The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-24 00:00:00

MARCH 23,

Mr. James Painter M'Ewan has been this day promoted
to the rank of Master in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority
from sth February, 1865.
MEMORANDUM—Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey,
5.C.8., is appointed Vice-Lieutenant of the counties of
Northumberland and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, during the
absence from England of Earl Grey, the Lord Lieutenant.

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

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 17
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19i
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 20
Ditto 3 Months. 25 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 120}
Vienna — 11 421
Trieste — 11 42/
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
47
Cadiz

11 174
11 19
12 19
25 .55
25 55
13 94
25 30
25 524
25 55
1201
11 47
11 47*
314

Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina

257
25 57
25. 57
25 57
25 57
25 55

25 62
25 62:
25 57:
25 62
25 62:
25 62

Lisbon 514 51
Oporto 514 51i
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standar) per oz. £3 17 9

ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.—His
Majesty the King of the Belgians arrived at Dover
shortly after 7 o'clock last night, en route for Windsor on a
visit to the Queen. His Majesty came from Brussels by
way of Calais, being a shorter sea passage than his usual
route rid Ostend. On arriving at Calais by Railway at a
quarter past 5 o'clock, the King embarked in the Belgian
Government steamer Belgique, Commander Picard, then in
readiness to convey his Majesty across the Channel. The
Ostend mail packet Topaz, Commander Gerard, followed
the royal boat as an escort. After a favourable passage, the
steamer, having on board King Leopold, his aide-de-camp,
' Dr. Capel, and suite, drew alongside the Admiralty pier,
Dover, where his Majesty landed, and was received by the
Belgian Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, M. Van de
Weyer; Lord Alfred Paget and Lord Torrington, of. the
Queen's household ; the Belgian Consul at Dover, Mr. S.
M. Latham ; Lieutenant-General Ellice and staff ; Colonel
Commandant Marriott, R.A. ; Col. Wynne, R.E. ; Capt.
Bruce, R.N. ; the Secretary of Legation, M. Delfoss, &c. A.
royal salute from the Castle battery announced the land-
ing. A guard of honour of the 37th Regiment lined the
pier and the approach to the Lord Warden Hotel, and the
space appropriated for spectators was crowded with a
fashionable assemblage, who cheered his Majesty on his
way to the Lord Warden Hotel, where he remained for the
night. A special train was ordered on the South-Eastern
Railway for this morning, to convey his Majesty and suite
direct to Windsor. The Hon. James Byng and Mr. J. I'.
Knight, chairman and traffic superintendent of the South-
Eastern Railway Company, arrived at Dover last night to
accompany the royal train.

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of the Bolls, Mr. Lemon, the private solicitor of Lord
Brougham, and Mr. Edmunds ; and Mr. William Brougham,
who was examined yesterday.. The Scotsman publishes a
history
of the Edmunds case, founded on various official
reports issued at intervals during the last eight months,
and which are now being sifted by the lords'committee. Our
contemporaty, summing up the details, says :—" It will be
seen that there is something unsatisfactory or unexplainedas to the conditions on which Mr. Edmunds was appointed
to his first office ; but on that point all judgment should
' be reserved till we know the defence of Mr. W. Brougham.
Meanwhile two points seem clear—that the pecuniary
transactions between Mt. Edmunds and Messrs. William
and James Brougham, of which we have not yet full ex-
planation, had reference to a debt of Mr. James Brougham
and that, beyond having signed a document as security for
his brother more than thirty years ago, Lord Brougham
knew nothing of all these complicated matters, and has
derived nothing from them but a vast amount of annoy-
anC3, and the liability to pay another man's debt."