The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN °VICE, AUG. 30.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint'
Richard Wood, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Damas-
cus, to he her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in the
Regency of Tunis.
DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Victor Honiton,
Esq.; to be Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta;
Vincenzo Matno, E 94., to be Caibier to the Treasury ;
Gaetano Sciortino, Esq., to be Second Assistant in the
Chief Secretary's Office; and Guiseppe Montanaro, Esq ,
to be Collector of Land Revenue for the said island.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Anthony
O'Grady Leroy, Esq., to be Treasurer and Collector. of In-
ternal Revenue for the colony of Western Australia.
BOARD OF 1113. DE, WHITER LL, SEPT. 25.
The Right Honourable the le,rds of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade end Plant:Ai:me have. received,:
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
1 despatch from. her 11I;)jest,y's Acting Ginsol at
Lisbon, enclosing a decree, recently published in the King-
dom ef 'Portugal, which irnpoies a tine of 400 milreas upon
any master or commander of a &lash ship who may ad-
mit passengers or emigrants on board his ship, without
passports from thccompetent authority, or who, op receiv-
ing the visit orclearance, shall omit to present the list of
passengers on board each ship.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 25.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received a
iespatch from her MNjesty'sConsul at Rotterdam, enclos-
ing a notice to mariners, issued by the Netherlands Minis-
ter of Marine, respecting a new floating beacon at the so-
called Steep Point of Ouster Sandbank, a translation of
which is subjoined :

Marine Department.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The Jltinister of Marine hereby gives notice,, that at fully
area cable lengths to the north-west of the so-called Steep
tioint of the- (foster (Sandbank), a large anchor buoy-
shaped beacon has been placed, the top of which is painted
white, and the remainder with black and white vertical
stripes ; on the top of the beacon is a triangle painted with
.
siultiar strwes.
Tile above Beacon is situated in the following landmarks
and bearings :
The church of Haamstede on the east slope of the long
white sand•hill, a little to the west of the level.
The steeple of Goedereede en the most westerly summit
of the sand-hill, to the east of the five boulders of the
westhoofd (We,thead).
In these bearings :
The tower of the revolving light on Schonwen S. a W.
The Lighthouse on the north coast of Schonwen S.E. by
E. slightly East.
The steeple of Goedereede E.S.E. B. E. by unadjusted
compass, in S fathoms or 150 palms' depth, at ordinary
low Water.
Thii Beacon is distinctly visible at a distance of a Ger-
man mile froui the deck of a pilot boat, the eye being 4
ells above the surface of the water, and by the black and
white stripes can likewise be easily distinguished at a con-
siderable distance from the similar shaped beacons which
_are placed. on the Banjaard,Aut which are painted entirely
white.'
The placing of the last-mentioned Beacons.was publicly
announced by notice of the 19th August, 1851.
The Hague, 19th September.
The Ministefaforesaid.
(Siened)" DE SUIT V. D. BROECKE.
WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 25._
64th Regiinent, of Voot—'4l.lajortreTiMi 3-atiterFreetb,
Quartermaster-General of the Army, to bo Colonel, vice
General Sir Ri..hard Bourke, KC 8., deceased.
Ist Most India Regiment Lieutenant-General Sir Geo.
Bowles. K.C.B. to be Colonel, vice General Sir George
T. Napier, deceased.

WAR OFFICE, SEPT. 25.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant G. M.
Morgan to be Captain, by purchase, vice Webb, who re-
tires;' Lieutenant Robert Gunter to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brigatocke, who retires.; Cornet G. A. Muttle-
bury to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morgan.
13th Light Dragoons—Captain Henry Holden to be Ma-
jor, by purchase, vice Gore, who retires ; Lieutenant E.
King to be Captain, by purchase, vice Holden. Cornet
Henry Munn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice King.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet H. B. Wright, from the
13th Light Dragoons, to bo Cornet, without purchase, vice
Sewell. appointed Paymast:T of the 6th Dragoon Guards.
16th Foot—Lieutenant William Armstrong to be Cap-
bin, by purchase, vice B.,resford, who retires; Ensign
Wary Keleall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ai in-
strong.
20th Foot—Charles Verey, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur .
chase, vice Maidouogb, promoted.
28th Foot—Lieutenant James Williams to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Rauradg9, who retires; Ensign 3. W.
Kingsley to be 'Lieutenant, without purchase, 'vice
Williams.

