The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-17 00:00:00

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LEWES RACES.

(THIS DAY.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEORAPH.)

COUNTY STARES.

Minos
Tom Burke * •

Three ran.
£5O HANDICAP PLATE.

New Brighton
Newmarket

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.. 2

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Nine ran.
LEWES HANDICAP.

Mishap
Lady Alioia
Archer

Three ran.

QUEENS' PL A.TE.

Joshua
Kennyside Hero
Five ran

SELLING STASES.

.. 2

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Torn Burke

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
ST. LEER.

500 to 100 agst Lord of the Isles (taken).,
TUNBRIDGE HANDICAP.
6 to 4 on Fulheck.
EBOR HANDICAP.
11 to 2 agst Vandal (taken)
6to 1 agst Saucebox
10 to 1 agst Little Harry
12 to 1 agst H3mily

LUDLOW RACEK

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Pastulant .

WESTON STAKES.

Roving Betsy

Seven ran.
WELTER CUP.

Morning Star
Minerva

Two ran.
CRAVEN STAKES.

Romeo

Useless
Gaylad .

Five ran.

DEATH OF HE WRY COLBURN, ESQ.

We regret to announce the death of Henry Colburn,
Esq., the late en,inent publisher. The sad event took
place yesterday, at his residence, 14, Bryanstone-square.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

OSBORNE, Aug.l4.

The Queen was this day please:) to confer the hon,,ur of
Knighthooil upon James Shaw Willes, Esq., one of the
Judges of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas.
CROWN-OFFICE, AUG. 15.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIA,

MENT.

Borough of Kidderminster —The Right Hon. Robert
Lowe, of 34, Lowndes-square, in the county of Middlesex,
Vice-President of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade.

Borough of Hertford.—The Right Hon. William Francis
Cowper, President of the General Board of Health.

WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 17.
Royal Horse Guards—General Viscount Gough, G.C.8.,
from 87th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Field-Marshal Lord
Raglan, G.C.8., deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 17.

sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon William
Green Trousdell, from the 50th Foot, to be Surgeon,
vice M'Cullocii. appointed to the Btati.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieut. P. Pinckney to bo Captain,
without purchase, vice Hawker, deceased ; Cornet H. A.
Wight to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Pinckney.
Bth Light Dragoons—Gurney Hanbury, Gent., to be'
Cornet, by purchase, vice Siwbridge, promoted.
10th Ligh+. Dragoons—Lieut. Charles Potts Rosser to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Bowles, deceased ; Cornet
G. S. Davies to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Rosser.
The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets to be appointed
Lieutenants in the Royal Artillery :—,7ohn R. Dyce, Ken-
neth Mourn, Edmund Staveley, Wallace Gilmour, Robert
P. L. Welch, John W. J. Dawson, Henry Etime-Aes,
John M. Burn, Stuart J. Nicholson, Wm. Smith, Walter
Newman, Edmund J. Tremlett, Thos. A. Robinson, Geo.
M. Campbell, Geo. E. Maple, Wm. D. Carey, Alex. G.
Miller, Edmund C. Macnaghten, Laurence H. H. Parsons,
Ramsay W. Phipps, Jas. C. Cavendish, Robert Sandham,
Geo. E. Callander, Algernon A. Stewart, Hon. Robt. V.
Dillon, and Edward S. Burnett.

tr#The undermentionerl Gentlemen Cadets to be appointed
Lieutenants in the Royal Engineers :—Gordon Douglas
Pritchard, Edwd. Saumerez Tyler, Edwd. Thos. Brooke,
Chas. Edward Wynne, Richard Harrison, Henry Conrte-
ney, Richd. Mainwaring Forman Sandford, Richard i3nl-
- Henry Hilsham Jones, Arthur Tillard Storer, John
Thomas Twigge, Reginald Gother Thorald, George Sack.
vile Berkeley, Gustavus Holmes Brooke, Edwd. Mitchell,
John Gamier.
Erratum in Crazate of Bth May.
For Gentleman Cadet Edward Pritchard Marshall to be
Lientmnant in the Royal Artillery; read Edward Prichard
Marshall.

