The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-03 00:00:00

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FEBRUARY.

Carmarthen .. 2 I Birmingham
Harrow
Cambridge

MARCH.
Grand Military (Rugby Hunt) l4
APRIL.

Ab e rga v enn y

NOVEMBER.

Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22

COST OF ALGERIA TO FRANCE.—It has been
calculated that since the conquest of Algeria, up-
wards of thirty years ago, France has spent three milliards
of francs in that colony, and that at this moment in all the
vast tracts of African soil subject to her rule there are not
200,000 colonists.
No LESS THAN 500 RAILWAY BILLS are to be
brought into Parliament this Session.
RUMOURED MURDER OF DR. LIVINGSTON.—We
are happy to learn that there is reason for hoping that this
news was untrue—an opinion supported by the great
authority of Sir Roderick Murchison.
FORTHCOMING MAGAZINE FOR GIRLS.—Mrs.
S. C. Hall is stated to be about to commence a
periodical for girls, with the assistance of writers and artists
who have already won favour with the young. Boys have
many caterers for their amusement and instruction. Ladies
also have their magazines and newspapers, but the field of
special labour for the benefit of girls is still invitingly open.
THE CRAWLEY DEFENCE FUND noW amounts
to nearly £2,000.
ANTIQUARIAN TREASURE TROVE.—The Scotch
papers report a find at Kinghorn, Fifeshire, of a
large earthern jar containing no less than about thirty
pounds' weight of old silver coins, chiefly coins of the Eng-
lish Edwards, but with some Scottish coins of Alexander
lll,,:John Laliol, Robert Bruce, and David H. intermixed.
The latest date legible on any of the coins is 1375 ; the total
number of coins is calculated (surely by exageration) at
over 12,000. They are, doubtless, relics of the English
invasions of Scotland, and some of them might even carry
the imagination back to the time of the occupation of Scot-
land by the English under Ed ward I. The place of the find
is also most suitable; for it was at Kinghorn that there
happened that fatal accident to the Scottish kingdom—the
death of the Scottish king Alexander 111. by a fall from
his horse—which, by cutting off the direct succession to the
crown, led to the English interference with the Wallace and
Bruce Struggle.
ANECDOTE OF THE CZAR NICHOLAS AND SIR
RODERICK MURCHISON.—In the year 1841 Sir
Roderick was travelling in Itusga, and he was requested
by the Emperor Nicholas to explore that empire, and
to report on the probability of finding coal.
He did so, and his report to the Czar was :—" Sire, to find
coal in the north of Russia is a physical impossibility." He
thought it a bold thing to say to the Emperor, who had
been informed by great naturalists of this and former times
that, if they wore to sink deep in certain portions of his
Majesty's northern dominions, they would find coal. The
Emperor, instead of being offended, said :—" I am delighted
to find a man who will tell me the truth, for I seldom hear
it."

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
HARROW RACES—Tars DAY.
FLAT SELLING RACE.

TeL3combe
Duplicity
Peru

. SELLING STEEPLECHASE.
Gin Sling came in alone. Four ran.
OPEN STEEPLECHASE.

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Agns
Deception
Redwing
3

Five ran.

LATEST BETTING.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE..

100 to 7on the field offered—nothing backed

CHESTER CUP.

16 to 1 agst Accident
30 to 1 agst 1 ooi Tooi
30 to 1 agst Merry Hart

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 1.
The Journal de Bruxelles, the Catholic organ,
announces that M. Bogier has been received by
the King, and has had a long conference with his
Majesty. MM. De Theux, and Dechamp, being
applied to by the King, have definitively declined
the offer of power under prebent circumstances.
The same paper states the position of the crisis
as follows :

" MM. De Brouchere and Pirmez, representa-
tives of the Left, and commanding a majority, have
refused the mission which was offered them. MM.
Dechamp and De Theux have been unable to accept
the task of forming a Cabinet, because they
did not feel disposed to accept the responsibility of
a situation which they had not created, and because
they had not a majority, and would therefore have
been compelled to dissolve the Clamber, which
might still be avoided. Intermediate Ministers
were alone possible, owing to the Parliamentary
situation, and the state of opinion. These com-
binations have failed. After MM. Brouchere and
Krucz, M. Nathomb, the Belgian Minister at Ber-
lin, has also refused. MM. Laider and Dubois and
M. Thorn have refused. The Conservative right
has refused. There remains nothing bat the com-
bination of the Prince du Ligne and the retention
of the Cabinet which has resigned.
The Journal, de Bruxelles further announces that
M. Rajier has received the grand cordon of the
Leopold order.

LONDON GAZETTE,—Last Evening

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 1.
The Qleen has been pleased to appoint John Gardiner
Austin, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of
British Honduras.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEE. 1.
The Right. Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade give notice. that the lioniteur of the
29th ultimo contains a French Imperial decree fixing the
duty on coal and coke imported into France in French
vessels and by And, at 12c. per 100 kilos. (decimes in-
eluded).
The above-mentioned decree is to come into force on
the 4th inst.

