The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

F.ROZ TEE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

WHITEHALL, DEC. I.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Venerable
Henry Law, MA., the Deanery of her Majesty's Cathe-
dral Church of Gloucester, void by the death of Edward
Rice, D.D.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 1.
Tho Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
Augustus Revel Bourguignon as Vice-Consul at Port Louis
for the Swedish Confederation.
CIZOWN-OFFICE Nov. 29.
The Queen has been pleased, by, letters patent under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to constitute and ap-
point John Osborne, of Lincoln's-inn, in the county of
Middlesex, Esq., and James St. George Burke, of the
Middle Temple, London, Esq., to be of her Counsel learned
in the Law.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
The Right lion. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade give notice, that the .31oniteur of the
29th ult. contains a French Imperial Decree, adding the
Custom House of Dieppe to those already opened. for the
direct importation and clearance of English and Belgian
tissues taxed ad valorem.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEc. 2.
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Geo. Fred.
Ormsby to be Captain, by purchase, vice William
Henry Horne, who retires; Cornet Westropp M'Mahon.
Weir to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ormsby; Lieu-
tenant Charles Lever has been permitted to retire from
the service by the sale of his commission.
sth Dracroon:Guards—Cornet F. Gist to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Joseph Heremon Persse Fitz Patrick, who
retires.
7th Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Reginald Croft
Lever, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Geo, Moulaa
Slaughter, appointed to the Staff.
12th Lancers—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Chas: John Wiiife
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Edward Mason Wrench
who resigns. ,
16th Lancers—Cornet David George Sandeman, from the
4th Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet vice William Alex,
Battine, promoted.
17th Lancers—Captain Walter Balfe, from 19th Foot, to
be Captain, vice John Gibsone, who exchanges, receiving
a portion of the former difference between cavalry and
infantry.
20th Hussars—Ensign George Masters, from Be•agal Un-
attached List, to be Quartermaster.
21st Hussars—Ensign Henry Murray, from Bengal 'Unat-
tached List, Quartermaster.
Grenadier Guards—Sergeant-Major William Gubbins to be
Quartelmaster, vice John Atkinson, who retires upon
half-pay.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Joseph A.
Fitzpatrick to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Wm. Chalmers,
appointed to the Staff.
2d Foot—Captain Edward Hawker Helyar, from 46th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Thomas John, who exchanges; Gen-
tleman Cadet' Edward Barry Bishop, from the Royal
Jo
MihnlitaVictorry Collßates. d eceasege to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
ed.
3d Foot—Lieutenant Charles Bruce Henry Somerset, from
99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Kinahan, who
exchanges ; Lieutenant Theophilus Jones to be Instruc-
tor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Alfred Benwell Letts,
promoted.
4th Foot—Philip Charles Yorke, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Augustus Grimble, transferred to the 25th
Foot.
7th Foot, Captain Thoinas Wright Marten to be Major, by
purchase, vice Charles Edward Watson, promoted to an.
Unattached' Lieutenant-Colonelcy, •by purchase ; Lieu-
tenant William P. Browne to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Marten • Ensign William Wheaton Chard to be
Lieutenant, byi purchase, vice Brown; Thomas Groube,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Chard.
9th Foot—Thomas Carroll, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Scott, transferred to the 52d Foot.
12th Foot—Arthur French, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Boyes, promoted ; Quartermaster Tit.omas
Huddlestone, from half-pay late Land Transport Ross,
superseded for being absent without leave.
19th Foot—Captain John Gibsone, from the 17th Lancers,
to be Captain, vice Walter Balfe, who exchanges ; Ser-
geant-Major William Calderhead, to be Quartermaster,
vice James Twigg, who resigns.
20th Foot—Lieut. Robert Blount to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice John Henry Herbert St. John, who retires ;
Ensign Robert Nicholas Bird to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Blount ; Arthur Ernest Beaumont, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bird.
22d Foot—To be Lieutenants, by purchaser—Ensign Wm.
Thomas Slater Hull, vice Francis Sherard Chichester,
who retires ; Ensign Edward Wm. Grove, vice Henry
Bishop, who retires. To be Ensigns, by purchase—
Martin Day Sayers, Gent., vice Hull ; Charles May
Hayes Newington, Gent., vice Grove.
23d Foot—Lieut. Frederick Wollaston Hutton to be Cap-
tain' by purchase, vice David Reid, appointed Adjutant
of a Depot Battalion ; Ensign Henry Francis Hutton to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice F. W. Hutton; Cbas.
Edward Paterson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
H. F. Hutton.
25th Foot—Capt. John Harger, from the 2d West India
Regiment, to be Captain, vice Matthew Fanning, who
exchanges. To be Lieutenants, by purchase--Ensign
Elliott Christie Charles Farnall, vice James O. D. An-
nesley, who retires; Ensign Sylvanus Roger Burnett
Partridge, vice Herbert Bulkley Praed Freed, who re-
tires; Ensign Harvey Handel Seville Armstrong, vice
James Henry Banda, who retires ; Ensign Augustus
Grimble, from the 4th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Farnall.
To be Ensigns, by purchase—William Wriothesley Mills
Wingfield, Gent., vice Partridge; Henry Houlditch,
Gent., vice Armstrong. To be Quartermasters—Quar-
termaster Christopher Kettyles, from the 31st Foot, vice
Henry Wilkinson, who exchanges; Quartermaster-Ser-
geant James Paxton, vice Robert Malcolm, 'who retires
upon half-pay.
28th Foot—Ensign Robert Burn Singer, to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Edward Brett, who has re-
signed the appointment ; Surgeon Benjamin William
Marlow, M.D., having completed 20 Sears' full-pay ser-
vice, to be Surgeon. Major, under the provisions of the
Royal Warrant of the Ist October, 1858. _
29th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Boycott to be Captain, by
purchase, vice;°e enarin unester, wno retires;
Ensign Richard Alex. Oswald to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Boycott; Charles Henry Monck Paget, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Oswald.
31st Foot—Quartermaster Henry Wilkinson, from 25th
Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Christopher Kettyles,
who exchanges.
42d Foot—Ensign Alex. Ferrier Kidston to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Duncan Campbell Affleck, who retires;
Colin Spens, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Kidston.

