The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-05 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE-LAiT EVENING.

The Queen has boon pleased to appoint Major-General
Edward Promo to be Lieut-Govornor of the Island of
Guernsey, in the room of Major General Charles Rochfort-
Scott, whose period of service has expired.
WHITEHALL, MAY 4.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, unto James Martin, Esq., late First Minister and
Attorney-General in the Colony of New South Wales, and
unto Robert Officer, Esq., Speaker of the House of Assetu-
bly of the Colony of Tasmania.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Mir 4.
Ist Regiment of Lifo Guards -Lieutenant Needham to be
Captain ; Lieutenant Cecil Thorold to be Captain ; Cor-
net James Alexander, Earl Calodou, to be Lieutenant ;

Cornet Edward Dansey to be Lieutenant.
7tb Dragoon Guards—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Ninian
Williamson to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Ist Dragoons— Cornet Richard Maunsell to be Lieutenant.
sth Lancers•-Ensign Edward Monteith to be Cornet.
12th Lancers—Lieutenant Alfred Ker to be Captain ; Cor-

net John ➢ialone to be Lieutenant.
13th Hussars—Lieutenant Charles Higgins to be Captain ;

Cornet Thomas Rivis to be Lieutenant.
Royal Artillery—Lieut.-Colonel C. 11. Cox to be Colonel;
Lieut.-Col. George Shaw to be Lieut.-Colonel.

Royal Eugineers—Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Sir
Harry Ord has been permitted to retire upon half pay ;
Captain Henry Gulliver to be Lieut.-Colonel; Second
Captain Arthur M. Lang to be Captain; Lieut. Henry
Blair to be Second Captain.
Coldstream Guards—The [lon. Miles Stapleton to be En-
sign.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant John Y.
Buller to be Lieutenant ; Arthur Broadwood to be En-
sign and Lieutenant.

2d Foot—Captain Wm. Holt to be Captain.
9th Foot—Lionel Godolphin Brooke to be Ensign.
12th Foot—Lieut. John Dooner to be Captain ; Ensign
James Williamson to be Lieutenant ; Edward Redaton
Warner to be Ensign.
19th Foot—Ensign Alfred Hornsby to be Lieutenant ;
Ensign George Longford to be Lieutenant; Ensign
Harry Stapleton to be Ensign.
23d Foot—Paymaster Captain Aldborough Rundle to bo
Paymaster.
26th Foot— Lieut. [henry C. Sharp to be Captain ; Ensign
William Ilizgens to be Lieutenant; Henry Lamb to be
Ensign.
28th Foot—Captain James Turner to ho Lieut.
Joseph Evans to be Captain, Ensign Charles Deering
to be Lieutenant.
29th Foot—Capt. Edward St. John to be Captain.
58th Foot—Paymaster Thomas to be Paymaster.
67th Foot Ensign Joseph Atkinson to Le Lieutenant,
Edward Monteith to be Ensign.
69th Foot —Captain Henry Turner to bo Maj
ior, Lieuten-
ant Frederick Dyko to be Captain, Ensign Albert
• Wodehouse to be Lieutenant.
78th root—Capt. Card Miors to be Captain.
81th Foot—Major Frederick Hardy to be Lieutenant-
Colonel ; Capt. Henry- Brownrigg to bo Major ; Lieut.
Edward Hamilton, to be Captain; Ensign George Cob-
bold to be Lieutenant ; Gerald James to be Lieutenant.
9lth Foot—Ensign Lioncl Brooke to be Eu,iigu.

thanwAY RoBBERY.--At the Surrey Sessions,
yesterday, Bridget Slitter, 21, was indicted for stealing a
silver watch from the person of William Brown, in the
Old Kent-road. The prosecutor accidentally met the
prisoner in a public-house, and she followed him into
the street. He was then foolish cuough to show her
the watch, which she snatched from Lis Land, and ran
off. She was found guilty, and, a prevlons conviction
having been proved, was sentenced to seven years' penal
servitude.