3M FOot—Tbe second Christian name of Ensign Ben•
nett is Elkins,, and, not Elkias, as previously stated..
33d Foot—Sejeant-Major George Toseland, from the
Grenadier GuardsP to be Ensign, without purchase ; En-
sign G. Toseland t.o be Adjiitant, vice Trent, who resigns
the Adjutantcy only.
33th Foot—William Gerard -Byron, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Grieve, promoted.
39th Foot—To be Ensigns, by purchase—Copuer Francis
0141fie1d, Gent., vice Smith, promoted ; Samuel Fyson,
Gent.,, vice Prichard, promoted; John Bartholomew Cor-
ballis, Gent.; vice Hore, promoted.
42d Foot—Ensign W. P. Hesketh to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Macpherion, promoted Allan, Gent.,
to. be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hesketh, promoted.
47th Foot—Thomas Baillie Thomson, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Mallet, promoted. The Chris-
tian name of Ensign Roberts is Francis, and not John, as
previously stated.
50th Foot—Lieutenant John Thompson to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Frampton, promoted ; Ensign H.
C. Chichester to, be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Thompson ; George . Edge, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Chichester.
82d Foot—The name of the Lieutenant promoted from
the Cape Mounted, Rifles on 21st .Septemher, 1855, is.
Charles Studded Mailmen, and not Charles Stuart Mann-
sell, as previously stated.
86th Foot—Captain Henry W. Gordon, from half-pay
unattached, to be Captain, vice Rawlins, appointed to the
Invalid Depot at Chatham ' • Lieutenant M. Lepper to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Gordon, who retires.
83th Foot—To be Captains, without purchase—Lie&
• ... •

W. C. Pearson, vice Corbett, killed in action; Lioutenan
H. H. D4y, vice Wray, killed in action.
92,1 Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Thorold to
bo Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase; Brevet-Major
Robert M. Sutherland to be Major, without purchase, vice
Thorold. To be Capt,ins, without purchase—Lientenant
0. Stott, vice Sutherland; Lieutenant E. C. B. Elphin-
stone ; Lieutenant C. Parsons ; Lieut. J. A. M` Donald.
To be Lieutenants, without pnrchase—Ensign P. F. Gooch,
vice Stott ; Ensign T. Gordon, vice Elphinstone ; Ensign
W. H. Shafto, from the 25th Foot. To be Ensigns, with-
out purchase—Ensign H. A. Ellis, from the 93d Foot, vice
Gooch ; Ensign Francis Roberts, from the 47th Foot, vice
Gordon.
97th Foot—Ensign A. R. N. Gould to be Lieutenant,
without purchase. vice Preston, killed in action ; Samuel
Slater, Gent:, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gould.
99th Foot—Lieutenant F. W. Despard, to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel Reed, deceased ; Lieutenant L. J. Nunn
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Despard, whose
promotion, by purchase, on June 1, has been cancelled ;
Ensign Charles William Quin, to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Despard ; George Richards Harvey, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Quin.
Ist West India Regiment—Alexander M. William Sam-
son, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Kenrick,
promoted.
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promoted ; Lieut. George Mignan Innes to be Adjutant,
vice Sharpe, promoted.
Saint Helena Regiment—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Jas.
Jardine, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Farlonge,
deceased.
• LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.—William Handyside, from
Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Royal Engineer Field-
Equipment, to be Second Captain.
PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALlON.—Lientenant-Colonel
the Honourable James Lyon Browne, unattached, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.
INVALID DEPOT. Paymaster Charles Schomburg
Thomas, late Essex Rifles, to be Paymaster.
BRITISH GERMAN LEGION.—Ist Rifle Battalion—Fran-
cis Warren, Esq., to be Paymaster.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon James Fraser,
M.D., from the 25th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon, Second
Class ; Assistant-Surgeon Andrew Leith Adams, M.D.,
from the 224 Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class;
Assistant-Surgeon Robert William Wonlcombe, from half-
pay of the 68th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forc.B.

BREVET.
Major-GeneralSirj. L. Pennefather, K.C.B , to have the
local rank of Lieutenant-General in the Island of Malta.
Colonel Edward Macartlinr' Unattached, to have the
local rank of. Mikj or- General in Australia.
Colonel James Robertson Crawford, of the Grenadier
Guards, to have the local rank of Brigadier-General in
Turkey.
Major and Brevet-Colonel-A. _G. Blachford, of the 24th