The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

MAJORITY OF 7HE PRINCE OF WALES.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

(Frain the London Gazette Extraordinary of last night )

WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nor. 10.
The Queen has been graciously pleased, on the occasion
of the coming' of age of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, to give orders for the following promotions in the
Army, and appointments to the Most Honourable Order
of the Bath :

COLONEL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD,
PRINCE OF WALES AND DUKE OF l-ORNWALL,K.G..
K. 5.1., &c., to be GENERAL. Dated 9th November,
1862.

General the Right Hon. Sir Edward Blakeney, G.C.8.,
G.C.H.
General Hugh, Viscount Gough, K,P,, G.C.8., K.S.I.
General his Royal Highness Ge3rge 'William Frederick
Charles, Duke of Cambridge, K,G., K.P., G.C.8.,
and

General Cohn, Lord Clyde, G.C.8., K. 5.1.,
To be Field-Marshals.
9th Nc.vember, 1862.
To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
First Class, or Knights Grand Cross, of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath ; viz. :
General Sir John Wright Guise, Bart., K.C.B.
General Sir John Forster Fitz Gerald, K.C.B.
Admiral the Earl of Lauderdale, K.C.B.
Admiral Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.B.
To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the said Most
Honourable Order, viz. :
Admiral the Hon. George Elliot, C.B.
General the Hon. Hugh Arbuthnott, C.B.
Gene:al bir John Hanbury, Kt.
General the Marquis of Tweddale, K.T., C.B.
Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., C.B.
General William Greenshields Power, C.B.
General Henry George Andrew Taylor, C. 8., Madras
Army.
Admiral William Bowles, C.B.

General Alexander Lindsay, C. 8., Bengal Army.
General Sir James Henry Reynett, Kt,
General Richard Lluellyn, C.B.
General Charles Grene Ellicombe, C.B.
Lieutenant-General George Turner, C.B.
Viet?. Admiral Wm. Tames Hope Johnstone.
Lieutenant-General James Freeth.
Lieutenant-General John Low, C. 8., Madras Army.
Lieutenant-General Sir James Charles Chatterton, Bart.
Lieutenant-General Alex. Kennedy Clark Kennedy,C.B.
Lieutenant-General Michael White, C.B.
Lieutenant-General David Capon, C. 8., Bombay Army.
Vice-Admiral James Scott, C.B.
Major-General Sir Abraham Josias Cloete, C.B.
Rear-Admiral Charles Talbot.
Major-General William Henry Elliott.
Rear-Admiral John M'Dougall.
Rear-Admiral George Rodney Mundy, C,B.
Lieutenant-General Samuel Robert Wesley, Royal
Marines.

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 10.
In pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure :
Admiral of the Red

Sir Graham Eden Hamond, Bart., G.C.8., has this day
been promoted to be Admiral of the Fleet; and, in conse-
quence thereof, the following promotions, also dated this
day, have taken place :

Admiral of the White the Right Honourable Anthony
Earl of Lauderdale, K.C,8., K.C. St. M. and St. G., to be
Admiral of the Red.

Admiral of the Blue Sir George Rose Sartorius, Kt., to
be Admiral of the White.
Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.B,
to be Admiral of the Blue.

Vice-Admiral of the White the Hon. Sir Montagu Stop*
ford, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue James Scott, C. 8., to be Vier -
Ad miral of the White.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Thomas Best, on the Rer,erved
List, to be Vice-Admiral on the same List.

Rear •Admiral of the Red Charles Ramsay Drinkwater
Bethune, C. 8., to be Vice. Admiral of the Blu3.
Rear-Admiral of the White the Hon. Sir henry Keppel,
K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red,
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Robert T.'anshawe Stopford to
be Rear-Admiral of the White,
Captain Richard Collinso4, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of
the Blue.
Retired Vice-Admirals Augustus Baldwin and Henry
Colins Deacon to have the rank and title of Retired Ad-
miral, under Order in. Council of 7th May, 1858.

THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADE OF NEW

YORK.

The clipper ship Dreadnought, of this port, yesterday ar-
rived in safety from Liverpool, after making a bon detour
to the northward in order to avoid the attentions of Capt.
Semmes and the rebel steamer Alabama. It is somewhat
humiliating for us to chronicle such a fact as this, and to
admit that, whereas we have been blockading Charleston
and Savannah by fleets at the very mouths of their harbours
for 18 months with the grand net result of sending into
those ports more large foreign steamers than ever entered
them before, the Confederates have succeeded in so tho-
roughly blockading New York by a couple of steamers at
the Azores as to compel our ordinary transatlantic com-
merce to coast the icy shores of Greenland for safety. The
contrast is painful, and we can but trust that it may not be
unprofitable. It certainly will not be, if the authorities of
the Navy Department are accessible to the emotions of pa-
triotic shame and indignation which the contemplation of
such a state of things must awaken in every citizen's
bosom. But the Navy Department is not the only branch
of the Government interested in the disgraceful revelations
of this singular long-flange blockade. It will be observed,
that in receiving the news of the arrival of the Dread-
nought, we are further notified, "on good authority," that
there is no danger of any interference by the Alabama or
the 290 (for these two appear not to be one, save in the
fiendish spirit of their commanders) with our emigrant
ships coming to New York, since "an understanding to
that effect has been had between the owners of the 290 and
her captain." This is cool, certainly, as well as comforting.
We are to understand, are we, that the business of fitting out
privateers to prey upon American commerce is so openly and
quietly carried on at Liverpool that loyal American citizens
resident there and engaged in the emigrant trade can ascer-
tain precisely what danger there is of any harm coming to
1 hem and their ships by any particular cruiser which may be
on the point of leaving port. If this be so, we beg leave re-
spectfully, but firmly, to inquire of the State Department
whether we have such an official at Liverpool as an Ameri-
can consul ; also, whether it can be regarded as being wholly
out of the power of such an official (supposing him to exist,
to ascertain facts familiar to all the shipping world about
him, or as being wholly out of the sphere of his duty to en-
deavour to ascertain such facts and act upon them when
ascertained. It certainly is singular that while we are all
of us bitterly denouncing the British Government for not
putting a stop to the armament and expedition of vessels
destined to prey upon our trade, we should have heard no-
thing of any steps taken by our own commercial agents to
require action in the premises of the British authorities. It
is the function, not of British, but of American officials, to
protect American interests. If British officials choose to
wink at the violation of British laws, that does not excuse
our officials for their negligence in not calling the attention
of their British compeers to such violations. If bargains
and agreements, securing the safety of this or that class of
merchant ships, can be made at Liverpool between enter-
prising outfitters of steam-frigates and loyal American
shippers, it is clear that the State Department of the United
States Government ought to know something about the
matter. If it neither knows nor can learn anything in re-
ference thereto we shall not be surprised to hear before long
that the British and Southern Joint-Stock Association for
Sweeping the Seas has opened offices in Liverpool and Lon-
don for the sale of safe-conducts to American ships of all
sorts at reasonable rates.—. New York Times of Oct. 27.