The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-15 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—{This Evening.)

FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 14.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William
Cunard as Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for his Majesty
the Emperor of Austria.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 15.
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 Minister at Stockholm,
reporting that by a recent Royal Decree the importation
of ballast and pig iron into Sweden is permitted on pay-
ment of duty at the rate of 1 Rix Dollar Banco per Skep-
pond, and that the following kinds of iron and manufac-
tures of iron may be exported from that country at the
same rate of duty, viz.:—
Pig and ballast iron.
Cannons, ordnance pieces, swivels and mortars, un•
stamped and inhered.
Iron plates of more than 1,1 inches in thickness.
Iron for making weights, of more than one skeppund
eaolo.
Forged or rolled bar and sheet iron r of an inch thick
and upwards, less than 12 inches wide, and more than
5-6ths. of an inch square, is admitted duty free.
WAR-DEPARTMENT, JAN. 15.
6th Regiment of Dragoons—Cornet William Moule to
be Adjutant, vice Weir, who resigns the Adjutantcy only.
9th Light Dragoons—Cornet James Goldie to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Gordon, who retires.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant Hon.
Charles Rowley Hay to be Lieutenant and Captain, with-
out purchase' vice Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet-
Major A. C. Greville, whose Brevet Rank has been con-
verted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant
of 6th Oct., 1854 ; Ensign and Lieutenant George Hay
Moncrieffo to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase,
vice Dawson Darner, who retires ; Ensign Henry George
Bowden, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Ensign and Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Hay; Lieutenant James Ed-
ward Ford, from the sth Royal Lancashire Militia, to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Moncrieffe.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Thompson to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Yonne, promoted to a Provi-
sional Battalion ; Ensign Henry Pye Phillips to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Thompson.
3d Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Merrett, from the North
Gloucester Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Awdry.
4th Foot—Lieutenant William Courtenay Vyvyan, from
the Royal Cornwall Rangers Militia, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Segrave, deceased.
sth Foot—Brevet-Major J. E. Simmons to be Major,
without purchase, vice Johnson, who retires upon half-pay ;
Lieutenant John Koury Chads to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Simmons; Second Lieutenant John Creagh to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Chads ; First Lieu-
tenant Forster Longfield, from the Cork City Artillery
Militia, to be Ensign, withont purchase, vice Creagh.
6th Foot—Ensign Henry Parkinson to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Lee, promoted ; Dawson Kelly
Evans, Gent., to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Par-
kinson.
14th Foot—Stephen Watson, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Mohony, promoted.
20th Foot—Ensign Douglas Wimberley to be Lieutenant
by purchase, vice Young, who retires.
28th Foot—Lieut. H. F. Morgan to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Lieut.-Col. E. G. Hallowell, who
has been promoted to the Substantive Rank of Major, un-
attached, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854 ;
Ensign A. M. A. Page to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Morgan ; Captain Douglas Fyfe, from the Ayrshire
Militia, to be Ensign without purchase, vice Page.
31st Foot- Joseph Wilding Lomas, Gent., to be Dis-
penser of Medicine.
36th Foot—Lieutenant B. R. Shaw to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Rice, whose promotion on the 28th Decem-
ber, 1855, has been cancelled ; George Rogers, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice W. C. Hill, promoted ; Charles
George Mahon, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Rogers, appointed to the 49th Foot.
38th Foot —Lieutenant De Vic Tupper to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Samuel Hackett,
whose brevet rank has been converted into substantive
rank, under the Royal Warrant of the 6th October, 1854 ;
Ensign C. L. J. Fitz Gerald to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice De Vic Tupper ; Lieutenant Bury David
Wright, from the Wicklow Militia, to be Ensign, without
puzcha.se, vice Fitz Gerald.
40th Foot—The appointment of Ensign D. Jackson, to
bear date Bth January, 1856.
41st Foot—Mylred Tillet Quayle, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Fitzgerald, deceased.
42d Foot—Ensign F. G. Coleridge, from the 65th Foot,
to be Ensign, without purchase.
44th Foot—Ensign J. R. Newbolt to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Cooper, who has retired.
46th Foot—Ensign Charles Benjamin Coles Speke, from
the 65th Foot, to be Ensign.
47th Foot—Edward Walton Hannill, Gent., to be Dis-
penser of Medicine.
49th Foot—Ensign George Rogers, from the 36th Foot,
to be Ensign, without purchase.
55th Foot—Ensign Charles Edward Lane Bluett, from
the Ist Devon Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.
63d Foot—Ensign R. W. B. Crowther to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Fraser, promoted; Serjeant-Major
James Slack to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lacy,
promoted.
65th Foot—To be Ensigns, by purchase—Francis Geo.
Coleridge, Gent., vice Higgins, promoted—Chas. Ben-
jamin Cole Speke, Gent., vice Whitbread, promoted. To
be Eusiges, without purchase—Lieut. Geo. Pennefather,
from the North Tipperary Militia, vice Andrew J. Hicks,
appointed to the 47th Foot; Lieut. George Robert Che-
valier, from the Ayrshire Militia, vice Coleridge, ap-
pointed to the 42d Foot ; Arthur Francis Maude, Gent„
vice Speke, appointed to the 46th Foot.
67th Foot—Ensign J. R. Crane to he Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Steward, promoted in the 50th Foot.
77th Foot—Ensign Frederick John Adam to be Lie ute-
nant, without purchase, vice Basil H. Browne, deceased ;
James Peacock, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Ad•vm.
84th Foot—Ensign Alfred Gibaut to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Richardson, deceased ; Ensign John B.
Maclennan to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gi-
baut, whose promotion, without purchase, on Aug. 26, has
been cancelled; Henry Thos. Win. Oxley Kenny, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Maclennan.
85th Foot—Ensign K. W. H. Noyes to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Barton ; William Chipchase Henderson,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Noyes.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign G. M. L Egerton to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Booth, deceased ; Ensign W
Henry Deedes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vise Eger-
ton, whose promotion, by purchase, on Jan. 8, has been

can celled.
Land Transport Corps—The name of the Veterinary
Surgeon appointed on the 28th ult. is Joseph Ball, bud not
Joseph Bale, as previously stated.
BRITISH GERMAN LEGION.

