The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-18 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'clock,

CHERTSEY RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH )

£4O PLATE.

Plausible
reachery

Four ran.
HURDLE RACE.

General Evans
Royalty
Gossip

Eight ran.
CHERTSEY STEEPLECHASE.

Good lad .

Dieppe
Billy Bean

Three ran.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CHESTER CUP.
30 to 1 agat Imogene (taken)

NAVAL APPOINTMNTS.—(This Day.

The following appointments have been made at the
Admiralty this afternoon :

LIEUTENANTS.
F. P. Doughty to the Retribution.
T. F. Studdert to the Amphion.
E. B. Hopkins to the Sappho.
MASTER.
Henry Goldsmith to the Flying Fish.
ASSISTANT-PATMASTEES.
; Henry S. West to the Algiers.
Harold Millett to the Sanspareil.
T. M. Jenkins to the Brunswick.
CLERKS.
Silas Weymouth to the Colossus.
F. H. Chown (acting) to the Dragon.
S. S. C. Hill (acting) to the Horatio.
Gilbert R. Rybot (acting) to the Archer.
ASSISTANT CLERKS.
C. 0. Salmon to the Harrier.
Alfred G. Montague to the Vesuvius.
Robert L. Harries to the Ajax.
Donald Bayne to the James Watt.
NAVAL CADETS.
Frank Rougemont to the Magicienne.
W. H. C. Selby to the Brunswick.
R. C. Smith to the Centurion.
C. F. Cox to the Centurion.
W. Collins to the Centurion.
P. J. Lucas to the Centurion.
G. H. B. Reed to the Conqueror.
F. R. Boardman to the Meander.

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

WHITEHALL, JAN. Is.

The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Ge-
neral Sir James Simpson, G.C.8., her Majesty's Royal
licence and permission that he may accept and wear the
Imperial Order of Medjidie of the First Class, which the
Sultan hath been pleased to confer upon him, as a mark of
his Imperial Majesty's approbation of his distinguished
services before the enemy during the present war, and that
he may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto be-
longing.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 18.
The Right H]nourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Britannic Majesty's Ministers at
Brussels, transmitting a copy of a recent BAlgian law re-
gulating the importation and exportation of the subjoined
articles as follows :

IMPORTATION.
Articles to be admitted free from import duty :
Wheat, maize stripped of the husk or not, marlin, len.
till, peas, and haricot beans, rye, buckwheat, horse beans,
vetches, barley, malt, oats, groats, and pearl barley, flour,
and meal of all kinds, bran, starch, and substances of like
nature, rice, bread, biscuits, potatoes, cattle, sheep, pigs,
and meat of all kinds.
All kinds of fish will be admitted free of duty, except
fresh dabs, fresh cod, fresh soles, eclefins, elbots, sm
whiting, flounders, cod, in brine or dry salted ; fresh tur-
bot, salmon, fresh, salted, dried, or smoked; anchovies,
tray fish, fresh, lobsters, skate, plaice.
EXPORTATION .

