The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-29 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 28.

Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Captain Francis
Sutton, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, vice
Brevet Major Hanmer, who exchanges; Cornet Alger-
non Massingberd, from the 13th Light Dragoons, to be
Cornet, vice Sackville George Lane Fox, who Ex-
changes, Dec. 28.
6th Dragoons—Brevet Major Wyndham Edward
Hanmer, from the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, to
be Captain, vice Sutton, who exchanges, Dec. 28.
13th Light Dragoons—Cornet Sackville George Lane
Fox, from the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, to be
Corner, vice Massingberd, who exchanges, Dec. 28.
Ist Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant
Charles Thomas Lindow, from the 74th Foot, to be En
sign and Lieutenant, vice A. H. P. Stuart Wortley, who
exchanges, Dec. 28.
4th Foot—Captain John Henry Edward de Robeck,
from the Bth Foot, to be Captain, vice Hext, who ex-
changes, Dec. 28.
sth Foot—Lieutenant George Renny to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Forrest, who retires; Second Lieutenant
Albert Ernest Ross to be First Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Renny, Dec. 28.
6th Foot—Edward Cliffe, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice de Ruvigncs, promoted, Dec. 28.
sth Foot—Captain Charles Staniforth Hext, from the
4th Foot, to be Captain, vice de Robeck, who ex-
ehanges, Dec. 28.
9th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Ralph Browne to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Cubitt, wbo retires; Ensign
Samuel Blakelock Moody Skinner to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Browne. Dec. 28.

22dFoot.—Captain the Hon. Perigrine Francis Oust,
from half. pay 3d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, ♦ice
Browne Russell, who exchanges ; Lieutenant John
Brennan to be Captain, vice Oust, who retires; Ensigr
Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Brennan; Ensign Thomas Young, from the
84th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bouverie, Dec. 28.
48th Foot—Lieutenant Cam Sykes to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Granville, who retires; Ensign Robert
Ed ward Coote Coltburst to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Sykes, Dec. 28.

49th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Philip Joseph Stop-
ford to be Captain, without purchase, vice Montgomery,
deceased; Ensign Theodore Houghton Platt to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Stopiord, Dec. 15; Ensign Joshua Walter
Bond, from the 86th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Platt,
Dec. 28.

51st Foot—Major Henry Reid, from half-pay 3d
Ceylon Regiment, to be Major, vice Mainwaring, pro-
moted; Captain Percy John Rice to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Reid, who retires; Lieutenant Richard
Atherton Ffarington to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Rice; Ensign Edward O'Callaghan to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Ffarington, Dec. 28.
17th Foot—Lieutenant David Edward Armstrong to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Dawson, who retires;
Ensign Edward Courtenay Geila Kenny to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Armstrong, Dec. 28.
72d Foot—Captain John Mullen, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major William
Henry Robinson, who exchanges ; Lieutenant Alex-
ander Dalton Thellusson to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Mullen, who retires ; Ensign the Hon. henry War-
render Fitz Maurice, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Thellusson ; Andrew Cathcart Bugle, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Fitz Maurice, Dec. 28.
74th Foot—Ensign and Lieutenant Archibald Henry
Plantagenet Stuart Wortley, from the Ist or Grenadier
Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Lindow,
who exchanges, Dec. 28.
91st Foot—Ensign and Adjutant John Gordon to have
the rank of Lieutenant, Dec. 27; Ensign Edward James
Somers Rae to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hors-
brugh, who retires, Dec. 28.

at West India Regiment—Lieutenant llaydon Lloyd
Cafe to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mackenzie, who
retires; Ensign Frederick Mares Godden to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Cafe, Dec. 28

BREViT:— Captain the Honourable Peregrine Francis
Cust, of the 22d Foot, to be Major in the Army, July
22, 1830; Major the Honourable Peregrine Francis Cuss,
of the 22d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army,
Nov. 9, 1846.
The under-mentioned Cadets of the Honourable the
East India Company's Service to have the local and tem-
porary rank of Ensign, during the period of their being
placed under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sir
Frederic Smith, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham,
for Field Instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining:
—George Ayton Craster, Gent.; Henry Alexander
Brownlow, Gent.; William Spottiswoode Trevor, Gent.;
Joseph Rogers Soady, Gent.; Jasper Otway Mayne,
Gent.; Henry Thomas Rogers, Gent., Dec. 28.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 24.
The following promotions have this day taken place
consequent on the death of Admiral of the White, the
Right Hon. John Lord Colville .
Admiral of the Blue, the Right Hon. James Marquis
of Thomoud, to be Admiral of the White.

Vice-Admiral of the Red, Sir George Alundy, K.C.B.
to be Admiral of the Blue.

Vice-Admiral of the White, Sir Charles Bullen,
K.C.8., K.C.H., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red.

Vice-Admiral of the Blue, the Hon. Frederick William
Aylmer, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red, John Ayscough, to be Vice-
Admiral of the Blue.

Rear-Admiral of the White, Charles Gordon, C. 8., to
be R, ar-Admiral of the Red.

Rear Admiral of the Blue, the Hon. Alexander Jones,
to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain the Right Hon. George Anson Lord Byron
to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
Retired Captain Frederick Elward Vernon Harcourt
has also been promoted to be a Retired Rear-Admiral,
on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist
of September, 1846, but without increase of pay.

WHITEHALL, Dh.c. 21.
The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at
Westminster, bath appointed Henry Moore Griffiths, of
Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Gentleman, to
be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the
acknowledgments of deeds to bo executed by married
women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines
and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple
modes of assurance, in and for the county of Warwick,
also in and for the counties of Stafford and Worcester.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Hugh Hill, coach broker, Old Kent-road, Surrey.
BANKRUPTS.

Henry Smith, farmer, South Ockendon, Essex, to sur.
render Jan. 9 and Feb. 8, at one, at the Court of Bank.
ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Rawlings, John.
street, Bedford-row.

John William Jackson, coal merchant, Colchester,
Jan. 5 and Feb. 14, at half-past twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane,
Cornhill; Bull, Ely-place, Holborn; Abell, Colchester.
Benjamin Brook, tailor, Ixworth, Suffolk, Jan. 10, at
twelve, and Feb. 18, at eleven at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Teague, Crown-
court, Cheapside.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

I. Argent, Fleet-street, victualler, Jan. 24, at twelve-
W. Atkinson, Austin-friars, City, merchant, Jan. 19, st‘
eleven—C. C. Butterfield, Petersfield, Southampton,
banker, Jan. 22, at twelve—L. Guilleaume, Burners-
street, Oxford-street, manufacturer of artificial flowers
and dealer in lace, Jan. 21, at twelve.
In the Country.

J. Ellis, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, dealer in wines
and spirits, Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J.
Fisher, Bristol, livery stable keeper, Jan. 28, at eleven,
at the Court, Bristol—G. Burdis, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
banker, Jan. 28, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne—C. Tabor and W. Clarke, Nottingham, lace
manufacturers, Jan. 25, at ten, at the Court, Birming-
ham—T. Curter and G. Wharton, Gainaborough, Lin-
colnshire, engineers and wheelwrights, Jan. 30, at half-
past ten, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—T. M.
Adams, Holton-le-Beckering, Lincolnshire, corn factor,
Jan. 30, at half-past eleven, at the Town-hall, Kingston-
upon-Hull—C. H. Lambert, Kingston-upon-Hull, drug.
gist, Jan. 30, at half•past ten, at the Town-hall, Kings.
ton-upon-Hull.