The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-19 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, MAY 18.

sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon W.
J. Power, from the 51st Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Carnegy, who resigns, May 18.
7th Regiment of Light Dragoons—W. Ricardo, Gent. to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Cotton, promoted in the 7th Foot,
May 18.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Captain the Honourab:e
A. H. A. Cooper, from halt-pay Royal Staff Corps, to be
Captain, vice A. C. Williams, who exchanges ; Lieut. J. W.
G. Spicer to be Captain, by purchase, vice A. Cooper, who
retires ; Comet J. E. Madocks to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Spicer ; W. F. Auderton, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Madocks, May 18.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Brevet-Colo-
nel W. H. Aleyrick, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain
and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice F. J. Davies, who exchanges ;
Captain J. Dixon to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by
purchase, vice Meyrick, who retires ; Lieutenant the Hon.
H. T. Forester to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase,
vice Dixon ; Ensign H. E. Montresor, from the 11th Foot,
to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Forester ;
W. H. Lord Kilmarnock (late Page of Honour to the Queen)
to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase, May 18, Mil.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Capt. N. W. J. B. Micklethwaite,
to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Standen,
who retires ; Lieut. the Hon. G. A. Byron to be Lieutenant
and Captain, by purchase, vice Micklethwaite ; Ensign the
Hon. H. H, H. Duncan, from the 71st Foot, to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Byron, May 18.
7th Regiment of Foot—Cornet the Hon. W. H S. Cotton,
from the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Boyle, who retires, May 18.
18th Foot—Ensign A. W, S. F. Armstrong, to be Lieu.
tenant, without purchase, vice Davis, deceased, Jan. 26 ; E.
W. Sargent, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Armstrong, May 18.
26th Foot—Captain F. Whittingham, from the 80th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Maule, appointed to the 36th Foot; Lieu-
tenant J. Piper, from the 38th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice
Sharp, appointed to the 72d Foot, May 18.
30th Foot—Capt. H. J. 111. Gregory, from half-pay of the
2d Ceylon Regiment, to be Captain, vice H. J. Pogson, who
exchanges, May 18.
36th Foot—Capt. J. Maule, from the 26th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, vice J. M. Home, who retires upon half-pay Unattached,
receiving the difference, May 18.
37th Foot—D. Davenport, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Lambard, who retires, May 18.
38th Foot—Lieutenant C. H. Fitzgerald, from the 16th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Piper, appointed to the 26th Foot;
May 18.

41id Foot—Major J. Forlong to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Booth, deceased; Brevet Major W.
Frazer to be Major, vice Forlong ; Lieut. G. D. Freer to be
Captain vice Fraser, May 7.
48th Foot—R. Bowen, Gera,. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Stone, appointed to the 14th Light Dragoons, May 18.
51st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon T. L. Belcher, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Power, appointed to the
sth Dragoon Guards, May 18.
70th Foot—Lieut. J. C. Harris, from the 72d Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Fraser, appointed to the Ceylon Regiment,
May 18.
72d Foot—Lieut. R. P. Sharp, from the 26th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Harris, appointed to the 70th Foot, May 18.
80th Foot—Captain C. Lewis, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Captain (paying the difference), vice Whittingham,
appointed to the 26th Foot, May 18.
90th Foot—Ensign T. Ross to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Lord S. A. Chichester, who retires ; C. F. Thruston,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ross, May 18.
93d Foot—Captain Robert Carmichael Smyth to be
Major, by purchase, vice Arthur, who retires; Lieute-
nant A. Agnew, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smith ;
Ensign E. H. Blair to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Agnew,
A. J. 0. Rutherfurd, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Blair, May 18.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant L. S. C. Fraser, from
the 70th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice R. Macbeath, who retires
upon half-pay of the 16th Foot, May 13.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—C. M. Dutf, M.D., to be Assistant-
Surgeon to the Forces. vice Belcher, appointed to the 51st
Foot, May 18.
BREVET.—Capt. H. J. M. Gregory, of the 30th Foot, to be
Major in the Army, Jan. 13, 1837.
MExoaANDum.—The date of the commission of Lieutenant
J. R. Maxwell, of the 3d West India Regiment, is Nov. 16,1839.
'1 ho Christian names of Ensign Stehelin, appointed to the
13th Foot, on the 30th April 1841, are William Francis.
The name of the Lieutenant who ' exchanged from
the 54th to the 94th Regiment on the 15th January last, is
James Twisleton Bayly, not Bayley, as previously stated.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Henry
Shute, Esq. to be Major; J. Harding, Esq. to be Captain,
May 10; J. H. Blagrave, Gent. to be Cornet, May 11.

WHITEHALL, MAY 14.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Vaughan Mutlow,
of Ledbury, in the county of Hereford, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

VICTORIA THEATRE.—The Duke of Bruns-
wick, Baron Alten, Sir J. Hay, Bart., Captain John
Fleming, and Captain King, honoured the above theatre
with their presence last evening, to witness the perforrn-
ance of the new domestic drama of Simon Lee, or the
Murder of the Five Fields Copse.
ABORIGINES PROTECTION SOCIETY.—The
gentleman who so liberally presented medals after the
meeting of this Society, at a cost of upwards of twenty
pounds, was not a Mr. Sturge, as stated in our Paper of
the 18th, but M. Juan Diego Sturz, a Brazilian citizen,
and one of the earliest members of the Aborigines,Pro-
tection Society.
FRANCE.—The National states that M. Arago
commenced his course of lectures on Astronomy last Saturday,
and such was the anxiety of persons who had cotue from all
quarters to hear the Learned Professor, that more than 4,000
persons were unable to abtain admittance.
The Countess of Durham arrived in town last
evening, from Falmouth, where her Ladyship landed from Lis-:
hon and a tour in Spain.• The Earl of Durhant and 'the La-
dies Mary and Emily Lambton, accompanied the 'amiable
Countess.

ARRIVAL OF A DISTINGUISHED FOREIGNER.
, —Much amusement was created yesterday among the fl -
quenters of the London-docks by the landing fronton board tbe
Malcolm, Capt. Sims, of an unusually fine ourang-outan, just
arrived from Singapore. It is the largest .specimen that has
been seen in this country since the celebrated " Jacko," brought
by Dr. Abel. He appears to be in the highest possible health
and condition, and, being a male, is additionally valuable, ex-
amples of "the lords of the creation" being much scarcer than
those of " the gentler sex." He was at length got into a cab,
and driven off to the Surrey Zoological Gardens, for which es-
tablishment he has been imported.
STATE or TRADE.—The cotton spinning and
weaving manufactures'f Oldham continue to be extremely de-
pressed, owing to the unsatisfactory state of the commercial re-
lations of the nation, and to the languid demand for twist.- The
short time system is fast becoming prevalent, for the machinery
of a number of cotton mils in the town of Oldham is in opera-
tion only four days per week. The master-cotton spinners of
this neighbourhood feel fully assured that if the Corn-laws were
abolishsd, or materially modified, the cotton trade would re-
ceive a wonderful impetus, as the produce of ' the ,fields of
foreign region might be profitably exchanged for ent-matu--';
factured goods.—Bolton Free Press.

- -- - • --- Viscountess Vaughan, Forbes and Mr. accom_ j
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panied by the youthful Earl of Granard and family, are ex-
petted in town to-day, from Castle Forbes, Longford. Her !
Ladyship shortly gees in waiting on her Majesty, as one of the
Ladies of the Bedchamber.