It is prohibited to export—Wheat, Indian corn, maize,
rye, buckwheat, flour, and meal of all kinds, potatoes, and
starch.
The above regulations to be in force until 31st Decem-
ber, 1856.
The Belgian Government may, however, at any time
prior to that period, cease to allow the law to exist as at
present, with respect to the importation of herrings and
the exportation of the above articles mentioned as prohi-
bited.
The freedom from import duty on the articles mentioned
will be applicable to the vessels of all countries, condition-
ally on the production of papers declaring that the lading
and departure of the vessel was completed and had taken
place prior to the 31st December, 1856.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 17.
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 Ambassador at Paris, for-
warding copy of a French Imperial decree, regulating the
import duties on prepared hides, as follows :
Prepared with tan. —Tanned only for soles or other pur-
poses—rigs, 200 f. ; other-- large 45f., small 120 f. Cur-
ried—For the legs, fronts, and backs of boots, 200 f. ;
others, 100 f. per 100 kilos.
Prepared with alutu.—lfungarian dressed, 40f. ; dressed
for gloves, 50f. per 100 kilos.
WAR DEPARTMENT, JAN. 18.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant Roger Palmer,
from the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Jameson, who exchanges.
Ist Dragoons—Cornet William Edmund Curtis to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pepys, who retires.
2d Dragoons—Staff-Surgeon Second Class Jenkin Holm-
fray Llewelyn to be Surgeon, vice Brush, who exchanges.
9th Light Dragoons—Captain Thomas William H. Hut-
chinson, from the 26th Foot, to be Captain, vice Humbley,
who exchanges.
11th Light Dragoons Lieutenant Robert O'Brien
Jameson, from the 2d Life Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice
Palmer, who exchanges.
13th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Fitzroy D. Maclean
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Goad, who retires; Ensign
Alexander Baring Bingham, to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Clement, promoted.
Ifth Light Dragoons—Cornet F. P. Pigott to he Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Tarratt, who retires.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign W. H. A. Plasket, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chrystie, promoted.
4th Foot—Lieut. C. Eccles to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Barton, appointed Paymaster, 7th Light Dra-
goons.
10th Foot—C. D. Potts, Gent., to be Ensign, by per-
chase, vice Graham, promoted; Lieut. F. A. Lynam, from
the Lancashire Artillery Militia, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Potts, appointed to the 93d Foot.
17th Foot—Ensign C. W. Holworthy to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Swire, promoted ; D. F. Allen, Gent.,
to be Eusiga, by purchase, viee Holworthw.
18th Foot—Lieut. W. J. Hales to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Major John Lawrie, whose Brevet
Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the
Royal warrant of 6th Oct., 1854; Ensign R. W. E. Daw-
son to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hales; En-
sign J. M`G. Magill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hall Dare, who retires • Jas. Clery, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Magill ; W. T. Le Brun, Gent , to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Dawson.
21st Foot—Ensign P. H. Delamere to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Pollock, deceased • Lieut. Henry
P
Wm. Fortescue Harrison, from the 4th West York Mili-
tia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Delamere.
26th Foot—Captain W. W. W. Humbley, from the
9th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Hutchinson, who
exchanges.
29th Foot Hospital-Serjeant Wm. Smith to be Quar-
termaster, vice Bailey, whose appointment has been can-
celled. The appointment of Ensign J. J. Bailie to the
Quartermastership, as stated in the Gazette of sth Nov.
last, has been cancelled.
33d Foot—Lieut. C. M. B. Siree to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Major H. D. Ellis, whose Brevet
Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank under the
Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 ; Ensign A. M. P.
Browne to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Siree ;
Chas. Francis Mundy, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Browne.
34th Foot—Lieut. F. Pocklington to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Breton, who retires.
41st Foot—To bo Captains, without purchase—Lieu-
tenant W. Mc. C. Lambert, vice Johnston, deceased ;
Lieutenant Jas. Alex. Hamilton, vice Steward, promoted.
To be
Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign Richard
Pack, vice Lambert ; Ensign A. F. De Butts Dixon, vice
Hamilton.
55th Foot—Captain John Freud to be Major, without
purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Cure,
whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive
Rank under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854; Lieu-
tenant J. G. Harkness to be Captain, without purchase,
vjce Frend Ensign A. F. B. Wither to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Harkness; Sir Charles Wentworth,
Burdett, Bart.,
to be without purchase, vice
Wither. _ .

"549thieoot —Lieutenant George Tern to he Captain, by
purchase, vice Mackenzie, who retires; ensign and Adju-
tant John liehephard to have the rank of Lieutenant ;
Ensign Jan. t3uckland Cockell to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Thom.
61st Foot—Ensign Henry John Yonge to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Bace, deceased.
63d Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant James Linford to be
Quartermaster, vice Ingram, appointed Paymaster.
68th Foot—George Horne Row, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Beaty-Powriall, promoted.
69th Foot—George Gant., to he Ensign, by pur.
chase, vice Audersou, promoted ; James Eitsta.ce,
to he Ensign, withont purchase, vice Gregg, appointed to
the 90th Foot.
77th Foot—Major John W. Thomas, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Major, paying the difference, e Forbes,
who exchanges, receiving the difference.
90th Foot--Ensign J. S. Iferford to be Lieutenant,
without purehase, vice Raitt, deceased ; Ensign ApeleY
cherry to be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Ensign E.
C. Wynne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Herford,
whose promotion by purchase on 17th Aug., 1855, has been
cancelled ; Ensign George Gregg, from the 69th Foot, to
be Ensign, without purchase.
92d Foot—Ensign C. M`Barnet to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Shafto, who has retired.
93d Foot—Ensign George Greig to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase ; Ensign C. D. Potts, from the 10th Foot, to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Greig.
6d West India Regiment—Lieut. Jas, Francis Birch to