The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-06 00:00:00

YESTERDA }

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov 3.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. A. E.
Liithers as Consul at Demerara for his Majesty the King
of the Netherlands.

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 2.
Corps of Royal Marines--Second Lieutenant John Chris-
topher Hore to be First Lieutenant, vice Tomlin, deceased.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Royal Berks Militia—Frederick Henry Lane, late Major
of the Waterford Artillery Militia, to be Adjutant, vice
Codd, resigned.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
County of Inverness—Eneas Mackintosh, Esq., Hugh
Davidson, Esq., and J. Merry, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieute-
nants.
Royal South Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Ensign
John Thomas Jackson to be Lieutenant, vice Holbrooke,
resigned.
Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En-
sign Hercules Akerman to be Lieutenant,--vice Carrington
Jones, promoted ; Ensign John Alexander William Fabie
Wilson to be Lieutenant, vice Smith, resigned.
Royal Westmoreland Light Infantry Regiment of Militia
—Ensign John Thwaytes to be Lieutenant, vice Wilson,
resigned.
West Essex Militia—Lieutenant William James Lucas
to be Captain, vice Lord Garvagh, resigned.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
George Mallifont Fane, Gent., to be Ensign.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Regi-
ment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Ensign Albert Har-
dinge Lynch to be Lieutenant, vice Mark Quayle, resigned ;
Wm. Sheffield Bytham, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Frederick
Henry Brice, promoted.
7th Regiment of Lancashire Militia—John Rule Daniell,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery Regiment—Widen-
ham Francis Fosbery to be Second Lieutenant, vice Wm.
Roe Cockson, resigned. , .
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets
Militia—Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. Lewis Grant to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Commandant; Arthur Cecil Manners,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Tewart, who retires ; Ernest
Augustus Beaumont, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Parry, ap-
pointed to the 22d Regiment of Foot.
HOME-OFFICE, Ocr. 28.
The Boys' Home Reformatory Institution, Bridge House,
Wandsworth, in the county of Surrey, has been certified by
the Secretary of State, as fit to be a Reformatory School,
under the provisions of the Statute 17 and 18 Viet., cap. 86.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.
SHETLAND ISLES—WHALSEY GROUP.
Revolving. Light on Out-Skerries.
The Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses have give n
notice that on the night of Dec. 1, 1858, the present tempo-
rary
light on the island of Grime, Out-Skerries, will be dis-
continued, and on and after that date a revolving white
light, attaining its greatest brilliancy once every minute,
will be exhibited from the permanent light tower erected on
the Bound Skerry.
The light is placed at an elevation of about 145 feet above
the level of high water and should be visible in clear
weather from the deck of a ship at a distance of about 17
miles.
The light apparatus is dioptric, or by lenses, and of the
first order.
The light tower is 80 feet high, and painted white, and
the whole height of tower and lantern is 99 feet. The
Bound Skerry is the most easterly rock of the Out-Skerries
group, on the east side of the Shetland isles.
By command of their Lordships,
JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydrographer.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London,
19th October; 1858.
This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :
Shetland Isles, No. 1,118; North Sea, General, No. 2,339.
Also, North Sea Pilot, Part 1, page 23 ; and British
Islands Lights List for June, 1858, No. 184.