The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-08 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

At the Court at Windsor. the 213 t day of Nov.. 18.15,
present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parlia-
ment, holden in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to
a:uencl and eonsolidate the laws relating to to the Cus-
toms of the United King.dom and of the Isle of Man,
and certain laws relating to trade and navigation, arid
the British possessions," it is enacted that, " if the le•gis-
ature, or proper legislative authority, of any of the
British possessions abroad, shall present an address to
her Majesty, praying her Majesty to authorise or permit
the conveyance of goods or passengers from one part of
such posseasioa to another part thereof, in other than
British ships, it shall thereupon be lawful for her Ma-
jety, l.y Order in Council, so to authorise the convey.
acee of such goods or paseerigere, on :well terms and
under such conditions as to her Majesty may seem
good."
And whereas an address has been presented to her
Majesty, by the Legislative Council of Ceylon, praying
her Majesty to authorise and permit the conveyance of
goods and passengers from one part of that island to any
()tiler part of the same in other than British ships -
New, therefore, her Majesty, by and with the advice
of her Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority
c-inunitted to her by the said recited Act, cloth order,
god it is hereby or lered, that from and after the day of
the date of this Order, goods and passengers may he
c.mveyed from one part of tee Island of Ceylon to an-
other part thereof, in other than British ships.
And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Hon, Henry Label'.
chere, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of
State, are to give the necessary directions heroin, as to
them may respectively appertain.
WM. L. BATHURST.

At the Court at Windsor, the ith day of Dec., 1855,

Present,

Tile Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Royal London Militia, to be Paymaster, vice Fitzgerald,
which appeared in the Gazette of the 28th tilt, read Captain
Edward Charles Grant, from the Royal London Militia,
to be Paymaster, vice Fitzgerald.
31st Foot—Ensign J. J. Robinson to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Cromartie, deceased ; Lieutenant
Charles Gabriel Alfred Barnes, from the West Essex
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Robinson.
36th Foot—Ensign H. E. Willett to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Rice, promoted.
39th Foot—Ensign F. H. Chambers to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Daunt, deceased ; Ensign Nicholas
Gosselin, from the Cavan Militia, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Chamber&
40th Foot—Lieutenant Denis Jackson, from the North
Mayo Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Helyar,
appointed to the 82d Foot ; Frederick Helyar, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Osborne, promoted.
42d Foot—Captain G. E. F. Kauntze, from the 3d Light
Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Sir P. A. Halkett, who ex-
changes.
43d Foot—Ensign Stanley Crozier to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Mere, promoted in the 7th Foot.
47th Foot—Ensign Andrew John Hicks, from the 65th
Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase.
48th Foot—Lieut. Dennis James Connor has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his com-
mission.
49th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class James
Hamilton Bows to be Surgeon, vice Davies, promoted on
the Staff.
51st Foot—Capt. Henry Edmund Austen, from half-pay
Sub-Inspector of Militia, to be Captain, vice Crookshank,
who exchanges ; Lieut. Chas. Acton to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Austen, who retires ; Ensign Dunlop Gloag
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Acton ; Wm. Henry
Saunders, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gloag.
5311 Foot—Lieut. B. Walton to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Weilderburne, who retires.
6301 Foot—Lieutenant K. B. Stuart to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Fraser, deceased ; Ensign G. de Lacy
Lacy to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice Stuart.
65th Foot—Andrew John Hicks, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Lewis, promoted.
67th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Augustus Shiell,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Doff, pro-
moted on the Staff.
68th Foot—Ensign C. E. Beaty-Pownall to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Watson, who retires.
611th Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon James Robert
Crawford t 3 be Assistant-Surgeon.
76th Foot—The restoration from half-pay fSth Foot to
full-pay of Captain James Young, vice Senhouse, who ex-
changes, as also the two brevet steps of the former officer,
as well as the promotion of Lieutenant Preston, as stated
in the GazAte of the 28th ultimo, have been cancelled.
Bi?d Foot—Ensign Frederick Helyar, from the 40th Foot,
to be. Ensign, without purchase.
84th Foot—Captain Honourable Augustus H. A. An-
son, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain, vice Stewart,
who exchanges.
85th Foot—Lieutenant Montagu Barton to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Manners, promoted by purchase, to an
Unattached Majority.
89th Foot—Ensign Netterville J. Barron to be Liente-
r ant, without purchase, vice J. W. Gray, deceased ; Lieu-
t3nant James Pott, from the Edinburgh County Militia,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Barron.
92,1 Foot—Ensign Alexander Forbes Mackay to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Beetham, who retires;
Grisdale Hicks, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Mackay.
93d Foot—Lieut. R. S. Williams to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Major 'R. L. Ross. whose Brevet
Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the
Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1851; Ensign Fitzßoy
McPherson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wil-
liams ; Lieut. VT. F. b'elarton, from the 2d Royal Lanark
Militia, t.) be Ensign, without purchase, vice McPherson.
95th Foot—Captain C. J. Patterson, the 2d West
India Regiment, to bo Captain, vice Hill, who exchanges ;
Csptain G. Brown, of thu 95th Foot, to be Paymaster,
vice Wethered, appointed to a Depot Battalion.
Rifle Brigade—Captain P. C. Stewart, from the 8 tth
Foot, to beCaptain vice Hon. A. H. A. Amon, who ex-
changes ; Lieut. W. Norris to be Captain, by purchase,
vice the Hon. H. W. Campbell, appointed to the Cold-
stream Guards; Ensign G. M. L. Egerton to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Norris; E. H. Chamberlain,Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Egerton.
2 1 West India Regiment—Captain William Hill, from
the 95th Foot, to be Captain, vice Patterson, who ex-
changes.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Alexander Moore
Armstrong, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Donald, appointed to the 10th Foot.
Gold Coast Corps—Henry Butts Bernard Owen, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Andrews, promoted.

LIND TRANSPORT CORPS.
The appointment of Second Captain William Handysido
to baar date the 7th Sept., 1855, instead of the 25th of
that mouth, as previously stated.
'rho surname of tho Cornet appointed on 23d Nov.,
18)5, is Gatt, and not Galt, as previously Stated.
BRITISH GERMAN LEGION,

3fl Jager Corps—The name of the Lieutenant, appointed
in the Gazete of the 23th ultimo, with date 25th July,
1355, is Paul von Suemon, and nut Paul voa Shepsop, as
previously stated.
BRITISH ITALIAN LEGION.

Robert William Burdett Ddsinges, Esq., to be Pay-
mn sten _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

2,1 Regiment—Captain Robert Cranford, lab Rifle Bri-
gade, to be Major.

PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION.

Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinand White, C. 8., from
half-pay. Unattached, to bo Nfajor, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel E. A. J. Muller, who exchanges.
UNATTACHED.