The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

FEBRUARY 18.

Borough of Leicester.—Peter Alfred Taylor, of Aubrey
House, Notting-hill, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in
the room of John Biggs, Esq., who has accepted the office
of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme.

WAR OFFICE, FEB. 19.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Gentleman Cadet Rich-
mond Griffin Nicholas from the Royal Military College,
to be Comet, without purchase, vice Robert George
Smith, deceasel.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Augustus Alfred de
Bourbel to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robert Scott
Hunter, whoretires ; Cornet John Fryer to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice de Bourbel.
Ist Dragoons—Lieutenant Carteret Houstoun Kempson,
from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Harvey, who
exchanges; Charles Falkiner Morton, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice William Wemyss Frewen Hay,
who retires.

ith Hussars•—Gentleman Cadet William Langan Forsyth,
from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Metcalfe, promoted.
18th Hussars—Charles John Fletcher, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Whiteside, promoted.
Royal Artillery—Surgeon Thomas Guy, M.D., having
completed a period of 20 years' full pay service, to be Sur-
geon-Major under the Royal Warrant of the Ist October,
1858.

Military Train—Staff-Surgeon O'Connor D'Arcey, M.D.,
to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon William Braybrooke, re-
moved to the Staff.

7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant George Lake Harvey,
from the Ist Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Kempson,
who exchanges.
15th Foot—Lieut. Henry Jardine Hallowes to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Silvester Calvert, who retires; Ensign
Reginald Cartwright to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hallowes; Ensign Edward Joseph Jekyll, from 73d
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Cartwright ; Lieut. Joseph
M‘Murray to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Hallowes, pro-
moted.
19th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward Spencer Mott, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice George Albert Macdonnell, removed to 18th
Foot.

20th Foot—Ensign John Lacey Morley, from 78th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Stourton, who exchanges.
21st Foot—Ensign Edward Walker, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice John Popham Mainwaring, who retires ;
Claude Durham Patterson, Gent,, to be Ensign, by pur-

chase, vice Walker.
23d Foot—Ensign Charles Morgan, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Wriothesley Augustus Fits Roy, who re-
tires; George Bentinck Luxford, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Morgan.
29th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph Bourke, from the Ist West
India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Alfred Fawcett,
who exchanges.
34th Foot—Ensign Gerald Brenan, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Charles Hamilton Webb, who retires ;
William Francis Trotter, Gent., to bo Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Brcnan.
41st Foot—Ensign Thomas P. A. Bracken, to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Isaac King, who retires • Cor-
net Thomas H. Duneembe, from Gth Dragoon Guards,
to be Ensign, vice John T. Johnson, appointed to the
Commissariat Department; Gentleman-Cadet Edward
Richardson, from the Royal Military College, to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Bracken.
52d Foot—Captain Hugh P. Pearson, from the 84th Foot,
to bo Captain, vice Fraser, who exchanges.
68th Foot—Lieut. Benjamin 0. Johnson, from half-pay
late 11th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Edmund Peel
Ethelston, placed on half-pay.
73d Foot—Gentleman-Cadet Richard J. Airey, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Jekyll, removed to the 15th Foot.
77th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Forbes Gatacre,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Henry Reginald Bate, promoted, without
purchase, in the 13th Foot.
78th Foot—Ensign Arthur Joseph Stourton, from the 20th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Morley, who exchanges.
84th Foot—Captain George Cruden Fraser, from the 52d
Foot, to be Captain, vice Pearson, who exchanges.
93d Foot—Lieutenant William Gordon Alexander to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Charles Hugh Levinge, who
retires ; Ensign Henry Thomas Butter to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Alexander; William Copland, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Butter.
9lth Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel James Dodington Car-
michael, C. 8., from half-pay 19th Foot, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Charles James Conway
Mills, who retires on half-pay.
98th Foot—Ensign Richard Townley to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice David J. Copeland Jones, who retiree;
Allan G !Tome Raper, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Townley.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Alfred Fawcett,
from the 29th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Joseph Bourke,
who exchanges.

