The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (1 p.m.)
Money light. Gold, 511.
Stocks advancing. New York Centrals 1341 ;
Illinois, 108: ; Erie, 100. ,
The petroleum market is much excited by the
reports that the Government will tax oil. Crude,
32 to 34; refined, 50 to 53.

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening

FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 9.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
ERichir d
Reade, Esq., now her Majesty's Vice-Consul at liengEt-
to be her Majesty's Consul for the province of Scutari.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
George Dennis, Eki., now British Vice-Consul at Syra-
cuse, to be her Majesty's Vice• Consul at Bengazi.
DECEMBER 15. _ _

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Joaquin
Gonzllez y Huct as Consul at Malta for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.

INDIA OFFICE, DEC. 14.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir George RUs..
sell Clerk, K.C.8,, K. 5.1., to be a Member of the Council
of India.

DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to ratify and confirm the ap..
pointment of George Geddes, Esq., to be a Member of the
Legislative Council of the Island of Jamaica.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, DEc. 18.
Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Corbet Smith, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Henry Aylward Keogh, who

retires.
Bth Hussars—Captain Horace Durant, from the Bth Foot,
to be Captain, vice Ross, who exchanges.
12th Lancers—Cornet John Brooke Maher Cat= has been

permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his
Commission.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Edward Henry Baker to be
Second Captain, vice Horace Seymour Kerr Fechell,
resigned—Gentleman Cadet Oliver Francis Theodore An-
nesley to be Lieutenant, vice Bethune, deceased.
Roy al Engineers—Lieutenant, with temporary rank, Robert
John 111.‘Clure has been permitted to resign his Commis-
-

s on.
Bth Regiment of Foot—Captain George Campbell Rosq,
from the Bth Hussars, to be Captain, receiving a portion.
of the former difference between Cavalry and Infantry,
vice Currant who exchanges.
23d Foot—Ensign George William Adolphus Fitz George
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Robert Cesar Bacon,
who retires—Charles George Bell, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Fitz George.
24th Foot—Lieutenant Redmond O'Mabony to be Captain
by purchase, vice Henry Charles Marsack, who retires—
Ensign Oscar Henry Blount to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice O'Mahony—Thomas Harris, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Blount.
48th-Itdv.ard Henry O'Dowd, Gent., late Lieutenant 7th
Dragoon Guards, to be Paymaster, vice Paymaster,
with the honorary rank of Captain, Alexander William
McKenzie, transferred to the 54th Foot.
51st Foot—Lieutenant Smeeton Walker to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Edmund Moresby Crowe, who retires—
Ensign George Beverley Bird to be Lieutenant by pur-
chase, vice Walker—Richard Read Towson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice
54th Foot—Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain,
,ay
tn aAlexanderster,
,vice William
lI
Paymaster,e nz
Bird.i
withe trom the 48th Foot, to be
the honorary rank of
I
Major, William Marriott, deceased.
67th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Dawson be captain
without purchase, vice Thomas Stack, retired upon
i 1
upon
,11
pa• Ensign Herbert Reid Lempriere to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Dawson.
91st Foot—Charles German Alison, G Gent., to
be Easi
by purchase, vice John Bread al bane Campbell, who
re.

tires.
Gent., to be Ensign, without
4th West India Regiment—Ensign Arthur Tim / .
Ferguson, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, iingland
Bland Sawyer, deceased—Frederick vice John
liteeendDenotugotla. Benjamin Price
STORE DEPARTMENT. ADe purchase, vice Fer-
guson.L. t t L •
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase,
dent of Stores W. S. Forster to be T.T.NWAhrritcHnn.— ten enan Louis I),Ac
osta, from the G4th
puty-Superintcn-
'gtores E. K. Dwyer to be
ssistant-Superintcn-
MILiTARY
Superannuated—Deputy
Assistant- Super intend ent of
dike:lBi s t°afn t Stores,
u p e
on retired pay—Deput Stores, vice Dame, placed
Stores W. F. Wright toyb Assistant •Superintendent of
Stores, vice Forster, 0 Assistant-Superintendent of
MEDICAL DErA.RTmE:prornoted.
Assistant-Surgeon T.—Alfred Lewis, M.D. to be Staff
Surgeon Alexander '
Ile Services of Staff Assistant-
from the 24th No Mackay have been dispensed with
VETERINARY DE November, 1863.
PA_ inary-Surgeon
T bornas cha hTNIENT.— Acting Voter . .
Appointment.
ntlon. has been permitted to resign his

George to be ante-
The C 0
Frederick StevenßsßonECVaEllT,.l6ol
reanission as Colonel of Lieutenant-Colonel
dated to the 21st October 1861.
Captain Thomas
retired full-pay, 67th Foot, to
have the h Stack, Foot,
The
undermentioned
randkogellelrosjo
having completed the quell-
fYing service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, under the
provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 14th October, 1858,
to be Colonels :
Lieutenant-Colonel John Hall Smyth, C.E., Royal
Artillery.
Foot.lfred Augustus Chapman, 18th
Lieutenant-Colonel A
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Gwilt, alt
F0034t11
t.
awards.
Grenalier G d Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Capel Cure,
Captain an
UAL—Lieutenant-General Arthur Richard,
K.G has been permitted to retire from the
r Gc
vivoi
ov da
I,,,,Tiee by.the sale of an Unattached Lieut-Colonelcy, under
conditions of the Hon:a Guards' Circular l‘lemorandurg
the
ofi‘NlVEemliinigtAtoNn! o
of 15th February, 1861.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 16.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—First Lieutenant Jelin.
ger Henry Symons to be Captain, vice Daly, placed
p a y _ so eowcnamrididru. i
Sutton
pt Lieutenanttloy nsjeccnoenspay--Second
FrederictLo Lieutenant
be
et
eN;nx;eanl,nte,
of commercial im-
frey Bird to be First Lieutenant, vice Symons—First
Champion to be First Lieutenant, vice Jones.
on half-
BANKRUPTS
ILGtooieboueldtre,turcaentittiarineHdp
The following are the only bankrupts
portance in the Gazette :
Wm. Randle, corn dealer, Norwich'
Robert Case, oil merchant, Upper Thames-street
James Durham, jun., paper maker' Oxford
James Osborne, upholsterer, Horton
Edward Upjohn, dairyman, L
Huutries Rascal, chemist, 8 Lower Eeltrra -
cut , ve street
John Slidell, stationer, Bhe orDugh
Jolm Victor De Fleury, illuld
W illiam Grinhlis, artist, ltamsgate
Wm. J. Ginger, ei, grocer, high-street, Poplar
Charles Harris-
, .ntirypeonter, 1.3( xley- heath
L k , ner, Tewkesbury

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN,—An inquest was
held by Mr. \Valthew on Thursday evening
Mile-end Workhouse, respecting the death of Hannah
Hudson, aged 21 years. The deceased was a workkserout
of
indiarubber factory, but had been for three Vve
upon a
emPLlnlent. Last Saturday evening . nakedsho,.ithink there
friend named Elizabeth Sampler, and sa!d,
suicide." Her
is nothing left for me, and I will cointel:e; joking, in g as she
friend, howe,ver, thought that she was '
~, merely
to have a
was in good spirits. She I€ll soon 3
Jones, with which
at the
walk with a young man named
i Charlesrted from him apparently
She was keeping Company. Sle raafter. Cu Monday menu
cheerful, but was not seen
alive after.
in the Regent's Canal,
ng her bonnet was found
"Suicide while of 11112OULa
means of the drugs. Verdict,
near Bow-road, and her bodyfi was' subsequently got out by
naiad."