The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-18 00:00:00

JANUARY 17.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Sylvanus
B. Hance as Consul at Kingston, Canada, for the tufted
States of America.

COUNTY OF BUTE.

The Gazette contains the Speaker's warrant for issuing
a'new writ for the electing of a member to sore in Par-
liament for the countyof Bute,'" n the room of David Mure
Esq., who has accepted the office of one of the Judges o
her Majesty's Court of Session in Scotland.
DOWNING-STREET, JANUARY 16.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Louis Antoine
Aimed de Verteuil, Henry Watts, and Andre Bernard,
Esqrs., to be Members of the Legislative Council of the
Island of Trinidad.

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WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JANUARY 17.
sth Regimot of Foot—Major-General William Longworth
Dames to be Colonel, vice General William Lovelace

Walton, deceased.
Bth Regiment of Hussars—Lieutenant Henry Crawley
Norris, from 73d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Swindley,
who exchanges.
12th Lancers—Lieutenant De Burgho Edward Hodge to be
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Captain, by purchase, vice John Cuninghame, who retires
nt
—Cornet John Edward Pearce Hooper to be Lieutenson,,
by purchase, vice Hodge—George Arthur Thonap
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hopopeit%°, be Lieu-
aprn,:3ll:Beiveoreevt_Dltur-aeGeniveoelori
14th Hussars—Cornet Thomas Bington
tenant, by purchase, vice Rawdon John
son, who retires—Ensign Malcolm Alfred
the 18th Foot, to be Cornet, vice Baker. Thomas Stawell
Royal Artillery—Staff Assistant-Surgeonco
vi GeOrge Arthur
Barry to be Assistant-Surgeon, BCakort-rlana Thomp-
Grant, deceased.
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John Arthur Lambert,
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Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel,
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~.DPeaavrise:nith, from 29th Foot, to be Captain, vice May-
cock, who exchanges.
9th Foot—Ensign Marsden S. James Sunderland to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Richard Fenton, who re-
tires—Albert Charles Pickering, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Sunderland.
18th Foot—Gentleman Cadet George William Nesbit
Rogers, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Malcolm Alfred Laing, transferred to
14th Hussars.
127th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Oliver Wingate, from

29evvbethaepFcstataopin,Inott--a—in:via.
the 74th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice CilasgoTv, who ex-
changes.
sth Foot, to
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exchanges.
40th Foot--Captain Walter Higgin, from 65th Foot, to be
59th Foot—Lieutenant Duncan Tylden Chisholm, from 3d
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Shephard,
who exchanges.
atietnini vice Higgin, who exchanges.
Frederick Swindley, from the Bth
65th Foot—Captain Joseph William Lewis, from the 40th
73Fdoroot,ot_to beLieCu
Hussars, to be Lieutenant, vice Norris, who exchanges.
74th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Bruce Robertson Glasgow,
from 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Winga,,e, who
exchanges.
98th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Edward Grantham
to be. Major, without purchase, vice Francis Haden
Crawford, deceased—Lieutenant Charles H. Griffin to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Grantham
—Ensign Henry Win. Roberts to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Griffin—Ensign Augustus Keith Abbott,
from the 9th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Roberts.
100th Foot—Lieut. Richard Charles Clarke, fromsthe Ist
West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Jackson,
who exchanges.
Rifle Brigade—The Hon. Neville Gerald Lyttleton to be
yard, who retires.
Ensign, by purchase, vice Thomas Blazkbore T. Hild-
-Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant John Chas. Jack-
son, from 100th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Clarke,
who exchanges.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant John Shepherd,
from 59th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Chisholm, who
exchanges.
STAFF—Major and Brevet-Colonel the Hon. Hugh Clif-
fard, Upattached to be Aaeistant Quartermaster-General
at Head Quarters, vice Major and Brevet-Colonel E. H.
F. Pocklingtor, appointed a member of the Council of
Military Educ
:MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Staff Surgeon Major Murray
Webster, M.D., to be nel-mi:,ted to retire upon half-pay,
with the honorary rand of Deputy Ins actor-General of
Hospitals.

BREVET.
The following promotions to take place consequent on
the death of General Sir Wm. Tuyll, Colonel of the 7th
Hussars, on the 26th December, 1864:
Lieut.-General Alexander Fisher Macintosh, Colonel 93d
Foot, to be General.
Major-General Sir William R. Mansfield, K.C.8., Colonel
38th Foot, promoted for distinguished service and Super-.
numerary to the Fixed Establishment of General Officers,
to have the rank of Lieutenant-General.
Major-General Geo. Moncrieff to be Lieutenant-General.
Colonel John Arthur Lambert, from Lieutenant-Colonel
Grenadier Guards, to be Major-General.
Major Wm. Roberts, 28th Foot, to be Liutenant-Colonel.
Captain Michael E. Smith, Unattached, Staff Officer of
Pensioners, to be Major.

