The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-07 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 5.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Edward
Ilyndman Beckles, D.D., to be ordained and consecrated
Bishop of Sierra Leone, in the room of the Right Rev.
John Bowen, deceased.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 3.
The Queen, has been graciously pleased to appoint Ed-
ward St. John Neale, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul in
Bosnia, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation in China.
JAN. 5.
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The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Hermann
Stolterfoht as Consul at Liverpool for the Free Hanseatic
City of Hamburgb.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 6.

ARTILLMRY COMPANY OF LONDON.
The Queen has been pleased, on the recommendation of
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Captain• General
and Colonel of the Artillery Company of London, to ap-
point Charles John, Lord Colville, of Culross, late Captain
11th Hussars, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice the Right
Hon. Henry Fitzßoy, deceased.
The Queen has also been pleased, on the recommenda-
tion of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, to appoint
Captain and Adjutant William Henry Snell to be Major,
vice James Goodsell Middleton, who retires.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 5.
The Right Hon. 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 De-
spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Berlin, stating that
the prohibition of the exportation of horses from Prussia
has been withdrawn.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAW. 6.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Charles Fitzgerald
Rushout Rushout, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Maxwell, appointed to the 15th Light Dragoons.
Ist Dragoons—William Wemyss Frewen Hay, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Robert Stuart, who has re.
tired`; Arthur Mesham, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Osborne, promoted.
Military Train—Ensign Henry Adams to be Lieutenant,
without purchase; Lieutenant John Devine to be Adju-
tant, vice Thompson, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
3d Regiment of Foot—Thomas Gordon Goff Caulfield,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hobson, pro-
moted.

4th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John George Hepburn, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Durrant, promoted.
6th Foot—Lieutenant James Thomas Nugent to be Instruc-
tor of Musketry.
Bth Foot—Edward Williams, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Bannatyne, promoted.
11th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Win. Male de Rune Barclay,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Deedes, whose appointment, as stated in
the " Gazette" of the 30th December, 1859, has been can-
celled ; John Henry Healey, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Price, who retires.
12th Foot—James Edward Harris, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Thomson, appointed to the 79th Foot.
15th Foot—Richard Collingwood Robinson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Luck, promoted.
22d Foot—Ensign Richard Nathaniel Cartwright Foll, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vick Plunket who retires.
23d Foot—Thomas Albin Saunders, Gent, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Liddell, promoted.
24th Foot—Philip Conolly, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Chamberlin, promoted.
25th Foot—Ensign Horace Wm. Scriven, from the 3d
Foot, to be Ensign.
28th Foot—Sergeant-Major Alfred Beere to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Horniblow, promoted.
29th Foot—The promotion of Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel John
Ross Wheeler, Capt. Lindsay Farrington, Lieut. John
James Hood Gordon, and Ensign Win. Boycott, to be
antedated to the 2d Dec., 1859.
31st Foot—Ensign Andrew Hamilton to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Leeson, promoted ; Ensign Arthur John-
son Danyell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fairfax,
promoted in the 15th Foot.
35th Foot—Wilfred Tolson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Dillon, promoted.
40th Foot—Legh Richmond Phillips, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Lucas, promoted.
53d Foot—Walter Ernest Sax Battiscombe, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase., vice Auchinleck, promoted.
57th Foot—Henry itraler Powell, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice (niarles Mansfield Clarke, promoted.
58th Foot—LiP:ut. Robert William Archibald to be Instruc-
tor of Mu ''iretry, vice Hingeston, promoted t o a Company.
69th F' of—Henry Harcourt Grillths, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Macnamara, promoted.
6lni. Foot—Thomas Wentworth Martin Edmunds to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Nevinson, promoted.
76th Foot—Ensign Robert Davies, from the Military Train,
to be Quartermaster, vice Packwood, whose appointment
as stated in the Gazette of Dec. 20, 1859, has been can-
celled.
77th Foot—Charles Welman, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Jackson, promoted.
80th Foot—William Keily Westropp, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Ridout, promoted.
83d Foot—Captain John Smith Keats, from half-pay Wag-
gon Train, to be Captain, repaying the difference, vice
Sweeny, who exchanges ; Lieut. Julian Wakefield to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Keats, who retires; Ensign
Hubert Cornish Whitlock to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Wakefield.
84th Foot—Lieut. Joseph H. F. Blyth, from half-pay 88th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Magrath. promoted in the
25th Foot ; Ensign Henry Arkwright to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Blyth, who retires.
87th Foot—Ensign Rentone George Felix Poynter to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lynch, promoted.
91st Foot—Henry Hydo Roberts, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Hamilton, promoted.
. 92d Foot—Ensign Robert A. Emmet to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Hunton, who retires.
95th Foot—Lieutenant John Nicholas to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice John North Crealock, promoted to a
company.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPAUTMENT.—The commissions of the
following officers, as chaplains of the fourth class, to bear
the dates stated against their respective names, in lieu of
Ist April, 1859, as staied in the Gazette of that date :—The
Rev. Joseph O'Dwy3r, 12th April, 1858; Rev. Michael
Cuffe, 7th Sept., 1858; Rev. Thomas Molony, 7th Sept.,
1858.
BREVET.

Captain John Smith Keats, 83d Foot, to be Major in tho
army.
Brevet-Major John Smith Keats, 83d Foot, to be Lieu•
tenant-Colonel in the army.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 23, 1859.

