The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-29 00:00:00

Captain, by parchaise, vice Read, whose promotion by
purchase, on the 27th May, 1862, has been cancelled.
54th Foot—le
—nsign Wm. Edmuud Wilkinson, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Sir Charles Wentworth Bur-
dett, Bart., who retires; Gentleman Cadet Mileson
Edgar, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Wilkinson.
57th Foot—G. rifleman Cadet Edmend Broderip, from the
Royal Military Collegueiatuoreb,eirtesneire Paul Francis Clarke, by purchase, vice
60th Foot—Assistant Surgeon Ale., Campbell Meravish
from the 72. i Foot, to be AssistantzSurgeen, %ice Macart:
ney, appointed to the Staff.
61st Foot—Staff Surgeon Usher Williamson Evans, M.D.,
to be Surgeon,
rs. vice T. Ligertwood,
appointed t
the 4th Hussa
list
Fol9th Foot ot—Quartt ermaster John James Macdonald, fr
the , obe Quartermaster, vice Ja Twigogm,
who exchanges. mes
72d Foot—Staff. Assistant-Surgeon Joseph John Pe be Assistant-Surgeon, vice IM‘Taviett, appointed toP the
the 60th Foot.
73d Foot—Lieutenant Hastings D'Oyley Farrington, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Horatio Petus Batcheler, who
retires; Ensign Peter Trant Foley to be Lieutenant by
purchase, vice Farrington; Gentleman adet George
Stanley Orred, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Foley ; Paymaster Joseph
Hely, trom the 4th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Captain
Cassidy, transferred to the 4th Foot.
78th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
Grseme Alexander Lockhart, C.8.,t0 be Major, without
pu chase, vice Brevet-Colonel enry Hamilton, C. 8.,
made Supernumerary upon beicg appointed Assistant-
Adjutant-General at Cork; Lieutenant Frederick Henry
'Walsh, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Lockhart;
Ensign James Thomas Stewart Richardson, to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Walsh; Herbert Herbert
Stepney, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Richard-
son.
79th Foot—Ensign Arthur Hume, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Gilbert Walter Coventry, who retires ;
George Campbell, Gent. (late I ientenant 3.1 West York
Militia) to be Ensign by purchase, vice Hume.
83d Few—Major Augustus Barnard Hankey to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Edward Steele, C. 8.,
who retires; Captain and Brevet 'Major Edward Bowen
Cooke to be Major, by purchase, vice Hawkey ; Lieut.
George Gant Beazley to be captain, by purchase, vice
Cooke; Ensign Frederick Augustus 'Wright to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Beazley; Gentleman Cadet
Henry Church, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Wright.
86th Foot—The third Chr stian name of Ensign Jardine is
penes, and not Palmer, as stated in the Gazette of the
Sth July, 1862.
89th Foot—Staff Surgeon John Thomas W Bacot to be
Surgeon, vice Porter, appointed to the 97th Foot.
931 hoot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Charles Bax-
ter, M 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice cinclair, pro-
moted on the Stiff.
97th Foot—Surgeon Joshua Henry Porter, from the 89th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Alexander Macrae, M.D.,
dee,- aced.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Edwyn Thomas to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Arthur George St. George,
who retires; Christian liranford Steward, Gent. (late
Lieutenant 80th Foot), tobeEnsign, by purchase, vice
Thomas.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant henry Thomas,
from Quartermaster, half pay, late 87th Fuot, to be
Lieutenant, vice lienloch, appointed to the 1 th Foot ;
Ensign Egbert, William Cooper to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Thomas, who retires; William Phelps,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cooper.
Royal Newfoundland Companies Ensign Charles
Andrew Irw.n to be Lieutenant, without purchase, urchase, vice
Coen, promoted to an unattached' Company,
pur-
chase; Archibald James Arnott, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Irwin.
Royal Malta Fencible Artillery - Lieutenant, with local
and temporary rank, Henry Mentanaro to be Paymaster,
vice Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, Vin-
cenzo Rizzo, who retires upon half-pay.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLECIE.—Captain EdWard Wool-
house, from half-pay, late 16th Foot, Superintending
Officer Recruiting District, to be Captain of a Company
of Gentlemen Cadets. To be Lieutenants of Companies
of Gentlemen Cadets—Lieutenant. Henry Gordon Rogers,
49th Foot; Lieutenant John William Fry, 86th Foot;
and Lieutenant George Eyre Massy, sth Foot.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,
Assistant Surgeon James Sinclair, M.D., from the 2d
Foot, to b,- Staff Surgeon, vice William Odell, M.D., placed
upon half-pay.
Assistant Surgeon William Sinclair, from the 9'd Foot,
to he Staff Surgeon, v.ce Bacot appointed to the 97th Foot.
Staff Assistant Surgeon Francis Lewis Fitzgerald to be
Staff Surgeon, vice William Carson, M.D., placed upon
halt--pay.
Staff-Assistant-Surgeon John Bradshaw to be Staff-
Surgeon, vice Patrick Andrew McDermott, appointed to
the 3d West India Regiment.
Assistant-Surgeon Robert Fleetwood Andrews, from the
2d Dragon Guards, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Fitzgerald, promoted on the Staff.
Assistant-Surgeon James Macartney, from the 60th
Foot, to be SteeAssistant-Surgeon, vice Pope, appointed
to the 72a Foot.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon James Land, M D., from half
pay, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bradshaw, pro
muted on the Staff.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Heazle, has been per.
milted to resign his commission.
PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.
Purveyor's Clerk Edward Godrich, to be Deputy Pun.
veyor.

