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

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LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 1.
The Q ieen has been pleased to appoint John Gardiner
Austin, E: q,, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of
British Honduras.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 1.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade give notice, that the Illoniteur of the
29th ultimo contains a French Imperial decree fixing the
duty on coal and coke imported into France in French
vessels and by land, at 12c. per 100 kilos. (decimcs in-
cluded).

The' above-mentioned decree is to come into force ou
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.

\VAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, •FEB. 2.
6th RegimeLt of Dragoon Guards—Cornet 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 retiree.
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, trice
Lambert.
49th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph William Lewis, from 65th
Foot, to be Captain, by purcbase, 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—Gentleman
Cadet John Henry Graham Holroyd, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign by purchase, vice Spiller,
67th Foot—Lieutenant William Digby Lloyd to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Edward Cowen,
promoted.
70th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Deering Backhouse to be
to be Captain, by purchase, vice James Green, who re-
tires—Ensign Henry Elderton Whidborna to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Backhouse—Geutleman 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 Liilingston.
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.M. Mackenzie, Bt—
Gentleman Cadet John Thomas Carruthers, trom the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, 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, vice Saul.

101st FootLEnsign Arthur Peel to be Lieutenant, vice
Henry Howard Chapman, killed in action—Gentleman
Cadet Henry Charles Reynolds, from the Royal Military
7 College to be Ensign, vice Peel.
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107th FOot—P. B. Gibson. Gent., late Ensign her Ma-
jesty's Indian Forces, to be Paymaster.
3d West India Regiment—Sergeant Samuel M'Cullagh,
from the Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Charles Kennett transferred to the Mili-
tary train.
4th West India Regiment—Lieutenant Thomas Hew Vans
Dalrymple Hay to be Captain, by purchase, vice Clau-
dius Kerr, who retires.

DEPOT BATTALION—Captain Drury Richard Barnes, 14'1
Foot, to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain F. T.
Lyster, 11th Foot, promoted.

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BREVET.
Paymaster George Waller Vesey, 22d Foot, 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.

The undermentioned Officers, having completed the qua.
lifying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be
Colonels, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of
]4th October, 1858:
Lieutenant-Colonel John Simpson, half-pay late 34th.
Foot.

Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson, 82d Foot.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Wellington John Fitz-
Wygram, 15th Hussars.
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel John Hynde King,
Grenadier Guards.

Lieutenant-Colonel Webbo Butler, 60th Foot.
The following promotions to take place consequent on the
decease of Major-General Botet Trydell, Colonel of the 2d.
West India Regiment, on 11th January, 1864 :
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel George Staunton,
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 Friend Kennedy, 60th Foot, to be Lieut.-
Colonel.

Captain Edward Wolstenholme Wurd, Royal Engineers
(en seconde), to be Major.

BANKRUPT S
The following are the only bankrupts of comme!eial im-
portancebuilder Acton
Daniel Wilson, wine dealer, Euston-road
James Dow, baker, Lewisham-road
BenjamininthßeoLiwazene,tte
Henry Stock,
corn: merchant, Islington
James Jennings, baker, Aston
James Dennis, butcher, King's Lynn
John James Skelton, joiner, Eton
Wm. B. Baker, auctioneer, Bayswater
Edward Carey, fruiterer, Hastings
Charles Steel, builder, Birmingham
Samuel Brown, carpenter, Birmingham
Joseph Joy, machinist, Manchester
George Jordan, paint manufacturer, Liverpool
Percival Hindraarch, innkeeper, Northallerton
William Cowburn, innkeeper, Castleford, Yorkshire
James Porley, innkeeper, Ipswich
George Gosling, blacksmith, Ardleigh, Essex
Wm. Breeze, shoemaker, Wattlesborough, Salop
tiThornas Younger, builder, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
John Branfoot, lead manufacturer, Bishopwearmouth
Thomas I. McCarthy, oil manufacturer, Manchester
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS,
James Russell, farmer, Linlithgow
Whyte and Inglis, brassfounders, Ayr
James Stuart, lace and silk agent, Glasgow
David Ingram, builder, Glasgow