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 Ordinaiy Member of the First Class or Knights
Grand Cross of the Order, Viscount Mcnck.
To be Ordinary Members of the Seconi Class or Knights
Commanders of the said Order :—Francis Ilineks, 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 Sealgy, 'Esq., Attorney-General of the Island of
Barbadoes ; Jan' 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 Class, 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 do Strzelecki, Esq., C. 8.,
Baron Lyttelton, the Right Hon. F. Peel, the Right Hon.
C. B. Adderley, Sir Frederick Rogers, Bart., Sir H. G. R.
Robinson, Kt., A. T. Galt, Esq., 11. 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, Eq.

The case of the Duke of Newcastle was again
before the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday. 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. Ifeywood Whitehead, of Southside, ne:r
Manchester, whose ankle was broken accidentally while be
was riding urdn a velocipede at Armathwaite, Cumberland,
lust Saturday week, died on Wednesday from the effects of the
accident.

His Irglitiets the Viceroy of Egypt left London
yesterday iO; the Continent. The Viceroy and his suite
drove from Blicltiogham Palace to Charing-cross station,
arriving there at a quarter to twelve. A special train was
in readiness at the station, I y u I,:ch his highness trawls
to Dover. One of the Royal saloon carriages of the South
Eastern Railway Company was provided for Lis Highness's
accommoiation. The Prince of Wales drove from Marl-
borough House, and met the Viceroy to take have at the
station.

An adjourned meeting of the Paiuters' Eoarcl of
Arbitration for the West Biding, composed of an
equal number e f masters cud workmen, was held
on Wednesday at the Commercial Hotel, Bradford (under
the presidency of Mr. Frederick Jackson, master-
painter, of IA cds), to agree uron a code of rules and
settle the wages question. A fter some discussion it was re-
solved tLat, 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 5.80 or Gin the evening, as the different shops should
determine.