The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry
Chapman as Consul at Quebec for the Queen of Spain.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 26.
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 Ambassador at Paris, en-
closing copy of a Fronoh Imperial decree, by which Cour-
seuilles, in the Department of Calvados is made a port of
entrepot for salt.
WAR-DEPARTMENT.
ARMY WORKS CORPS.
• William Thomas Doyne, Esq., to be Chief Superinten-
dent.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 28.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Frederick Palmer, Gent., to b
Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase, vice the Hon
H. Annesley, promoted.

BREVET.
Captain and Brevet-Major the Hon. Leicester Curzon,
of the Rifle Brigade, the bearer of the despatch announcing
the brilliant and important success achieved by the army
under the command of General Simpson, and the capture
of Sebastopol, to be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel in the army.
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 27.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Frederick
Edward Budd to be Captain, vice Halliday, retired on
full-pay ; Second Lieutenant James Smail to be First
Lieutenant, vice Bucid, promoted.
NAVY BILLS.
The Commissioners of the Admiralty have established
regulations relative to naval payments and the mode of
drawing bills, which have been approved by her Majesty
navy bills for supplies of provisions, &c., are to be
made payable at seven days after date. All bills of ex-
change drawn on the Accountant-General of the Navy are
to be drawn at seven days.

--ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 27,
BREVET —Captain Francis Augustus Halliday, who has
been permitted to retire on full-pay, under the provistms
of her Majesty's Order in Council, 13th September, 1851,
to be Major, the rank being honorary only.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
The Essex Rifles.—Stephen Orrell, Gent., to be Quar-
termaster, from the 14th Aug., 1855.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
West Suffolk Regiment of Militia.—Lieutenant-Colonel
George Deere to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, vice
Colonel Earl Jermy n, resigned.
William Hankey, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant of the
county of Linlithgow.
Haddin,gton, Berwick, Linlithgow, and Peebles Regi-
ment of Militia Attillery.— First and Second Lieutenant
John Dawson to be First Lieutenant, vice Hog, promoted.
Warwickshire Militia (2d Regiment)—Ensign William
Henry Middleton to be Lieutenant, vice Bedford, resigned;
Francis Thursby, Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Thomas
Hunt, Gent. to he Ensign vice Sherwood, appointed to the
21st Fusiliers ; Philip Herbert Elliot, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Brooke, appointed to the Engineers.
Artillery Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—Fredk.
William Jones, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice An-
derson, resigned ; Jonathan Darby, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, vice Palmer, appointed to the Rifle Brigade.
Prince Regent's Royal Regiment of Ayrshire Militia
Rifles—Fredk. Lattin Fitzgerad, late Lieutenant 63d Re-
giment, to be Captain,; Ensign Alexander M`Lauchlan to
be Lieutenant; Fredk. Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign.
let Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Johnson Bourne,
Esq., to be Captain, vice Captain De Conroy, Gent., re-
signd; Ensign John Jessop to be Lieutenant, vice George
Webb, resigned; Sarduel Ashton Preton, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Jessop, promoted.
Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—To be En-
sigris—Maxwell Knightly Horlock, Gent., and Egbert
Charles .eptimus Hely, Gent.
3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Augustus Edward Dixey, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hurman, resigned.
Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery James Roche
Nagle, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Heritage, pro-
moted.

[This \ ppoiament is substituted for that which appeared
in the Gazette of Tuesday the 3d July last.]
Royal Berks Bayntum, Gent., to be
Ensign.

BANKRUPTCIES' ANNULLED.
Francis Stephen Foley, warehouseman, Goldsmith-st.
William Jefferson, Westoe, and Thomas Dixon, South
Shields, alkali manufacturers.