The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL RACES-THIS DAY.

HURDLE RACE.

Stanton

Duchess

Real Jam..

Ten ran.
FLYING STAKES.

Jane Shore
Worthless
Doeford

Eight ran.
SELLING HURDLE.

Beau
Westwick
Cargo
LIVE.R•POOL SPRING CUP.
Nu
Wandering Minstrel
Filbert
Ten ran.
LIVERPOOL STEEPECIIASE.
100 to 15 agst Emblematic (taken)
9to 1 agst Stanton (taken)
10 to 1 agst Arbury (taken)
11. to 1 agst Emblem (taken)
100 to 7 agst Lightheart
100 to 7 agst Princess Dagmar
100 to 6 agst Alcibiade
1000 to 20 agst Freshman

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening

WHITEHALL, MARCH 6.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint
Major-General George Hutt, C. 8., to be Secretary and
Registrar to the Commissioners for the Government of the
Royal Hospital at Chelsea, in the room of Alexander
James Moorhead, Esq., resigned.
DOWNING-STREET, Dimwit 4.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Hugh William
Hoyles, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
the Island of Newfoundland.
MARCH 6.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Hercules
George Robert Robinson, Knt., to be Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Ceylon and its de-
pendencies.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, MARCH 7.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet George Coulson
Childs, from 16th Lancers, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Edward Hoare Reeves, who retires.
4th Dragoon Guards—Edwin Black Hawkins, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Charles Kennett, transferred
to the 14th Hussars.
16th Lancers—William Campbell Pullin, Gent., to bo
Cornet, by purchase, vice George Coulson Childs, pro-
moted, by purchase, in Ist Dragoon Guards.
Royal Artillery—Staf Assistant-Surgeon Richard Henry
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice William Thunville Smythe,
deceased.
Bth Regiment of Foot—Robert Lionel Fisher, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Ambrose William Humphrys,
who retires.
10th Foot—Ensign Richard Stephen Burgess to be Lieu-
tenant, by puchase, vice Edward A. H. Roe, who retires ;
Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Burgess.
16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Walter Ferrier Riddell, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice George Alban Lewes, transferred to 48th
Foot.
18th Foot—Staff-Surgeon James Henry Lewis to be Sur-
geon, vice William Stewart, M.D., appointed to the 21st
Foot.
21st Foot—Surgeon William Stewart, M.D., from 18th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major William
Henry Mackintosh, M.D., appointed to the Staff.
31st Foot—Captain Edward Leslie Barnewell Lowry, from
the 41st Foot, to be Captain, vice Thompson, who
exchanges.
39th Foot—Robert Turlington Noble Beasley, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Drought Blakely Tarleton,
promoted; Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major,
Oliver Nicolls, from a Depot Battalion, to be Paymaster,
vice Samuel Benison, deceased.
41st Foot—Captain Henry 3lasterman Thompson, from
31st Foot, to be Captain, vice Lowry, who exchanges.
48th Foot—Captain John Richard Lovett to be Major,
without purchase, vice Walter Pownall, deceased; Lieu-
tenant Richard Eyre to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Lovett ; Ensign William Bell Beatty to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Eyre ; Ensign James
Talbot to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Bell
Beatty, whose promotion, by purchase, on the 14th Feb-
ruary, 1865, has been cancelled ; Ensign George Alban
Lewes, from 16th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Talbot.
60th Foot—Lieutenant George Charles Kelly, to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Burnet Bell Forsyth,
drowned; Lieutenant Matthew Tilford to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Kelly, whose promotion, without
purchase, on 28th October, 1864, has been cancelled ;
Ensign tobert Dalrymple Elphinstone to be Lieutenant,
without: purchase, vice Tilford ; Ensign Geo. Lancelot
M'Lean Farmer to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Elphinstone, whose promotion, by purchase, on 28th
October, 1864, has been cancelled; Gentleman Cadet
William Forster, from the Royal Military College, to be

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Ensign, without purchase, vice Farmer.
70th Foot!—Lieut. W. Saunders Ford Fenemn to be Adju-
tant, vice Lieut. Herbert John Hill, promoted.
88th Foot—Lieut. Lucas Clements Scott to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Thomas E. Anderson, who retires
upon full-pay.
4th West India Regiment—Ensign George James Marshall,
from sth West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Wm.
Fowler, promoted ; Ensign Thomas Viny Biron, from
the sth West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Win.
Law Brockman, promoted.

MEDICAL DEPAR•biENT.-Surgeon-Major William Henry
Mackintosh, M.D., from 21st Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon
Major, vice Staff-Surgeon James Henry Lewis, appointed
to the 18th Foot.

MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Assistant Super-
intendent of Stores Newcombe Richard Raven to be As-
sistant Superintendent of Stores, vice Hamilton, placed
upon half-pay from Ist January, 1865.
BREVET.

Captain Thomas E. Anderson, retired full-pay, late 88th
Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major.
Paymaster William Thomson, Ist West India Regiment,
to have the honorary rank of Captain.
Paymaster George Andrew Coventry, 11th Hussars, to
have the honorary rank of Captain.
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent on the decease of Lieut.-General Benjamin Orlando
Jones, Colonel 73d Foot, on Feb. 16, 1865 :
Lieutenant-General, with local rank of General, Sir
William R. Mansfield, K.C.8., Colonel 38th Foot, promoted
Major-General for distinguished services, to be placed on
the fixed establishment of General Officers.
Brevet-Major Andrew C. Knox Lock, 50th Foot, to be
Lieut.-Colonel. _ _

Captain John P. Stuart, half-pay, Unattached, and Staff
Officer of Pensioners, to bo Major.
ADMIRALTY, MAncH 6.
_ _

The undermentioned officers have been this day promoted
to the rank of First Class Assistant Engineers in her Majes-
ty's Fleet : Mr. John Richard Rogers Potam and Mr. Wm.
Hallowell.

BATSKRUPTS.
That portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts
had not arrived when we went to press.

COU.RSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16 11 161
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18/ 11 19
Rotterdam
11 18/ 11 19
Antwerp — 25 40 25 471
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 121 25 20
Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 25 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201 1201^
Vienna — 11 521 11 5/
Trieste — 11 52* 11 5/
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid — 4.4 " 4.4
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 25 50 25 55
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon — 511 511
Oporto — 511 51/