Erratum in Gazette of 11th May.
For Serjeant Wm. Haudyside, Royal Artillery, to be
Quartermaster in the Land Transport Corps, read Com-
pany-Serjeant Win. Handyside, Royal Artillery, to be
Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Royal Engineer Field
Equipment.
Scots Fusilier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant
and Captain C. Holder to be Captain and Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Hon. C. G. Scott, who retires ;
Ensign and Lieutenant A. C. Campbell to be Lieutenant
and Captain, by purchase, vice Holder ; John Frederick
Buller Elphinstone, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Campbell.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant T. J. Gregory to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Vansittart, who retires ; En-
sign J. P. Gillreore, from the 40th Foot, to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Campbell, who resigns.
4th Foot—John Fencott James, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Fagan, promoted.
13th Foot--Lieutenant C. P. Long to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Level, who retires.-
14th Foot—Ensign A. A. Le Mesurier to be Lieutenant,
without purchase; Peter Barlow, Gent,, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Le Meearier. "
16th Foot—Ensign L. S. Rooks to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Qua.ntrille, who retires.
18th Foot—Lieutenant C. G. D. .A.nnealey, from the
vice
Cylon
lkin Wi Rifle whoßeiment'resi, togns be Captain, without purchase,
19th Foot—Captain W. L. F. Sheaffe, from the mst
Foot, to be Captain, vice Morrison, who exchanges ; Geo.
Douglas Harris, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase.
20th Foot—Ensign John Carden to be Lieutenant, b
y
purchase, vice Dickins, promoted.
21st Foot—SecAid Lieutenant William Pollock, from
the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Fowler, who resigns; Quarteratster.Ber.
jeant J. Grahame to be Quartermaster, vice Cassiday, ap-
pointed Paymaster of a Depot Battalion.
30th Foot—Lieutenant Lachlan Macpherson to be Ca?.
tails. without purchase, vice Brevet Major Bayly, whom
Brevet Rank has hem converted into Substantive Itltir,
under the Royal Warrant of the 6th Oct. ber, 1854 ;
sign G. H. Sanders to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Macpherson ; Ensi4n.lohn Binnie Mackenzie, from
the let Royal Lanark Militia, to be Ensign, without pur-
@Lase, vice Sanders.
34th Foot—Ensign Richard Leeson to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Ram. av, deceased ; Arthur Wheat-
ley Gilley, Gent., to be- Ensign, without purchase, vice
Leeson, promoted.
36th Foot—James Cole Jackson, Gent., to be E ,sign,
by purchase, vire Harris. promoted:
38th Foot —Lieutenant S. G. Quicke to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Lambeth, who retiree . Ensign George
Grieve to be Lieutenant, by pm chase, vice Quicke.
39th Foot.—To- be Ensigns, without purchase--Ensign
John Edward Wright Hussey, from the Ist Royal Lanark
Militia; Charles Hereford, Gent.
40th Foot—De Reufville Lucas, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Gillmore. promoted in the Ist Foot.
41st Foot—Ensign Charles L. Furlonge to be Lieutenant
without Purchase.' To be Ensigns, without purchase.—
Thomas White, Gent. ; William Sugden Jemmett, Gent.,
vice Furlongs.
42d Foot litlssign James Edmund Christie., from the
Stirlingshire Militia., to be Ensign, without purchase.
44th Foot--R
Jhorge C. Bower, to be -Lieutenant,
without purchase.
• • -
47th Foot—Ensign, henry Gem,
to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase; Second Lieutenant James Anderson, from
the Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gem.
50th Foot—George Albert Conran, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Ilassey,-proinoted ; Staff-Surgeon of the
Second Class Philip Spine() Warren, M.D. to be Surgeon,
vice Trousdell, appointed to the sth Dragoon Guards.
51st Foot—Captain R. F. Morrison, from the 19th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Sheaffe, who exchanger,
511th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon DuecinCampbellTavlor,
M.D. from the Staff, to')e. ts•nt-Garseee,,vicerkesie,
promoted ; Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Stacy skinton,
M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
58th Foot—Ensign W. D. Bond to- be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Murchison who retires. •
60th Foot—Captain Henry F. Kennedy to be Major, by
purchase, vice the Honourable H. L. Powys, who retires
upon half-pay of 38th Foot ; Lientenant H. Parker Mont-
gomery to be Captain,- by purchase;vice Kennedy ; Ensign
William F. Carleton to be Lieutenant; by purchase; vice
Msntgomery ; E',si;in Charles C. Willoughby, from the
77th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Carlton. '
64th Foot—Ca tails Thores,.;,strling to be Major, with-
out purclisse, v.iee 2-1. W"'"
, upon fall,Pay ; W. F. J.
4 , 4 without purehß,A.,,, viee ;
1.1..t.-pitm to. be Lieutenantited them rev. Ina.-- •
6ot n Eout,— (4,,at 6ef1ii;.4t.4.1" G. 4 u p„:„.„,1
master, vice Pilkington.
72d Foot—Francis George Sherlock, Gent., to be En- '
Mom.
sign, without PuH bl A u
b Foot—Major the onoltra ndue G, C. Chi-

