The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-27 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

THE FEDERAL DIET.

FRANKFORT, FEB. 26.
In yeaterday'a sitting of the Federal Diet the
Hanse Towns requested that measures of reprisal
should be taken for the capture of German shipping
by Denmark.

Hanover and Electoral Hesse voted yesterday
against the first and second of the resolutions pro-
posed by the committee on the succession question,
which declared that the London treaty was not
binding upon the German Confederation.

LONDON GAZETTE,—Last Evening,

WAR OFFICE, FEB. 25.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the following appointments to the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath

To be Ordinary members of the Military Diiision of the
Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the said Most
Honourable Order, fz. :
Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.B. (Civil),
with temporary rank as Vice-Admiral while Commander-
in-Chief on the North American and West Indian Station.
Rear-Admiral Augustus Leopold Kuper, C. 8., with
temporary rank as Vice-Admiral while Commander-in-
Chief on the East Indian and China Station.
To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable
Order, viz. :
Captain Sir William Saltonstail Wiseman, Bart., R.N.
Captain Francis William Sullivan, R.N.
Lieutenant-Colonel Dominic Jacotin Gamble, Deputy
Quartermaster-General to the Forces in New Zealand.
MEmCatANDT;24.—The name of Lieutenant-Colonel Chas.
Wilson Austen, 2d Battalion, 14th Regiment, was sub-
mitted to her Majesty, and he would have been nominated
a Companion of the Order of the Bath, had not his death
been officially reported.
FOREIGN OFFICE, FEU. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Feodo-
miro de Avendano as Vice-Consul at Cardiff for her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Spain.
WAR OFFICE, FALL-MALL, FEB. 26.
3d Hussars—Cornet Charles Stephen Walker to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice George Shippen Willes, who
retires.

6th Dragoons—Ensign Frederick William Bloomfield, from
the 14th Foot, to be Cornet, vice James Sanderson Davis,
who retires.

12th Lancers—Sergeant-Major Barry Valentine Dennehy
to be Comet, without purchase, and Adjutant, in succes-
sion to Lieutenant and Adjutant Edward Brown, pro-
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moted to an Unattached Coinpasy, without purchase.

16th Lancers—Lieutenant George James Gilbard to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Patrick Dynon, who retires—
Cornet Alexander Baring Bingham to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Gilbard.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Charles Booth Bracken•
bury, from the Supernumerary List, to be Second
Captain, vice Henry Whitby Briscoe, removed to the
Supernumerary List.
Military Train—Lieutenant Harry Golding, from the let
West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Fergus
M'Kenzie, who exchanges.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant John Jas.
Hugh Henry, Duke 'of Athole, to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice ocelyn Henry Watkins
Thomas, who retires—Neil Douglas Cecil Frederick
Douglas, Gent.. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice the Duke of Athole.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign Henry Church, from the
83d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Harry Hawkins, who re-
tires.
3d Foot—Surgeon Alfred Crocker, having completed 20
years full-pay Service, to be Surgeon-Major, under the
Royal Warrant of Ist October, 1848.
Bth Foot—Captain Sydney Henry Jones Parry, from 1021
Foot, to be Captain, vice Blair, who exchanges.
9th Foot—Ensign Farquhar Glennie to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Francis Russell, who retires—Gentleman
Cadet John Lovell, from the Royal Military College, to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Glennie.
14th Foat—Gentleman Cadet Henry John Smith, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Frederick William Bloomfield, transferred to the 6th
Dragoons.
26th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Cecil Hazlerigg, from.
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Godfrey Stuart Hughes, who retires.
27th Foot—Ensign Kenelm Digby Murray to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Cecil John Foot, who retires ;
Gentleman Cadet Philip Stainforth, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Murray.
33d Foot—Ensign Edwin Sandys Wason to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Marcus Lynch, who retires—Gentle-
man Cadet Richard Mant Miller, from the Royal Mill.-
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tart' College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wason.
624 Foot—Captain Hon. Ernest George Curzon to be
Major, by purchase, vice James Johnes Bourchier, who
retires—Lieutenant Thomas Simpson to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Hon. E. G. Curzon—Ensign William
Barwell Browne Barwell to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Simpson—Gentleman Cadet Henry George Pane,
from the Royal Military, College, to be Ensign, by pur-
ehase, vice Barwell.
77th Foot—Lieutenant George Cook to be instructor of
Musketry, vice Captain H. M. L. Colquhoun, appointed
District Instructor of Musketry in India.

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83d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Francis Henry Algernon
Disney-Roebuck, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Henry Church, transferred to
the Ist Foot.
85th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Honourable Edward Alex-
ander Holmes A'Court, frem the Royal Military College,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice George Robert Somer-
ville, Ramsbottom, who retires.
1024 Foot—Captain 2Eneas Gordon Blair, from the Bth
Foot, to be Captain, vice Parry, who exchanges.
1034 Foot—F. Scrivener, Esq„ late Captain in her Ma-
jesty's Indian Forces, to be Paymaster.
107th Foot—Lieutenant George Lewellin Smith to be Cap-
tain, vice George Augustus Graham, who resigns—
Ensign Joseph Ralph Edward John Royle to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Smith.
109th Foot—Paymaster John Fitzgerald should have been
described, on appointment in Gazette of 9th inst., as late
of her Majesty's Indian Forces.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Fergus M'Kerzie,
from the Military Train, to be Lieutenant, vice Harry

Golding, who exchanges.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Henry Whalley Mel-
liss, to be Instructor of Musketry.
PURVEYOR'S DEEARTISENT—Purveyor Richard Maitland
Lonsdale, from half-pay, to be Purveyor.
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ROYAL MILITARY A.cii)umY (Woolwich)—Lieutenant
Arthur Sutherland Alacartney, Royal Artillery, to be
Lieutenant of a Company of Gentlemen Cadets, vies
Henry Brackenbury, who resigns that appointment.
BREVET. _

Lient.-Col. George Thomas Haly, retired on a pension,
late 108th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Colonel.
Major John Hatfield Brooks, retired on a pension, late
19th HussarsAto have the honorary rank of Lieut.-Colonel.
Capt. E. H. Mostyn 0 wen, retired on a pension, late 105th
Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major.
Paymaster Joseph llutchinson, 100th Foot, to have the
honorary rank of captain.
The following promotions to take place consequent
on the decease of Major-General Philip M‘Pherson, C. 8.,
Colonel of 13th Foot, on Feb. 2, 1864
Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel 'Walter Hamilton
C. 8., from Inspecting Field Officer of a Recruiting
District, to be Major-General.
Major Frederick R. Mein, Ist Foot, to be Lim/lei:lent-
Colonel.

Captain Thomas Dundas, 12th Foot, to be Major.
The undermentioned officers having completed the quali-
fying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Co-
lonels, under the Royal Warrant of 14th October, 1858:
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel James Conolly, half
pay unattached, Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada—
Lieutenant-Colonels Edward ktamsden Priestley, 42d Foot
—Cadwallader Adams, 49th Foot—William Wilby, 4th
root—Henry Harpur Greer, 68th Foot.