign T. H. Green to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, May 1.

23d Foot---4o be Lieutenants, without purchase-En-
signs T. F. Lewis and B. T. Griffith, May 1. To be En-
gulls, without purchase-E twin Utterton, Gent., April
3SI William D. Bloxsome, Gent., May 1.
24th Foot-Lieutenant Charles Petras Geneste, to be
Paymaster, vice Ferrier, deceased, May 1.
27th Foot-Ensign G. S. White to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Burke, 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 be 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, May 1.
30th Foot-Lieutenant T. G. Peacock°, from the 84th
Foot, to be Lieutenant; Lieutenant. Alexander Thomas
Ewens, from the Dorset Militia, to be Ensign, without
purchase, May 1.
39th Foot-Samuel Handy Holahan, 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 Captain, vice Gardiner, who exchanges, May 1.
To be Ensigns, without purchase--William Thomas
M`Grath, Gent., vice Armstrong, 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. Mines, 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 1.
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 purchase, May 3.
54th Foot-Captain William Ker Gray, from the
Northumberland Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase,
May 1.
55th Foot-Lieutenant T. M. Roxby 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 Poulden, 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-Berjeant 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. U. Wombwell to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Grylls, who retires, May 1.
63d Foot-Ensign G. W. Clutterbuck to be Lientenant,
without purchase, vice Magnay, promoted ; Aubrey Pal-
grave Powys, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Clutterbuck; May 1.
65th Foot-Lieutenant Charles Blewitt to he Captain,
by purchase, vice Slegg, who retires ; Ensign C. J. Urqu-
hart to be Lieutenant, by purchasa, • vice Blowett, May 1.
66th Foct-John Wm. Hughes, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, May 1.
72d Foot -Ernest Henry, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, gay 1.
73d Foot-To be Ensigns, without purcbase-Jas. Knox,
Gent., vice Si tunson promoted in the 77th Foot, April 30;
Wm. Thos. W. Shore Miles, Gent., vice Young, Prom
May L
i 7th Foot-Basil Henry BroWne, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase May 1.
80th Foot-William Maclean, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, May 1.
84th Foot-Brevet-Major J. A. be Major with-
out purchase, vice Brevet-L uAtenWanret
ceased ; Lieutenant R. C. E. EH. Brackonbury to be
Stewart to Captain,beotloonel
p u
Lieutenantr e h a s e
85th iweei i 171.5 tP;ure kas e,
Foot-To be
White, Glent" - - Ensigns, without purchase--Finch
vice Stewart, May 7.
vine Goodricke, promoted Finch
in _the 90th, Foot,