The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

necessary arrangements. Should these negotiations be
concluded, a special meeting of the proprietors will be
called to give the subject their consideration and sanction.
" Numerous notices of schemes and works, affecting the
company's property and interests, were given last autumn,
as about to be prosecuted during the present session of
Parliament, but the most of them have failed to make good
their preliminary deposits. The remainder will receive
the watchful attention of the board.
"The directors who retire by rotation at this time are
William James Chaplin, Esq., M.P., and the Hon. Ralph
Heneage Dutton, and they have given the usual notices of
their intention to offer themselves for re-election.
" The seat resigned by Sir William Heathcote, Ban., in
April last, yet remains vacant. A question respecting it
is pending for the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench,
at the instance of Mr. Snell.

One of the auditors, Thomas Close, Esq., also retires
by rotation at this time, and will offer himself for re-
election.

"By order of the Court of Directors.
" Feb. 8, 1855." " L. CRUMBLE, Secretary.
REPORT OF THE T,OCOMOTIVE AND CARRIAGE
SUPERINTENDENT.
" Locomotive Department, Nine Elms,
Jan. 30, 1855.
" Gentlemen,—l beg to annex the statements of accounts
for the half-year just expired, together with tables set-
ting forth the number of miles travelled, the cost of work-
ing, and summary of plant. It will be seen on examina-
tion that there bas been a considerable increase in the
train miles, the goods train being at 17 per cent., and the
passenger 34 per cent. greater. The cost per mile of work-
ing both trains and engines is less than the corresponding
period of last year, not withstanding.the increased price of
fuel.
" In consequence of the great influx of waggons caused
by the increase of traffic with the northern lines in coals
and goods (and which will in all probability continue to
increase as the means for developing it are extended), the
goods mileage has been much greater and the goods train
heavier, and this is the cause of the advance of the average
consumption of fuel per mile. During the half-year four
engines have been constructed out of current working ex-
penses, and I am happy to be able to inform you that the
whole of your plant, including carriages and waggons, is in
good and effective condition, such portions as have succes-
sively become exhausted and worn out having been restored
and
~ renewed.i
t
considerable saving in the
price of coke will result
from the arrangements made to recluse the cost of freight
for the current half-year."

SOUTH-EASTERN.
Mr. A. Beattie, who has been elected to the vacant
seat in the direction of the company created by the re-
signation of Sir J. Campbell, states in a letter to the
shareholders that the past management of the company
has entailed a large amount of unprofitable expenditure,
both in capital and revenue ; that profitless extensions
and guarantees have depressed the property, and that
the almost constant attitude of hostility in which the
company has stood to adjacent companies has increased
the mischief done by those extensions. He thinks the
time has arrived for entering into a mutual understanding
with the Brighton Company, and for making such ar-
rangements with other neighbouring companies as might
relieve the South-Eastern Company in some measure
from the heavy burden of the Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate line. He intimates, that he is opposed to any
measures involving interminable expenditure on capital
account, and recommends a pacific policy with their
neighbours, with a view to develope the traffio and im-
prove the property of the company.

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

BY THE QITREN.—A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA R.—Whereas information has been received
that certain acts of a highly treasonable nature have been,
or are about to be done or attempted by certain British
subjects adhering to the Queen's enemies, either within
her Majesty's dominions or in parts beyond the seas, such
as building, or aiding and assisting in building or
equipping ships of war, providing stores, or tackling, arms,
and ammunitionfor such ships, or manufacturing or fitting,
or aiding or assisting in manufacturing or fitting, steam
machinery, either for such ships or for other warlike pur-
poses; or by entering into contracts, engagements, or agree-
ments for some of the aforesaid purposes, or otherwise adher-
ing to, aiding, assisting, or abetting the Queen's enemiesin
parts beyond seas, in levying or carrying on war against
her Majesty; now her Majesty, by this her Royal Proclama-
tion, doth wara all such persons engaging in any such trea-
sonable designs or attempts as aforesaid, or otherwise ad-
hering to, assisting, aiding, or abetting the Queen's ene-
mies, that they will be liable to be apprehended and dealt
with as traitors, and will be proceeded against with the
utmost rigour of the law.
Given at our Court, at Windsor, this eighth day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-five, and in the eighteenth
year of our reign.
GOD save the QUEEN.

At the Court at Windsor, the Bth day of February,
1855, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in
Council.

Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare
the Right Honourable Granville George, Earl Granville,
Lord President of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council, and his Lordship took his place at the Board ac-
cordingly.
This day the Right Honourable Henry Fitzroy was, by
her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board
accordingly.
Her Majesty haying been pleased to appoint the Right
Honourable Fox, Lord Panmure, and the Right Honour-
able Sidney Herbert, to be two of her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State, they were this day, by her Majesty's
command, sworn two of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State accordingly.
WINDSOR-CASTLE, FEB. 7.
The Queen, as Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the
Garter, has been graciously pleased, by letters patent ender
her royal sign manual and the Great Seal of the Order,
bearing date this day, to dispense with all the statutes and
regulations usually observed in regard to installations, and
to grant unto the Right Honourable George William
Frederick, Earl of Carlisle, the Right Honourable Francis,
Earl of Ellesmere, and the Right Honourable George, Earl
of Aberdeen, Knights of the said Most Noble Order, and
duly invested with the ensigns thereof, full power and
authority to exercise all rights and privileges belonging to
a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the
Garter, in as full and ample a manner as if they had been
formally installed, any decree, rule, or usage to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 7.

The Queen has been pleased to renew the commissions of
the undermentioned officers of the Artillery Company of
London, for a further term of five years from the date
hereof

Captains—James Goodsell Middleton.
Peter Morrison.
William Thomas Robinson.
John Biden.
William Bokenham.
William Chickall Jay.
William Jeremiah Jordan.
Lieutenants—Adolphns John Lewis.
William Blott.
Physician—Henry Jeaffreson, M.D.
Surgeons—William White Cooper.
Charles Law.
Quartermaster—George Bailin.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 8.

The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint John
Pemberton Heywood, of Norris Green, Esq., to be Sheriff
of the county palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing.
WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 9.

2d Regiment of Life Guards—John Graham Smith,
Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice ongreve, promoted, Feb. 9.
6th Dragoons—Assistant-Surgecn. Robert Wilson, M.D.,
from the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Al`Gri-
gor, promoted on the Staff, Feb. 9.
7th Light Dragoons—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Arthur
Henry Francis Lynch to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Wil-
son, promoted in the 6th Dragoons, Feb. 9.
Bth Light Dragoons.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon John
Wild Hulseberg to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Home, pro-
moted in the 13th Light Dragoons, Feb. 9.
9th Light Dragoons.—Assistant-Surgeon Christopher
Bakewell Bassano, from the 70th Foot, to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Tuson, promoted in the 12th Light Dra-
gons: Feb. 9.

- 13th Light Dragoons.— Assistant-Surgeon Anthony
Dickson Home, from tho Bth Light Dragoons, to be Sur-
geon, vice Poynter, promoted on the Staff, Feb. 9.
14th Light Dragoons.—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Wil-
liam Fox, M. 8., from the 52d Foot, to be Assistant-Sur-
goon, vice Wigstrom, deceased, Feb. 9.
Coldstream Guards.—Lieutenant-Colonel Francis W.
H. Lord Burghersh, from half-pay, Unattached, to be Cap-
tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Crombie, who exchanges,
Feb. 9.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Reginald John
Buller, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Turner, promoted, Feb. 9.
Scote Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant Percy Mitford, from
the 51st Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without pur-
chase ; Walter Rodelph Trefasis, Gent.. to be Ensign and
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gregory, promoted, Feb. 9.
Ist Foot—William George Brown, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, Feb. 9.
4th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign
R. A. Law, from the Royal Newfoundland Companies;
' Ensign C. E. B. Breton, Feb. 9.
10th Foot—Ensign F. B. Sandwith to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Eaton, appointed to the 19th Foot,
Feb. 9.

16th Foot—Ensign John Cooper to be Lieutenant, with

out purchase, vice H. A. Macdonald, promoted in the 77th
Foot ; Lieutenant Archibald Philip Douglas to be Adju-
tant, vice Lyons, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Feb. 9.
17th Foot—Lieutenant T. H. Brinckman to be Captain,
without purchase; Ensign F. C. S. Dyer to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Brinckman ; Lieutenant Cecil
M`Pherson to be Adjutant, vice Heigham, promoted,
Feb. 9. _ _

19th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieu-
tenant S. H. M. Eaton, from the 10th Foot; Ensign W.
G. D. Massy ; Ensign T. B. Monsell, Feb. 9.
20th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—Lieu-
tenant William Cave, from the Ist West India Regiment ;
Second Lieutenant G. E. Francis, from the Ceylon Rifle
Regiment; Quartormaster-Serjeant James Aylett to be
Quartermaster, ♦ice Bilham, who retires upon half-pay,
Feb. 9.

21st Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—Lieu-
tenant R. W. C. Winsloe, from the 15th Foot; Ensign
Alfred Holt from the 83d Foot, Feb. 9. To be Ensign
without purchase—Ensign W. E. Taylor, from the 58th
Foot, Feb. 9.
23d Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign
R. H. Somerville; Ensign W. Owen; Ensign T. B. Hac-
kett; Ensign E. S. Holden ; Ensign Charles G. Blane,
Feb. 9.

