The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-25 00:00:00

FO.RXIGN DESERTERS.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23d of January,
1860. Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.

Whereas by the " Foreign Deserters' Act, 1852," it is
made to appear to her Majesty that due facilities are or
will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who
desert from British merchant ships in the territories of any
Foreign Power, her Majesty may, by Order in Council,
stating that such facilities aro or will be given, declare
that seamen, not being slaves, who desert from
merchant •ships belonging to a subject of such
Foreign Power, when within her Majesty's domi-
nions shall be liable to be apprehended and
carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the
operation of such order, and may render the operation
thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any,
as may be deemed expedient ;
And whereas it has been load° to appear to her Majesty
that due facilities will be given for recovering and appre-
hending seamen whe desert from British merchant-ships in
the dominions of her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
Now, therefore, her Majesty, thy virtue of the
power vested in her by the said Woreign Desertion
Act, 1852," antl by and with the advice of her Privy Coun-
cil, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered
and declared, that from and after tha publication hereof in
the London Gazette, seamen, not being slaves, and not being
British subjects, who witkin her Majesty's dominions, desert
from merchant ships belonging to subjects of her Majesty tho
Queen of Spain, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried
on board their respective ships ; provided always that if
any such deserter has committed any crime in her Majesty's
dominions, he may be detained until he has been tried by
a competent court, and until his sentence (if any) has been
carried into effect.

And the Right Honourable the. Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury, and the Secretary of State for
India, in Council, aro to give the necessary directions
hefein accordingly.

WM. L. BATHURST.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 23.
This day had audience of her Majesty, Monsieur Tri-
coupi, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from the King of Greece, to deliver a letter from his Sove-
reign, to which audience he was introduced by Lord John
Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Lieutenant-General the
Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of
the Ceremonies.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 23.

This Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Charles
Lennox Wyke, Esq., now her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires
and Consul-General to the Republics of Guatemala, Nica-
ragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador, and her
Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary on a Special Mission to those Republics, to be her
Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to the Republic of Mexico.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, lAN. 23.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Richard
Cowsll as Consul at Gibraltar for the Sublime Ottoman
Porte.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Niebuhr as Consul at Rangoon,
and of Mr. Ernst Pandorf as Consul at Bassein, for the
Freo Hanseatic City of Bremen.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER, JAN. 23.

The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Henry
Garnett, of Wyresi4e, Esq., to be Sheriff of the county pala-
tine of Lancaster for the year ensuing.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 24.
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Rowland Veitch
Betty to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wright, who
retires.
sth Dragoon Guards—Charles Ford, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Colvin, promoted.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Arthur Lautour, from
the 3d Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Turner,
who exchanges.
3d Light Dragoons—LieutenantThomas Macnaghten Tur-
ner, from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant,
vice Lautour, who exchanges.
Military Train—The Commission of Lieutenant Isaac
Cummin as Adjutant, to be antedated to the 25th October,
' 1859.
3d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William Henry to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Aplin, who retires ; Ensign
Dudley George CaryElwes to be Lieutenant. by pur-
chase, vice Henry ; Ensign William Henry Irvine to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vico Leatham, who retires.
bth Foot—Captain William Cairnes Armstrong to be Major,
by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel.Hume' who
retires ; Lieutenant John Oiiphant Kemnais to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Armstrong; Ensign George
William Rayne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Kemmis.
24th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Archibald Farquharson
has been permitted to resign his commission.
43d Foot—Ensign Arthur Brett Onslow, from the 98th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Morley, appointed to the 15th
Light Dragoons.
40th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Hawker Helyar to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vico Harnond, whose promotion, by
purchase, as stated in the Gazette of the 231 August, 1859,
has been cancelled.
84th Foot- William Drodnax. Knftht, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Arkwright, promoted.
85th Foot—Ensign William Henry Urquhart to be Lieu-
tenant, by purohase, vice Fitz Gerald, who retires.
87th Foot—Ernest Augustus Dundas Widdrington, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Poynter, promoted.
91th Foot—Lieutenant George James Teevan to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Sydenham Malthus, appointed
Adjutant.
95th Foot—John. French Jordan, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Cubitt, promoted.
3d West India Regiment--The Commission of Lieutenant
John Moore, as Adjutant, to be antedated to the 11th
January, 1860.
Garrisons—Major-General Henry Viscount Melville,
K.C.8., to be Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
Unattached—Lieutenant F,.eancis Williams, from the 55th
witheut purchase.
Foot, to be Captain,
BREVET. -
Brcv*ffltalerdel Randal Burnley, Lieutenant-Colonel on
hWifay Unattached, to have the temporary rank of
Major-General, while acting as Vice-President to the
Council .of Military gducation, vice Major-General
Cameron, C. 8., who resigns that appointment.
Brevet-Colonel Robert Henry Lowth, C. 8., retired full-
pay 86th Foot, to be Major-General, the rank being
honoraryt k
George Pym of the Royal Marines, to
bo Major in the Army.
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Captain Fd
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the death of Lieutenant-General Chesborough Grant
Falconar, Colonel of the 73d Regiment, on the 10th Jan.,
1860 :