45th Foot—Captain Arthur Wm. Knox Gore, from 60th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Edward Gambier Eliot Ather-
ley, who exchanges.
4Gth Foot—Captain Thomas John, from the 2d Foot, to be
Captain, vice Edward Hawker Helyar, who exchanges.
48th Foot—Sergeant-Major John Jordan to be Quarter-
master, vice John Maitland, deceased.
52d Foot—Ensign George Townshend Scott, from the 9th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Vesey Edmund Knox, who
retires.
60th Foot—Captain Edward Gambier Eliot Atherley, from
45th Foot, co be Captain, vice Arthur William Knox
Gore, who exchanges ; Sergeant-Major Thomas Jarvis
to be Quartermaster, vice Thomas Walker, who retires
upon half-pay.
67th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Gustavus Nigel Kingscote
Auker Yonge, from a Depot Battalion, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Thomas Edmond Knox, C. 8., who ex-
changes.
68th Foot—Major Horatio Harbord Horant to •be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Lieutenant-Colonel and
Brevet Colonel Robert Clifford Lloyd, who retires; Cap-
tain Charles Ughtred Shuttleworth to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Morant ; Lieutenant John Hobart Culme
Seymour to be Captain, by purchase vice Shuttleworth ;
Ensign Charles Clifton Hood to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vico Seymour; Ensign Frederick William Pace,
from the 72d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hood.
72d Foot—Thomas Winslow, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Frederick William Pace, transferred to the
68th Foot.
73d Foot—Ensign George Sowley Holroyd to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Peter Trant Foley, who retires;
William Frederick Hill, Gent,, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Holroyd.
87th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Andrew Irwin, from the
Royal Newfoundland Companies, to be Lieutenant, vice
Thomas Law Roberts, promoted to an Unattached Com-
pany, without purchase.
92d Foot—Ensign Penry Boleyn Williams, to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice William Kilvert, who retires;
Montagu Hope, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Williams.
96th Foot—Ensign William George Mackie to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Frederick Noel Hill Rocks,
&ceased.
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98th Foot—Lieutenant George Washington Smith to be
Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Richard Town-
ley, appointed Adjutant.
99th Foot—Lieutenant Harry Kinaban, from 3d Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Charles Bruce Henry Somerset, who
exchanges.
105th Foot—Conductor T. Gorman, from Madras Ord-
nanceQuartermaster.William Disney
Leith, appointed to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Gazette
106thFo Department,ot— L i eut.nt to 1 0
no
Robert
of 30th September, 1862, should have been described as
Brevet Colonel.
107th Foot—Ensign Michael Lyne, from the Bengal Un-
attached List, to be Quartermaster.
108th Foot—Conductor Thomas Glover Gilby, from Ma-
dras Commissariat Department, to be Quartermaster.
ewstto%lbne Surgeon, Edward Edvard
lAiarttthhuewr BFrieann,nidne-
-Ist West India Regiment—Staff Surgeon Augustus Mor-
25th Foot, to be Captain
ceased.
2 diprllloVme
Captain, vice John 'larger, who
exchanges.
4th West India Regiment—Ensign Albert Owen M'Der-
mott to be Lieutenant, 'without purchase ; Christopher
Boyd M'Larty Morales, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice XV Dermott.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Major and Brevet Lieu-
tenant-Colonel John James Grant, from the Royal New-
foundland Companies, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without
purchase.
Royal Malta Fencible Artillery—Lieut. Guiseppe de Piro
to be Captain, with local and temporary rank, vice Geor-
gic) Virtu, who retires on full pay ; Alfred Sant, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, with local and temporary rank, vice
Guiseppe de Piro.
The undermentioned officers to be transferred from the
Royal Newfoundland Companies according to the dates of
their Commissions :—To be Captains—Captain Thomas
Haurahan, Captain Arthur Saunders Quill. To be Lieu-
tenants—Lieutenant Wm. Gillmore, Lieutenant Wm.
Cavanagh. 10 be Ensigns—Ensign Charles Coghlan
Smyth, Ensign Archibald James Arnott. Assistant-Sur-
geon Leslie Ogilvy Patterson to be Assistant. Surgeon.

DEATII OF TAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES.—A
gram brings the news of the death, at Torquay, in Devon-
shire, of James Sheridan Knowles. Mr. Knowles was
born in Cork in the year 1754, being the eldest son of James
Knowles, Esq., the anther of a " Dictionary of the English
Language," and a man of eminence both for talent and
learning.

DEATH OF MR. DEEDES, 11I.P. FOR EAST KENT.
—'We regi et to hear of the death of Mr. Doedes, at his re-
sidence in London, after a few hours' illness.
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL NAVIGATION CO.—
The ordinary half•yearly meeting of proprietors was held
this afternoon. The directors report, which was adopted,
recommended the usual dividend of 3f per cent, making,
with the 3f per cent already paid, 7 per cent for the year.
The amounts payable under the report are as follows :
Dividend 31 per cent; underwriting account, 4 ; in all, 7i
per cent. The payments will be made free of ineome-tax,
is 0119 warrant, on Dec, 2G.