The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-05 00:00:00

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 Mecklenburgla-Schwerin.
The Queen has also -been pleased to approve of Mr.
-Robert S,ein as Consul at the Mauritius for the Free Han-
seatic City of Bremen.
DOWNING-STREET, Arm 2.
The Queen has be:-n pleased to appoint John Lucie
Smith, Esq..; to be Attorney:General for the Colony of
British Guiana.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Thomas
Worthington Barlow to be Qaeen's Advocate for the
Colony of Siarra Leone. .
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 2.
Thu .Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Tra 'e nod Plantations have received,
.through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from 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 acrriving from the Levant; whether sail-
ing-ships or steamers, on touching at any pint in the Royal
States, are subject to quarantine.
2.1. When the passage shall have 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 :.nd airing of all effects.
3d. 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 Cagliari 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 merchandise
will be oblicatory. .-
fiilC.Ships,of Jenski - from the
East, with troops for ancembarkaTion -a 1 iek en board,
will not bo admitted to pratiquo, except in the Lazaretto
of Varignane for the mainland, or in that of Cagliari for
the Islane of Sardinia, efter having fulfilled in those La-
zaretti all the conditions required by the existing regula-
tions.
WAR DEPARTMENT. PALL-MALL, APRIL 4.
GENERAL ORDER.

No. 665.

Dated Horse Guards, April 3.
The Field-Marshal Commanding•in-Chief has much grati-
fization iu Publishing to the army tho commands of the
Queen for the promotion of Lieut,-Gineral Sir George
Brown, G.C.8., to the rank of General (the Commission
to bear date 7th September last), for his distinguished ser-
vices with the Army in the Crimea, and while command-
ing the troops employed in the successful operations
against Kertch.
By command of the Right Honourable Field-Marshal
VISCOUNT H ARD NGE,
Com manding-in-Chief.
(Signed) G. A. WETHERA.LL,
Ad j utant-General.

BREVET.
Lieut.-General Sir George Brown, G.C.B, to be pro.
rooted 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 app doted, by purchase, on the 25th ult., is Bennet
and not Bennett, as previously stated.
4th Dragoon Guards—Cornet I. C. Gillespie to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Hon. N. F. Deane, who retires.
4th Light Dragoons—Captain IPm. Jacob Birt, from the
Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia, to be Cornet,'
without purchase.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards —E lward Smith
Bridges, Gent., to be Ensign am:Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice the Earl of Carrick, promoted.
lst Regiment of Foot—Lieuteaant Thomas Rowland to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Turner, deceased • En-
sign R. L. Roberts to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Rowlang ; Ensign John Stansfeld, from the 6th West
York Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Roberts.
7th Foot—Carteret Houstour :Kempson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Cocks, promoted ; Lieutenant
Douglas Flood, from the Wexford Militia, to be Ensigh,
without purchaso ; Serjeant Thomas Murphy to be Quar-
termaster, vice Scott, appointed Paymaster.
10th Foot—Lieutenant .7. W. Medburst, to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet-llajor John Cassidy Stock,
who retires upon full piy ; Ensign CI. A. Armstrong to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Medhurst.
16th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas C. fligginsnn to be
Paymaster, vice Kirk, who Las retired by the sale of;a
Lieutenancy in 96th Foot. 1
nth Foot—Lieutenant Robert H. Hackett, from the
King's County Regiment of Militia, to be Ensign, without
purchase.
20th Foot—Second Lieutenant Frederick Mansel, from
the Hampshire Artillery Miitia, to be Ensign, without
purchase.
25th Foot—C. E. Hill, Gast., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Harison, promoted.
27th Foot—Captain R. 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. R. 0. Campbell, to 25th Sept.;!l•Bs6; Lieut.
C. P. Fitz Gibbon, to '2sth Jan., 1851
32d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon G. Evans, from the 64th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Moorhead, promoted
in. 29th Foot.
...41at Foot—The promotions of Lieutenant Fitzßoy and
yaseiga_Dnnelan,and.4.be appointment as Ensign of First
Lie.atenant Ellison, from the Kotit. Artillery Militia, to
bear date the 25th and not the 7th of March, as previously
stated.
46th Foot—The appointment of Quartermaster-Sergeant
John Dwyer to be Ensign and Adjutant, to bear date the
25th, and not the 7th March, as previously stated.
51st Foot—Lieutenant 11. R. De Anyers Willis to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Drought, who retires ; Ensign
M. B. Lewin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Willis ;
Henry Clambers, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Lewin.
60th Foot—Captain William Douglas Phelips, from the
27th Foot, to be Captain, vice Freer, who exchanges.
64th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Edward Louis Lundy,
from the 79th Foot, ,o be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Evans,
appointed to the :32d Foot.
76th Foot—Captain Thomas Bythesea Mortimer, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Brevet. Major H.
D. Smart, who exchanges.
79th Foot—Lieutenant James 801 l to be Captain, by
parchase, vice Freme, who retires ; Ensign T. R. Howkins
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bell ; James M. Thos.
Simpson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Howkins.
94th Foot—The commission of Assistaut•Surgeon Joseph
Watts to be antedated to sth April, 1855.
95th Foot—Spencer Lynne, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Rawlins promoted.
97th Foot—Lieut., Robert George Macdonald, from the
Royal Canadian Riga Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Armstrong, who exchanges.
let West India Regiment—Acting Assistant-Surgeon
James Kelly to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieut.John Fellows
Armstrong, from 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mac.
donald, who exchaNges ; Serjeant Joseph Harkness to be
Quartermaster, vice Baxter, who retires upon half-pay.
Royal Malta Fencible Regiment—Ensign James Lazza-
Hui to be Lieutenant, with local and temporary rank, vice
Metrovich ; Frederick Sedley,-Gent., to be Ensign, with
local and temporary rank, vice Lazzarini.
TURK'S H CONTINGENT.
George Montgomerie Davidson, Esq., to be Pa ymaater ;
William George Proctor, Esq., to be Paymaster....
BRITISH ITALIAN LEGION.

