The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

ICTIE7,I*SIIIN, fumpori, To-Eslf_Ny EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1862.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 'Seven o'clock.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Tins EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

THE EDUCATIONAL MINUTE.
Lord BELPER presented petitions against the new
educational minute from Derby and other places.

THE VOLUNTEERS.
Lord TRURO gave notice that on that day fortnight he
should call attention to the state of the volunteer move-
ment, and he should also ask whether it was the intention
of the Government to afford any further, and, if so, what
asE-istance.

HER MAJESTY'S ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS.

Earl ST. GERMANS brought up her Majesty's most
gracious answer to the address of their lordships on the
opening of Parliament, which was as follows :—" I return
you my most sincere thanks for your affectionate and dutiful
address, and specially for the manner in which you have
assured me of your feeling for the irreparable loss which
has been sustained by myself and country in the afflicting
dispensation of Providence which bows mo to tho earth."
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tars EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at five o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Several private bills were introduced and read a first
ime.

Major, by purchase, vice Cureton, promoted, bfpurchase,
to an Unattached Lieut.-Colonelcy ; Lieut. George F.
Morant to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jary ; Cornet
Thos. Edmuttd Houghton to be Lieutenant, by purchase,

vice Morant.
18th Hussars—Lieut. William Henry O'Shea to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Breve t-Major,Henry Scott, who retires ;
Cornet William Owen Whiteside to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice O'Shea.
Royal Artillery—Captain Reginald Onslow Farmer to be
removed from the supernumerary to the effective list;
Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Andrew Knox Rickards to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Sharp, resigned.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Charles Edmund Webber,
Instructor in Military, Drawing, and Surveying at the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to be placed on
the supernumerary list ; Second Captain and Brevet-
Major Francis Horatio De Vere, to be Captain, vice
William L. Morrison, placed on the seconded list; Lieu-
tenant William Adolphus Frankland to be 2d Captain,
vice Brevet-Major De Vere.
Ist Regim,,nt of Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major William
Temple Parratt, from 90th Foot to be Captain, vice
Albert Seagrim, removed to the 90th Foot, Gentleman
Cadet Charles Henry Sandford, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Moberley,
promoted.
6th Poot—Staff-Surgeon George Edwin Gains to be Sur-
geon, vice Miller, appointed to the Staff.
7th Foot—Ensign Robert Fowler Butler to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Henry John Barnard, who retires;
Henry Burton Winter, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Butler.
10th Foot—Ensign Robert Munro Dickinson to be Lieu•
tenant, by purchase, vice Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes,
Bart., removed to a Cornetcy and Sub-Lieutenancy in the
2d Life Guards ; John Smith O'Brien Blake, Gent., (late
Second Lieutenant, Antrim Artillery Militia), to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Dickinson.
12th Foot—Ensign Robert Baynes Reed to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Thomas George D. Latouche, who re-
tires; John Whetham Boddam, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Reed.
17th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Stuart Lloyd Richards, from.
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Savage, promoted.
20th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward Primrose Tregurtha
Goldsmith, from the Royal Military College, to be En-

sign, withOutpurchase
21st Foot—Ensign John Hornby Conor to Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Alfred William Channer, who retires;
Albert Augustus Pollard, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-

chase, viceConor.
23d Foot—Captain Tyssen Sowley Holroyd, from the 34th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Hill, who exchanges.
24th Foot—William Thomas Much, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Arkwright, appointed to the 84th Foot.
34th Foot—Captain Arthur Hill, from the 23d Foot, to be
Captain, vice Holroyd, who exchanges.
43d Foot—Major Henry Jackson Parkin Booth to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel George
Talbot, who retires ; Captain Fiennes Middleton Colvile
to be Major, by purchase, vice Booth; Lieutenant Her-
bert Johnes Berners to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Colvile; Ensign Arthur Brett Onslow to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Berners ; Gentleman Cadet 'William
Clark, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Onslow.
47th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Major Alexander Smith, M.D.,
to be Surgeon, vice Singleton, dismissed the service by
the sentence of a General Court Martial.
49th Foot—Lieutenant Henry James Davies to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Henry Dalton Scoones, who retires ;
Ensign Edwin Glass Fenn to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Davies ; William James Fisher, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Fenn.
st4h Foot—Captain Montague Cholmeley Morris,from the
75th Foot, to he Captain, vice Edward Cliff, who ex-

changes.
62d Foot—Arthur Earquhar, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Jules Victor Le Blond, who retires.
66th Foot—Lieutenant William Saunders, from 86th Foot,
vice Thomas Gambell, who exchanges.
72d Foot—Gentleman Cadets James Foord Hilton, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,

vice Tomlgnson, who retires.
73d Foot—Major Hugh Maurice Jones to be Lieut.-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel George Hankey Smith,
who retires ; Capt. Godfrey James Burne to be Major, by
purchase: vice Jones ; Lieut. Wm. Mitford to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Burne; Ensign Thomas Nepean
Edward Kenny to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mit-
ford ; Edward Joseph Jekyll, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Kenny.
75th Fool—Captain Edward Cliffe, from 54th Foot, to be
Captain, vice Montague Cholnieley. Morris, who ex-

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changes.
84th Foot—Ensign Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Henry Bradshaw
Isherwood, who retires; Ensign Arthur Chandos Ark-
wright, from 24th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Haley.
86th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Gambell, from 66th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice William Saunders, who exchanges.
87th Foot—Lieutenant Rentone George Felix Poynter to
be Captain, by purchaee, vice Edmund Henry John Me•.
redyth, who retires; Ensign Ernest Augustus Dundas
Widdrington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Poyn-
ter; William Wynne Jendwine, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Widdrington.
90th Foot—Captain Albert Seagrim, from Ist Foot, to be
Captain, vice Brevet-Major William Temple Parratt, re-
moved to the Ist Foot.
97th Foot—Ensign Thomas C. Wharton to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Fitz Gerald, promoted, by purchase, to
an Unattached Company ; Gentleman Cadet John Archi-
bald Murray, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Wharton.
100th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Michael
O'Brien to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Thomas Liddard,
who resigns.