The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-29 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 26.

The Queen has benn pler.sed to approve of Mr. Francis
Platen Donovan :is Vice-Consul at Grangemouth for the
Grand Duke of Mecklenbur; di Schwerin.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 25.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alan Tier, Esq.,
now Chief Justice of the Island of Nevis, to be Chief Jus-
tice of the Island of Dominica, and David Cameron, Esq.,
to be Chief Justice of Vancoitver's Island. _ _

Her Majesty -has also been pleased to appoint Robert
Richard Torrens' Esq., Colonial Treasurer and Registrar
General of South Australia, to• be a member of the Execu-
tive Council of that colony ; /aired Hillman, Esq., Senior
Assistant Surveyor in Western. Austrzlie, to be a member
of the Executive Council of that colony during the tem-
porary absence of the Surveyor General; John Wilson
Travis, Esq., to be a member of the Executive Council of
the settlement at Honduras; yard William Davies, Esq.,
to be a member of the Council of the island of Dominica.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL MALL, APRIL 29.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Gieerds•Frederick C. Shells,
to be Cornet, by purchase. vice lEoldforth, who retires.
6th Dragoons—Cornet William Hall leas been permitted
to retire from the service by the sale of his commission.
9th Light Dragoons—Surgeon. Henry Franklin, from
86th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Grant, deceased.
12th Light Dragoons—Captain John Hynde Cotton,
from the Cambridgeshire Militiii, to be Cornet, without
purchase, vice Jones, promoted.
14th Light Dragoons—John Merles Le Queue, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice I.l.edmayne, promoted.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieuteeiant James Macqueen,
from half-pay 1' Ur Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Chadwick, who exchanges.
Royal Artillery - The appointonent of Lieut. Francis
Hume Dodgson, date,' 6th March, 1856, has been eancell ed.
Lieutenants with temporary rank to be Lieutenants with
permanent rank—Francis Duncan, John Ryder Oliver,
Edward Egan, James Corry Jones Lowry, George Grote
Hannon, Philip Maclaurin Guille, Arthur Ford, Fraincis
Montaeno Smith, Francis Arthur Mant, Frederick H, ow-
lett, Richard Handcock, Charles Mills Molony, Geo rge
Arbuthnot, Richard Sadleir, William Ruxton Barlow,
Robert C. Smith. Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieutenant s
William /Commis, Richard Philip Perry, Thomas He] my.
Redhead, Edward Taylor Warry, Henry Bond, Henry.
Geary Hill, William Morritt Barneby Walton, Riche re.
Pendrill Waddington. Henry Brackenburv, Charles Alfr ad
Gorham, William Henry Graham, Alexander Willie m
Duncan, George Frederick Stanley Chambers, Willis m
Southwell Curzon, Samuel Dunlop, Edward Lyons.
be Quartermaster—Serjeant-Major John 111`Donald gains,
vice Freeburn, who retires upon half-pay.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant He Raymond Pt Ily to
be Second Captain, vice Ranken, deceased. Gent Leman
Cadets to bo Lieutenants—Robert Tleaine, George S weten-
ham, Daniel Corrie Walker, Robert Horne, John. Brand
Paterson, Herbert Locock, Frederick Hime,
Keith.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant :Edward
Marcus Beresford to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur-
chase, vice the Eld of Listowel, who retires. Ttit rsecond
Christian name of Ensign and Lieutenant White, is Wil-
liam.
15th Foot—Lieutenant George F. Christie to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Hague, who retires; Ensie 01 J. O.
Keinmis to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice C thristie ;
William Augustus Gibton, Gent., to be Ensign, _by pur-
chase, vice Kemmis.
6th Foot—Easigu George Palmer Lockwood to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Grant, promoted ; Ensign
William Charles Wolseley to be Lieutenant, by IA irchase,
vice Cooper, who retires; Lancelot Le Feuvre, G ent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wolseley ; Lieuteuana • Albert
Andrew Pinson, from the 3d West York Militia, . to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Lockwood.
211 Foot—Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph
Edwin Thackwell, from halt pay Unattached, to be i Major,
vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Ramsay, who excba nges ;
Lieutenant Thomas Stack to be Captain, without pure. base,
vice Brevet-Lieut.-Uolonel J. E. Thackwell, promotee i to
the Substantive Rank of Major Unattached, under the
Royal Warrant of 6th'Oct., 11554.
25th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Beaufoz, front
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Whylock, appointed
to the 75th Foot.
32d Foot—Ensign H. E. Bennett to be Lieutenant, 1), r
purchase, vice Knox, whose, promotion, by purchase, ix
:id August, 18rr5, has been cancelled ; Fleury Spark
.0
Stabb, Gent., to be Eusign, by purchase, in succession 1 ee
Lieut. Po-eer, promoted.
37th Foot—Lieutenant H. E. Glass, from half-pay Me t
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Taylor, appointed Paymaster, •
44th Foot—Ensign C. H. Laprimandaye to be Lieuliae• •
nant, by purchase, vice Bradford, who has retired.
46th Foot—The surname of the Ensign appointed on 22d
June, 1855, is Coacher, and not Coacher, as previo usly'
stated.
57th Fobt—The surname of the Ensign appointed on
27th Feb., 1856, is M'Clintock, and not M'Clintoch, as
previously stated.
66th Foot—Lieut. Edward James Storey to be Adju-
tant, vice Firth, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
71st Foot —Serjeant-Major Robert Anderson to be Quar-
termaster, vice Walker, appointed to a Depot Battalion.
75th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon, Watkin Sandone Why-
lock, M.D., from the 25th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Turner, appointed to the Staff.
81th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George Bell Popplewell,
from the 13th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Stack-
promoted in the 86th Foot.
86th Foot—Lieut. Henry C Maine has been permitted
:
to retire from the service by the sale of his commission
Assistant• Surgeon. Thomas Stack, M.D., from the 84th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Franklin, appointed to the 9th
Light Dragoons.
89th Foot—The commission of Assistant-Surgeon Julius
Wiles to be antedated to 24th November, 1851.
2d West India Regiment—Majer Thomas .Gibbings t
be Lieut.•C :lend, by purchase, vice Grant, who retires;
Captain J. 0. Bovill to be Major, by purchase, vice Gib
bings.
3d Regiment—Julian Mileon de, Fulton to be Lieu-
tenant.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE,—Major.Goneral Sir Harry