Major-General Wm. Thos. Knollys, Colonel of the 62d
Regiment, to be Lieutenant-General.
Brevet-Colonel Thomas Armstrong Drought, Inspecting
Field Officer of a Recruiting District, to be Major-
General.
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis William Henry,
Earl of Westmorland, C. 8., Coldstream Guards, to be
Colonel.

BreYet-Major William Afauleverer, Captain, half-pay, 58th
Foot, Staff-Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieutenant-
Colone!. •

Captain Robert Henry Price, 35th Foot, to be Major.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
William Rees, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John
Penry Jones, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
sth Division of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Jacob
Willink, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Samuel Sandbach Parker,
Gentleman, to be Ensign.
30th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—George
Eastham, Esq., to be Captain; Richard Calvert, Gent., to
be Lieutenant; William Henry Birley, Gent., to be En-
sign.
6th Division of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Captain
Frank Ashton to bo Major.
Artillery Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Captain
James Middleton, to be Major, vice James Bourne, resigned;
Second Lieutenant Caleb Collins to be First Lieutenant,
vice Francis Maurice Drummoni Davies, resigned.
7th Regiment of Lancashire Militia—Ensign William
Dunbar Quinlan, having absented himself without leave
from the last training, to bo removed from the strength of
the Regiment.
Glamorganshire Rifle Volunteers.-16th Company—
Charles William David, Esq., to be Captain; Clement
Waldron Gent., to be Ensign; Jeremiah Box. Stockdale,
Gent., to be Lieutenant.

9th'Company of Surrey Rifle Volunteers—Edmund Bal-
four, Esq., to be Ensign.
let Sutherland Rifle Volunteers—Sutherland Murray,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; Joseph Peacock, Gent., to be
Ensign.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—William Percy Wink-
worth, Gent., to be Ensign.
let Suffolk Rifle Volunteers—Colonel Robert Ramsey to
be Captain ; Henry 'reward, Gent., to be Lieutenant ;
Sterling Westhorp, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Haward,
promoted.

Ayrshire Rifle Volunteers-3d Company—Major Hay
Boyd to be Captain ; Robert Paton, Gent., to be Lieuten-
ant ; James Martin, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Middlesex Engineer Volunteers—MacLeod, of Mac-
Leod, to be Captain Commandant.
Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Ensign
William Wroford Brown to be Lieutenant, vice Clarke,
resin-nod.
*est Riding Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers.-sth Company
(Bradford)—Abraham Briggs Foster, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant; George Bankart, Gent., to be Ensign. 6th Cola-
pany (Bradford)—Ensign Henry Sager Hirst to be Lieu -
tenant, vice A. B. Foster, resigned; John Foster, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Hirst, promoted.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Dugard, jun., coach furniture maker, Birming-
ham.

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Simmons, cattle salesman, Hurst, Berks, to sur-
render 3d February and Ist March, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Thomas Lightfoot, shipbuilder, Sunderland, Jan. 31 and
March 6, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon. Tyne District
Court.
William Chellew, ship broker, Truro, Feb. 6 and 29, at
twelve, at the Exeter District Court.
Edwin Ilyett, baker and grocer, Worcester, Feb. 10 and
24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
James William Sumner, builder, Reigate, Feb.' 8, at
two, and March 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Marshall, builder and contractor, Plymouth,
Feb. 7 and 27, at twelve, at the Athenaeum, Plymouth.
George Richardson and George Tomlinson France, cloth
merchantsolluddersfield, Fob. 6, and March 5, at half-
past eleven, at the Commercial-buildings, Leeds.
Grace Keener and Sophia Baffle, milliners, Exeter, Feb.
6th and 29th, at twelve, at the Distriet Court of Bank-
ruptcy.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
David Robb, grocer, Dunfermline.
Mrs. Janet Arlacy or Twccdalo, baker, Borrowatounnesa,
Linlithgowshire.
Andrew M'Allister, manufacturer, Paisley.
Donald Stalker, accountant, Edinburgh, late of Glag-
4otte9-street, Loudon,