28th Foot —To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
sign Francis Brodigan, vice Bell, deceased, Jan. 8; Ensign
C. E. B. Lennard, vice Brodigan, whose promotion on 12th
Jan. has been cancelled, Jan. 12 ; Ensign C. 8.-Higman,
from the 3d West India Regiment, Feb. 9.
30th Foot—Second Lieutenant G. M. Parsons, from the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, without pur
chase ; Robert Olphert Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, Feb. 9.
33d Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—Ensigns
H. Donovan and J. D. Johnstone, Feb. 9.
34th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—Ensigns
R. J. Cochrane, N. Ramsay, and E. Jordan, Feb. 9.
39th Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
signs G. H. Young, J. G. Smyth, 11. B. Newport, J. H.
Murray. To be Assistant-Surgeon—Acting Assistant-
Surgeon Charles Dodgson Madden, vice Furlong, promoted
in the 42d Foot, Feb. 9.

41st Foot—Second Lieutenant Y. F. Kennedy, from the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase • Lieutenant J. A. Hamilton to be Adjutant, vice
Johnston, promoted, Feb. 9.
42d Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signs M. Hill, J. Wilson, W. Black, W. H. Crompton,
Adam Ferguson. Assistant-Surgeon John Sheldon Fur-
long, M.D., from the 39th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Wood,
promoted on the Staff, Feb. 9.
43d Foot—Captain James M. Primrose to be Major,
without purchase, vice P. E. Herbert, promoted ; Lieu-
tenant J. F. Girardot to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Primrose ; Ensign W. S. Richardson to be Lieute-
nant without purchase, vise Girardot, Feb. 9.
41th Foot—Te be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signs F. D. Walters, M. S. Smith, A. W. Staveley, P.
M'lnnes A. De M. Fleming, Feb. 9.
46th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signs E. Townshend, T. G. B. Atkinson, P. M. Jones,
J. H. Messenger, Feb. 9.
47th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signs J. A. Bloomfield, B. N. Gamier, R. P. Hawkes, W.
C. De Balinhard, Feb. 9.

49th Feot—Edward Doyley Astley, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Enstace, promoted, Feb. 9.
50th Foot—Captain H. E. Weare to be Major, without
purchase, vice Moller, died of his wounds, Dec. 22. To be
Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigns John Turner,
Clement R. Johnson, Hon. C. C. Chetwynd, Charles A.
Fitzgerald Creagh, Feb. 9; Ensign John Turner to be
Quartermaster, vice Fortune, deceased, Dec. 13.
51st Foot—Ensign W. V. Sladen to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice S. G. Carter, promoted in the 62d
Foot, Feb. 9.
52d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William James Ingham,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fox, ap-
pointed to the 14th Light Dragoons, Feb. 9.
55th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signs S. C. de M. Pritchard and George Bell Coulson,
Feb. 9.

57th Foot—Brevet-Major J. A. Street to be Major,
without purchase, vice Auchmuty, whose promotion en
20th December, 1854, has been cancelled, Dec. 29, 1851 ;
Brevet-Major W. Inglis to be Major, without purchase,
vise Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Powell, promoted, Feb. 9,
1455 ; Lieutenant G. H. Norman to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Auchmuty, deceased, Nov. 14, 1854 ;
Lieutenant T. N. Woodall to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Norman, whose promotion on the 29th Dec.,
1854, has been cancelled, Dec. 29, 1854 ; Lieutenant R. A.
K. Hugessen to be Captain without purchase, vice Inglis.
Ensign J. R. Wilmot, vice Woodall, Dec. 2g; Ensign F.
S. Schomberg, vice Hugessen ; Ensign Sir Robert Douglas,
Bart. ; Ensign Stewart S. Windham ; Ensign A. F. A.
Slade, to be Lieutenants without purchase, Feb. 9.
59th Foot—Ensign S. L. H. H. Ffinnoy to bo Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vioxs Lloyd, promoted in the 57th
Foot, Feb. 9.
62d Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—Ensiga
Thomas Milsom ; Ensign Robert Scott Machell, Feb. 9.
to be Lieutenant,
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67th Foot—Ensign Louis Walter Fisher to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice R. P. Armstrong, appointed
to the 77th Foot, Feb. 9.
68th Foot—Design E. R. F. Vicars to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Shuttleworth, whose promotion,
Dec. 1, 1854, has been cancelled, Nov. 24, 1854 ; En-
sign E. Deshon to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Vicars, whose promotion, Dec. 1, 1854, has been cancelled,
Dec. 1., 1854; Ensign J. F. Sparke to he Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Mahon, whose promotion Dee. 8,
1854, has been cancelled, Dec. 8, 1854. To be Lieutenants,
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