BREVET.
Lieutenant. Colonel Healy Francis Strange, C. 8., Royal
Artillery, having complei:td a qualifying service in the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, under the Bth, :oth, and 11th
clan es of the Royal Warrant of 14th October, 18.8, to be
Colonel in the Army.
The undermentioned Officers, retired upon full-pay, to
have a step of honorary rank
Colonel Piercy Benn, retired full-pay, Royal Artillery,
t i be M aj or- General.
Lieu enant-Colonel James Travers, retired full-pay, Ist
West India Regiment, to be Colonel.
Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. Carruthers,
retired full-pay, late half-pay, late St. Helena Regiment,
to be Colonel.

BANKRUPTS.
[The following are the only bankrupts of commercial
importance which appear in the Gazette:—]
James Page, jun., boot and shoe manufacturer, Spital-
fields
John Kuetting, Deptford, journeyman baker
John Thrtckery and Fred. Win. Swales, curriers, York
William Cook, draper, Newcastle-upon-lyne
Richard Andrews, grocer, Somerset
George Thrift, farmer, Hants
Peter Hill, gear and slay manufaturer, Bradford
James Goddard, whitesmith, bloucester
John George Ton, wire worker, Derby
Michael George Rice, professor of music, Torquay
Thomas Wattkin Williams, apothecary, Birmingham
Henry Powell, farmer, Talgarth, Brecon.
Thomas Jones, soap maker, Bedminster, Bststol
Joseph Wilson and John Butterworth, cloth manufac-
turers, Morley, Yorkshire
Wan. Luxtord, budder, Suttcn, Surrey
H. W. Ad ims, merchant, Cannon .street, City
Henry Squires, gun barrel manufacturer, Pentonville
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Alexander, commission agent, Glasgow
David Rusvell, grocer and fruit merchant, Hamilton
Lawrence Robertson, portioner, Glasgow
Matthew Tunnock, soli3it4,r, Edinburgh.
Alexander M'Laren, hotel keeper, Perth.
William Waters, oil merchant, Glasgow
Jean's Barr and Co., wood merchants, Glasgow
David Drysdale, manufacturer, Alva

COURSE OF EXCHAINTGE.—Tnis DAT.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam
11 18
11 17/
Antwerp
2.5 40 25 45
Brussels — 25 40 25 45
Han burgh — 13 13 8
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1191 1191
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 471 2.5 521
Milan — 25 47t 25 621
Genoa — 25 47! 25 521
Naples
Palermo — 1191 1191
Messina
Lisbon — 521 54
Oporto — 521 63
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons

GREAT FIRE AT THE GOSWELL ROAD DIS-
TILLERN.—(TILIS DAY.}—The most extensive confla-
gration that has occurred in the parish of Clerken-
well, hap ened this morning about two o'clock,
and in a very brief space of tine laid in ruins
property valued at several thousand pounds ster-
ling. The scene of the fire was the Goswell .road distiller
and chemical works, the property of Messrs. Medway and
Co, situate in Owen's-row, Goswell- road. A nutube r o engines having arrived, the mains of the New
Hive f
r
Company were drawn, but unfortunately the supply of
water was insufficient to feed so many encrilaes
gade worked in a most admirable manner,
fire under.
torrokhethbermi-
manner,several hours before they could get the
under. The
origin of the fire is enveloped in obscurity Fortunately
the firm was insured in the Sun Fire-office.
THE ALLEGED MURDER AND - ffiROBBERY AT Hox-
ToN.—This morning the inquiry was resumed before Mr.
Humphreys, at the Green Nlan
ing the death of Mr. Samuel Tavern, Heaton, respect-
Ebenezerf Chapel, Hoxton,Chapman, aged 70, deaicbolen
ino
the adjoinin , who was found
robbed and violent] and who was alleged to have been
y garo ted, under very extraordinary
and mysterious eireuros anees, on the 7th inst. The
Coroner said that the police authorities had only just taken
up the case, and they were most anxious that, for the ends
of justice, there should be another adjournment at the
present stage. The case was accordingly adjourned.
The Unita ltaliana of Alilan, a Mazzinian organ,
not conspicuous for scrupulous veracity, publishes a tele-.
gram from Florence announcing that a grand demonstra-
tion took place there on the 23d in favou r of the political
prisoners, with cries of "viva Garibaldi l" 'Viva Maz-
zini 1" No information has yet reached us from any other
quarter.
The trial of the Italian journals seized for pub-
lishing Garibaldi's speech at Palermo will commence on
the 2d of August. It is stated the defendants have re-
Is .lved to cite General Garibaldi as one of the witnesses.
According to a circular of Messrs. Arles Dufour
and Co.. the hopes excited in the Lyons silk market by the
orders received on American account in May and June, in
anticipation of the gradual success of the Federal armies
leading to a prompt pacification having been disappointed,
ransactions are now almost at a stand, and prices show a
decline of about 3 to 5 per cent. from those at the end of
eat month.