DEPOT BATTALION.--Captain George Joy, 5911 Foot,
to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain Madden, 4th
Foot, who has rejoined his depot at Chatham.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon William Braybrooke,
from the Military Train, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Henry
Higgins Jones, M.D., placed upon half-pay ; Staff-As.
sistant-Surgeon Joshua Henry Porter to be Staff-Surgeon,
vice D'Arcey, appointed to the Military Train; Staff
Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Charles Baxter, M. 8., from
half-pay, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Porter, pro-
moted.
PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.—To be Deputy Purveyors
to the Forces—Purveyor's Clerk Joseph Muskett ; Pur-
veyor's Clerk William Richard Taylor.
ROYAL MII.ITARy C LLE G E.—Captain and Brevet-
Major Alfred Picton Bowlby, 64th Foot, to be Captain of a
company of Gentlemen Cadets, vice William Thomas
Exham Fosbery, who retires upon half-pay.
BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Charles William
Dunbar Staveley, C. 8., 44th Foot, to have the temporary
rank of Brigadier-General in China, while in command of
the troops in that country.
The undermentioned promotions to take place, consequent
on the death of Lieutenant-General JeremiahTaylor,Colonel
of the 59th Foot, on the Ist Feb., 1862 :
Major-General Arthur Richard, Duke of Wellington,
K.G , Lieutenant-Colonel upon half-pay Unattached, to
have the rank of Lieutenant-General. . . _

Major-General John Julius William Angerstein to be
Lieutenant- General.
Brevet •Colonel Edward Rowley Hill, from Lieutenant-
Colonel half-pay 63d Foot, Deputy Adjutant-General to
the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands, to be
Major-General.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Bingham, 60th Foot, to be
Colonel.
Major John Thomas Dalyell, 21st Foot, to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel.

Captain Wm. John Dorehill, half-pay, late 43d Foot,
Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the death of Major-General Sir Thomas Harte Franks
K.C.8., on the sth Feb., 1862: ,
Brevet-Colonel George Wm. Key, from Lieut.-Colonel
half-pay, 44th Foot, serving as a Brigadier-General on the
Staff of the Army in Ireland, to be Major •General.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hamilton, C.B.,Major
78th Foot, to be Colonel.

Major George Neeld Boldero, 21st Foot, to bo Lieuten-
ant-Cololiel.

Captain William Francis Stehelin, 67th Foot, to be
Major.

BANKRUPTS.
James Weston, miller, Flimwell, Sussex
John Graham, clerk, Westmoreland-place, Camberwell
Joseph S. Hemp, tailor, North-road, Highgate
Charles Highfield, greengrocer, Caledonian-road
Edmund Newman, salesman, Walworth
Thomas J. Cleaver, Colbath square, Clerkenwell
James Meaton, merchant, Fenchurch• street
William Syer, builder, Chetsworth
John T. Canning, miller, Grove-villas, Hounslow
William Ealden, accountant, Gloucester-terrace, Vaux-
hall bridge-road
George Mesher, licensed victualler, Weybourne, Surrey
James Berger, commission agent, King's-road, Chelsea
Mark W. Kingsland, miller, Barham, Kent
William Anderson, colourman, Marylobone
Judah Barnett, furrier, Goswell-street, Middlesex
Charles Upton baker, Stepney
Chas. Musto Fisher, carpenter, Hight-street, Peckham
John Stubbs and Thos, Stubbs, manure dealers, Com-
mercial-road
Chas. J. Agg, assistant bookbinder, Paternoster-row
George H. Larking, grocer, Wapping
Francis J. 'Preacher, chair maker, Chepping Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire
George T. Whitington, statist, New Broad •street, city
Thomas Woodham, painter, Rathbone-place, Oxford- st
Peter Dempsey, calico printer, Mitcham
Ernest Dawson, clerk in the Admiralty, Upper Norwood
George Newton, carpenter, Upper Thames-street, City
George Piper, glover, Uckfield, Surrey
George Barnes, baker, Harringworth,lNorthamptonshiro
John Roffey, butcher, Caledonian-road
Richard Chapman King, attorney, Great Coram-ktreet
Thomas William Sawyer, baker, Bethnal-green
William Francis, leather merchant, Bermondsey
Adam Hunter Craig, india rubber manufacturer, London
Thos. Moorwood, furniture dealer, Marylebono
Robert Greedus, china dealer, Compton-street
James Hooper, clerk, Bermondsey
Wms T. Knightsbridge, journeyman butcher, Mans-
field-street, Kingsland-road
Robert de Neufvillo Lucas, attorney, Greenwich
Hockley F. Wood, solicitor, London
Thomas Dickinson, colonial agent, Mincing. lane
Louis Steer, commission agent, Rotherhitho
Peter C. G roig, greengrocer, Munster-street,Regent' s-park
Ausehar Chauncy, artist, Whitecross-street Prison
Benjamin Spittle, horse dealer, Chelsea

