The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-02 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE,

The triumphant success of the new three act
comedy of "David Garrick" at the Haymarket, on
Saturday evening, may be here at once briefly men.
tioned. Our criticism upon it, but more particularly
upon Mr. Sothern's brilliant impersonation in it
of the Great Actor who is the hero of the play,
after whom indeed the piece is named, we are com.
pelled to postpone until to•morrow's publication.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments
in the Civil Service,

(From the Civil Service Gazette.)
Foreign Office.—The consulship at Cadiz has
become vacant by the death of Mr S. M. Bracken-

bury.

War Office.—Mr Edmund Gepp Pearson has been
appointed a clerk in Chelsea Hospital.
The Admiralty.—The office of master attendant,
Devonport dockyard, has become vacant by the
death of Commander James Brown, RN. Mr
George Henry. Ward has been appointed a clerk in
the dockyard, Bermuda. Mr Arthur Spratt has
been appointed a temporary clerk in Somerset-
house.

The Post Office.—Mr Chetwynd, Controller of
Post Office Savings Banks, has been appointed to be
Receiver and Accountant-General of the Post Office,
in succession to Mr Scudamoro. Mr Alfred Milli.
ken, principal book-keeper in the Receiver and
Accountant-General's Office, has been appointed
Controller of Post Office Savings Banks. Mr Wm.
Court, tirst.class clerk, upper section, has been ap-
pointed to ba principal book-keeper in the Receiver
and Accountant-General's Office, in succession to
Mr Milliken. Mr Henry Loughnan has been up.
pointed a temporary clerk at Dublin. Mr Patrick
Hogan has been appointed a clerk at Mallow. Mr
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W. B. Carter has bee❑ appointed a clerk at Lincoln,
Mr R. J. Wright has been appointed a clerk at
Derby.

Customs—Mr Isaac Walker, collector at Poole,
has been promoted to be collector at Rochester.
Nit. W. Argent, recently employed as first clerk at
Cardiff, has been promoted to be collector at Poole.
Mr W. H. Godfrey has been promoted from the 2d
to the Ist clerkship, Cardiff. Mr F. M. Leonard
has been promoted from the 4th to the 3d clerk-
ship, Cardiff. Mr W. Turner has been promoted
from the sth to the 4th clerkship, Cardiff. Mr E. J.
Stockdale has been promoted from the 6th to the
sth clerkship, Cardiff. Mr William Ellett, outdoor
officer, Ist class, Yarmouth, has been promoted to
be assistant-examining officer at that port. Mr
John W. Jamieson has been promoted from the 4th
to the 3d class of out-door officers, London. Mr
John Howard has been promoted from the sth to
the 4th class of out-door officers, London.
Inland Revenue—Stamps and Tax Branch—Mr
H. G. Davies, surveyor of taxes, has been promoted
from the Warrington to the Sheffield district. Mr

T. S. Atkinson, surveyor of taxes, has been pro-
moted from the Kingston •on-lhames to the War-
rington district.

Excise Branch—Mr William Harris Johnston,
surveying general examiner, 3d class, has been
appointed surveying general examiner, 2d class.
Mr Laurence Counsel, surveying general ea•
aminer, 3d class, has been appointed surveying gene-
ral examiner, 2d class. Mr Alexander Pringle,
surveying general examiner, 3d class, has been ap-
pointed surveying general examiner, 2d class, Mr
Thomas Stephen Betty, supervisor of Nuneaton dis-
trict, Coventry collection, has been appointed
supervisor of Belturbet distriot,Drogheda collection.
Mr Charles Goodacre, supervisor of Belturbet dis-
trict, Drogheda collection, has been appointed
supervisor of Nuneaton district, Coventry collection.
Mr William Chapman, officer, Bromley, lst division,
Middlesex collection, has been appointed examiner.
Mr James Anderson, officer, Bromley, Ist division,
Middlesex collection, has been appointed examiner.
Ireland—Promotion—Mr Charles Hurford has
been promoted from a temporary clerkship in the
Quartermaster-General's Department to a perma4
cent clerkship in the office of the Commander of the
Forces, Tice Dag g, deceased.

THE CONFERENCE.—The next meeting of the
Conference is fixed for to-morrow at half-past 3 o'clock, in-
vitations having been sent out on Saturday evening to that
effect. It is stated that Denmark consents- to the suspen-
sion of hostilities by sea as well as on land, but insists on
the peaceable possession of the seas which she now holds.
M. LEVASSOR will give his French entertainment
in London, during the season, as of late years, in conjunc-
tion with Mdlle Teisseire.

THE WEST-END OF LONDON, says the Court
Journal, is now Eo full that it is difficult to obtain a houso
in any first-rate locality.

GARIBALDI'S PROVINCIAL ENGAGEMENTS.--
Sixty was the exact number of invitations that Garibaldi
had accepted.

TIIE DEVOTEES OF BRAG.--It is possible that
many ropeetable persons may be unaware of the
attriLutes and nature of the game of Brag; more popular
though it be, as a moloa of making money to change
hands, than any other invention under the sun, and count-
ing its devotees by thousands in the Old World and in the
New. A gentleman, on board a United States river steam-
boat, once " bragged" at, this game no less than two millions
of dollars, and upon his antagonists doubting whether he
possessed the money, produced a little carpet-bag
crammed with notes to a much greater amount than
the stma named. It turned out that he was a Govern-
ment commissioner in charge of the money to pay the
troops in Texas, and had thus taken advantage of his op-
portunity to back his cards for an amount that put all com-
petition out of the question. In America, this entrancing
pursuit, under the alias of "Poker," fiances more specula-
tion than all Wall-street. In India, officers in her Ma-
jesty's service on sick-leave in the hills, play it unceasingly,
with their hats cocked ovor their (-yes to conceal the work-
ing of their intelligent countenances,—and even—as we are
assured—with masks on; for a gentleman who possesses
expressive features should not play " brag"—for reasons--
and there is even a theory that the vacant looks of the
officers of the householl troops aro caused by their wish to
become proficients at this extraordinary and important
PastilllAtY---Chgrialfr Am-nal, New and Improved Series.