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 1.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir James Hope, K.C.8., to
be Vice-Admiral of the Blue from the day he enters the
limits of, and whilst employed as Commander-in-Chief of
her Majesty's ships and vessels on, the North American.
and West Indian Station,

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FES. 2.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Carnet Arthur Fitz-
Patrick Godman, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
George Selwyn Marryat, who retires.
4th Hussars—Cornet Robert Soames to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Harry Youl, who retires.
15th Hussars—Captain William Edington Stuart to be
• Major, without purchase, vice Horace Tower, deceased
—Lieutenant James Alston Clark to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Stuart—Cornet Archibald Campbell
Douglas, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Clark.
17th Lancers—Gentleman Cadet William Rose Wynter,
foom the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Harris St. John Dick, who retires.
2d Regiment of Foot—Captain William Gair, from half-pay,
late 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Edward
Spicer Charlton, who retires upon half-pay, on appoint-
ment as Staff Officer of Pensioners.
23d Foot—Lieutenant Charles Morgan to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Lieutenant Samuel Ralph Sadler, who
has retired.
29th Foot—Ensign Julius Tennyson to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Ernest Augustus Prideaux Brune, who
retires--Gentleman Cadet Charles Welman Hawker
Helyar, from the Royal Military College,
.to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Tennyson.
31st Foot—Ensign George Moore Lambert to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Robert Freke Gould, who retires
—Gentleman Cadet James Frederick Bevan, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Lambert.
40th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph William Lewis, from 65th
Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Charles Fleetwood
Shawe, who retires.
65th Foot—Ensign Duncan Chisholm Oliver Spiller to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Joseph -William Lewis,
promoted, by purchase, in the 40th Foot—Gentlemen.
Cadet John Henry Graham Holroyd, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign by purchase, vice Seiner.
67th Foot—Lieutenant William Digby Lloyd to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Edward Coxen,
promoted.
70th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Deering Backhouse to be
to be Captain, by purchase, vice James Green, who re-
tires—Ensign Henry Elderton Wbidborne to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Backhouse—Gentleman Cadet
Henry Boyle Travers, from the Royal Military College,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Whidborne.
71st Foot—The promotion of Lieutenant Robert Lewis and
of Ensign Hugh Fraser to bear date 19th November,
1863, Captain Charles Francis Smith having been killed
on the 18th of that month—Lieutenant Robert Heron to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Robert Barttelot
Aldridge, killed in action—Ensign Edward Gordon
Lillingston to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Heron—Gentleman Cadet John De Lancey, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Lillingston.
72d Foot—Ensign Thomas Bedford Urquhart to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Henry Francis Campbell,
deceased.
78th Foot—Lieut. Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, Bart.,
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Captain and Brevet
Lieut.-Colonel Thomas R. Drummond Hay, who retires
upon half-pay—Ensign Arthur Joseph Stourton to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir A.Ol. Mackenzie, Bt—
Gentleman Cadet John Thomas Carruthers, from the

Royal Military College, to be Eusigo, by purchase, vice

•
Stourton.
87th Foot—Ensign Richard Hay Kirkbride Saul to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Andrew Macdonald Grote,
who retires—Gentleman Cadet Edward Augustin Swain-
son, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by
purchase, N :Ce San%
101st Foot—Ensign Arthur Peel to be Lieutenant, vice
Henry Howard Chapman, killed in action—Gentleman
Cadet Henry Charles Reynolds, from the Royal. Military

College, to 1;e Ensign, vice Peel.
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Pan. B.
Gibson. Forces, to eGPeanyLm, Paymaster.
34 34 West India Regiment—Sergeant Samuel Ensign
purchase, vice Charles Kennett transferred t the
Mili-
tary train.
from the Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Easigo.n,.without
her Ma-
iralrymple Hay to be Captain, by purchase, vi ce Clau-
diusl4th Vest India Regiment—Lieutenant Thomas 13 ew Vans
Kerr, who retires.
DEPOT BATTALION—Captain Drury Richard Barztes, 14th
Foot, to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain F. T.
Lyster, 11th Foot, proß moted.
REVET.
Paymaster George Weller Vesey, 22d Fcpt, to have the
honorary rank of Captain.
Deputy Commissary George Andrews, of her Majesty's
Indian Commissariat Department, to have the honorary
rank of Lieutenant.
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provisionsra k of
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Royal
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The undermentioned Officers, having completed the qua.
:
Lieutenant-Colonel John Simpson, half-pay late 34th
Lieutenant-Colonel
Dav
FrederickV Watson,
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lifyt
Foot.
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October,
Colonels,
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br:enircd:elrBsB
Wrzram, 15th flussors.
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel John Ilynde King,
Grenadier Guards. Wellington Fitz-
Lieutenant-Colonel Webbe Butler, 60th Foot.
The following promotions to take place consequent on the
decease of Major-General Boret Trydell, Colonel of the 2d
st India RLgiment, on 11th January, 1864:—
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel George S'aunt on,
from half-pay late Cape Mounted Riflemen, serving as
Colonel on the Staff at the Cape of Good Hope, to be :Major
General.

Major Henry Friond Kennedy, 60th Foot, to be Lieut,
Colonel.

Captain Edward Wolstenholme Ward, Royal Engineers
(en seconde), to be Major.
• BANKRUPTS
The following are the only bankrupts of comn►ere°.al im-
portance in the liazette

Henry Stock, builder, Acton
Daniel Wilson, wine dealer, Enston•road
James Dow, baker, Lewisham-road
Benjamin Bowen, corn merchant, Islington
James Jennings, baker, Aston
James Dennis, utcher, King's Lynn
John James Aelton, joiner, Eton
Wm. B. BAer, auctioneer, Bayswater
Edward Carey, fruiterer, Hastings
Charles Steel, builder, Birmingham
S:VM1101 Brown, carpenter, Birmingham
Joseph Joy, muchini:q, Manchester
George Jordan, paint manufacturer, Liverpool
William
Percival Hindmarch, innkeeer Nei-theßerton
Cowburn, innkeeper
C!astlefoni, Yorkshire
James Porley, innkeeper, Ipswich
George Gosling, blacksmith, Ardleigh, Essex
Salo
Wm. Breeze, shoemaker, Watticsborough,p
Thomas Younger, builder, Nowcastle-upon-Tyne
John Branfoot, lead manufacturer, BieLLOpWCtirLIII,U