The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-02 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—List Evening,

WAR OFFICE, FEB. 1.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Major-General William Erskine Baker,
of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers, a Member of the Council
of India, to be au Ordinary Member of the Civil Division
of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 27.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Gerard Francis GJuld, Esq , now Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Athens, to be Secietary to her Majesty's
Legation at Berne.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint

Robert Grant Watson, Esq.,' now a Second Secretary in
her Majesty's. Diplomatic Service, to bo Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation at Athens.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 1

Tho Queen has been pleased to presont the Rev.
Michael Ferrebee Sadler, M.A., to the Rectory of lioniton,
in the county of Bevon, and diocese of Exeter, void by the

promotion of Doctor John Fielder Mackarness to the See
of Oxford.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 1.

75th Regiment of Foot—Major-General David Russell,
C. 8.; to be Colonel, vice General St. John Augustus
Clerk°, deceased.
INDIA OFFICE, Jex. 29.
_ _

Her Majesty has been pleased Co approve of the under:

mentioned promotions amongst the officers of the Staff
Corps, and of her Majesty's Indian Forces, made by the
several Governments in India.

BRE VET.
To be Colonels—Lieutenant-Colonels Gaorge Strang-
ways, Bongal Infantry; Frederick Halsey, Bangal Royal
Infantry ; Henry Borlase Stevens, Bengal Infantry ;
Roberts Michael Westropp, Bombay Artillery ; James
Wilberforce Lewis Bird, Bengal Infantry.
To be Major - Captain Septimus Hodgson, 2d Madras
Cavalry.

To be Captains —Lieutsnants Henry Charks Kemble,
late 3d. Bengal Cavalry; Harby Barber, 15th Madras Na-
tive Infantry ; Charles Biadeu Smith Neill, Madras Staff
Corps; Robert Augustus Carow Hunt, sth Bombay Na-
tive Infantry; and George Elphinstone Erskine, Ist
Bombay Cavalry.

I In addition to the above the Gazette contains numerous
other promotions in the Indian Army.]

.70Ult.SE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 17 11 17}

Do
3Ms ... 12 ... 12 11-,
Rotterdam — ••• 12 ... 12 *
Antwerp — ... 25 37f ... 25 421
Brussels
Ilamburgn — ... 13 10t ... 13 11
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 f . 120*
Vienna .•
... 12 65 ... 12 70
Trieste
*** 12 65 ... 12 70
Petersburg
Copenhagen — ..•• 9 18 ... 9 22
Berlin
Madrid.. - ... 48k ... 48t
Cadiz — •. . 49 ... 49*,
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 75 .., 26 77*
Genoa —.... 26 75 ... 26 771
N aplos
Palermo - .. 26 75 ... 26 771
Messina
..
Lisbon — ... 511 ~ 52
Oporto — ... 51t ... 52
Rio Janeiro
Now York ........

The 2d Dragoon Guards, under the command of
Colonel W. H. Seymour, disembarked from the
Indian troopship Serapis, Captain Soady, at Ports-
mouth dockyard yesterday morning, when they
were inspected by Lieutenant-General Sir George
Buller, G.C.8., commanding the South-Western
District, and afterwards left by railway for Chi-
chester, where they will be quartered for a short
time before proceeding to Colchester. Some of the
time-expired men were also landed and sent by rail-
way to join the depot battalion at Pembroke.
The remainder and invalids would disembark this
morning.

Orders have been received at the Newport Bar-
racks countermanding the order for the departure
of the 2d Battalion sth Royals for Ireland.
At a full-dress parade of the Chatham Division
of Royal Marines yesterday, Colonel G. Lambrick,
A.D.C., Commandant of the Division, in accord-
ance with orders from the Lords of the Admiralty,
presented silver medals and gratuities for long ser-
vice and meritorious conduct to the following non-
commissioned officers and men :—Sergeants Max-
well, Rooke, and Evans—a medal and £lO each ;
Privates Williams and Drummond—a medal and £5
each; and Private Godfrey—a medal without gra-

tuity.
Detachments of men of the Ist Battalion Bth
Regiment, Ist Battalion of the 14th, 39th, and 82d
Regiments, who have volunteered from the cie,pots
to the 66th and 83d Regiments, have left Chatham
garrison to join their new corps at the Curragh and
Colchester. Each man who thus volunteers to
change his corps receives a bounty of a guinea.
The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided that
there has boon no property in slaves since 1863 ; also,
that all judgments by the Alabama Courts, from 1861 to
1865, are null, the judicial and legislative officers being
usurpers during that period.
The Secretary of the Treasury has not a house
at Washington, but only apartments, and in thorn Gover-
nor Boutwell and his neat daughter, Georgians, too the
the
baud of everybody doing them the respect to call on New
Year's-day. The Secretary finds it very hard not to look
like a Presbyterian deacon temporarily teaching an aca-
demy. He is a sizable small man, of not one itoposing
feature, but the hole ho has made in the national debt is
only matched by his celebrated Hole iu the Sky. When
the Governor tuns for President, that Hole in the Sky is
going to trouble him more than any orifice in the visible
constellations.—George Alfred Townsend.
EMIGRATION NEWS.—Four hundred and thirty
acres of land in Kansas have been sold for 5165,000 to a
Scotch emigration company at Glasgow.—lt is stated that
several hundred families 01 Israelites will be sent to the
United States in the spring by the Central Committee of
the Israelites Alliance, at Konigsberg. The sub-com-
mittees of the association, on the frontiers of Russia, are
actively engaged in collecting emigrants.—The History
of immigration to the United States, from the earliest times
to the present, including au account of the operations of
the New York Commissioners of Emigration, has been
written by Frederick Kapp, a member of the board.—
Maine is talking of making serious efforts to induce a por-
tion to remain of the stream of Scandinavian immigration
that pours in at Portland and thence through theta
Stine
to the far West, but leaves scarcely any behind. One
proposition now before the Legislature is to give two
hundred acres of good farming hind to each actual settler,
for fifty cents au acre, with the privilege of working
out even this small sum on the necessary highways,
and it is not improbable that still stronger inducements
may be offet ed. Some of the immigrants who come may
Ibe induced to stop cn these ,geuerous conditions, but not
many of them wilt be beguiled from their purpos3 to seek
what is known the world over as the poor man's paradise,
the great West.