The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-06 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 4.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affiirs, a copy of a De-
spatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Madrid, en-
closing copy of a Spanish Royal Decree, exempting from
all duos vessels exclusively importing into Spain wheat,
flour, barley, and maize, until the Ist June, 1857.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-HALL, SEPT. 5.
sth Regiment of Dragoons—Lieut. John Stephenson
Ferguson to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-
Major A. W. D. Burton, C. 8., whose Brevet rank has been
converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal War-
rant of 6th Oct., 1854.
12(1 Light Dragoons—Cornet John Hinde Cotton to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Harford, promoted.
26th Foot—Captain William Hopson Hopson to bo
Major, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Fer-
dinand Whittingham, C. 8., promoted, by purchase, to an
Unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy ; Lieutenant Henry
Charles Harding° to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hop.
son ; Ensign George Hogarth to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Hardinge ; Philip Conway Story, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Hogarth.
43,1 Foot—Ensign Christopher Horn Hatchell to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Calvert, who retires ; Henry
Charles Talbot, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Hatchell.

slst Foot—Captain George Henry Hibbert-Ware, from
the 97th Foot, to be Captain, vice Marston, who exchanges;
Lieutenant Charles Goddard to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Young, who retires ; Ensign Eustace Beaumont
Burnaby to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Goddard ;
Henry Stewart Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Burnaby.
54th Foot.—Major Rowland Moffat to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel W. Y.
Moore, who retires upon full pay ; Captain J. C. Hill
Jones to be Major, without purchase, vice Moffat ; Captain
Robert Bourne, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be
Captain, vice Lake, who exchanges; Lieutenant John S.
Swann to be Captain, without purchase, vice Jones; En-
sign Arthur Herrick to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Swann.

58th Foot.—Captain Robert Children Whitehead, from
the 97th Foot, to be Captain, vice Herbert, who exchanges.
74th Foot.—Lieutenant F. R. Thackeray to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Robert Bruce, promoted
by purchase, to an unattached majority. Ensign A. W.
Chalmers Magrath to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vi,lo
Cathcart, who retires. Ensign Colin Hugh Thomson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thackeray. E twin Tarver
Sainsbury, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Magrath.
Samuel Richards, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Thomson.
is Matthew, and not William, .as previously stated.
97th Foot.—Captain Henry Fletcher Marston, from the
51st Foot, to be Captain, vice Hibbert- Ware, who ex-
changes; Captain C. St. John S. Herbert, from the 58th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Whitehead, who exchanges.
2d West India Regiment—Captain Percy Godfrey Bot-
field Lake, from the 54th Foot, to be Captain, vice Bourne,
who exchanges.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Ensign John Theodore Cart-
wright, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thursby, pro-
moted ; Ensign Christopher John Barnard, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Gill, who has retired.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet-Major Robert Bruce, from the
74th Foot, to be Major, by purchase ; Brevet-Major Adol-
phus W. D. Burton, C. 8., sth Dragoon Guards, to have
his Brevet converted into Substantive Rank, under the
Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854; Brevet-Major Robert
B. Hawley, 89th Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted
into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th
October, 1854.