The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-08 00:00:00

LONDON GAZET'T'E—Last Evening.

At the Court at Windsor, the 3d day of November, 1865.
—Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.—Her
Majesty having been pleased to appoint the F.ioht Hon.
George William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, to be one of
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, his Lordship
was, this day, by her Majesty's command, sworn one of
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State accordingly.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 6.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal constituting and appoint-
ing the Right Hon. John, Earl Russell, K.G. ; the Right
Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, Edward Hugessen Knatch-
bull Hugessen, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Luke
White, and William Patrick Adam, Esq., to be Commis-
sioners for executing the offices of Treasurer of the Ex-
chequer of Great Britain, and Lord High Treasurer of
Ireland.

The Queen has been pleased• to appoint Andrew Jame-
son, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire or Sheriff-
dom of Aberdeen, in the room of Archibald. Davidson,
Esq., resigned.
CROWN OFFICE, Nov. 2.
The Queen has been pleased by writ under the Great
Seal of the United Kingdom to call Robert Lush, Esq, one
of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, to the state
and degree of a Sergeant-at-Law.
The Queen has also been pleased by letters patent
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom to con-
stitute and appoint Robert Lash, Sergeant 'at-law, to be
one of the Justices assigned to hold pleas before the Queen
herself.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 7.
4th Regiment of Hussars—Troop-Sergeant Major James
William Lay to be Cornet, without purchase, and Ad-
jutant, in sucession to Lieutenant Jennings, paumoted.
14th Hussars—Sergeant Major Thomas Miller, from a
Cavalry Depot, to be Riding-Master, vice Joseph
Raiker, who retires upon half-pay.
Royal Artillery- Staff Assistant-Surgeon Morgan Jones
Jones to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice W. G. N. Manley,
promoted on the Staff.
Military Train—Lieutenant Wilkinson Shaw to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice William Digby Wentworth, who
retires ; Ensign George Penrose Pritchett to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, 'rice Shaw.
Grenadier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant Hugh de Grey
Seymour to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase,
vice Charles Herbert, who retires ; James Hugh Smith-
Barry, Gent., to bo Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Seymour.
sth Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Marker to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Lucius John Blake, who re-
tires ; George Hart Dyke, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Marker.
Gth Foot—Major Thomas Lynden Bell, from half-pay,
late Depot Battalion, to be Major, vice James Owen
Bovill, who retires upon temporary half-pay ; Staff
Assistant-Surgeon Charles Rattray, M.D., to be Assis-
tant-Surgeon, vice A. H. Hudson, .151.13., promoted on
the Staff.

12th Foot—Staff-Surgeon William George Nicholas Man-
ley to be Surgeon, vice A. F. Bartley, appointed to the
Staff.

13th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Fitzgerald King to be
Adjutant, vice Lieutenant C. Fraser, who resigns that
appointment.
16th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Henry Freeman to be
Captain, by purchase, vice James Davis, who retires ;
Ensign Charles Whitworth Lloyd to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, Tice Freeman ; William Cooke, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Lloyd.
24th Foot—Lieut. Alfred Beere, f rom 28th Foot, to be Lieu-

tenant, vice 0. H. Blount, who exchanges.
28th Foot—Lieut. Oscar Henry Blount, from 24th Foot, to

be Lieutenant, vice A. Beere, who exchanges.
31st Foot—Capt. Frederick Augustus Magrath, from the
81st Foot, to be Captain, vice E. L. B. Lowry, who ex-

changes.
37th Foot—Ensign Archibald M‘Donald Beamish to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles Stewart Hardy,
who retires ; Henry Beauclerk Bethune, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase,. vice Beamish.
66th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel Algernon Robert Garrett, from
half-pay, late 16th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Toni
Benson, who retires upon temporary half-pay.
81st Foot—Captain Edward Leslie Barnwell Lowry, from
the 31st Foot, to be Captain, vice F. A. Magrath, who
exchanges.
90th Foot—Lieutenant Duncan Maclachlan to be Instrnc-

tor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant R. I. Ward, appointed
A d jutant.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Arthur 11. S. Montgomery to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice George Rogers, de-
ceased.

RECRUITING DISTRICT.—Lient.-Colonel and Brevet-
Colonel Arthur Cavendishßentiuck,fromhalf-pay, late 4th
Dragoon Guards, to be Inspecting Field Officer, vice
Brevet-Colonel J. P. Sparks, C. 8., promoted Major-
General.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon Alex. Fisher Bartley,
from the 12th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice W. G. N.
Manley, appointed to the 12th Foot; Staff-Surgeon-Major
Robert Carew Anderson, M.D., who retires upon half-pay,
to have the honorary rank of Deputy-Inspector-General of
Hospitals; Assistant-Surgeon Alex. Robert Hudson,M.D.,
from the 6th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Staff-Surgeon
Major Robert Carow Anderson, M.D., who retires upon
half-pay.
BREVET.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Robert
Brundenell Smith, late half-pay, Unattached, to be
Colonel.
Captain Horatio Nelson Kippen, 12th Foot, to have the
local rank of Major in India.

HORSE GUARDS, OCT. 20.
His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief notifies to the Army that her Majesty has approved
of the promotion of Assistant-Surgeon Manley, V.C.,
Royal Artillery, to be a Staff-Surgeon, in consideration of
the disdnguished and meri:,orious services rendered by that
officer to the sick and wounded in the field, during the re-
cent operations in New Zealand. By command of his
Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief.

WILLIAM PAULET, Adjutant-General.

The Gazette contains a number of alterations of rank
amongst the officers of her Majesty's Indian Military Forces
and of the Staff Corps.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-Last Evening

Amsterdam Short. 11 19} 12 01
Ditto 8 Months. 12 21 12 2
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 67} 25 621
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 20 25 27
Ditto 3 Months. 25 55 23 60
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 121! 1211
Vienna — 11 174 11 25
Trieste — 11 174 11 25
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Petersburgh - 30 301
Berlin
Madrid — 47 47f
Cadiz
__ 471 48ft
Leghorn
Milan
Messina
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Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Oporto
Lisbon

25 70 25 75
25 70 25 75
25 70 25 75
511 51}
51} 51-i

LONDDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAIL-
WAY.--An adjourned meeting of the shareholders
was held yesterday in the board-room, London-bridge
terminus. Mr. James Scott presided. The chairman ex-
plained that the directors had intended to submit to the
shareholders at that meeting resolutions for the transfer of
the Wimbledon and Croydon line, but the agreement was
not yet ready to be submitted to them, and ho proposed
that they should adjourn to that day four weeks. An ad-
journment accordingly took place to Tuesday, the sth of
December.
STRIKE OF IRONWORKERS.—Notwithstanding the
threat of the masters, that if the men employed at
the Middleton Ironworks struck, they would be locked out
for twelve months, the men have struck. Some 400 have
already left work, and others aro to leave next Saturday.
Both those at work and those on strike held a meeting last
week, at which they resolved, " That it is the firm deter-
mination of this meeting not to go in until the masters
agree to the nine hours' moveraent."—Birminetain root,