The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCH,
Amsterdam .......... 12 656

Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .... -•.. • .
Antwerp..... .. . • ••
Ilamburgh
Paris, 3 days' sight .. ••

12 3
12 6%
26 -
13 15%

25 60

Ditto, ............. 25 95
Marseilles • ..... • ..... 26
•• 26
Frankfort on Maine.... 1221 i
Petersburgh, 3 U 0.... • •

Berlin . ~

Vienna, effec.flo•• •• • •

Trieste, ditto.... • • ....

Brad'id ..............

Csdis .. ............

Bilbao.

Barcelona .• • ...

10 8
10 9
46}i
4654

S©v LUe ............... .

SWEARING IN OF THE NEW
SHE Itlk FS.-(THIS DAY.)

A Common Hall was held this day at .two o'clock, in
the Guildhall, for the purpose of swearing in the new
Sheriffs, Messrs. Cuhitt and Hill. The friends of
these gentlemen met to-day at Fishmongers' Hall,
London-bridge, and, after partaking of the hospita-
lities of this eminent company, they proceeded to the
Guildhall, where they arrived shortly before two
o'clock. The new Sheriffs are William Cubitt, Esq.,
fishmonger, and Charles Rill, Esq., spectacle-maker;
and the Under Sheriffs are Thomas France, Esq., and
David W. Wire, Esq. _

The Lord Mayor, accompanied by several members
of the Court of Aldermen, the new and the late
Sheriffs, the Under Sheriffs, &c., entered the hall at a
quarter past two o'clock.
.The new Sheriffs were then sworn into office and
invested with their gold chains. -
Thanks were returned to the late Sheriffs, who
acknowledged the compliment.
Several of the officers of the Corporation were re-
elected, and the Court broke up.

THE LOJNDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 28, 1847.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Isidro
Lopez de Arce, as Consul at Malta for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.

WAR OFF, SEPr. 28.
Royal Regiment of HorselCE Guards—Curnet Duncan
James Baillie to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Sir
Charles Slingsby, Bart., who retires ; the Honourable
Philip Sydney to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Baillie,
Sept. 28.
2d Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon Alexander
Smith, M.D., from the 93d Foot, to be Assistant Sur-
geon, vice Wheeler, appointed to the Staff, Sept. 28.
3d Regiment of Foot—Quartermaster Joseph Cart-
mail, from the 83L1 Foot, to be quartermaster vice
Culborn, who exchanges, Sept. 28. ,

20th Foot—Lieutenant Mansfield Turtle*, from the
32d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Patterson, who ex-
changes, Sept. 28.
29th Foot—Ensign Richard John Evans to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Galiffe, who retires; Ensign
James Fraser Draper, from the 39th Foot, to be Ensign,
vice Evans, Sept. 28.
32d Foot—Lieutenant William Patterson, from the
20th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Turner, who ex-
ubauges. Sept. 28.
33ct Foot—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class James
Townsend Oswald Johnston, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice
Sept.es Murray Drysdale, who retires upon half-pay,
28.
39t4 Fuut—Llugh Robert liibbert, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Draper, appointed to the 29th
Foot. Sept. 28.

48th Foot—Henry Grattan Bushe, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Johnston, who retires, 28.
54th Foot—Gtorge Kinahan, Gent., to be Ensign,,,
• without purchase, vice Hall, deceased, Sept. 28.-
66th Foot—Ensign Nicholas Kendall, to be Lieute
nant, by purchase, vice Potts, who
,mi.44,Ambibaid.
Hamilton Dunbar, Gent., to be Eniiiß' by purehaie;
-'1 -
Vice Kendall, Sept. 28.
•..,
73d Foot—Assistant Surgeon Benjamin... SWift, M.D.,
from the 63,1 Foot, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Foster,
who resigns, Sept. 28.
75th Footi—Lieutenant Henry M‘Farlane, from half-
pay 49tli Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Piercy, appointed