The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-22 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

DOWNING-STREET, MAY 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Vice-Admiral
Sir Charles Elliotr, Lea, to be Governor of the Island o;
St. Helena.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 14.
Resr-Admiral of the Red Robert Smart, to be
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Squadron, whilst empleyed as
Commander•in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels on
the Mediterranean station, and until further orders.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 22.

Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant John
Buchan Hepburn, from the sth Dragoon Guards, to be
Lieutenant, vice Quin, who exchanges.
4th Dragoons—Lieut, Augustus G. Churchill Inge, to be
Captain by purchase, vice Thomas Clarke Gillevi,-, who
retires ; Cornet George Hall Ringrose, to b,-, Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Inge ; Edward Poppe, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice William John Brooke, pro-
moted.
sth Dragoon Guarts—Lieutenant Thomas Albert Quin,
from the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Hep-
burn, who exchanges.
7th Dragoon Guards—Ensign George Tomkyns Minis,
from the 38th Foot, to be Cornet, vice Joseph Thomas
Cammilleri, promoted.
sth Lancers—Assistant-Surgeon Robert Sutherland, from
the 24th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
12th Lancer The services of Paymaster R. IL Roberts
have been dispensed with.
9th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Haycroft Bolton
to be Captain, by purchase, vice AugustusWilliam._sth.
Elmhirst, who retires; Ensign William Hawkins Thoe.
way to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bolton;
John Buchanan, Gent.,
Hathway.
Car Lieuten-
10th Foot—Ensign George William 0
.u. Thomas Snooke,
ant, without purchase, vice bellAlfro ()Wield to be
to be Ensign, by Purchase, vice
deceased ; Ensign ChristoPYeer George William Carter,
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Daniel Hall Brookee,Gent.,
, on the 31st March, 1863,
Ge"urchase, vice °Wield ; Stag.
hwashobseeepnroemenoeteioline,dr, purchs:
to be Ensign, withoutn p
6,, Reed to be Assistant-Surgeon,
Harwood Rocke, from a Depot
Assistant-Surgeoe _y
::A,LaDes,, promoted on the Staff.
18YthicFe Foot—hnilialiki • e vice Swinburne, who exchanges
Bap ,
owesti Robinson, Gent., to be Ensign by.
Forbes George Vernon,
retires.
1:-..enc'ef::reles Leslie Sykes, Gent,, to be Ensign, by
whose appoint-
21psBut a r
eFt t
ohaol
22d F°°- • Joseph King Barnes,
gt
-e g 1 lu
r g Campbelle o n , Millis
went
trchas
purchase, vice ernes who
loaso Foot -mS.Dia.ff:AtossbisetaAnstsisStutinr
beenvl cancelled.
vice Robert
Southerland, appointed to the sth Lancers.
31st Foot—Staff Surgeon Duncan Robertsonancers.
Surgeon, vice David Field Rennie to be
the Staff. Rennie, I\LD appointed
~to
38th Foot—James Alexander, Gent., 24E•thouFg
pur-
chase, vice George T er, ent., to be Ensign, by
7th Dragoon onikyns Morris, transferred to the
Guards.
39th Foot—Henry French Cotton, Gent., to be Ensign,
by
purchase, vice Francs
4lst
Foot—Ensign Henry Webb Byng to be Lieutenant by
purchase, vice Edgar Youngbusband, who retires; Ed-
ward Eden Hughes, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Byng.
43d Foot—Ensign William McNeile Cairns, from the 96th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Wellington, James Denton,
who retires; John Bingley, Garland, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Charles Yates Peyton, who
retires.
44th Foot—Lieut. George Evatt Aeklom to bo Captain,
without purchase, vice Arthur de Montmorency Fleming,
deceased ; Ensign William John Graham Sutherland to
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Acklem ; En-
sign Lloyd Fenton, from the 15th Foot, to be Ensign,
vice Sutherland.
57th Foot—Lieut, Edward Gould Misted to be Captain,.bY
purchase, vice Edward Gorton, who retires; Busign
Arthur Cecil Manners to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Hosted; James Richard Knox Tredennick, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Manners.
61st Foot—Ensign Francis John Wakeman_ rigott lox*

