The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day

BIRMINGHAM RACES.—(Tats DAY.)
VICTUALLER'S PLATE,
The Licensed Victuallers' Plate of 30 sovs, added to a
handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft (to the fund); winners
after Feb. 6 (at nine a.m.), 71b extra; about two miles
and a half.
Charlemagne
Ace of Trumps
2
Sir William

VICTORIA CLUB—Tnis DAY.
The Birmingham Chases this day were the leading
themo for conversation at the Club, and though a fair
muster were present, the appended quotations were the
only transactions which book place ou future events. The
same backer who, through "evil report" has persistently
supported The Rake, would again. have invested had 8 to
I been obtainable. Plaudit, alone, was backed for any
amount, as will be perceived below.

LINCOLNSHIHE HANDICAP.
8 to 1 agst Bismark (taken and offered)
11 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered)
100 to 7 agst Copenhagen (taken auto
20 to 1 agst Mount Palatine (offere"

CHESTER CUP.
400 to 10 agst Dalby (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
100 to 30 agst Plaudit (taken)
DERBY.
to 1 agst The Rake (offered)
13 to 1 agst Plaudit (taken)
35 to 1 agst Julius (offered)

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, ST. TA3IES'S
PALACE, FEB. 4.

Notice is hereby given, that the Queo will hold Courts
at Buckingham Palace on the following days :—Thursday,
March 7; Thursday, March. 14; Saturday, March 23;
Tuesday, April 2 ; and on one day dut:ng tha month of
Juno to be hereafter specified.

• FEB: 8.
Notice is hereby given, that his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales will, by command of the Queen, hold
Levees at St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty, on
Monday, the 4th of March, and on Wednesday the 20th of
March nest, at two o'clock.

It is the C:tueen's pleasure that presentations to his Royal
Highuess at these levees shall bo considered as equivalent
to presentations to her Majesty.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FED. 8.
The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Thomas
Dicconson, Esq., of Wrightington Hall, to be Sheriff of
the County Palaline of Lancaster for the yea• ensuing.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Carter
Hoffmeister, E 21., M.D., and William Hoffmeister, Esq.,
M.D., jointly, to be Apothecaries to her Majesty's House--
hold at Osborne.

FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 9.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Frederic Hamilton, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Stockholm, to be her Majesty's Charge d'Af-
faires and Consul-General to the Republic of the Equator.
FEB. 11.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Tomas
o:tun° as Consul at Hong Kong for her Majesty tho
Queen of Spain.
Tho Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
George T. Holland as Consul at Victoria, Hong Kong, for
his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway.
CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 12.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of AndoTer.—Sir John Burgess Kerslake,
Knt., her Majesty's Solie-tor-General, in the room of Wil-
liam Henry llumphery, Esq., who has accepted the office
of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.

WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 12.
17th Regiment of Lancers—Major-General Charles W. M.
Balders, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice General Sir James M.
Wallace, deceased.
32d Regiment of Foot—Major-General George Bell, C.B.
from the 104th Ragiment, to be Colonel, vice Major-
William G. Gold, transferred to the 53d Regiment.
53d Regiment of Foot—Major-General William George
Gold, from the 32d Regiment, to bo Colonel, Tice Major-
General Charles William Ridley, C. 8., deceased.
104th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General George
Dixon to be Colonel, vice Major-General George Bells
C. 8.. transferred to the 32d Regiment.
19th hussars—Gentleman Cadet James Livingston Mae-
key, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, vice
Joseph SchuylerlAlbert Bruff4who resigns.
7th Foot —Ensign Henry Hugh Atherton France, from the
loth Foot, to bo Ensign, vice Josiah Philip Crampton.
Neville, transferred to the 37th Foot.

Bth Foot:-Lieutenant William Albert Bridge to be Ca
tain, by purchase, vice John Vera Wiliam Henry Webb,
promoted ; Ensign Manley Chas. M. Dixon to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase. vice Charles Jaines Holman Playter,
who retires; Ensign Willi-on Louis to b 3 Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Bridge; Gentleman Cadet Rowland
Oakeley, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Dixon ; Gentleman Cadet Ponsonby
11‘31ahon Shaw, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Louis.
9th Foot—Lieut. Nathaniel Forte to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet-Major Bowen Van Straubenzoo, pro-
moted, by purchase, in the 100th Foot ; Ensign Augus-
tus HenryLongfield to be Lieutenant, by purchase, like
Forte; Wm. Frederic Fairlie, Gent, to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Longfield.
15th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Cecil Lugard Smyth Bran-
son, from the Military College, to be Ensign, without

purChace, vice Henry Hugh Atheiton Franoe,trinsferred

to the 7th Foot. -
24th Foot—Major-Richard Thomas Glyn to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel by, parchaso, vice Brevet-Colonel
Edmund Wodehouse, who retireg upon half-pay;
Captain W'lliam Plumer Gaskell to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Glyn; Lieut. William Maxwell Brander to
be Captain, by purchase, :Co Gaskell; Ensign Fre-
det:ck Carrington to be Lieu:anent, by purchase,
vic3 Brander ; Gentleman Cadet Thomas George Hes-
keth, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Reginald Younghusband, promoted by
purehase ; Gentleman Cadet Alex. Wright, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Thomas G. liesketh, transfer.vd to the Rifle Bri-
gade ; Gentleman Cadet James F. Jameson, from the
Royal Military Collego, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Cari ing ton.
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27th Foot—Captain Francis Eastwood Murphy to be Major,
by purchase, vice James Homy Creagh, who reti-es ;
Lieutenant Lawrence William Desborough to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Murphy ; Ensign Robeit William
Brownrigg to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Des-
borough ; Gentleman Cadet Edward Barton, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Brownr: _ - -

37th Foot :lieutenant Freder:ck F:owers to be Captain,
by Farchase, v:ce Alfred Rober;. Ord, who retires; En-
sign John Alderson Eastham to be L:entenant, by pur-
chase, v:ce Flowers; Ensign Josiah Philip Crainpton
Nevine, from the ith Foot, to b.) Ensign, v:ce Eastiam.
bath Foot -Ensign Ernest Theodore Evans, from the
Ceylon Rifle Ryglinent, to b,3 Ensign, v:ce Gilb3rz, Wil-
Varn Emmy Maxwell Waugh, tralsferred to the 78th

Foot.
74th Foot—Ensign William FrederllFai:lie, from the 9th
Foot, to be Ensign, vioe.GJorge F. Gayou, traaLferzed

to th.o 11th Foot:
.
78th Foot —Ens7ga Gllber';, Winiam R3nny Maxwell
Waugh, from the 3Gth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Edward

Rich;-(1 Mrssie, who retires.
98th Foot—Ensir''m George Franklin to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, v:caßobet:: Thorp, who ret'res ; Gentleman
Cadet Ambro..o S..aptleton, from the Royal
Military College, to be Eu,!go, by purchase, vies
Fraulein:
100th Foot—Brevet-3fajor Bowen Van Straubenzee' from
the 9th Foot, to be Major, by purchase, v:co James
Clery, dismissed the Service by seoteuce of a General
Court Martial, but allowed to retire by the sale of his
Commission.
103 d Foot—The second Christian name of Eusigi Riddell
is Carre, and not Car:, as gnzetted on the 11th January.
108th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Thomas Geoenaway, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Alber;;
Menro, promoted.
Rifle B :gadc —Ensign Thomas George Hesketh, from
the 24th Foot, to be amigo, vic3 Wa'tor F. Cavendish,
deceased.