Corps of Royal Marines—Gentlemen Cadets John Thos,
Ley, Wm. Menzies, Edward M. C. Coates, George F. Pen-
gelley, Edward N. W. HolbroolO, Hon. Henry Aylmer,
Edmund H. B. Lysons, Francis M. Shairp, Wm. La Trobe
Cockcroft, Patrick Wm. O'Connor, Augustus James Hill,
Erskine Tudor Risk, Wm. Dutton Calder, Albert Geo. S.
Hawes, N assau Wm. I. Hampden, and Wm. H. Wells, to
be Second Lieutenants.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.

County of York—Benjamin Blaydes Haworth, Esq., and
William Duesbery Thornton Dnesbery, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenants.
_ County of Banff—john Gordon, Esq., to be Deputy

Lieuten;nt.

76th Highland Light Infantry, or Inverness, Banff,
Elgin, and Nairn Shires Regiment of Militia—William
Archibald Campbell, Esq., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Joseph
Venables Lovett to be Captain, vice Thos. Cholmendeley,
resigned ; Frederick Georgo Mogg, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Lovett, promoted.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—George Henry Evans,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal Mid-Lothian or Edinburgh Yeomanry Cavalry—
James Turnbull, Gent., to be Cornet, vice William Roy,
deceased.

Mid-Lothian Coast Artillery Volunteer Corps, or First
Division of the Artillery Volunteer Force in the County of
Edinburgh—Sir James Gardiner Baird, Bart., to be Major-
Commandant. Ist Company—W. A. Parker, Esq., to be
Captain ' • William Durley Bentley, Gent., to be First Lieu-
tenant ; J. C. Graham, Gent., to lee Second Lieutenant. 2d
Company—George Tod, Esq., to be Captain; D. Clenie
Gregor, Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; William Watson,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. 3d CompanY—Yriteerilt.
Hayne Carter, Esq., to be Captain ; George Roland,
Firsi
late Captain Edinburgh City Artillery Militia/ t
Lieutenant ; Alexander Edmonstone, to be lieutenant. 4th Company—David Crai Esq.,
Gent., to be Second
Cap-
tain; Allan Livingstone, Gent., to be First Lieutenant ;
Henry Harrison, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.Hawke rArn d
Leith Rifle Volunteer Corps—nenrYau
anTkos,
beJoLhienuttlalnonts,
Esq., to be Major Commandant. To beCaptains—Donald
ißoonb.,eratndMiGndrreogwor,FyWffeilliaedmslible,aErjoscirisb.
—William Strachan Gavin, George Barclay, Alexander
Tod, and William Henry, Gents. To be Ensigns--James
Smith, James Thomas Hanlie, James Lawrence Boyd, and
John Kidd, Gents.
Ist Company Renfrewshire Artillery Volunteers—John
be Captain ; Adam Leitch, Gent., to be
Scott, Gent., to
First Lieutenant ; Robert Sinclair Scott, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant.
Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers-2d Company—Frede-
rick Daniel Fryer, Esq., to be Captain; Francis Jackson,
•Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Richard Young, Esq., to be En-
sign.
2d Company of the Monmouthshire Volunteer Rifle
Corps (called the Ist Pontypool)—Richard Beam Roden,
Esq., to be Captain; William Baily Hankens, Gent., to be
Lieutenant; Henry Tothill, Gent., to be Ensign.
Warwickshire Militia-2d Regiment—Benjamin Elliott
Ogle, Gent., to be Ensign, vice James Satterthwaite Rudd,
promoted.
Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers-2d Company—Richard
Caldicott the younger, Gent., to be Ensign.
London Rifle Volunteer Brigade—George Montagu
Hicks, late Captain 41st (The 'Welsh) Regiment, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Ist Company of Dorset Artillery Volunteers—Frederick
Hinton, Gent., to be Captain; John George Sarsfield Mac-
namara Moore, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; George
Cartwright, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
East Kent Rec4iment of Militia—George Taddy Hatfield,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Coventry, promoted.
2d Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—Alfred Bright,
Gent., to be First Lieutenant.

Ist 'Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
James Wilkinson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Gatehouse,
promoted.
6th Company of Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers—Richard
Edwards, Esq., to be Captain; Gilbert Elliot, Esq., to be
Lieutenant ; William baker, Esq., to be Ensign.
Ist Company of Cheshire Artillery Volunteers—George
Harrison, Esq., to be Captain.
2nd Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Lieutenant
James Taylor has been removed from the strength of the
Regiment, being absent without kayo.

BANKRUPTS.
Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee, merchant, Bishopsgate-street,
City, to surrender Jan. 23' and Feb. 17, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
John A. Josolyne and Thomas Taylor, milliners, High-
holborn, Jan. 13 and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
James Aylett, baker, East Horndon, Essex, Jan. 16, at
twelve, and Feb. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
David Simpson, goldsmith, Hatton-garden, Jan. 20, at
one, and Feb. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
James Greig, baker, Holloway, Jan. 18, at twelve, and
Feb. 15, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Chamberlin, wheelwright, Rupert-street, Hay-
market, Jan. 17, at half-past one, and Feb. 15, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
George James Reid, merchaut, Manchester, Jan. 16, and
Fob. 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Henry Cottrell, glue manufacturer, Pennywell-road,
Bristol, Jan. 16 and Feb. 29, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court.

Henry Moss, draper? . Leeds Jan. 19 and Feb. 24, at
eleven, at the Commercial-buildings, Leeds.
SCOTCH BANKRUPT.
P'avid Ogilvie, Wright, Douglastown.