The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-03 00:00:00

MEDITERRA.NYAN SEA.

Lighthouse on Cape San Antonio (Province of Alicante.)
From the let of January, 1855, a new lighthouse,
erected on the old tower of Cape " San Antonio," will be
lighted every night from sun-set to sun-rise ; tie situation
of this light is in 38 deg. 48 min. 31 sec. N. latitude, and
6 deg. 24 min. 42 sec. E. longitude, from the meridian of
the Naval Observatory of " Sn. Fernando."
Its apparatus is of the second catadioptrical order,
with a natural light eclipsed every half a minute.
The elevation of the light above the level of the
sea is of 625.4 feet and its average range will be
of 19 miles, though it will be visible from a greater
or minor distance according to the state of the atmosphere
and the elevation of the observer.
kladrid, 3d November, 1854.
(Signed) JOAQUIM GUTTIERREZ
DE RUBALCAVA.
WAR OFFICE, JAN. 2.
let Regiment of Foot—General the Right Hon. Sir Ed-
ward Blakeney, G.C.8., from the 7th Royal Fusiliers, to
be Colonel, vice General the Right lion. Sir James Kempt,
G.C.8., deceased, Dec. 21.
BRE VET.
_ _ _

Colonel Harry D. Jones, of the Royal Engineers, having
rendered distin,guishei service in command of the British
land force at the capture of Bomarsund, her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to order, in pursuance of the
Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, that he bo promoted to be a
➢lajor-General, and be placed on the permanent List of
General Officers, Commission dated Dec. 12.
WAR-DEPARTMENT, JAN. 1.
COMMISSARIAT.
. _

Assistant Commissary-General John William Smith to
be Deputy Commissary-General, his commission to bear
date the 30th Dec.
DEPUTY COMMISSARIES-GENERAL.
Thomas Wharton Ramsay
William Henry Robinson
to be Commissaries-General.
ASSISTANT COMMISSARIES-GENERAL.
Frederick Thomas Mylrea
James Wilson
Charles Swain
Ferguson Thomas Coxworthy
Thomas Graham
Wm. Henry Drake
to be Deputy Commissaries-General.
DEPUTY ASSISTANT COMMISSARIES-GENERAL.
Henry Win. Woodforde Plant
Thomas William u;oldie
George Atkinson
Henry Lambert Brisbane Bayley
Frederick Henry Ibbetson
Edward Barrington de Foublanque
James Douglas Willan
Robert Clement Major
Redmond Uniacke
James Knight Goold
Douglas Bennet Clarke
Robert May Gardiner
Fitzjames Edward Watt
James Charles It. Wood
James Bell Lundy
Win. James Tyrone Power
Robert Cumming
Villiers Wm. Caesar Hawkins
Thomas Gem
Conrad Potgieter
to be Assistant Commissaries-General.
COMMISSARIAT CLERKS.
George Twining
Luke R. Castray
Augustus Foulkes Cookesley
Francis Crossley Colqnhoun
George Ramsay Primrose
to be Deputy-Assistant Commissaries-General.
Their Commissions to bear date Jan. 1.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 1.
ROYAL REGI3LENT OF ARTILLERY.
Second Lieutenant Vivian Daring Majendie to be First
Lieutenant, vice Maclachlan, deceased, Dec. 13.
First Lieutenant John Boulton to be Second Captain,
vice Baynes, deceased, Dec. 13.
Second Lieutenant James Edward Blackwell to be First
Lieutenant, vice Boulton, Dec. 13.
The dates of Commissions of the under-mentioned 011-
cers have been altered as follows, viz.:-
First Lieutenant E. J. Ward to Nov. 30.
Second Captain P. J. Campbell to Dec. 8.
First Lieutenant A. D. Burnaby to Dec. 8.
Brevet-Colonel Richard Goodwin Bowen Wilson to be
Colonel, vice Brereton, removed as a General Officer,
Dec. 16.
Brevet-Major Charles Bingham to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Wilson, Dee. 16.
Second Captain John Davenport Shakespear to be Cap-
tain, vice Bingham, Dec. 16.
First Lieutenant John de Luttrell Saunderson to be
Second Captain, vice Shakespear, Dec. 16.
Second Lieutenant Sir John William Campbell, Bart.,
to be First Lieutenant, vice Saunderson, Dec. 16.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Sebastian Rowan to
be Lientenant-Colonel, vice Stace, retired upon full-pay,
Dec. 16.
Brevet-Major Edward Bruce Hamley to be Captain, vice
Rowan, Dec. 16.
First Lieutenant Moutray Auketell to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Hamley, Dec. 16.
Second Lieutenant ./Emelius De Vic Tupper to be First
Lieutenant, vice Auketell, Dec. 16.
Second Captain George Thomas Field to be Captain,
vice Adair, retired upon half-pay, 13.2 c. 20.
First Lieutenant Philip Dickson to be Captain, vise
Field, Dec. 20.
Second Lieutenant Johu Charles Francis Ramsden to
be First Lieutenant, vice Dickson. Dec. 20.
CORPS OF ROYAL MARINES.
Brevet-Colonel Patrick Yule to be Colonel, vice Slade,
retired on full-pay, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Colonel Daniel Bolton, to be Colonel, vice Victor
retired on full-pay, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Major Sir William Thomas Denison to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Major John Williams to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
♦ice Aldrich, retired ou full-pay, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Major Edward William Durnford to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, vice Yule, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Major Edward Thomas Lloyd to be Lieutenant
Colonel, vice Bolton, Dec. 13.
Second Captain Thomas Lionel John Gallwey to be Cap-
tain, vice Williams, Dee. 13.
Second Captain Anthony David Craigie to be Captain,
vice Durnford, Dec. 13.
Second Captain Richard Burnaby to be Captain, vice
Lloyd, Dec. 13.
First Lieutenant Charles Brisbane Ewart to be Second
Captain, vice Gallway, Dec. 13.
First Lieutenant Charles Butler Peter Nugent Hodges
Nugent to be Second Captain, vice Craigie, Dec. 13.
First Lieutenant Edward Belfield to be Second Captain,
vice Buinaty, Dec. 13.
Second Lieutenant William Butler Gosset to be First
Lieutenant, vice Ewart, Dec. 13.
Second Lieutenant Robert Grant to be First Lieutenant
vice Nugent, Dec. 13.
Second Lieutenant Edward Harding Steward to be First
Lieutenant, vice Belfield, Dec. 13.
Brevet-Colonel Frederick William Whinyates to be
Colonel, vice Blanshard, removed as a General Officer, Dec.
16.

