The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-02 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WINDSOR-CASTLE, Nov. 25.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Captain Stephen Bartlett Lakeman,
late Commander of Lakeman's Waterkloof Rangers.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Pownall Dale as Consul at Port Stanley for the Free Han-
seatic City of Hamburg.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Frederick Cruickshank to the church and united parishes
of Lethnot and Navar, in the presbytery of Brechin and
county of Forfar, vacant by the death of the Reverend
John Whyte.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARINE
DEPARTMENT, DEC. 1.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a
translation of a Proclamation (an extract from which is sub-
joined), issued by the Neapolitan Government, giving no-
tice of a law for facilitating the apprehension of British
seamen deserting from British merchant vessels in the
Neapolitan dominions, which has been signed by his
Sicilian Majesty, as a measure of reciprocity for the Order
in Council of the 19th August last, extending to Neapoli-
tan merchant vessels the benefit of "The Foreign Desert.
ers Act, 1852,"
By order,

JAMES BOOTH.
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" Art. 1. Seamen, not being slaves, belonging to the
Mercantile Navy of her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, who may desert
within our Royal dominions, on either side of the Faro,
shall, upon application to the authorities of the Kingdom
from the Consuls or the Vice-Consuls of her Britannic
Majesty, or from persons appointed by them, be appre-
hended and carried on board their respective ships."
Naples, September 13, 1853.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 2.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons— Cornet George Sil-
vester Davies, from the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet,
vice Gandell, who exchanges,
Dec.
11th Light Dragoons—Cornet 2.
Alfred Wall Gandell, from
the 10th Light Dragoons,, to be Cornet, vice Davies, who
exchanges, Dec. 2.
4th Regiment of Foot—John Howley, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Honourablee A. H. A. Anson,
appointed to the Rifle Brigad DD, . 2
—surgeon. Thomas Arc y, M.D., from the
13th Foot
30th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Dowse, who exchanges,
Dec. 2.
22nd Foot—First Lieutenant William Dobyns, from the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice John Wm.
poole, who retires upon half-pay, of the Ceylon Rifle
Regiment, Dec. 2.
30th Foot—Surgeon Richard Robert Dowse, from the
13th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice D'Arcy, who exchanges,
Dec. 2.

44th Foot—Ensign Levett Thoroton, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Willson, who retires ; Alexander Wm.
Cobham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thoroton,
Dec. 2.

53d Foot—Captain John M'Neill Walter to be Major,
by purchase, vice Lempriere, who retires ; Lieutenant
John Breton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Walter;
Ensign William Henry James Clarke to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Breton ; John Rolle Prideaux, Gent., to be
Ensign' by purchase, vice Clarke, Dec. 2.
54th Foot—William Mitchell Firth, Gent., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Moorhead, appointed to the Staff,
Dec. 2,
56th Foot—Lieutenant John Pye Pye to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Hanson, deceased ; Ensign Samuel
Henry Harford to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Pye Pye ; Gentleman Cadet John Henry Campbell, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Harford; Assistant-Staff-Surgeon Francis Wal-
ters Knox to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lawson, deceased,
Dec. 2.

61st Foot—Lieuten ant Edward Shawo Powys to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Frederick Huson, who retires ;
Ensign Thomas Edward Gordon to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Powys ; Ensign John Joseph Paterson Fox,
from the St. Helena Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Gordon,
Dec. 2.

72d Foot—Mostyn De la Poer Beresford, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Smith, who retires, Dec. 2.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign the Hon. Augustus Henry Archi-
bald Anson, from the 4th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Hale, who retires, Dec. 2.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Moor-
head, M.D., from the 54th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon
to the Forces, vice Knox, appointed to the 56th Foot,
Dec. 2.

Erratum in printing the Gazette of the 25th Nov. :-
34th Regiment of Foot—For Francis Richard Hurt to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Peel, read, Ensign Fran-
cis Richard Hurt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Peel.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Merionethshire Militia—Robert Mascie Taylor, Esq., to
be Adjutant, Oct. 4.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED RY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia—Joseph Erlam, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
West Suffolk Regiment of Militia—John Walsham,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, Nov. 25.