The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-08 00:00:00

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The Olympus and Hammonia have arrived out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, DEC. 29, Evening.
Money easy, buffirm at 7 per cent. Gold opened
yesterday at 511, and has advanced since on account
of a more active demand to 521 per cent. premium,
at which price it closed to-day.
Exchange on London—Bankers bills, 167; on
Paris, 3.35. Stocks steady. New York Centrals,
133; Erie, 1071 ; Illinois, 116 l; 6 per Cent. United
States Bonds, 1041. _

Cotton tending downwards. Middling upland,
801 to 82c. Flour good demand for export. Wheat
and corn advancing. Provisions good enquiry.
Coffee and sugar quiet. Molasses steady. Petroleum
quiet ; crude, 32 to 321 ; refined, 46 to 47.

John Rous to be Captain and Lieutenant-Color tel , by
purchase, vice David Hunter Blair, who retires-13n sign
and Lieutenant Jocelyn Henry Watkins Thomas ti o be
Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Rous—P on-
sonby Begot, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant.. by
purchase, vice Thomas.
3d Regiment of Foot—Ensign Edward Girdlestone Grahrten
to be Lieutenant, by pure/ease, vice John Augustus%
Vivian, who retires—John Gauld, Gent., to be Ensign,.
by purchase, vice Graham.
4th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edward Billing to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Thomas Sheppard, who retiresi—
Ensign Edgar Montagu Kemp to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice tilling—John Beaufin Irving, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Kemp.
6th Foot—Gentleman Cadet James Edward Barton, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice George Malcolm Fox, transferred to the Mai
Foot.
11th Foot—Captain Frederick Torrens Lyster to be Major,
by purchase, vice Ellis James Charter, who retires—Lieu-
tenant Alexander Miller Arthur, to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Leyster—Ensign Edward Lee Street to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Arthur—John Fene
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Street—Liou-
tenant Thomas George Miles to be Adjutant, vice Lie at.
AL-x. Miller Arthur, promoted.
13th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Lutwyche England to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Coningsby M. Harward, wno
retires—Ensign John Francis Bettis to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice England—Denis Alexander Shyne
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bettis.
15th Foot—Lieutenant John Lew to be Captain, by pier-
chase, vice Henry P ,ohafto Orde, who retires—Lieute-
nant Wil iam Campbell Coiquhoun to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Thomas Eccles Dickson, who retires—Ensign
Charles John Burnett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Low—Ensign Robert Hill Wyllie, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Coiquhoun—William Francis Maitland
Kirwan, Gent,, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Burnett
—Henry Bonner Maurice, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Wyllie.
18th Foot—Lieutenant Richard William E. Dawgm to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Alfred Macdonald, de-
ceased—Ensign Charles curd Cornish to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vice Dawson—Lieutenant Falcon
Peter I eonard, from the 65th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice
Croft, Nr% no exchanges—Gentleman•Cadet George Crich-
ton Jenkins, irom the Royal Military College, to be En-
situ, without purchase, vice Cornish.
23d Foot—Gentleman-Cadet Samuel John Dunlop, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Thomas Cummings, deceased.
25th Foot—Lieutenant and Captain the Honourable :Nor-
man Leslie Melville, from 'he Grenadier Guards, to be
Captain, receiving the difference, vice Legh, who ex-
changes.
31st Foot—Ensign Richard Langford Lair, from 39th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Colin Campbell
Mclntyre, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court
Martial, but allowed to receive the value of his Commis-
sion.
35th root—Ensign John Claxton Addiion to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice William Angier Brock, whose
promotion, by purchase, on 22d September, 1863, has
been cancelled; Gentleman Cadet William John Vous-
don, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Win. Angier Brock, deceased.
39th Foot—Henry Dean, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Richard Langford Leir, promoted, by pur-
chase, in the 31st Foot.
65th Foot—Lieut. Lionel Smith Warren to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Richard Switt, killed in action;
Ensign Wm. Byam to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Warrea ; Colour-Serghant Edward McKenna to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Byam ; Lieut W. Thos.
Croft, from 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Leonard,
who exchanges.
71st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Cecil Hamner Banbury, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Charles Balfour Murray, deceased.
82d Foot—Lieut. James Athol Brock to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Lieut, W. Reeves Banbury, who resigns
the appointment.
90th Foot—Colour-Sergeant lames Henry Jackson to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Nolan, promoted.
100th Foot—Ensign George Malcolm Fox, from 6th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Richard Barclay, whose appointment

has been cancelled.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT—Surgeon-Major John Summers,
M.D., from the Royal Engineers, to be Staff Surgeon-
Major, vice William Alexander White, M.D., appointed
to the Royal Artillery—Staff-Surgeons Eneas Mackintosh
and David Reid Mackinnon, having completed 20 years
full service, to be Staff Surgeon-Majors, under the Royal
Warrant of Oct. 1, 1858—Assistant- Surgeon Bvng Thos.
Giraud, M.D., Supernumerary in the ?lst Foot, to be
Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Charles Dodgson Madden,
appointed to the Royal Artillery—Staff Assistant- Sur-
geons Hammerton Crump, M,D., and William Holmes
have been permitted to resign their commissions.
UNATTACHED—Lieutenant Vincent Applin, from the
Military Train, to be Captain, without purchase—Ensign
W. Willcocks, on the Unattached List of her Majesty's
Bengal Army, to be Lieutenant, Bengal Establishment.

BREVET. -
Colonel John St. George, C.B , Royal Artillery, lately
serving as President of the Ordnance Select Committee,
with the temporary rank of Brigadier-General, to have the
local rank of Major-General while holding the appointment
of Director of Ordnance.
Paymaster George Thompson, half-pay late 21st Foot, to
have the honorary rank of Major.
Paymaster William Handasyde Buchanan, 7th Foot, to
have the honorary rank of Captain.
The undermentioned officers having completed the quali-
fying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, under the
provisions of the Royal Warrant of 14th October, 1858, to
be Colonels :—Lieutenant- Colonels James Dodington Car-
michael, C,8., 94th Foot—Frederick Green Wilkinson,
Depot Battalion—William Albert Stratton, half-pay, late
6th Foot, Deputy Quartermaster-General, Mauritius—
William Henry Seymour, C. 8., 2d Dragoon Guards—Ar-
thur George Vesey, 46th Foot—William Radcliff, 75th Foot
—John Cormick, 20th Foot—John Wellesley Thomas,
C. 8., 67th Foot.
ADMIRALTY, JAN. 5.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—First Lieutenant and Quar-
termaster Charles Francis Coppin to be Captain, vice
W. Jolliffe, to half •pay ; Secoud Lieutenant H. Dixon
(2d) to be First Lieutenant, vice Coppin. JAN. 6—First
Lieutenant and Adjutant Wm. Morris Pritchett to be
Lieutenant and Quartermaster, vice Coppin, promoted ;
First Lieutenant Joseph George Shanks to be Adjutant,
vice Pritchett.

Course of the Exchange—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto

Rotterdam
Antwerp..
Brussels

11 16}
11 181

11 184
25 60
25 60

Hamburgh — 13 7}
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine ll9
Vienna
Trieste .. 12 40
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn ..
Milan
Genoa....
Naples
Palermo ..
Messina

11 17
11 19t
11 19}
25 65
25 65
13 8
25 30

25 75
25 75
1191
12 50
12 50
33k,

481
484
5 .90
25 90
25 87}
25 90
2.5 90
25 90

25 85
25 85
25 821
25 85
25 85

25 85

FOURTH EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 7 o'CLocK.