The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-02 00:00:00

THE NEW" COLONIAL HONOURS.

A supplement to the London Gazette published on Thurs-
day afternoon makes the following appointments to the most
distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George :—To
be an Ordinary Member of the First Class or Knights
Grand Cross of the Order, Viscount Monck.

To be Ordinary Members of the Second Class or Knights
Commanders of the said Order :—Francis Hincks, Esq.,
C. 8., late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
colony of British Guiana ; James Walker, Esq., C. 8.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama
Islands ; Major-General Charles Hastings Doyle, Lieute-
nant-Governor of the province of Nova Scotia, in the
dominion of Canada.
To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class or Com-
panions of the Order : Charles Cowper, Esq., late Chief
Minister of the Government of New South Wales; William
Charles Gibson, Esq., late Colonial Secretary of the Island
of Ceylon ;Felix Bedingfeld, Esq., late Colonial Secretary
for the Island of Mauritius ; John Bayley Darvall, Esq.,
late Attorney-General of the Colony of New South Wales ;
John Sealey, Esq.,. Attorney-General of the Island of
Barbadoes ; John Lucie Smith, Esq., Attorney-General
of the Colony of British Guiana. Thomas Skinner, Esq.,
late Civil Engineer and Commissioner of Roads for the
Island of Ceylon ; Theophilus Shepstone, Esq., Secretary
for Native Affairs in the Colony of Natal.

To be an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or
Companions of the said Order :—Ferdinand Mueller,
Esq., M.D., Government Botanist for the Colony of
Victoria.

To be Ordinary Members of the. First Plass, or Knights
Grand Cross of the Order :—The Earl of Derby, K.G.,
Earl Grey, K.G., Earl Russell, K.G.
To be Ordinary Members of the Second Class of Knights
Commanders :—Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, Esq., C. 8.,
Baron Lyttelton, the Right Hon. F. Peel, the Right Hon.
C. B. Adderley, Sir Frederick Rogers, Bart., Sir 11. G. R.
Robinson, Kt., A. T. Galt, Esq., H. Taylor, Esq., and
T. F. Elliot, Esq.
To be an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or
Companions of the Order : George Macleay, of New
South Wales, DTI.

The case of the Duke of Newcastle was again
before the Court of Bankruptcy ycslerday. Some further wit-
nesses were examined in private, but nothing transpired as
to their evidence. There seems to be some difficulty as to
the act of bankruptcy.

Mr. J. Heywood Whitehead, of Soutbside, ne: r
Manchester, whose ankle was broken accidentally while he
was liditg upon a velocipede at Armathwaite, Cumberland,
last Saturday week, die'. on Wednesday from the effects of the
accident.

His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt left Loudon
yesterday for the Continent.. The Viceroy and his suite
drove from Buckingham Palace to Charing-cross station,
arriving there at a quarter to twelve. A special ti tin was
in readiness at the stlli,,n, l y xrhich his highness travels
to Dover. One of the Royal : alcon carriages of the Scnth
Eastern Railway Company was provided for his llighneFs's
accommaation. The Prince of \Vales drove from Marl-
Lorough louse, and met the Viceroy to take have at the
station.

An adjourned meeting of the Painters' Po3rd of
Arbitration for the West Riding, composed of an
equal number of masters and workmen, was held
on Wednesday at the Commercial Hotel, Bradford (under
the presidency of Mr. Frederick Jackson, master-
painter, of Leeds), to agree upon a code of rules and
settle the wages question. After some discussion it was re-
solved that, after the Ist of January next, the wages of the
operatives should be advanced to sixpence per hour, and the
hours of work agreed upon were from 6 or 6.30 in the morn-
ing to 5.30 or 6 inl4o evening, eq
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