The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

TREASURY, Nov. 27.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Vis
cqunt Monek, the Right Hon. Lord Belper, the Right Hon.
Sir Edward Ryan, Sir Alexander Young Spearman, Bart.,
and Thomas Matthias Weguelin, Esq., Governor of the
Bank of• England, to be Commissioners to enquire into the
existing regulations under which allowances on retirement
are granted to persons who have held civil offices in her
Majesty's service.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 27.
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The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee o.
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 Madrid,
reporting the following alterations in the Spanish tariff :
Bookbinders' prepared cloth to pay an import duty of 8
reals per lb. under the national flag, and 8 reals 10 cents
per lb. under foreign flag.
Tarred tow and felt, 10 reals 60 cents per quintal under
national flag, and 15 rends 90 cents under foreign flag.
Saltpetre, raw, 28 reals per quintal under national flag,
38 reals under foreign flag.
Saltpetre, in lumps, 36 reals per quintal under national
flag, 46 reals under foreign flag.
Saltpetre refined, 48 reels per quintal under national
flag, 58 reals under foreign flag.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, Nov. 28.
16th Light Dragoons—Thomas Duffield, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Williams,
who has retired.
Scots Fusilier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant
and Captain, and
.Brevet-Major Edward Neville, to be
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Frank-
lyn Lushiegton, C. 8., who retires; Ensign and Lieut.
Robert Farquhar Shaw Stewart to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice Neville ; Henry Hardinge
Denne Stracey, Gout., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, vice
Shaw Stewart.
14th Regiment of Foot—Ensign William Noel Watson
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,\:11kOt Diirett Healy, to be Lieu-
*ant, without, purchase, yica . Moyle, cleceased.
26th Foot—For thfines Bridge, Esq., to be Paymaster,
vice Craigie, appointed to adistrict, hich appeared in the
Gazette of 24th October, 1856, rem], Lieutenant James
Bridge,.from the LAnd Transport Corps, to be Paymaster,
&c.
32d Foot—Quartermaster John Giddings to be Paymas-
ter, vice William Garforth, deceased.
49th Foot—Captain John Hopkins, from half-pay of the
49th Foot, to be Captain, vice W. W. Maitland, deceased.
70th Foot— Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Watts from the
94th Foot, to be Assistant-Sargeon, vice Grant, deceased.
86th Foot—Ensign George Albert Conran, from the
50th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lepper,
promoted ; Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Stilwell Barry, from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fitzgerald, ap.
pointed to the 91th Foot.
88th Foot—Lieutenant John Berkeley Michell has been
permitted to resign his commission ; Assistant-Surgeon
Richard William Meade, from the staff, to bo Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Harris, resigned.
94th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Francis Lewis Fitzgerald,
from the 68th Foot, to be Assistaut-Surgeon, vice Watts,
appointed to the 70th Foot.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Arthur Wm. Barron
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Callanan,
deceased ; Ensign Alexander M. W. Samson to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, Tice Barron, whose promotion,
on 31st 0ct.,856, has been cancelled.
2d West India Regiment—Lieut. Edward D. Lye has
been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
Commission.
Gold Coast Corps—Lieut. Charles Fox Duke to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Bird, promoted ;
Ensign Edward N. Robert Gatehouse to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Dake.