The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-26 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 25.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's consul at Leipzig, report-
ing that the duties on corn, pulse, flour, and bread stuffs,
kc., imported into the States of the German Customs'
Union, have been further suspended until the 31st De-
cember next.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 26.

25th Regiment of Foot--Major-Gen. Sir -Henry Somer-
set, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice General Sir Henry Fre-
derick Campbell, K.C,B , deceased.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 26.

14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Thomas Phillips,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Dew, promoted.
Royal Engineers—The surname of the Second Captain,
promoted on the 18th ult., is Fyers, and not Fyors, as pre-
viously stated.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and Lieu-
tenant Henry Charles Eden Malet, to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice Cust, promoted ; The Hon.
Charles Ernest Edgecumbe, to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Malet; Norman Leslie Melville, Gent.,
to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice W. D.
Viscount Stormont, who retires.
Ist Foot—Lieut. Francis Barker Hassard, from the 6th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lawrell, who exchanges.
Gth Foot—Lieut. Henry John Lawrell, from the Ist
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hassard, who exchanges ;
Quartermaster-Serjeant James Cranney to be Quartermas-
ter, vice Croker, who retires upon half-pay.
19th Foot--Captain Richard Young, from the 98th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Mitford, who exchanges.
24th Foot—Lieut. Henry Macdonald Burns to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice R. A. Croker, deceased ; En-
sign Walter B. Logan to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
Tice Burns.
25th Foot—Lieut. Thomas Winter Sheppard, from the
97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Manners, who exchanges.
93d Foot—Lieutenant John James Greenwood to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major William
Pretyman, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into
Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th
October, 1854.

43d Foot—Lieutenant Robert M. Pakenham to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Girardot, who retires • Ensign
Vere Fane to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pakenham;
Ensign Thomas 31`Goun, from the 51st Foot, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Fane ; Assistant-Surgeon Arthur
Croker, from the 98th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Browne, promoted in 83d Foot
47th Foot—Ensign Thomas Quinn has been permitted to
retire from the Service by the sale of his Commission.
51st Foot—Frederick Thomas Humfrey, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Scott, promoted ; John Burton,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice lll`Goun, appointed
to the 43d Foot,

54th Foot—Lieut. Charles Alex. Thomson to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Brevet-.11,,j0r Francis John
Griffin, who retires upon full pay; Ensign Joseph Wm.
Hughes to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Thom-
son.

74th Foot—Lieut. Henry Carrie, from the 84th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Blake, who exchanges.
83d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Robert Browne, from the
43d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Stephenson, deceased.
84th Foot—Lieut. George Pilkiogton Blake, from the
74th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Currie, who exchanges.
97th Foot—Lieut. Douglas Ernest Manners, from G )th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice tihappard, who exchange%
96th Foot—Capt. Henry Mitford, from the 19th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Young, who exchanges ; Assistant-
Surgeon Jas. M'Neill Beatty, from the Staff, to be Assist.-
Surgeon, vice Croker, appointed to 43d Foot.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Joseph Ashton has been per-
mitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Com-
mission.

Cape Mounted Riflemen—Charles Harrington Harris,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barnard, promoted;
Charles Currie, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Cal twright promoted.

UNATTACHED.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robeit Warden, 19th Foot,
to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank,
under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. St. G. Gerald Foley,
C.B. Captain on half-pay Unattached, to have the Sub-
stantive rank of Major, under 'the Royal Warrant of 6th
October, 1854.

Lieut. the Hon. Algernon T. Moreton, from 3d Light
Dragoons, to be Captain by purchase.
OSPITAL STAFF.
Inspector-General of Hospitals, with local rank in Tur-
key, Thomas Alexander, C. 8., to be Inspector-General of
Hospitals, with local rank in Canada.
The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have
ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their
services :—John Hutchinson Hammond, Augustus Otto
William Swaine, M.D., Thomas Wiley, Samuel Job, Jas.
Greig Leask, M. 8., Thomas Wm. Spink Locke, Thomas
Brickenden Blandford, Alfred Sanders.