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

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 2.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Charles
Baker as Vice-Consul at Southampton for the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Robert Stein as Consul at the Mauritius for the Free Han.
seatic City of Bremen.
DOWNING-STREET, Aram 2.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Lucie
Smith, Esq., to bo Attorney-General for the Colony of
British Guiana.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Thomas
Worthington Barlow to be Queen's Advocate for the
Colony of Sierra Leone.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 2.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Tra 1e and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for. Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch freru her Majesty's Consul at Genoa, report.
ing that the following quarantine regulations have been
adopted at that port with regard to vessels arriving from
the East :

Ist. All vessels arriving from the Levant, whether sail-
i un.-ships or steameis, on touching at any port in the Royal
States, are subject to quarantine.
2d. When the passage shall hays: been healthy, and
there shall not exist on board at the time of arrival any
sick or convalescent, the quarantine shall be one of simple
observation for the period of five complete days, and
cleansing and airing of all effects.
:;d. If the passage shall not have been free from sickness,
or if there shall be sick on board, the quarantine will be
strict, and of the duration of fifteen days, and may not be
fulfilled except in the Lazaretto of Varignano, in the Gulf
of Spezzia, for ships destined for the mainland, or in the
Lazaretto of Cagliaii for ships bound for the Island of
Sardinia.
4th. In the strict quarantine the unloading and cleansing
in the Lazaretto of the effects and susceptible merchandize
will be obligatory.
. sth. Ships of war and transports returning from the
East, with troops for disembarkation. and sick on board,
will not be admitted to pratique, except in the Lazaretto
er Varignano for the mainland, or in that of Cagliari for
the Island of Sardinia, after having fulfilled in those La-
zaretti all the conditions required by the existing regulr.-
tient

VAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, APRIL 4.
GENERAL ORDER.

No. 665.

Dated Horse Guard!, April 3.
The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief has muehgrati-
fi,3ation iu publishing to the army the commands of the
Q seen for the promotion of Lieut.-General Sir George
Brown, G.C.8., to the rank of General (the Commission
t) bear data TUi September last), for his distinguished ser-
vices with the Army in the Crimea, and while command-
ing the troops employed in the successful operations
cgainst Kerteh.
By command of the Right Honourable Field-Marshal
VISCOUNT HARD INGE,
Commanding-in-Chief.
(Signed) G. A. WETHERALL,
Adjutant-General.

BREVET.
Lieut.-General Sir George Brown, G.C.B, to be pro-
nioted to be General in the Army, for distinguished ser-
vice in the Field.

WAR DEPARTMENT, APRIL 4.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—The surname of the
Cornet appointed, by purchase, on the 25th ult., is Bennet
&bald not Bennett, as previously stated.
4th Tortsgoon Guards—Cornet T. C. Gillespie to be Lieu-
tenant. by. purchase, vice Hon. M. F. Deane, who retires.
4th Light Dragoons—Captain Wra. Jacob Birt, from the
Ro
Yid Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia, to be Cornet,
without purchase
Grenadier •
vice the Earl'e
Bridges, Gent., to b
Ist Regiment Of
Regiment of of Foot Guards—Edward Smith
a. Easign and Lieutenant, by purchase,
I,___,, promoted.
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be Captain, without, ;roil: tenant Thomas Rowland to
En-
sign R. L. Roberts to be .r..,!, vice Turner, deceased ; En-
vice vice-Rowland ; Ensigli johlautenant, without purchase,
York Militia, to be Enid aneroid, from the 6th West
Roberts. en, without purchase, vice
7th Foot--Carteret Houstoun Kemp&° n, Gent"
Ensign, by purchase, vice Cocks, promoted; Lieutenant
Douglas Flood, from the Wexford Militia,rnto be
t,,, be
%; itheut pgrchase ; Serjeant Thomas Murphy to be Q Ensignu ai' !
Lei toaster, vice Scott, appointed Paymaster.
Nth Foet—Lieutenant J. W. Medhurst, to be Captain
without purchase, vice Brevet-Major John Cassidy Stock,
who retires upon full pay; Ensign C. A. Armstrong to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Medhurst.
16th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas C. Higginson to be
Paymaster, vice Kirk, who has retired by the sale of a
Lieutenancy in 06th Foot.
10th Foot—Lieutenant Robert H. Hackett, from the
King's County Regiment of Militia, to be Ensign, without
pui chase.

20th Foot—Second Lieutenant Frederick Hansel, from
the Hampshire Artillery Militia, to be Ensign, without
Nil chase.

25th Foot—C. E. Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Harison, promoted.
27th Foot—Captain H. Freer, from the 60th Foot, to be
Captain, vice Phelips, who exchanges.
30th Foot—The Commissions of the undermentioned
Officers to be antedated as follows :—Captain C. J. C.
Sillery, to 9th Sept., 1855 ; Lieut. T. Elwyn, to 9th Sept ,
18 5 ; Lieut. H. O. Campbell, to 25th Sept., 1855 ; Lieut.
C. P. Fitz Gibbon, to 25th Jan., 1856.
32a Foot—Assistant-Surgeon G. Evans, from the Crith