hfc.•ster, from the 87th Foot, to be Major, vice O'Brien,
otho exchanges.
80th Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Alfred Hoyte to
Assistant-Surgeon.
87th Foot—Major B. O'Brien, from the 77th Foot, to be
Major, vice Hon. A. G. C. Chiehester, who exchanges.
88th Foot—Ensign G. S. Watson to be Lieutenant
without purchase ; Ensign Edgar E. Austin to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase ; Colour Serjeant Patrick Dwyer
to be Ensign, without purchase; Henry Mant Gilby, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchsse, vice Watson.
90th Foot—Lieutenant W. B. Porsse to be Captain, by
purchase, vice G'Gorman, who retires; Ensign J. S. A.
Herford to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Evans, whose
promotion by purchase on Ist Dec., 1454, has been can-
celled ; Ensign A. A. Moultrie to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Persse.
92d Foot —For Lieutenant Maunsel Meehan to be Adju-
tont, vice Campbell, promoted, in the Gazette of Aug. 10,
-read Lieutenant Maunsell Mecham, &o.

94th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Wm. St. John to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Sykes, who retires ; Ensign J. R.
Rolla to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice St. John.
95th Foot—Brevet-Major Vincent Wing to be Major,
without puachase, vice Heyland, whose Brevet rank has
been converted into Substantive rank, under the Royal
warrant of Oct. 6 ; Lieutenant Edmund Davidson Smith
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Wing ; Ensign Jno.
Henry Waterfall to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Smith.

97th Foot— The second christian name of Ensign Parker,
appointed on the 19Th June last, is toyer, and not Wager
as previously stated.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign C. W. Cragg to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Boileau, died of his wounds; Ensign
R. B. Booth to be Lieutenant, m ithout purchase. vice
Cragg, whose promotion on the 3d August, 1855, has been
cancelled.

Ist West India Regiment—James Moffitt, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Robertson, promoted.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Second Lieutenant G. M. Par-
sons to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Annesley,
promoted in the 18th Foot ; Orby Montgomery Hunter to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice 3leadeo, promoted.
Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieut. W. H. Sharpe to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Claremont,
whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive
Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.
Saint Helena Regiment—Allan Joshua Kentish, Gent.,
to be Eri-ign, by purchase, vice Barnes, promoted.
PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALIONS.— To be Lieutenant.
Colonel?—Brevet-Colonel Peter Farquharson, half-;):ty,
Unattached; Brevet-Colonel John Grattan, C. 8,, half-
pay, 18th Foot; Brevet-Colonel Edward Rowley Hill, Ist
West India Regiment.
STAFF.—Brevet-Major Joseph Edward Addison, half-
pay, 97th Foot, to be Assistant Quartermaster-General at
Head Quarters, vice Colonel Enoch, deceased, 14th July.