THE GRECIAN THEATRE.—THE EXCISE AUTHO-
RITIES DEFEATED.—Mr. Benjamin Oliver Conquest, the
proprietor of the Grecian Theatre, City-road, appeared
yesterday at Bow-street, to answer a SUM 410 MS charging
him with selling spirits in the theatre without a licence,
but it was contended on the part of the Crown that the
licence did not extend to the theatre, as that was a distinct
trade or business from that of a publican. The Magistrate
WM of a contrary opinion, and dismissed the swum,

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ATTEMPTED MUItD_ER BY A DISAPs
POINTED LOVER,

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At the Special Petty Sessions, held at Guildford
yesterday morning, Alfred Edward Stevens, a
young man aged about eighteen, the son of a trades-
mar. at Chobham, was charged with shooting Eliza
Dewberry, with intent to murder her. The cir-
cumstances of the case are of an extraordinary
character, and great excitement prevails in the
neighbourhood where the crime was committed.
The following is the substance of the evidence ad-
duced yesterday, when Mr. Humphreys, jun., of
Newgate-street, instructed by the authorities at
Scotland•yard, through the instrumentality of Sir
Denis Le Merchant, Bart., whose mansion is et
Chobham place, conducted the prosecution. The
prisoner was undefended. The girl, Erin Dew-
berry, who is 22 years of age, was living last
December in the service of Mr. Lake, of Chobhanh
and the prisoner wished to keep company with her,
but his overtures were rejected. This disappoint-
ment seems to have worked upon the young man's
mind so much that he is supposed to have made two
attempts to take Eliza Dewberry's life. One even-
ing, about a week before Christmas, when Mr. and
Mrs. Lake were sitting in their drawing-room, the
girl had occasion to pass between the lamp and the
window, and, almost immediately afterwards a gun
was fired through the window, and a bullet, which
passed within four inches of Mr. Lake's head, broke
the lamp and the looking-glass, and rebounded
without injuring any one. The authorities at Scot-
land-yard were communicated with by Sir Denle
Le Merchant, and Detective Whicher went down
to Chobham to make inquiries, and had an inter'
view with Stevens, who was suspected at that time,
but nothing resulted from these proceedings, fa'
though a reward of £5O was offered by Mr, Lake,
for the discovery of the offender. At the end ca,
January Eliza Dewberry left her situation and
went to reside with her parents at Sutton, near
Guildford, where, on the 13th inst., the offence
with which the prisoner stands charged was col;
mitted. On the 9th of this month Stevens called
at Dewberry's cottage and asked to see the Oh
but the mother, knowing her daughter's wisheei
said she was from home. About half-past seven
o'clock on Thursday night Mrs. Dewberry and her
daughter were sitting in the kitchen, which faces
the high road, when they heard the report of fire'
arms, and two pallets passed immediately over theit,
heads and struck the opposite wall. The escape ?'
both women is most remarkable, for they were sit"
ting in a line, and the daughter, who was between
the candle and window, within five feet of the latter,
was in the act of stooping the moment the gun was
fired, The shadow of the daughter would fall upon
the blind, and the cottage is low built, so that 5
gun might easily be fired from the garden into the
kitchen. Several persons saw the prisoner walking
in the direction of Sutton, between 6 and 7on
Thursday night, and returning towards Chobhao!
between 8 and 9. Nearly all of them noticed that
he carried something under his coat, and one woman
swore positively that he had a gun. A girl named
Emma Fricker was walking past Dewberry's house
at the hour in question, and saw prisoner standing
before it. When he noticed her he walked awoll
but before she had gone many yards she heard e
gun fired, and, turning round, saw some one runnlog
away in the direction of Chobham. This witnee'
saw no other person in the neighbourhood of DOW'
berry's cottage that evening. The young man Woe
arrested next morning at his father's house, whet°
the police found a gun which bore marks of having
been recently discharged. The prisoner, who merely
said he was innocent of the charge, was committed
to take his trial at the next Surrey Assizes.