to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chas. John Griffiths,
who retires , • James Thomas Gilfoyle, Gent„ to be En.
sign, by purchase, vice Long.
73d Foot—Ensign James Fergusson to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice James Fraser, who retires ; George
Edward Earle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Fergusson.
77th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Howard M'Dougall Mur-
ray, from the Gold Coast Artillery Corps, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice William Minister, promoted to an Unattached
Company, without purchase.
83d Foot—Ensign Charles Lucius Smith to be Lieutenant,
by
.purchase, vice Edwyn Thomas, who retires - Sir
Keith George Jackson, Bart„ to be Ensign, by puraltealt vice Smith.
94th Foot--Lieutenant Sydenham Malthus to be Captain,
1 without purchase, vice Francis Hamilton Elliot, deceased.
lieth Foot—Frederick William Lambert Cassidy, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cairns, transferred to the
43d Foot.
2nd West India Regiment—Ensign Edmund Ashton Ross
,tedneacenata. ebdy;
pEunroshignaseA;rvcilaceibTaldoHmaaompiletoonohD,uthie
to be Lieutenant; without purchase, vice Andrew True-
tolovbeeELdi ge
ue
who
retires; John Barclay Jackson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Ross ; Beaufort Henry Vidal,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Duthie.
DEPOT BATTALIONS.
Major the Hon. Wm. Leopold Talbot, from half-pay,
unattached, to be Major, vice Dawson Cornelius Greene,
who retires upon halt-pay.
Major John Swiuburne, from 18th Foot, to be Major,
vice Rocke, who exchanges.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.
Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General Joseph Marsh
to be Assistant-Commissary General, vice Hector John
Macaulay, placed upon retired ay.
Deputy Assistant-Commissa -General Geo, Home Tel-
fer, from half-pay, to be Dep y Assistant-C orunaissary-
i
General, vice Marsh.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Surgeon David Field Rennie, M.D., from 31st Foot, to
be Staff Surgeon.
Assistant Surgeon John Clarke, M.D., from 10th Foot,
pointed to the 31st Foot
to be Staff Surgeon, vice Duncan Robertson Rennie, ar..

CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.
The Rev. William Anderson, Chaplain of the Fourth
Class, has been permitted to resign his Commission.
The Rev. Matthew R. Scott, M.A Chaplain of the
Second Class, to be Chaplain of the First Class.
The Rev. J. Browne Wilson to be Chaplain of the
Fourth Class, vice the Rev. William Anderson, resigned.
UNATTACHE
Captain and Brevet Colonel ThomaeD. E. Lacy, half-pay
Unattached. Major and Superintendent of Studies, Royal
Military College, Sandhurst, to be Major, without purchase.
Ensign Peter Gill, on the Unattached Indian Establish..
ment, to have the rank of Lieutenant on the Indian Esta-
blishment.

BREVET.
Captain r avid Mac Far Jan, Royal (late Bengal) Artil-
lery, to be Major in the Army.
Captain Astell Thomas Welsh, Bth Foot, to be Major in
the Army.
Paymaster William Dowler, 98th Foot, to have the hono-
rary rank of Captain.
Paymaster George Montgomerie Davidson, 22d Foot, to
to have the honorary rank of Captain,
The undermentioned officers having completed 5 years'
qualifying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, under
the provisions of the Royal Warrant of Oct. 14, 1858, to be
Colonel/3:—
Lieutenant- Colonel Henry Meade Hamilton, 12th Foot.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Fredk. Augustus Thesiger,
95th Foot.

BANKRUPTS.
Solomon Marks, printsoller, Minories
David French, corn merchant, Chatham
John White, baker, Bermondsey
Henry Abbey, engraver, Skinner-street, City
William Allen, shoemaker, High-street, Poplar
Montague Dyer, commercial clerk, Brompton
James Hawker, builder, Marylebone
Moses Cook, joiner, Dronfield, Derbyshire
John Tayton, farmer, Coventry
Charles Tatem, Gilder, Wolverhampton.
James Chapman, engineer, Cambridge
Samuel Frost, miller, Crossing, Essen
Edward Tomkins, coal dealer, Diglie, Worcester
Thomas Hill, fishmonger, Swansea
Charles Edward Gardner, saddler, Paignton, Devon.
Mathew Groves, Innkeeper, Middlesborough
Thomas Jam e James T rlla nu tdesr b
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n, eierrhu sonomoon
gkee
re,p er,
Wakefield

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Geo. Patterson, cowfeeder, Arbroath
Robert D. Pryde, shipbroker, Ferry-Port-on-Craig
Alexander Trotter Lawrie, lessee of the Lunatic Asylum,
Gilmore House, near Edinburgh
James Smith, bookseller, Aberdeen

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

EPSOM RACES-THIS DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

THE OAKS,
QUEEN BERTHA
MARIGOLD
VIVID
ISOLINE

Twenty ran. Won by a head.
GLASGOW PLATE.