Tho appointment of Lieut.-Col. W. L. Grant, to the
Blitish Italian Legion, to bear date 12th November, 1855,
instead of 14th December, 18 5, as previously stated.
Ith Regiment—Ensign Henry John Hunter, from the
2d Regiment, to be Lieutenant.
HOSPITAL STAFF. To be Assistant-Surgeon—Assistant-
Surgeon Robert Speedy, from the Ist West India Regi-
ment, vice Cullen, appointed to the 4th Light Dragoons.
BREVET.
Brevet-Major John Cassidy Stock, retired full-pay 10th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, the rank being
honorary only.
The undermentioned Quartermaster, retired upon half-
pay, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the
Royal Warrant of 17th Dec., 1855 :
Quartermaster James Baxter, half-pay Royal Canadian
Rifle Regiment.
The undermentioned Officers to have-local rank in Tur-
key, while serving with the Land Transpoit Corps of the
Turkish Contingent, as follows :—To have the local reek
of Captain - Lieutenants Man and Serjeant. To have the
local rank of Lieutenant—Quartermaster Man, vice Man,
prom ,ted ; Quartermaster Medley, vice Serjeant, pro-
moted.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Northumberland Regiment of Militia—Herman Ernest
Galton, late Captain of the 50th Regiment, to be Adju-
tant, vice Browne, promoted.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia—Charles Hairington Harris, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Mayon, resigned.
Northamptonshire Militia--Wm. Alexander Barr, Esq.,
M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Molloy, deceased.
Leicestershire Militia W.Unwin, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon ; John Henry Bryan, Gent., to be Ensign.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets
Militia—Ensign Edward Lawson Thompson to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Peat, appointed to the 30th Foot.
[The following appointment is substituted for that,
which appeared in the Gazette of Friday, the 14th March
last.]
Queen's Own Ligh`. Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Ormerod Beales, Gent., to be Ensign.
[The following appointment is substituted for that
which appeared in the Gazette of Friday, the 14th of
March last.]
Northumberland Regiment of Militia—Herman Ernest
Galton, Adjutant, to have the rank of Captain.

BANKRUPTS.
John Edwards, watchmaker, High-street, Southampton,
to surrender, April 14, at half-past twelve, and May 15,
at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 8011, official assignee,
Coleman-street-buillings ; Paterson, - Bouverie•street ;
Mackey, Southampton.
Alfred Langford, brewer, Lewes, Sussex, April 17, at
eleven, and May 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lawrence,
Plews, and Co., Old Jewry-chambers.
William Crathorne, grocer, Bishop Wearmouth, April
15, at one, and May 21, at half-past eleven, at she New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Barker, Sunderland.
' George Augustus Voigt, dealer in pianofortes, Chel-
tet.ham, April 15 and May 19, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Park-
wood, Cheltenham.
Mallard Ingram, ironmonger, Rugeley, April 19, and
May 10, at eleven, at the Birmingham. District Court.
Whitmore, official ass'gnee, Birmingham •; Crabb, Ruge-
ley ; James, Birmingham.
Joseph Seville, cotton cloth manufacturer, Salford