The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

THANKS',IIVING FOR HARVEST.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th clay of
September, 1854. Present—tho Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in, Council.
It is this clay ordered by her Majesty in Council, that
his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a
Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for
the present abundant Harvest ; and that such Form of
Prayer and Thanksgiving- be used in all churches and chapels
in Englard and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-on-
Tweed, on Sunday the first day of October next.
And it is hereby further ordered, that her Majesty's
Printer do forthwith print a competent number of copies
of the said Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving, in order that
the same may he forthwith sent round and read in the
several churches and chapels of England and Wales, and of
the town of Berwick-6n-Tweed.

• C. C. GREVILLE.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of
September, 1854. Present—the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in CoUncil.
It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that all
Ministers and Preachers, as well of the Established Church
in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as of the
Episcopal Commission protected and allowed by an Act
passed in the tenth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen
Anne, chap. 7, do at some time during the exercise of
Divine Service in their churches, congregations, or assem-
blies, on Sunday the first. day of October next, put up
Prayers and Thanksgivings to Almighty God for the pre-
sent abundant Harvest. C. C. GREVILLE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 3.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. Charles Augu,tv,s Murray, C. 8., now her Majesty's
Minister Plenipoten',,iary to the Swiss Confederation, to be
her Majesty's Enwiy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to the Sk.tah of Persia.
DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 13.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Richard Madox Bromley, Esq.,
Accountant-General of her Majesty's Navy, to be an
Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third
Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 15.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Adolphus
Boyd as Consul at Melbourne, in Australia, for the King
of Prussia.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Carmichael as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of
Salvador.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint, under the pro-
visions of the "Act to provide for the bettor registration
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland," William
Pitt Dundas, Esq., the Deputy of the Lord Clerk Register
of Scotland, to be Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages in Scotland.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 14.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Henry
Travis, Esq., to be a Police Magistrate and Justice of the
Peace for the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull.
[The following notice is substituted for that which ap-
peared in the Gazette of the 29th of August last.]
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARINE
DEPARTMENT, AUGUST 29.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trado and Plantations have received from her
Majesty's Acting Consul at Rotterdam the following
translation of a notice, issued by the Netherland Minister
of Marine, relative to the lights on Schiermonnikoog
Island.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The Ministei of Marine gives notice, with reference to
the notification of the 16th inst., that the Coast Lights on
the Island of Schiermonnikoog will be exhibited for the
first time on Friday the Ist of September next, and every
night thereafter, from sunset to sunrise.
Further particulars respecting these lights will be pub-
lifthed later.
The Hague, 25th August, 1854.
The Minister aforementioned,
(Signed) T. ENSLIE.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 13.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm,
announcing that the Board of Trade in that city have de-
clared the harbours of Aland, Cronstadt, Ronde, London,
Liverpool, and Belfast, to be infected with Cholera, and
also stating that the places mentioned in the Gazette notice
of the 17th August aro still considered to be suspected of
Cholera.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 15.
2nd Regiment of Life Guards—Francis Woodgate, Gent.,
to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lum-
ley, promoted, Sept. 15.
6th Dragoons—Lieutenant Edmund D'Arcy Hunt to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Doyle, who retires ; Cornet
Henry Timsou to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hunt ;
Edward Finch Dawson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Timson, Sept. 15.
12th Light Dragoons—Cornet Robert Edward Roe to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hill, who retires, Sept. 15.
To be Cornets by purchase—Cyril Whits, Gent., vice
Scholefield, who retires; Fitzhardinge Jones, Gent., vice
Roe, Sept. 15.
17th Light Dragoons—Cornet William John Pearson
Watson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nlusgrave, who
retires ; Arthur Burnand, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Watson, Sept. 15.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and
Captain Charles Sedley Burdett to be Captain and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel
Trevelyan, deceased ; Ensign and Lieutenant George,
Lord Bingham, to be Lieutenant and Captain, without
purchase, vice Burdett, Aug. 22.
4th Foot—Lieutenant Octavius Yorke Cocks to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Skinner, whose promotion by pur-
chase, on the 4th August, 1854, has been cancelled, Aug.
4 ; Ensign John Philip Bohu Forster to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Skinner, deceased, Aug. 15 ; Ensign
Augustus Joseph Sykes to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Forster, whose promotion by purchase on the 18th
of August, 1854, has bean cancelled, Sept. 15 ; Sergeant-
Major William Connell to be Ensign, without purchase,
Sept. 14; Charles Edward Bayard Breton, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Forster, Sept. 15.
7th Foot—Captain William West Turner, from the 15th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Hoare, who exchanges, Sept. 15.
15th Foot—Captain William Jesse Hoare, from the 7th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Turner, who exchanges; Ser-
jeant-Mejor Robert Coape to be Ensign, without purchase,
and Adjutant, vice Walmsley, who resigns the Adjutancy
only, Sept 15.
231 Foot—Lieutenant Augustus Applewhaite to be Ad-
jutant, vice Torrens, who resigns the Adjutancy only,
Sept. 15.
321 Foot—William Bally, Gent, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Shoat, who retires, Sept. 15.
40th Foot—Palmer Whalley, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice St. Clair, appointed to the 4th Foot,
Sept. 15.