Ellerton
Spicebox
2
Sauterelle
Ten ran.
EWELL PLATE.

Berkeley _
1
Odins
2
Principal
.............. 3
Niue ran.
DERBY AND OAKS STAKES.

Ruby filly
1
Toy filly
.......... 2
Twelve ran.
DURDANS STAKES.

Flirtation
National Guard
2
Overton ....
Ten ran.
SURREY FOAL STAKES.
Lord Clifden beat jarniooton.,

LATEST BETTING.
ST. LEGER.
9 to 2 agst Lord Clifden (taken to money)
7to I bar one (offered)

THE DERBY, 1864.
20 to 1 agat Blair Athole (taken)

Course of the Exchange.—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam
Antwerp .— 26 45 11 17t 11 18
Brussels 5 50
Hamburgh — 25 45 2
25 50
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine
Vienna
Trieste -11 30 11 35
11 30 11 35
Petersburgh —
Berlin --351 35f
Madrid
49 49
horn47l 25
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina 7l-7 2522
55440077 471 t
24252V552i5555655 221
Lisbon —62 f
Oporto —52 f
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz ...........
.£q‘ 1Z 8
Mexican Dollars .. . ....... ~, .......................
,) 2 _
Silver in Bars (Standard) ................... 'o' t;
(1)
South American Doubloons .....

Itearntuvrentost.,
as well as
, ,:al were, n
registrars'
which have now been issued for Scotland
for England, show that the lowest
. temperatures recorded i
the returns collected by the Registrar-Gene
THE PAST WINTER.—The
as England and Wales are concerned, iql de
Cardiganshire, and in Scotland 9•9 deg`deg, .
Dumfriesshire. Both were in N nverab
month fell with severity On. and ne et% at as far
at Drumlaurig,
The cold of that
though at Ventnor the thermom t Haar the south coast, for
one degree below freezing e er last winter went but
point,
thing, 21 deg. at Bournemouth it marked 23 deg. at Wor-
Further north many of the , anal 19.8 at Hurstplerpoint.
great; the lowest returns show the cold net so
ttoyal Observatory, temperature in the whole winter at the
staple 27 deg,,
AldershotGreenwich, was but 24.8 deg., at Barn-
Grantham 24'4 deg., R camp 23 8 deg., Leyton 24.1 deg.,
Norwich 27 deg., i..la Royston 24.2 deg., Dise 25'6 deg,,
deg. The variaton in theLlandudno 26.3 deg., Scarborough 24.
i mean daily range of temperatr.re
may be seen from a fe
1563 it was but 7.5 deg,watnsTtances. In the first quartro of
Worthing 101 deg., oyal
Observatory
at Ventner 8.1 deg.,
Down-
side College (near Bath) 12.1 deg,,rvaorarraln4t.hladeg.,,
Derby 14.6 deg., Bedford 16 3 deg ,Aspley (virrAb 9.9
d7e6ri:
At Scarborough it was about 8.8 deg., and rat °Bournemouthuril)
16.2 deg., which, with the exception "A Bedford, is the
greatest range in all the 62 returns. still greater were the
variations in the amount of ozone. At Cockermouth the
mean amount in the first quarter of 1863 was only Oil, at
Carlisle it was 4.6., and at St. Paul's Parsonage, near Sil-
loth, 7.9. It was 4.3 at Torquay, 5.1 at Worthing, 6.0 at
Bournemouth, 61 at Osborne. It was only 0.9 at the Royal
Observatory and at Aldershot, and 0.6 at Glocester, but 41
at Nottingham and 5.1 at Wisbeach. Several registrars,
both in England and Scotland, note the prevalence of small-
pox. A person died of it in Edinburgh, and his clothes
were sent to Dunbar to be washed; at this lattez place yard..
on bad been greatly neglected, and the result yeas
cinati
that smallpox was spread over the district. On the other
hand, the registrar of Sandwick (Orkney) has reported
that
was introduced thcrc in the winter by a family
smallpox
of immigrants, but the infection did not spread ; the mi-
nister has for .'0 years vaccinated all the children, and in
that period no native of Sandwkk is known to have had
smallpox either at home or edroad except (if it
an exception) osn be called
the child of -
pox into the world wit
4 stranger which brought small-
-7,1 it. Dr. F.,rr declares smallpox
to exist now almor'4 by sufferance, and
holding of cororlde he suggests the
s inquests in caof
small-
pox, in order 'co fix on thecases death from
criminal ID . proper persons the blame of a
dgligence as fat
nary
off, al in its consequences as the erdi•
r 7 Aces 9f manslaughter.