The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-25 00:00:00

God save the Qneen.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 3.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James
Duncan Thomson as Consul at Cape Town for his Majesty
the King of Portugal and the Algarves.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Peter
Petersen as Vice-Consul at Hull fur the Grand Duke of
iklecklenb urgh Sch werin.

CROWN-OFFICE, AUG. 25.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

County of Aberdeen—The Honourable George John
James Gordon (commonly called Lora Haddo), in the room
of Vice-Admiral the Honourable William Gordon, who
has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chil-
tern Hundreds.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 23.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council fur Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a. despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, in-
closing the translation of a Portuguese decree, by which
the importation of foreign Indian corn is permitted into
fire several ports of Portugal and the port of Funchal, in
the Island of Madeira, until the 31st of December next,
together with a Royal Order permitting its Importation
into the ports of Vida. do C4ide, Oporto, and Aveiro, and
its entry through the fiscal stations in the Provinces of the
Minho and Traz os Montes, until the 15th of September of
the present year.
.WAR-OFFICE, Ansa. 25.
To be Ensigns by purchase.
let Regiment of Foot—ltedrnond Bewley Caton, Geut.,
August 24; John Archibald Cumtning, Gent., August 25.
3d Foot—Barnes John Caldecott, Gent., August 21.
sth Foot—Oliver Colt., Gent., August 25.
7th Foot (ward John Disney, Gent., August 25.
9th Harris Borland, Gent., August 25.
11th Foot—Stuart James Shortt, Gent., August 25.
13th Foot—Henry Giilett, 'Gent., August 24; William
James, Gent., August 25.
14th Foot—John Donaldson Bradley, Gent., August 25.
15th Foot—Walter Godwin Hawkins, Gent., August 23;
Thomas Eccles Dickson, Gent., August 25.
17th Foot—Frederick Carr Swinnerton Dyer, Gent.,
August 21; Archibald Hammond Tjtterson., Gent., Au-
gust 25.

18th Foot—Wm. Kemp, Gent., Aug. 24 ; Fairfax
Fearnley, Gent., Aug. 25.
20th Foot—John Little, Gent., Aug. 25.
26th Foot—Joseph Lowndes, Gent., Aug. 24 ; William
Beers, Gent., Aug. 25.
31st Foot -George Bayley, Gent., Ang. 24; Gordon
George Cowper, Gent., Aug. 25.
34th Foot—Norman Ramsay, Gent., Aug. 24 , Edward
Jordan, Gent., Aug. 25.
39th Foot—James Gibbon Smyth, Gent., Aug. 25.
46th Foot—John Horndon Messenger, Gent., Aug. 25.
47th Foot—Richard Parker Fawkes, Gent. Aug. 24 ;
Wm. Carnegy de Balinhard, Gent., Aug. 25.
48th Foot—James Farquhar, Gent., Aug. 25; Thomas
Collings Maguire, Gent., Aug. 25.
51st Foot—Augustus Brigstocke, Gent., Aug. 24; Sid-
ney Henry Sw.Atield, Gent.' Aug. 25.
54th Foot--Thomas Parr, Gent., Aug. 24; John Steven-
son, Gent., Aug. 25.
56th Foot—Thomas Pierce Butler, Gent., Aug. 23.
57th Foot—Steuart Smyth Windham, Gent., Aug. 25.
59th Foot—George Joy, Gent., Aug. 25.
60th Foot—Llewellyn Edmund Traherne, Gent.,
Aug. 24 ; James Joseph Collins, Gent., Aug. 25.
63d Foot—Samuel Ashton ete Benyon, Gent., Aug.
24 ; Lawrence Edward Knox, Gent., Aug. 25.
65th Foot—Arthur Branthwayt 'ice'', Gent., Aug. 25.
66th Foot—Henry Charles Spearman, Gent., Aug. 24;
John B ding Short, Gent., Aug. 25.
68th Foot—Edmund Peel Ethelston, Gent., Aug. 24;
John Hobart Online Seymour, Gent., Aug. 25.
69th Foot—Henry Scott Turner, Gent., Aug. 25.
77th Foot—George Edward Leggett, Gent , Aug. 25.
79ch Foot—William John MacAnight Crawford, Gent.,
Aug. 25.
80th Foot—Henry George- Pattisson, Gent., Aug. 24;
Robert James Maxwell, Gent., Aug. 25.
Rifle Brigade —John Pluintree Carr Glynn, Gent.,
Aug. 23.