The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening.

WITHALL,EC 1.
The Queen beenha pleased toga nt. unto the Venerable
Henry Law, M.A., the Deanery of her Majesty's Cathe-
dral Church of Gloucester, void by the death of Edward
Rice, D.D.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
Augustus Revel Bo urguignon as Vice-Consul at Port Louis
for the Swedish Confederation.
CROWN-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, WHIEHALL, DEC. 2.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade give notice, that the Moniteur 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 he Captain, by purchase, vice William
Henry Horne, who retires ; Cornet Westropp M'Mahon
Weir to be Lieutenant, by purchase, viee Ormsby; Lieu.
tenant Charles Lever has been permitted to reeire from
the service by the sale of his commission.
sth Dragoon—Cornet Francis Gist to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Joseph Heremon Persse Fitz'Patrick, who
retires. •
7th Hussars— Strff Assistant-Surgeon Reginald Croft
Lever, M.D.; to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Geo, Moulas
Slaughter, appointed to the Staff.
12th Lancers—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Chas: John White
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, vise John Gibsone, who exchanges, receiving
a portion of the former difference between cavalry and
infantry.
20th Hussars—Ensign George Masters, from Bengal 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
Quartermaster, 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 Csdee Edward Barry Bishop, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
John Victor ates. deceased.
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 Thomas Wright Marten to be Major, by
purchase, vice Charles Edward Watson, promoted to an
IJuattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy, by purchase; Lieu-
tenant William P. Browne to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Marten ; Ensign William Wheaton Chard to be
Lieutenant, by 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 Thomas
Huddlestone, from half-pay late Land Transport Ross,
superseded for being absent without leave.
18th Foot—Captain John Gibson, 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 H erbert St. John, who retires ;
Ensign Robert Nicholas Bird to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Blount; Arthur Ernest Beaumont, Geut., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bird.
22d Foot—To be Lieutenants, by purchase—Ensign Wm.
Thomas Slater Hull, vice Francis Sheiard Chichester,
who retires ; Ensign Edward Wm, Grove, vice Henry
Bishop, who retires. To be Ensigns, by purchase—
Martin Day Sayers, Gen., 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 ; Chas.
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 Captrin, vice Matthew Fanning, who
exchanges. To be Lieutenants, by purchase—Ensign
Elliott Christie Charles Farnall, vice James 0. D. An-
nesley, who retires; Ensign Sylvanus Roger Burnett
Partridge, vice Herbert Bulkley Praed Praed, who re-
tires; Ensign Harvey Randel Seville Armstrong, vice
James Henry Randell, 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 Kettylcs, from the 31st Foot, vice
Henry Wilkinson, who exchanges; Quartermaster-Ser-
gean 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 years' full-pay ser-
vice, to be Surgeon. Major, under the provisions of the
Royal Warrant of the let October, 1858.
29th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. 13,ycolt to be Captain, by
purchhse, vice Heneago Charles Chester, who 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 Affieck, 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.
46th 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, io 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
to be Lieutenant-
AconlkoenrelY, ovnigcee,
Tfrhomoma DeasEpdo Battalion,
2
C. 8., who ex-

changes.
68th Foot—Major Horatio Harbord Horant to be Liente-
naut-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. vice 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,l
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, viee Frederick Noel Hill Rocke,
deceased.
98th Foot—Lieutenant Gerrge Washington Smith to be
Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Richard Town-
ley, appointed Adjutant.
99th Foot—Lieutenant Harry Kinahan, from 3d Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Charles Bruce Henry Liomerset, who
exchanges.
105th Foot—Conductor T. Gorman, from Madras Ord-
nance Department, to be Quartermaster.
106th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Robert William Disney
Leith, appointed to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Gazette
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.er.
thy,
108th Foot—Conductor ThomstaasffGlo
v Surgeon
jfrom
111‘lioar-
dras Commissariat Department, to be Quartermaster.
-
Arthur Brien, de-
-Ist West Indio Regiment 7—
ed. Edward Arthur
epehaeswto be Surgeon, viee
ment—Captein Matthew Fanning,
2d West Judie Reg' vice John Harger, who
from 25th Foot, to be Captain,

exchanges.
Regiment—Ensign Albert Owen M‘Der-
t nant without purchase ; Christopher
mott
,Larty Morales, Gent., to be Ensign, without
3u ;d m vice M'Dermott.
R4tho`y-aWlehCetsait etdialanießuiefla Regiment—Major and Brevet-Lieu-
, 1:4-Colonel John James Grant, from the Royal New-
foundlandena Companies, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without
purchase.
The undermentioned officers to be transferred from the
Royal Newfoundland Companies according to the dates of
their Commissions :—To be Captains—Captain Thomas
Hanrahan, 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,
Royal Malta Fencible Artillery—Lieut. Guiseppe de Piro
to be Captain, with local and temrary rank, vice Geor-
gio Virtu, who retires up full pay; Alfred Sant, Gent,,
to be Lieutenant, with local and temporary rank, vice
Guiseppe de Piro.

BANKRUPTS.
That portion of the " Gazette" containing the bankrupts
had not at rived when we went to press.

DEATH OF MR.DEEDESTM.P. FOR EAST KENT.
regi et to hear of the death of Mr. Deedes, at his re-
sidenPe in London, after a few hours' illness.
DEATH OF JAMES SHERIDAN K.NOWLES.—A tele •
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 1784, being the eldest son of James
Knowles, Esq., the author of a "Dictionary of the English
Language," and a man of eminence both for talent and
learning.