The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-15 00:00:00

PAYMENT OF MEMBELS.

Mr. P. TAYLOR presented a petition in favour of his bill
for payment of members of Parliament.

THE BUDGET.

The CnA7.:cELLon of the EXCHEQUER said he should make
financial statement on tho 11th of April.

EDUCATION.

The adjourned debate was resumed by

Mr. WINTERBOTHAM, who expressed his rep et that the
Government had thought it right to bring in a bill this
year, as he believed they were not in possession of the opirion
of the public at large on such an important subject.

(LEFT SITTING•)

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening,

FOREICIN OFFICE, MARCH 14.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of the Visnount
do Fontonay as Consul at Gibraltar, and of M. Arthur Lanen
as Consul at the Cape of Good Hope, fur his Majesty the
Emperor of the French.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
E. Ryan as Consul at Dublin for his Majesty the King of the
Hellones.

WIIITEUALL, MARCIE 12,

The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to
be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
unto Michael Roberts Westropp, Esq., Chief Justice of her
Majesty's High Court of Judicature at Bombay.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, MARCH 15.
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards —Major William Plumer
Gaskell, from half-pay, late 24th Foot, to be Major ; Capt.
Henry Holden Steward to be Major; Lieutenant Fredk.
Greatorex to be Captain; Cornet James Fredk. Stuart
Menteth to bejLieut.

Ist Dragoons—Lieutenant Egerton Leigh _to be Captain,

Cornet John Archibald Middleton to be Lieutenant.
ith Hussars—Riding Master Maurice Day, from half-pay,
late sth Dragoons, to bo Riding Master.
19th Hussars—Lieutenant Francis Dallas Harding has been

permitted to resign his Commission.
Royal Artillery—Lieut. Henry Grant Young (late Bengal)
to be Second Captain ; Lieut. John Philipps Cottam (late
Bengal) has been permitted to resign his commission•

Royal- Engineers—Captain Charles James Merriman (late
Bombay) to b 3 Lient.• Colonel; Second Captain Brownlow
Hugh Mathew (late Bombay) to be Captain; Lieut. Wm.
Maxwell Campbell (late Bombay) to be Second Captain ;
Captain John F. Dykes Dannelly, irom the Suparnutnerary
List, to be Captain.

Grenadier Guards —Ensign and Lieutenant George Lauder-
dale Houstoun Boswall to be Lieutenant and Captain ;
Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant George Algernon Percy, from
the 2nd Life Guards, to be Ensign and Lieutenant.

Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Fitz Roy Wm.
Fremantle to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel ; Ensign
and Lieutenant Archibald, Earl of Cassillis, to be Lieute-
nant and Captain ; Francis Capel Manley, Gent., to be
Ensign and Lieutenant.

Ist Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William O'Byrne White

to be Assistant-Surgeon.
2d Foot—Lieutenant James John Harington Cottle, from the
3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant.
11th Foot—Ensign George Frederick Guyon to bo Lieute-

nant.
18th Foot—Major and Brevet Lieut. Colonel Frederick B.
Tritton, from half-pay, late Depot Battalion, to be Major ;
Captain Edward Langford Dillon to be Major; Lieut.
Edward Ashurst Marsland to be Captain ; Ensign Edward
Hemery Le Breton to be Lieutenant ; Lieutenant Charles
Orchard Cornish to, be Adjutant.
31st Foot—Brevet-Major William John Kempson, from
half-pay, late 99th Foot, to be Captain; Lieutenant Richard
Pearson Crozier to be Captain; Ensign Thomas Ilele
Phipps to be Lieutenant.
35th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Parsons to be Captain, En-
sign Edward James Courtenay to be Lieutenant.
46th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Lawrence William Moore

Maydwell to be Captain; Ensign William Barrington

Browne to be Lieutenant.
78th Foot—Ensign Arthur Dingwall Fordyce to be Lieu•
tenant.

82d Feot—Ensign William Oliver Thompson to be Lieute-
nant ; Ensign Arthur Edward Simmonds Roberts to be
Lieutenant.

96th Foot—Ensign Kenneth Malcolm Eliot Kerr to be
Lieutenant.

BREVET.

3injor-General the Hon. James Lindsay to have the local
rank of Lieutenant-General while employed on a particular
service in the Dominion of Canada.

Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel P. S. Lums den,
Bong 11 Staff Corps, to be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with
the rank of Colonel in the Army.

Paymaster and Honorary Major Alexis Corcoran, on holf•
pay, late'of a Depot Battalion, to have the honorary rank 01
Lieutenant-Colonel.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam ...... Short ... 1118; ... 11 18f
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 1 ... 12 11
Antwerp... * -
Brussels — 25 40 .... 25 47'

- ••• --- , ,
Hamburg h — ..•
... 13 101 ... 13 101
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Fran kfort-on-the-Mai u
... 120/ . 121
Vienna —
••• 12 -65 ..... 12 '721
Trieste _.. 12 65 ... 12 72/
Petersburg
Copenhagen — .. 9 22 ... 9 '26
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz — ... 49 ... 491
__ ...

Leghorn
... 26 35 ... 26 10
Milan — ... 26 35 .., 26 40
Genoa — .. 26 35 ..; 26 40
Naples
Paienno — .. 26 35 ... 26 40
'Messina
Lisbon — ... 51i ..,. 52}

PONTEFRACT RACES—Turs DAY.
CONSOLATION HANDICAP.

Viscountess
Maid of Mickley
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