The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 24.

It is hereby notified that the Right Honourable the Earl
of Clarendon, K,G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, has received from Sir Charles
Hotham, K.C.8., her Majesty's Minister on a Special Mis-
sion, and from Martin T. Hood, Esq., late her Majesty's
Consul at Buenos Ayres, despatches, dated respectively,
the 22d and 24th of June last, announcing that the block-
ade of the port of Buends Ayres, heretofore established by
the Provisional Director-General Urquiza, has ceased to
exist since the 20th of June aforesaid.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 25.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Philip T.
Heartt as Consul at Glasgow, of Mr. James M`Dowell as
Consul at Leith, and of Mr. John L. Nelson as Consul at
Turk's Island, for the United States of America.
CROWN-OFFICE, AUG 24.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

City of Cork—Francis Bernard Beamish, Esq., in the
room of Francis Stack Murphy, Esq., who has accepted the
office of one of her Majesty's Commissioners for the relief
of Insolvent Debtors in England.

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Borough of Clitheroe—Lei.Gendre Nicholas Starkie, the
younger, of Huntroyde, in the county of Lancaster, Esq.,
in the room of John Thomas Walshman Aspinall, Esq.
whose election for the said borough has been declared void.
WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 24.

Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—The Honour-
able Alfred Henry Crofton, Page of Honour to her Ma-
jesty, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase,
Aug. 26.
6th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Charles Parker Catty
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Armytage, who retires ;
Ensign William Pitt Prest to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Catty; Oswald William Every, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Prest, August 26.
26th Foot—Lieutenant obert Berney Ficklin, from
half-pay of the Royal Canadian Regiment, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Dickens, who exchanges, August 26.
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43d Foot—Ensign William .Stewart-Richardson, from
the 51st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Mitford, who exchanges,
August 26.
51st Foot—Ensign Percy Mitford, from the 43d Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Richardson, who exchanges, August 26.
85th Foot—Ensign John Bayley to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Bond, who retires ; George Phipflis Prevost,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bayley, August 26.
St. Helena Regiment Hospital—Serjeant John Hobson
Wright, to be Quartermaster, vice Miller, who retires upon
half-pay, Aug, 26.
BREVET.—Major-General Wm. Staveley, C. 8., Com-
manding the troops in the Presidency of Madras, to have
the local rank of Lieutenant-General while so employed,
Aug. 26 ; Major-General James Jackson, K.H., Command-
ing the troops serving at the Cape of Good Hope, to have
the local rank of Lieutenant-General while so employed;
Lieutenant Henry Birch, of the 27th Regiment Bombay
Native Infantry, doing duty at the East India Company's
Depot at Warley, vice Captain Lightfoot, resigned, to
have the local rank of Lieutenant while so employed, Aug.
26.

MEHORANDITIL—Assistant-Surgeon Vesey Agmondis•
ham Brown, of the 23d Foot, has been permitted to re.
sign his Commission, Aug. 26.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.

Pembroke—George Herbert Kinderley, Esq.; William
H. Reed,Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants, Aug. 24.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—Charles Andrew Irwin, Gent., to be
Ensign, Aug. 13 ; George Arthur Crawford, Gent., to be
Ensign, Aug. 15.

Deisat Regiment of Militia—Hubert Churchill Gould,
Gent., to be Ensign, Aug. 20.
3d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—Matthew Trol-
lope Coleman, Esq., to be Surgeon, July 2.
Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Percy
Charles Stanhope, Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Day, pro-
moted, Aug. 19.
Ist Regiment of West Riding Militia—Theodosius Stuart
Russell, Gent. • Thomas Sidebottom Adshead, Gent., to
be Ensigns ; Thomas Saylo, Gent., to be Ensign and. As-
sistant-Surgeon, July 28.
2d Regiment of West Riding Militia Lieutenant John
Sutton, to be Captain ' • Ensign George John Thornton,
Ensign Valentine Hicks Labron, Ensign Thomas Hague
Cook, and Ensign John Wormald, to be Lieutenants,
Aug. 12.

2a Regiment of West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—
Cornet James Edward Norris, Joseph Dempsey Hold-
forth, Gentleman, to be Lieutenants ; Joseph Rayner,
Gentleman, to be Cornet, Aug. 53.