BANKRUPTS,
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im.
ortance in the Gazette :
Henry
.Chapman, commission agent, Cheapside
Frederick James, builder, Camden-town
William Twigg, button make; Birmingham
Alexander Graham, cooper, Birmingham
James Biss, chandler's-shop keeper, Long-acre
James Mason, glazier, Hammersmith.
Thomas Downing, shoemaker, Stoney Stratford
Nathaniel D. Norris, hop merchant, Hereford
John Rice, builder, Wellington, Somerset
John Haine, butcher, Liskeard, Cornwall
John Beddows, farmer, Bronheulog, Salop
Peter Bevan, farmer, Suckley, Worcestershire
James C. Dix, engraver, St. Anne's-lane, City

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Wm. Spenseley, silk broker, Alderman's-walk, City.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
H. B. Webb and Co., produce brokers, Glasgow
James Wilson, sugar refiner, Glasgow
Thomas WCulloch, plumb3r, Edinburgh
lames Lawcon, miller, Edinburgh
James Young, farmer, Aboyne.
Niven and Co., merchants, Glasgow.
John Gillan, metal refiner, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

4-

Amsterdam Short. 11 14 11 15
Ditto 3 Months. 11 171 11 17,E
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 471 25 55
Brussels
.._ 25 55

Hamburgh
Paris Short 25 15
25 25

Ditto 3 Months. 25 471 25 Tif
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine —119 f
Vienna — 11 80 11 85
Trieste — 11 75 11 85
Petersburgh
Berlin

Madrid — 4614 461
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa ' g 5 623 25 671
Naples — 25 65 25 70
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon — 511 . 51f
Oporto — 511 511
Foreign Gold in bars (standard)....£.3 17s. 91 per oz.

The Fatal Railway Accident n ear
Southampton,

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Evening.
This afternoon Mr. Colwell, the coroner for the borough

and county of Southampton, resumed the inquiry at the
Portswood Hotel into the circumstances of the death of
Wm. Harvey, who was killed at the St. Denis level cross-
ing of the South-Western Railway on the night of Satur-
day, the 7th inst.
The evidence adduced at the first hearing showed that
the deceased was in a donkey-cart, and crossed the line
about half-past 11 o'clock at night in front of the down
mail train, which smashed the cart, killed the man Harvey,
and most seriously injured the woman, who is, however,
happpily recovering.
At the hearing to-day evidence was given to show that
the gatekeeper called out to Harvey to "Hold hard !" aS
he was passing on to the line.
Mr. Godson, superintendent of the line, being called oil
by the coroner, produced the instructions to gatekeepers at
level crossings, which stated that "unless a written notice
is given to the contrary, gates must always be kept closed
across a road, except when required to be opened to allow
the railway to be crossed, and then opened for the shortest
possible time."
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—On the night of Saturday, the 7th of January, I had occa-
sion to retire for a few minutes to the watercloset, which
is situate within twenty yards of the gates, on the western
up-side line. I came out and saw the 11.30 mail
train just passing under the bridge at.the Portswood
station. lat once started to the box to get my lamp. The
lamp being out of reach from the outside I had to unbuckle
the door, but in the hurry of the moment I turned the
button too far, and so hindered myself. On turning round
to show my light I perceived the man Harvey and his wife
in the donkey cart. The donkey was just advancing on
the up-line outside rail. I thereupon shouted to Harvey,
" Hold hard ; for God's sake, Harvey. stop !" He, how-
ever, urged the donkey forward with blows. The donkey
cleared the down line, but the engine struck the cart, killing
the man Harvey, and hurling the body with that of his
wife into the adjoining ditch. When I saw the man
Harvey persist in endeavouring to cross the down line
it would have been impossible for me to interfere, except at
the cost of my own life. I solemnly swear that I was not
away from my post at the time of the accident, as is proved
by the fact of my obtaining and showing my lamp as the
train passed, although I acknowledge, with bitter regret,
that I did not first wait to close the gate when I went to
the closet. Not having a timepiece, I was not aware it was
so close upon the time of the mail train being due ; at the
same time I am confident that, had Harvey stopped, the
accident could not possibly have occurred.
The coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict—" That the death of the de-
ceased was caused by the neglect of the gate-keeper."
The Coroner—That is, gentlemen, a verdict of man
slaughter against Robert Underwood.
The foreman of the jury said that his brethren
express to
express a hope that the company would make an
alteration
in the present arrangements of the crossing.

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Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.
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Market quiet. Sales, about 4,000 or 5,000 bales.

The report of the London, Italian, and Adriatic
to be presented
on the 24th t
Steam Company) InS •
states the profit on working account to have been
£5,406, and record mends the payment of interest at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, which will absorb
£l,lOl.
It is understood that the English and Foreign
Credit Company will pay a dividend of ss. per share,
being at the rate of 10
per cent, per annum, and
will carry forward nearly £3,000.
cuAadtraam,
Encino, gyaensr
Co.,da y ofof thswie'ethinredi,sto_lanrs oef, Atteess
rs.
ac-
countants, Messrs. Hart Brothers and Myles, pre-
sented a balance-sheet which showed liabilities esti-
mated at £93,133 and assets at £99,800. It was
stated that it was thought the creditors would ulti-
mately receive 20s. in the pound, and it was resolved
to wind up the estate uuder inspection.
The Cape of Good Hope Government 5 per Cent.
Loan of £234,000 was disposed of by public tender
yesterday at the offices of the Crown agents for
the colonies, at an average rate of £9l 12s. 3d. per
cent. The total amount applied for was £307,700,
-at prices varying from 81 to 105. The minimum
was fixed at 90.
THE STRAND MUSIC HALL.—The Gazette of last
evening contains a notice that a petition has been presented
to the Lord Chancellor by Mr. John Sharman, builder, for
the winding-up of the above company by the Court of
Chancery. The petition is directed to be heard before
Vice-Chancellor Kindersley on the 27th inst.