The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-05 00:00:00

MEETING OP THE JOCKEY CLUB.

A general meeting of the Jockey Club will be held at
Newmarket after the races on Wednesday in the Second
October Meeting, for a ballot and for other business.
Notices of motion.—By the Stewards : " That W. Bleak-
iron, Esq., be elected by open voting an honorary life
member of the Stands on Newmarket Heath."

The following proposal will also be submitted to the
consideration of the general mooting :

"As it is expedient that the old system of ropes and
stakes should be abolished, the winning-posts A.F. and
D.M. will be guarded by posts and rails, and as the exten-
sion of these rails to the present T.Y.C. and Abingdon
Mile would be prejudicial to the exercising ground, the
Stewards propose that in 1868 the T.Y.C. shall commence
at the starting-post R.M., and end at the D.M. winning-
post, which is the exact distance of the present T.Y.C—
viz., 5 fur. 140 yards.

"By this arrangement three posts are got rid of—viz.,
the starting post and the two winning-posts of the present
T.Y.C. ; and the D.llf. winning-past will terminate the
Ditch Milo, the T.Y.C., and the Yearling Course.
"Again, by abolishing the course called the first half of
Ab. 11., and substituting for it the half-miles ending A.F.,
Ab.M., or D.M., ropes and stakos would not be required.
The winning-post Ab.M. cuuld beguarded by dolls,which
can be removed after the meeting."

JOHN STIRS,
25, WELLINGTON-STREET, STRAND,
Executes Commissions on all the races to any amount .
The full market odds laid.
Price list daily.

LONDON GAZETTE.--LAST EVENING.

WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 4.

• 4th Regiment of Hussars—Major James Swinburne to be
Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase ; Captain the Hon. F.
George Ellis to be Major ; Lieutenant Theophilus Gist
to bo Captain ; Cornet Hugh Berkeley Griffiths to be
Lieutenant.
6th Dragoons Captain William John Wauchope, from the
16th Lancers, to bo Captain.
16th Lancers—Captain Richard William Renshaw, from
the 6th Dragoons, to be Captain; Cornet James Cole=
Kennedy to be Lieutenant.
Royal Artillery Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Edward
Maunsell, to be Assistant-Surgeon; Francis Plomloy,
Gent., to be Veterinary Surgeon.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Major-General Montgomery
Williams to be Colonel-Commandant ; Capt. Walter S.
Stace to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Capt. John Edward
Cornea to bo Captain.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. James Campbell Stratford
to be Captain ; Ensign Augustus Frederic F. Adams to
be Lieutenant; Sergeant-Major John Welsh to be Quar-
termaster.
11th Foot—Ensign Csrb3ry Egan to be Lieutenant.
12th Foot—Ensign Arthur Hamilton to be Ensign.
15th Foot—Charles Cecil Baker, Gent, to be Ensign.
16th Foot—Ensign Ribert Kane to be Ensign.
18th Foot—Lieutenant John Wily to be Captain ; Ensign
Francis John Stewart Pringle to be Lieutenant.
25th Foot—Ensign George Ormond Stoney to bo Lieu-
tenant.
sGth Foot—Lieut. George Wilding Wood to be Instructor
of Musketry.
59th Foot—Arthur Hamilton, Gent., to bo Ensign.
63d Foot—Lieut. Charles Ellison 'l'orrot to be Captain ;
Ensign William Bestow, to be Lieutenant ; Lieut.
William Stevens Ward to be Adjutant; Lieut. Major
Dawson Hill, to bo instructor of Musketry.
70th Foot—Ensign Henry Calland Darloy to be Lieu-
tenant.

93d Foot—Lieutenant George Forbes-Robertson to be
Captain; Ensign John A. Mac Vicar to be Lieutenant;
Ormelie Campbell Hannay, Gent., to be Ensign; George
Randle Robert Phayre, Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Ensign Philip Henry
Drayton, to be Ensign.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Assistant-Surgeon Chas. Dot-.
son Madden, to be Staff Surgeon.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—TRO Rev. J. F. Browne, to bo
Chaplain of Third Class.
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.—Robert Wilson, Gent., to bo
Acting Veterinary Surgeon.
ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.—Lieutenant George John
Bergmann, Royal Artillery, to bo Lieutenant.
BREVET.
Captain and Brevet-Major Oliver Nicolls Chatterton to
have the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Quartermaster William Scott to have the honorary rank
of Captain.
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Francis Charles
Anuesley, to have the honerary rank of Inspector...
General of Hospitals.
The following promotions to take place consequent on
the death of Lieut.-General W. Cuthbert Ward, Colonel
of Royal Engineers, viz.:—Major-General M. William;
Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant-General ; Lieut.-
Colonel Sir Frederick Edward Chapman, 1C.C.8., Royal
Engineer; to be Major-General ; Major-General Thomas
0. Luxmoro, and Major-General W. Faris, Royal Engi-
neers, to be Lieut.-Generals ; Major Robert Dillon to be
Lieut.-Colonel ; Captain George Fraser, Royal Artillery,
to be Major. .

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 2.
Mr. Thomas Stanley has been promoted to the rank of
Assistant Engineer of the First Class in her Majesty's
Fleet. Mr. (instal, Adolph Carl Renck° has been pro-
moted to the rank of Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--Last Evening.

tunfiterditm Short. 11 18
Ditto 8 Months. 12 Of
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 37f
Brussels — 25 87k
Hamburg — 13 10
Paris Short 25 15
Ditto 3 Months. 25 30
Marseilles
Freak-for: on the Maine 120}
Tienna — 12 70
riesto — 12 '7O

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25 42
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25 25
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27 67
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LONDON, Oct. 5.--Wind this day at noon-North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

CARDIFF, Oct. 4.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Caroline, for
Rio Janeiro; General Havelong, for Shanghai; Gladiator,
for Singapore.

TEIGNMOUTH) Oct. 3.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Glen-
Lvet, from Labrador.

SOUTIL&MPTON, Oct. 4.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Tanjore
screw steamer, for Alexandzia.

FALMOUTH, Oct. 4.—Wind N.—Sailed—Arago, screw
steamer, for New York.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—WO understand, says
,he Scotsman, that Mr. Smith°ll, of the Lancashire and

Yorkshire Railway, has been appointed manager of the
Caledonian Railway, in lieu of Mr. C. Johnstone, resigned
from bad health. The salary is £2,500 the first year, and
£3,000 par annum afterwards, with an assistant at £l,OOO.
SIIEEP WORRYING BY FOXES.--The other morn-
ing, as a man was going to his work, between West Auck-
land and New Shildon, he noticed that all the sheep in a
field on the West Throckley Farm were crowded up into
one corner of the field. On looking more particularly he
discovered that there was a fox amongst them, which had
one of them down and was worrying it. He shouted and
whistled as hard as he could to set it off them, but it would
not leave until the man attempted to cross the field, when
"Reynard" scampered off towards Brusselion Wood. It
was found that no less than three of the sheep were so
seriously bitten and torn that they had to be killed. Severn
valuable.,dogs have either boon destroyed or been saved
by heavy pnalties, perhaps, for the havoc the foxes have
made.