The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-11 00:00:00

DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 9.

,
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Bernard Gus-
tavus Norton, Esq., to be Puisno Judge, and Wm. Frederick
Haynes Smith, Esq., to be Solicitor-General, for the colony
of British Guiana.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Alfred
John Duncombe, Esq., to be Assistant Justice of the Gene-
ral Court of the Bahama Islands.

Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Henry
Wakeford, Esq., to be Auditor for the Island of Van-
couver.

WHITEHALL, OcT. 10.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Archibald
Davidson, Esq., advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire or
Sheriffdom of Edinburgh, in the room of John Thomson
Gordon, Esq., deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, OCT. 10.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major-General Thomas Gor-
don Higgins to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Lieute-
nant-General Henry William Gordon, deceased.
11th Regiment of Hussars—Cornet Algernon Edward
Sheppard Preston to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Somerset Saunderson, who retires ; Ensign John Donald
Hamill Stewart, from the 12th Foot, to be Cornet, vice
Preston.

Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—The second Christian
name of Quartermaster Cook is Bell.

BREVET.

The following promotions to take place in succession to
Lieutenant-General Henry William Gordon, Royal Regi-
ment of Artillery, who died 19th September, 1865 :
Major-General Edward Sabine to be Lieutenant-
General.

Colonel, with the local rank of Major-General, John St.
Georg; C. 8., to be Major-General.
Major George Francis Coventry Pocock, Unattached, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel.

Captain Robert Broome Baker, 39th Foot, to be Major.
The following promotions to take place in succession to
Major-General William Cochrane Anderson, Royal Regi-
ment of Artillery, who died 30th August, 1865 :
Colonel Robert Fitz Gerald Crawford, from the Royal
Artillery, to be Major-General.
Captain and Brayet-Major George Cecil Henry, Royal
Artillery, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Charles James Skerry, 81st Foot, to be Major.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 7.
In accordance with the provisions of her Majesty's
Order in Council of the 30th January, 1856, Rear-Admiral
Sir Stephen Lushington, K.C.8., has been promoted to the
rank of Vice-Admiral on the Reserved List of her Ma-
jesty's Fleet, with seniority from the let inst., from which
date ho ceased to be Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich
Hospital.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.-CAISTOR, NORFOLK, Oct.
7.—About half-past 7 o'clock on Wednesday even-
ing last (reports the Rev. G. W. Steward) signal lights of
distress were seen off the Scroby Sand, while the wind
was blowing from the S.E. The Caistor lifeboat of the
National Institution was at once manned and launched, and
taken to the spot indicated by the signal. On arriving
there the lifeboat found a brig on the middle of the Scroby
Sand, full of water, and with her rudder gone, the sea break.
ing over her. After assisting the crew at working the pumps
for about an hour or so, the beachmen were forced to leave
the vessel, taking with them the crew of 9 men, whom
they safely landed at Caistor about half-past 11. The men
afterwards proceeded to the Yarmouth Sailors' Home. The
next day, the brig being still on the sand, the bcachmen
went out again with the lifeboat, the vessel being unap-
proachable by any other boat. They fortunately succeeded
in getting her off and in bringing her into Lowestoft has,
bour. She was the brig Harling, of Sunderland, bound
from Sunderland to Lowestoft with a cargo of railway
sleepers.

A BULLOCK AT THE TOP OF A HOUSE.—Yester-
day (Monday) morning as a bullock, the property
of Messrs. Snook and Son, butchers, of Salisbury, was
being driven along the Butcher-row it suddenly turned
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bullock was rather a wild one, and it was believed that
it would be quite impossible for it even to got out of the
room, as the piles of cheese only allowed just sufficient
space for it to stand, much less to turn round. In
this dilemma it was proposed to shoot the animal, and a
ladder was placed across the house and a gun procured for
the purpose, but it was afterwards found that if the first
shot should not prove fatal a scene of an alarming nature
would ensue, to say nothing of the disagreeable inconveni-
ence of making a slaughter-house in a store filled with
cheese. It was determined, consequently, on second con-
sideration, to try other means before adopting this last re-
source. It was next therefore suggested that if the window
could be got open the poor brute would in all probability
great height. No one,
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run the risk of mounting the
ladder and being tossed off again in order to raise the sash,
and consequently this had to be accomplished by means of
a grapnel let down from
the roof. The bullock, howeY
er,
when this new mode of egress was opened to him, instead
of jumping rig
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its neck in the descent, as was expected, contented itself by
forcibly ejecting a large tray and box, by means of its
horns, into the street, and putting its head out of the win-
dow, quietly surveyed the spectators, to the intense amuse-
ment particularly of the juvenile portion of the assemblage.
Another proposition was ultimately made, which proved
more successful, and that was to knock a hole through the
wall of an adjoining room and to get at him by moans of
sticks in that way. This was done, and by a violent
effort the bullock, after knocking down and trampling on
the cheese, got round and forced his way down stairs again
into the street, where he was secured and driven to the
slaughterhouse and killed.

now TO ESTIMATE THE WEIGHT OF FISH.—
" All that is wanted is that the angler should bear in his
memory a good specimen of the kind of fish in question as
his primary solid. Thus, if a trout of ten inches (extreme
length) in an average water weigh /lb., one of twenty
inches from the same will weigh 4]bs. (eight times as
much) and something more—one of 30 inches, 13/lbs., or
27 times as much. But in a very fattening water like the
Thames, a high-conditioned trout of 12 inches might weigh
11b., in which case one of 18 inches, being to the first as the
cube of 3 to the cube of 2, would weigh 3lbs. 6oz. at least,
and one of 24 inches 81bs."—Fisherman's Magazine.
MORISON'S PILLS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF
HEALTH, EUSTON-ROAD, LONDON.—AII persons should
know that the above medicine can be sent by post on receipt
of 30 postage stamps for two boxes, Nos. I and 2,13 id. size.
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