The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-10 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

CHESTER RACES-TIIIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

CHESTER CUP.
LATEST BETTING.
7 to 2 agst Ackirorth (offered)
9to 2 agst Helen (taken)
15 to 2 agst Highilyer's dam colt (taken)
100 to 8 agst Lion (taken)
100 to 7 agst Victorious (taken)
100 to 7 agst Gratitude (taken)
100 to 6 agst Buckfoot (taken)
20 to 1 agst Grinder (taken)
25 to 1 agst Moastissima filly (taken)
25 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken)
33 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken)
33 to 1 agst Soumise (taken)

LONDON GAZE rTE---Last Evening.

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• FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 5.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Carl
Gustaf Akerberg as Consul at the Cape of Good. Hope for
his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway.
WHITEHALL, MAY 8.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Arthur Blomfield, 8.A., to the Rectory of Barton-in-the-
Clay, in the county of Bedford, and diocese of Ely, void
by the cesijon of the Reverend William Gill.

CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 9.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT

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Esq.,
he room of William Williams, Borough of Lambeth.—es Clarke Lawrence,Sa
deceased. E
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, MAY 9. • 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Li
Guards—Lieutenant Molyneux
to bo Captain, by purchase, vice Newton
Chichester, who retires ; Cornet Morris Ba Charles
C tun rosbi
Yescombe to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
vice George '
Henry Bacchus, whoretires; Cornet Richard D'Olier
George to Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Molyneux
Ensign Jacob Pieter Deneys Vanrenen, from the Cape
Mounted Rifiemen,to be Cornet, vice Yescornb:l • Cornet
Henry Askew Cherry, from 4th Hussars, to t„; Cornet,
vice George.
13th Hussars—William George Middleton, Gent., to ho
Cornet, by purchase, vice Timothy Fetherstonhaugh,
who retires.
15th Hussars—Lieutenant Hugh Humphrys to be Captain,
by purchase, vice John Robert' Heron Maxwell, who
retires ; Cornet Robert Marcus Briscoe to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Humphrys.
16th Lancers—William Noel Hill, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Roderick Grogan Mackenzie, who retires.
2d Regiment of Foot—Surgeon Francis Cogan to be Sur-
geon-Major, for highly meritorious services during the
epidemic of yellow fever in Bermuda.
sth Foot—Lieutenant William Enderby to bo Captain, by
purchase, vice Frederick James Mylius, who retires ;
Ensign Edward Drew to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Eudeiby.
6th Foot—Ensign Sydney George Granville to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice James Franklin, who retires;
Richard Meredith, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Granville.
10th Foot—Lieutenant Matthew Coke to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Andrew Cathcart Bogle, promoted, by
purchase, to a half-pay Majority; Ensign Hougham
Charles Huntley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Coke.
11th Foot—Ensign Erasmus Harris Vaughton to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice William Clegg, deceased ;
Ensign Edward Reginald Mynors Baskervilie to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Vaughton, whose promotion,
on March 3, 1865, has been cancelled • Gentleman Cadet
Dennett Thomas Kinder, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Baskerville.
13th Foot—Lieuteant St. John Green, from 102 d Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice M'Mullin, who exchanges ; Christian
Hollingworth, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Archibald Henry Swinton, who retires.
23d Foot—Lieutenant Archibald Robert Winstanley to be
Captain,_ by purchase, vice Edward Armstrong, who re-
tires ; Ensign John Charles Bradshaw to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Winstanley; Francis Lionel Mor-
daunt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bradshaw.
32d Foot—James Jocelyn Glascott, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice William Molyneux Rose, who re-
tires.
40th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arthur Wilkinson, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Edward Stack, promoted.
47th Foot—Lieut. William Seton Dent to be Adjutant, vice
Lieut. Henry Gem, promoted.
81st Foot—Lieut. Henry Benjamin Pedder, from 101st
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Sladen, who exchanges.
101st Foot—Mieut. William Dare Sladen, from 81st Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Pedder, who exchanges.
102 d Foot—Lieut. John M'Mullin, from 13th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Green, who exchanges.
103 d Foot—Lieut. William Sydney Nugent, to be Instruc-
tor of Musketry, vice Lieut. John Henry Bridges, who
has been ordered to join the depot.
4th West India Regiment—Lieutenant Francis Charles
Gavegan, from the late sth West India Regiment, to bo
Lieutenant, vice Frederick Douglas Crozier, who retires
upon temporary half-pay;
Ensign R.K.Barrow from the
late sth West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Chris-
topher Boyd McLarty Morales, deceased.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Staff Surgeon-Major Thomas
Waller Barrow to be Deputy Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals, for highly meritorious services during the epide-
mic of yellow fever in Bermuda.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. J. Virtue, Chaplain
of the fourth class, to be Chaplain of the third class, for
distinguished and meritorious services during the recent
prevalence of yellow fever in Bermuda ; the Rev. S. B.
Windsor, Chaplain of the fourth class, to be Chap-
lain of the third class.
HALF-PAY.—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Ed-
ward Gascoigno Bulwer, C. 8., from 23rd Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase ; Lieutenant Robert
John Stewart, from the late sth West India Regiment, to
be Captain, without purchase.
BREVET.

Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel George Bryan
Milman, sth Foot, having completed the qualifying service
in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel, under the
Royal Warrant of 14th October, 1858.
The under-mentioned Warrant Officers to have the
honorary rank of Lieutenant :--_ _

Deputy Commissary Edward Rooks, Public Works
Department, Bengal.
Assistant Deputy Commissary Alexander O'Berne, Public
Works Department, Bengal.
Assistant Deputy Commissary Henry Wheldon, Com-
missariat Department, Madras.
Assistant Doputy Commissary John James Ward Ord,
Commissariat Department, Madras.