Brevet-Major Henry James to be Lienteuant-Colonel,
vice Whiuyates, Dec. 16.

Second Captain Albert O'Donnell Grattan to be Captain,
vice James, Dec. 16.
First Lieutenant Hon. George Wrottesley to be Second
Captain, vice Grattan, Dec. 16.
Second Lieutenant Edward Donald Malcolm to be First
Lieutenant, vice Wrottesley, Dec. 16.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel William Robinson to bo
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Du Plat, deceased, Dec. 22.
Second Captain James Swayn Baker to be Captain, vice
Robinson, Dec. 22.
First Lieutenant Edward Charles Acheson Gordon to be
Second Captain, vice. Baker, Dec. 22.
Second Lieutenant Arthur Robert Mac Donnell to be
First Lieutenant, vice Gordon, Dec. '2 2 .

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 20.
Corps of Royal Marines.—To be second Lieutenant—
Gcnticinen Cadets John Frederick Crease, Colpoys Par-
kyns Heaslop, Hugh Law Rose, Charles Hugh Stand bridge,
Vernon William Sims, Rose Lambart Price, Horatio Guy
Campbell, Edward George Vero Holloway, Thomas Mey-
riek Hewett, George Johnston.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Charles John Belcher Hertslet, Esq., to be Pay-
master, Dec. 15.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Kincardine—The Right Hon. the Earl of
Kintore to be Vice Lieutenant. To be Deputy
Lieutenants Sir Alexander Ramsay, Bart.; James
Horn Burnett, Esq. ; Barron Grahame, Esq. ;
Robert William Rickart Hepburn. Esq., Alexander 'flues,
Esq., James Dyce Nicol, Esq., Alexander Portous, Esq.,
Dec. 21.

County of Bute—To be Deputy Lieutenant—Herbert
Crichton Stuart, Esq., Edward .Henry John Craufurd,
Esq., younger, MIP., the Honourable George Frederick
Boyle, Peter Buchanan, Esq., the Provost of the Royal
Burgh of Rothsv, Dec. 2G.
Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Ensign William Hicks to be Lieutenant, vice
Chandler, resigned; Charles Gurney, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Hickes, promoted, Dec. 28 ; Frederick Walter
Aston, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lea, resigned, Dec. 30.
.Aberdeenshire Regiment of Militia—William Leith
Hay, Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 19.
Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—To be
Captains—Thomas William Fountaine, Esq., Dec. 27 ;
Henry L'Estrange, Esq., Dec. 28. To be Lieutenants
Francis Nathaniel Astley, Gent., Dec. 28; Raoul Stephen
Bedingfield, Gent, Dec. 29. '
2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia—John
Bloom, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Chamberlin, re-
signed.
Ist Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—John De Ccurcy,
Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 23 ; Francis Sacheverell Wilma;
Esq., to be Captain, Jan. 2.
let Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia--