The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-19 00:00:00

From the London Gazette of Last Night.
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WHITEHALL, JAN. Is.

The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Ge-
neral Sir James Simpson, G.C.8., her Majesty's Royal
licence and permission that he may accept and wear the
Imperial Order of Medjidie of the First Class, which the
Sultan hath been pleased to confer upon him, as a mark of
his Imperial Majesty's approbation of his distinguished
services before the enemy during the present war, and that
he may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto be-
longing.
BOARD OF TRADE, W LIITEHALL, JAN. 18.

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The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Britannic 'Majesty's Ministers at
Brussels, transmitting a copy of a recent Belgian law re-
gulating the importation and exportation of the subjoined
articles as follows :
IMPORTATION.

Articles to be admitted free from import duty :
Wheat, maize stripped of the husk or not, maslin, len-
tils, peas, and haricot beans, rye, buckwheat, horse beans,
vetches, barley, malt, oats, groats, and pearl barley, flour,
and meal of all kinds, bran, starch, and substances of like
nature, rice, bread, biscuits, potatoes, cattle, sheep, pigs,
and meat of all kinds.
All kinds of fish will be admitted free of duty, except
fresh dabs, fresh cod, fresh soles, eclefins, elbots, smelt,
whiting, flounders, cod, in brine or dry salted ; fresh tur-
bot, salmon, fresh, salted, dried, or smoked; anchovies,
crag fish, fresh, lobsters, skate, plaice.
EXPORTATION .
It is prohibited to export—Wheat, Indian corn, maize,
rye, buckwheat, flour, and meal of all kinds, potatoes, and
starch.
The above regulations to be in force until 31st Decem•
ber, 1856.
The Belgian Government may, however, at, any time
prior to that period, cease to allow the law to exist as at
present, with respect to the importation of herrings and
the exportation of the above articles mentioned as prohi-
bited.
The freedom from import duty on the articles mentioned
will be applicable to the vessels of all countries, condition-
ally on the production of papers declaring that the lading
and departure of the vessel was completed and had taken
place prior to the 31st December, 1856.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 17.

Tho Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majestfs Ambassador at Paris, for-
warding copy of a French Imperial decree, regulating the
import duties on prepared hides, as follows :
Prepared with tan.—Tanned only for soles or other pur-
poses—Pigs, 200 f. ; other—large -45 f., small 120 f. Cur-
ried—For the legs, fronts, and backs of boots, 200 f. ;
others, 100 f. per 100 kilos.
Prepared with alum.—Hungarian dressed, 40f. ; dressed
for gloves, 50f. per 100 kilos.
WAR DEPARTMENT, JAN. 18.

2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant Roger Palmer,
from the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Jameson, who exchanges.
Ist Dragoons—Cornet William Edmund Curtis to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pepys, who retires.
2d Dragoons—Staff-Surgeon Second Class Jenkin Horn-
fray Llewelyn to be Surgeon, vice Brush, who exchanges.
9th Light Dragoons—Captain Thomas William H. Hut-
chinson, from th 26th Foot, to be Captain, vice Humbley,

who exchanges.
11th Light Dragoons Lieutenant Robert O'Brien
Jameson, from the 2d Life Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice

Palmer, who exchanges.
13th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Fitzroy D. Maclean
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Goad, who retires; Ensign
Alexander Baring Bingham, to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Clement, promoted.
Itth Light Dragoons—Cornet F. P. Pigott to he Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Tarratt, who retires.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign W. H. A. Plasket, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chrystie, promoted.
4th Foot—Lieut. C. Eccles to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Barton, appointed Paymaster, 7th Light Dra-
goons.
10th Foot—C. D. Potts, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Graham, promoted; Lieut. F. A. Lynam, from
the Lancashire Artillery Militia, to be Ensign, without.
purchase, vice Potts, appointed to the 03d Foot. •
17th Foot—Ensign C. W. Holworthy to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Swire, promoted ; D. F. Allen, Gent.,
io be Ensign, by purchase, vice Holworthv.
18th Foot—Lieut. W. J. Hales to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Major John Lawrie, whose Brevet
Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the
Royal warrant of 6th Oct., 1851; Ensign R. W. E. Daw-
son to he Lieutenant, without purchase' vice Hales; En-
sign J. M`G. Magill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hall Dare, who retires ; Jas.. Clery, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Magill ; W. T. Le Brun, Gent , to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Dawson.
21st Foot—Ensign P. H. Delamere to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Pollock, deceased • Lieut. Henry
Win. Fortescue Harrison, from the 4th West York Mili-
tia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Delamere.
26th Foot—Captain W. W. W. Humbley, from the
9th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Hutchinson, who
exchanges.
29;11 Foot Hospital-Serieant Win. Smith to be Quar-
termaster, vice Bailey, whose appointment has been can-
celled. The appointment of Ensign J. J. Bailie to the
Quartermastership, as stated in the Gazette of sth Nov.
last, has been cancelled.

33(1 Foot--Lieut. C. M. B. Siree to be Captain, without

purchase, vice Brevet-Major H. D. Ellis,'whoo Brevet
Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank under the
Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 ; Ensign A. M. P.
Browne to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Siren ;
Chas. Francis Mundy, Gent , to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Browne.
3'th Foot—Lieut. F. Pocklington to be Captain, by
purchase. vice Breton, who retires.
41st Foot—To 131 Captains, without purchase—Lieu-
tenant W. Mc. C. L-tnabsrt, vice Johnston, deceased ;
Lieutenant Jas. Alex. Hamilton, vice Steward, promoted.
To be -Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign Richard
Pack, vice Lambert; En,ign A. F. Do Butts Dixon, vice
Hamilton.
55th Foot—Captain .Tohn Frond to be Major. without
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purchase, vice P;revet Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Cure,

whose Brevet Rank haa been converted into Substantive
Rank under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6,1854 ; Lieu-
tenant J. G. Harkness to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Frend ; Ensign A. F. B. Wither to be Lieutenant,
without purohase, vice Harkness; Sir Charles Wentworth,
Burdett, Bart., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Wither.

59th Foot—Lieutenant George Tom to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Mackenzie, who retires; Ensign and Adju-
tant John Shepha.rd to have the rank of Lieutenant ;
Ensign Jas. Buckland Cockell to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Thom.

61st Foot—Ensign Henry John Yenge to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Bace, decea.ed.
6:3,1 Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant James Linford to be
Qtv,rtermaster, vice Ingram, appointed Paymaster.
631 h Foot—George Home Row, Gent., to be Ensign,
by pnrcbase, vice Beaty-Pownall, promoted.
69th Foot—George Gregg, Gent., to be Ensign, 1w pur-
chase, vice Anderson, promoted ; James Eustace, Gant.,
to be Ensign, withont purchase, vice Gregg, appointed to
the 90th Foot.

77th Foot—Wier John W. Thomas, from ha'f-pay Un-
attached, to be Major, paying the difference, e Forbes,
who exchanges. receiving the difference.
90th Foot—Ensign J. S. Herford to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Raitt, deceased ; Ensign Ansley
Cherry to bo Lieutenant, without purchase ; Ensign E.
C. Wynne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Herford,
whose promotion by purchase on 17th Aug., 1855, has bean
cancelled ; Ensign George Gregg, from the 69th Foot, to
be Ensign, without purchase.
92d. Foot—Ensign C. DPBarnet to be Lieutenant, by per-
chase, vice Slisfto, who has retired.
93d Foot—Ensign George Greig to be Lieutenant, with-
ut purchase ; Ensign C. D. Potts, from the 10th Foot, to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Greig.
:41. West India Regiment—Lieut. Jas. Francis Birch to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Watson, appointed
Paymaster of a Provisional Battalion.

.l AND TRANSPORT CORPS.—Capt. Robert -P. Warden
has been permitted to resign his commission.
TURKISH CONTINGENT.—St George Williams, Gent.,
holding the local rank of Acting Surgeon in Turkey, to be
Surgeon.

BRITISH GERMAN LEGION.-31 Light Infantry—The
second Christian name of Ensign Camberlege is Althorn.
BRITISH ITALIAN LEGION.-Ist Regiment—Major Sir
Courts Lindsay,. Bart., to be Lieut.-Colonel-Commondant.
UNATTACHED.—The undermentioned Officers to have
their Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank,
under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6,1851 :—Brevet-Lient.-
Colonel Alfred C. Cure-, -55th Foot ; Brevet-Major John
Lawrie, 18th Foot; Brevet-Major Henry Disney Ellis,
33d Foot.

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HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon John Ramsay Brush, M.D.,
from the 2d Dragoons, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second
Class, vice Llewelyn, who exchanges ; Acting Assistant-
Surgeon David Greig, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
BREVET.

The underw.entioned Officers having completed three
years' Service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be
promoted to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal
Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854 :
TAeu►enant-C`olOnel Nathaniel Massey Stack, Provisional
Depot Battalion. _ _ _

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Lieutenant• Colonel Andrew Spottisw-oode, Ist Dragoon
Guards.

The undermentioned Cadets of the East India Company's
service to have the local and temporary rank of Ensign
during the period of their being placed under the command
of Colonel Sandham, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham,
for Field Instruction in the art of Sapping and Mining :
John Eckford, Ashton ?Mines Brandreth, Henry William
Qarnault, Hamilton Thomas Gordon, Ralph Graham
Smyth, Alfred Thomas Mender, John Downing Swiney,
John Philip Steel, Parry Lambert, Herbert William Wood,
John Makgill, Peyton Phelps, Charles John Smith, and
Henry Robert Mead, Gents.
The undermentioned Quartermasters to have the hono-
rary rank of caotain from the date of their retirement
u dor the Royal Warrant of 17th Dec.:—Quartermaster
Joseph Jones, half-pay 33d Foot; Quartermaster William
Marvin, half-pay Royal Artillery ; Quartermaster Thomas
Williamson, half-pay Provisional Battalion ; Quartermas-
ter John Payne, late Grenadier Guards : Veterinary Sur-
geon J. Lord, attached to the Osmanli Horse Artillery, to
have the local rank of Lieutenant in Turkey, while serving
in the above corps;
The undermentioned Gentlemen to have local rank in
Turkey, while serving in the Osmanli Irregular Cavalry
attached to the Turkish Contingent :—George Pigott Bar-
ton, Gent., to have the local rank of Surgeon ; Yssuf
Effendi, Gnt., to have the local rank of Acting Assistant-
Surgeon.
per. Lieutenant-Colonel F. Forbes, late', eth Regiment
Madras Cavalry, to Volvo the local rank of Colonel while
serving with the Turkish Contingent, March 27, which ap-
retwedin the Gazette of 10th July, 1855, read, to have th 4
local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, kx.
For Lieutenant,-Cnlonei E. Watt. late Bengal I aeht,
Cavalry, who has been attached to the Irregular
Cavalry under Major-General Beatson, to have the
leeal rank of Colonel in Turkey while so employed, which
appeared in the Gazette of 9th October, 1855, read, to
have the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Turkey, &e.
The appointments of. Dr. W. S. Rooks end Daniel B.
Balding, Gent., to the local rank of Surgeon, while serv-
ing with the Osmanli Cavalry attached to the Turkish
Contingent, with date 29th November, 1815, as stated in
the Gazette of December, 1855, have been cancelled. ,
ADMIRALTY, JAN. 17.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Manley Hall Dixon has been
appointed to receive a pension of 1501. a•year, as provided
for in her Majesty's Order in Council of 25th June, 1851.,
vacant by the death of Admiral Richard Curry, C.B. ; and
the nr.ma of Viee-Admirel Manley Hall Dixon has been
removed to the Reserved v Half-n
. L accordingly ; and