The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-02 00:00:00

LuNDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING,

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FOREIGN-OFFICE. FEB. 2.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. C.
Ferro to be Consul at Valetta, Malta, for the North Ger-
man Confederation.

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Doctor
.Alejandro F. Wallet' to be Consul at Demerara for the
United States of Venezuela.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to order a conga d'elire to
the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln,
empowering them to elect a Bishop of that See, the same
being void by the translation of the Bight Rev. Father in
God Doctor John Jackeon, late Bishop thereof, to the See
of Loudon; and her Majesty has also been pleased to re-
commend to the said Dean and C hapter Christopher Words-
worth, D.D., to be by them elected Bishop of the said See
of Lincoln.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Henry Austin Bruce, being one of her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State, an Ecclesiastical Commissioner for
England.
The Queen has beon pleased to appoint Thomas Dyke
Acland, Esq , t 3 be Second Church Estate Commissioner,
in the room of the Right Hon. John Robert Mowbray, re-
signed.

rho Queen has been pleased, on the recommendation of
the Speaker, to appoint, by Warrant under her Royal Sign
Manual, Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave, Esq., to be
Second Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons, in the
room of Henry Ley, Esq., resigned.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, FEB. 2.
7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Croxton Scutt
Johnson to be Lieutenant, Gentleman Cadet William W.
Weston to be Cornet.
2d Dragoons —Major Andrew Nugent to be Lieutenant..
Colonel, Captain Lenox Prendergast to be Major,
Lieutenant Thomas Hunt to be Captain, Cornet Edward
George Moore Donnithorne to be Lieutenant, the lion.
Walter P. Alexander to be Cornet.
21st Hussars—Gentleman 'Cadet Frederick Hutchinson
Haynes, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet ;
Gentleman Cadel John F. D. Fordyce to be Cornet.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Thos. Carr
Fletcher, to be Adjutant.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieut.-Col. Edward J. Lake,
C. 5.1., to be Colonel ; Second Captain .liapier G. Stud
to be Second Captain.
2d Foot—Lieutenant Edward St. John to be Captain;
Ensign Arthur Thomas Fisher to be Lieutenant ; En-
sign Edwards Werge to be Ensign ; Gentleman Cadet
John Dickson to be Ensign.
sth Foot—Ensigns Josiah William Pearse-Hobbs, Fre-
derick Talbot Goodridge, and Thomas Arthur Campion
to be Lieutenants.

11th Foot—Lieutenant John R. Kelsall to be Captain ;
Ensigns John William O'Callaghan, Martin Nepean
Gubbins, Edward William Scott, and Charles William
Richard Mansergh to be Lieutenants.
12th Foot—Lieutenant Simon Bagge Triphook to be
Adjutant.
18th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant Thomas O'Hora to
be Quartermaster.
19th Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Henry Ashiogton
Christopher to be Ensign.
28th Foot—Ensign John Henry F. Jacson to be Ensign.
44th Foot Gentleman Cadet Seton Churchill to be Ensign.
52d Foot—Ensign Evelyn Broomfield Poclslington to be
Lieutenant; Alfred William Maitland Fitzßoy, Gent.,

to be Ensign.
60th Foot— Captain Edward Bowles to be Major; Lieut.
George Hewitt Trottman to be Captain ; Ensign J ames
Nugent Blackwood Price to be Lieutenant; Ensign
Charles Holled Smith to be Lieutenant; Ensign Walter
Henry Holbech to be Ensign; Gentleman Cadet Wtn.
Sturrock Anderson to bo Ensign.
97th Foot--Gentleman Cadet Reginald Robert Lousada,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-1 his Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 12 1}: ... 12 0
Do
Rotterdam ... -•
... 12 1 ... 12 ii
Antwerp - ••• 25 3o ... 25 40
Brussels
Harnburgh — ... 13 10
... 13 101
Paris
Ditto ...
Marseilles
... 25 32} ... 25 37}
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1191 ... 120}
Vienna
... 12
•25 ... 12 32i
Trieste
... 12 25 ... 12 32
Petersburg
... :Ai ... 311-
Copenhagen.. .......
9 20 ... 9 24
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz
... 47i ... 48
Leghorn
.. 4Sf ... 48
M ... 26 72,- ... 27 0
ilan
. -
... 2i;90 ... 27 0
Genoa
Naples
...
Palermo 26 90 ... 27 0
... 26 90 ... /7 0
Messina
Lisbon 3.
Oporto 54 -9
521
521-
Rio Janeiro
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New York

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE STAMPS.—It is stated
that a proposition has been made which, in all probability,
will be accepted, that all the European Governments who
have signed the International Currency Convention shall
also adopt international postage stamps.