41st Foot—Captain Julius Edmund Goodwyn to be
Major, by purchase, vice Northey, who retires; Lieute-
nant Frederick Cherburgh Bligh to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Goodwyn, Sept. 15.
43d Foot—Ensign Harry Armstrong Brett, from the
82c1 Foot, to be Ensign, vice White, whose appointment
on the Bth Sept., 1854, has been cancelled, Sept. 15.
45th Foot—Lieutenant Trevor Goff to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Robert J. Garden, who retires ; Ensign
Henry Safe Willoughby to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Goff; Rouse Douglas Douglas, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Willoughby, Sept. 15.
4Gth Foot—Ensign George Morland Hutton to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase ; Richard Edward Brookes,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hutton, Sept.
15.

49th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Bellairs to be Captain by
purchase, vice Wetherall, promoted in the 3d West India
Regiment, Sept. 15.
55th Foot—Ensign Edwyn Frederick Temple, from the
98th Foot to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Birch, pro-
moted, Sept. 15 ; Lieutenant Henry Reynolds Werge to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Wefts-
kill, deceased ; Ensign John Granville Harkness to be
Lieutenarit, without purchase, vice Werge, Aug. 19 ;
Ensign Wm. Hamilton RichardsC to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Harkness, whose promotion, by purchase,
on the Ist September, 1834, has been cancelled, Sept. 15.
57th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Percy Lea to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Jones, deceased ; Ensign
Cavendish Venables to be Lieutenant without purchase,
vice Lea, Aug. 7 ; Ensign James Hornby Buller to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Venables, whose pro-
motion without purchase on the 11th August has been
cancelled, Aug; 11; Ensign William Jesser Coope to be
Lieutenant, by purchase vice Buller, whose promotion by
purchase on the 18th August has been cancelled ; Alfred
Frederic Adolphus Slade, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Venables, promoted, Sept. 15.
73d Foot—William Gordon, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, Sept. 15.
74th Foot—Ensign William Shapter Hunt to be Lieu-
tenant without purchase, vice King, deceased, June 30;
Ensign Archdale William Chalmers Magrath from the
25th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hunt, Sept. 15.
77th Foot—Lieutenant John Nicholson to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Dilke deceased; Ensign Arthur
Francis Maine to be Lieutenant, without purcase, vice
Nicholson, Aug. 13.
82d Foot—Henry Wallace Dowker, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Brett, appointed to the 43d Foot,
Sept. 15.

I 85th Foot—William Robert 8011, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, Sept. 15.
88th Foot—Ernest Augustus Perceval, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Webb, promoted, Sept. 15.
93d Foot—Henry Campbell Stirling, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Clayhills, promoted, Sept. 15.
94th Foot—Oaptain Henry G. Bailer to be Major, with-
out purchase, vice Cameron, deceased, July 1; Lieut.
Gilbert Mahon to be Captain, without purchase, vice
Buller, July 1 • Lieut. Henry John Wahab to be Captain,
without purchase,i vice Mahon, whose promotion on the
21st July, 1854, has been cancelled, July 21; Ensign Ro-
bert Alexander Boothby Tod to, be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Mahon, July 1; Ensign John Murray to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Tod, whose promotion
on July 21 has-been cancelled, July 21; Ensign Sydeuham
Malthus to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Murray,
whose promotion, without purchase, on Aug. 11 has been
cancelled, Aug.. 11; Wm. Edtuondes Harness, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Malthus, Sept. 15.
Rifle Brigade—Colour-Serjeant John Brett to be En-
sign, without purchase, July 13.
3d West India Regiment—Major George Butter Triscott
Colman to hp Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet
Colonel Montressor, who retires ; Captain Fred. Augustus
Wetherall, from the 49th Foot, to be Major, by purchase,
vice Colman, Sept. 15.
Mounted Staff Corps to be employed on service in Tar-
key.—To be Ensigns—Robert William Sanderson Raper
Hunton, Gent., Sept. 14; Serjeant Edward Budgen, from
the 9th Light Dragoons, Sept. 15.
Provisional Depot Battalion—Lieut.-Colonel Charles
Crutchley, from half-pay, 23d Foot, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel ; Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Edward Bond, from half-
pay Unattached, to be Major, Sept. 15.
RECRUITING DISTRICTS.—CoIoneI John Michael, C. 8.,
from the 6th Foot, to be Inspecting Field Officer, vice
Colonel Slade, who retires upon half-pay of the 4th Foot,
in the room of Colonel Trevor, appointed an Inspecting
Field Officer, Oct. 1.
STAFF.—Paymaster Frederick Henry Dalgety, of ' the
69th Foot, to be a Paymaster of Detachments or of a Depot
Battalion, Sept. 15.
HOSPITAL STAFF. —Richard.Willcocks Macauley, Gent.,
to be Acting. Assistant-Surgeon, vice Loughnan, removed
from the service in consequence of having absented him-
self,
without leave, from the Army in Turkey, Sopt. 15.
UNATTACHED.—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased
to signify her command, that Lieutenant Charles Nasmyth
be transferred from the Bombay Artillery to be a Captain
-Unattached in the Royal Army, in consideration of his
Services in the defence of Silistria, Sept. 15.