The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-11 00:00:00

FROrvi. THE LONDON GAZETTE

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• OF. TUESDAY.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 7.
NOTIFICATION.
• It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has received from the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty a letter enclosing the copy of a note bear-
ing date the 22d day of March-last past, from the Nea-
politan Minister for Foreign Affairs to her Majesty's
Minister at Naples, stating that the Neapolitan Govern-
ment had determined that from the Ist days of the
instant month of April the Port and Gulf of Palermo
and the adjacent coasts shall be placed in a state of
blockade, and that cruisers of war of the Royal Navy
shall watch over the coasts of Sicily, in order that am-
munition; arms,,or any other articles which may be used
in war, be not introduced into any part of the island.
APRIL 10.
NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has received from her Majesty's Minister at
Copenhagen, a dispatch dated the 3d of April, 1849,
enclosing a communication from the Danish Minister for
Foreign Affairs, dated the 2d instant, declaring that a
blockade of the German ports of Cammin, Swinemurde,
Wolgast, Greifswalde, Stralsund, and Rostock, will
commence on the sth instant, and that a blockade of
the ports Pillau and Dantzic, and of the rivers the
Elbe, the Weser, and the Jande, will commence on the
12th instant.

NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Ambassador Affairs, has received from Viscount Ponsonby, her Ma-
jesty'slB49, stating that he had on that day re-
ceived from the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs a
note dated the 31st of March, announcing that the
blockade of Venice would commence on the 4th inst.
The tenour of the Austrian Minister's note is as
follows:
dated April
at the Court of Vienna, a dispatch
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(Translation.)
Vimina, March 31, 1849.
from the 4th of April next, the blockade noti-
The Imperial Government finding it expedient to re-
fiesetdabin the
lish,
course of last year, with respect to the port of
Venice, which blocka3e was interrupted by subsequent
occurrences, the indersigned, President of the Council,
has the honour to request the Ambassador of England to
bring this determination to the knowledge of his Govern-
ment, and to adl that the Imperial Vice-Admiral.
charged with the execution of this measure, has orders to
maiutaiu it strictly.

T undersigned,
p on soiby, &e.
&c.
Bc,lll BwA4ZENBERG
His Excellency the Viscount
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WAR-OFFICE, API: 10,
sth Dragoon Guards—Cornet Adolphus William De-
shirt Burton, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice James
Fort, who retires; Frederick Hay Swinfen, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Burton, April 10.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Major
and Brevet Colonel Charles F. Rowley Lascelles to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Colonel Juhn
Home, who retires upon half-pay Unattached; Captain
and Lieutenant Colonel aud Brevet Colonel Philip Spen-
cor Stanhope to be Major, by purchase, vice Lascelles;
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Keane, from half-pay Un-
attached, repaying the difference, to be Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Stanhope ; Lieutenant and
Captain lion. Alexander Gordon to be Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Keane, who re-
tires ; Ensign and Lieutenant Cuthbert George El-
lison to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice
Gordon, April 10.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain the
Hon. Charles Grantham Scott to be Captain and Lieu.
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Campbell, who re-
tires; Ensign and Lieutenant John Floyd Peel to be
Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Scott; Re-
ginald GiPPs, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Peel, April 10.
4th Foot.—To be Lieutenants without purchase.—
Ensign Brooks M'Carty, from the 2d Foot, vice Fitz-
Gerald, appointed to the 87th Foot ; Ensign Arthur
Ridgway Poyntz, vice Hallowes, appointed to the 87th
Foot, April 10.
10th Foot—Ensign Frederick Beatty, from the 90th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Travers, promoted in the 24th
Foot; Thomas Chevallier Robertson, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Goodfellow, promoted in the 24th Foot,
April 10.
12th Foot—James Colin Munro, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Lord F. Montagu, appointed to
the 24th Foot; Philip Limborch Tillbrook, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchrse, vice Cowell, appointed to the
75th Foot, April 10.
17th Foot—William Lawes, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Nolan, promoted in the 75th
Foot, April 11.

18th Foot—Ensign Bernard M`Cabe to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Halahan, appointed to the 24th
Foot; Henry Mitchell Jones, Gent., to bo Ensign, vice
APCabe, April 10.
24th Foot--To be Lieutenant-Colonels, without pur-
chase—Major Howell PAynter, vice Brookes, killed in
action, Jan. 14; Major John Harris, vice Pennycuick,
killed in action, Jan. 15. _ _ _

To be Majors—Brevet Major John Parris, vice Payn-
ter ; Captain Augustus George Blachford, vice Henry
William Harris, killed in action, Jan. 14; Captain Wil-
liam Gustavus Brown, vice John Harris, Jan. 15.
To be Captains—Lieut. Francis Spring, vice Lee, kil-
1, d in action; Lieut. John Henry Lutman, vice Travers,
killed in action; Lieut. George Ellis Lloyd Williams,
vice C. R. Harris, killed in action; Lieu-
tenant Francis Charles Skurray, vice J. Harris,
promoted; Lieut. Sweton Giant, vice Blachford, pro-
moted; Lieut. Andrew John Macpherson, vice Shore,
killed in action, Jan. 14; Lieut. Richard Aubin Croker,
vice Brown, promoted, Jan. 15.
To be Lieutenants—Ensign William Douglas Hall
Baillie, vice George Phillips, killed in action; Ensign
I-lenry John Hinde, vice Payne, killed in action; En-
sign Geoffery Augustus de Montmorency, vice Wood-
gate, killed in action, Jan. 14; Lieut. Robert Halahan,
from the 18th Foot, vice Spring; Ensign Alexander .R,
Moubray, from the 29th Foot, vice Lutman, Jan 15;
Ensign James Stewart, from the 98th Foot, vice
Williams; Ensign Joseph Charles Goodfellow, from the