STAFF.--Captain William Rainforth, formerly of the
25th Foot, to be Depot Adjutant, at Shorucliffe, with the
rank of Captain.
Ist Light Dragoons—Major Charles Porceval to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel-Commandant, his commission to be dated
Bth June, 1815, hut not to carry back pay beyond let of
December, 1855.
2d Light Dragoons—Major John Elphinstone Fleming
to be Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant, his Commission to
be dated 9th of June, 1835, but not to carry back pav be-
yond let of December, 18 i 5 ; James Meyer, late of the
Austrian Imperial Hussars, to be Lieutenant.
4th Light Infantry—Major John Hambley Humfrey to
be Lieuteuaut-Colonel Commandant.
PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION.—Captain J. N. K.
A. Yonge, from the 2d Foot, to be Major, by purchase,
vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinand White, C. 8.,
who retires.
UNATTACH EL. —The undermentioned officers to have the
Substarive rank of Major, under the Royal Warrant of
6th Oct., 1851:—Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Blane, half-pay, unattached ; Captain and Brevet-
Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Gilling Hallowell, 28th Foot;
Captain and Brevet-Major Samuel Hackett, 38th Foot ;
Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet-Major Arthur Charles
Greville, Scots Fusilier Guards.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Acting-Assistant Surgeon Curtiss
Martin to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Brakyn resigned.
BREVET.
Lieut.-Colonel Chas. Edmund Doherty, 13th Light Dra-
goons, having completed three years' actual service in the
rank of Lieut.-Colonel, to be promoted to be Colonel in
the Army, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 ;
Chas. Frederick Havelock, Esq., late 95th Foot, to have
the local rank of Colonel in Turkey, while serving with
the Osmanli Irregular Cavalry, attached to the Turkish
Contingent; Lieut.-Colonel J. R. Raines, late of the 48th
Foot, to have the temporary rank of Colonel, while at-
tached to the British Swiss Legion.
The undermentioned Quartermasters to have the hono-
rary rank of Captain, from•the date of their retirement,
under the Royal warrant of 17th Dec., 1855 :—Quarter-
master Wm. Grigg, half-pay 55th Foot ; Quartermaster
Chas. Fraser, half-pay 49th Foot • Quartermaster Donald
M'Queen, half-pay' '
921 Foot; Major-General W. T.
Knollys to have the local rank of Lieutenant-General in
Great Britain, while commanding the troops at Aldershot.
To have the local rank of Colonel in Turkey—Brevet-
Lieutenant-Colonel William Morris, C. 8., 17th Light
Dragoons, appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General to
the Turkish Contingent.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.
To be Commissary-General—Deputy Commissary-Gene-
ral John Laidley.
To be Deputy Commissaries-General—Assistant Com-
missaries-General Thomas G. S. Swan,
John M`Farla n,
Joseph William Wybault, Francis B. Archer, Philip Tur-
ner, Henry B. Morse, and Frederick S. Carpenter.
To be Assistant Commissaries-Genenral.—Deputy As-
sistant Commissary-Generals—Thos. Williams, Henry
Curll, John T. Cowper, John B. Price, Wm. Hewetson'
Charles H. Sheil, Hector J. Macaulay, Henry Connell,
Fred Waldron, Henry Moore, James Coxworthy,
Henry
Bartlett,m Alex. C. Crookshank, Henry Robinson,
Penrose G. Julyan, and Philip Rollestan.
To be Deputy-Assistant Commissaries-General—Com-
missariat Clerks Edward Turnbull, Bulmer Hedley, Geo.
H. Telfer, Fred. Souter Monk, Robert Handley Dundee,
Edward Daniel Lawrence, Arch. Campbell Colqnhonn,
Wm. lElmfreville Green, Chas. Molyneux Seel, Croker
Lovell Pennell, Arthur Lewis Chaplin, Owen Edward
Hayter, Henry Clutterbuck Lewis, Win. Fraser George
Servantes, Alfred Robt. Thompson, Wm. Charlier,
Francis Charles Blunt.
WHITEHALL, JA.x., 1856.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve of the
Edinburgh County Militia being designated the " Queen's
Regiment of Light Infantry Militia."
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
King's Own (Tower Hamlets) Light Infantry Regiment
of Militia—James Richard Gordon, Esq., to be Lieutenant.
Cambridgeshire Militia—William Frederick Dennis,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ramage, resigned ; Thomas
Jonas Sherwood, cent., to be Ensign.
Royal North Lincoli Militia—Joseph Gibson, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Longstaffe, promoted.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—Captain Charles Thomas
John Moore to be Second Major, on the decease of Colonel
Waldo Sibthorp.
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Johnstone Parke,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Burton, resigned. -
Warwickshire Militia—lst Regiment—George Stowell
Webb Ware, Gent., to be Ensign ; Erasmus Harris
Vanglston, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Ee-etraeht -A. Moir Lowndee, Gee., to be Lieute.