The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-18 00:00:00

TUE NEW COINAGE.

BY THE QWEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA, R.—Whereas we have thought fit to order
that certain pieces of money of bronze or mixed metal should
be coined, which should be called " Penny Pieces," " Half
Penny Pieces," and "Farthing Pieces," every such Penny
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having for the obverse impression Our Effigy laur ea ed,
with the Inscription " Victoria. D. G. Britt : Reg F. D.,"
and for the reverse impression the Figure of Britannia
seated upon a rock in the Sea, her right hand resting upon
a shield and holding in her left the Trident, with a Ship
and Pharos in the distance, and the inscription " One
Penny," with the date of the year ; and every such
Halfpenny piece haying for the obverse impression the
aforesaid effigy and inscription, and for the reverse the
figure of Britannia, with the same emblems as described
for the Penny, and the, inscription " Halfpenny," with
the date of the year ; and every such Farthing piece
having for the obverse impression the aforesaid effigy and
inscription, and for the reverse the figure of Britannia,
with the same emblems as described for the Penny, and the
inscription " Farthing," with the date of the year; all of
which said moneys of bronze or mixed metal have been and
shall be coined in a mixed metal or bronze composed of
copper, tin, and zinc. And whereas pieces of money of the
description aforesaid have been coined at Our Mint, and
will be coined there. We have, therefore, with the advice
of Our Privy Council, thought fit to issue this Proclama-
tion. And we do hereby ordain, declare, and command,
that all such pieces of money of bronze or mixed metal, so
coined and to be coined as aforesaid, shall be current and
lawful money of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, and shall pass and be received as current and lawful
money of the said Kingdom, every such Penny piece as of
the value of one penny of present lawful money, every
such Halfpenny piece as of the value of one halfpenny of
present lawful money, and every such Farthing piece as
of the value of one farthing of present lawful money.
Provided that no person shall be obliged to take more of
such Penny pieces in any one payment than shall be of the
value of one shilling, after the rate aforesaid, or take
more of such Halfpenny or Farthing pieces in any one
payment than shall be of the value of sixpence after the
rate aforesaid.
Given at Our Court at Windsor, this seventeenth day of
December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and
in the twenty-fourth year of Our reign.
GOD SATE Tan QUEEN.
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At the Court at Windsor, the 17th day of December,
1860. Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.
This day the Right Hon. John Arthur Douglas, Lord
Bloomfield, was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his
place at the Board accordingly.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 18, 1860.
The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Sir
William Verner, Bart., formerly a Lieutenant-Colonel in
her Majesty's Army, her Royal licence and authority that
he may accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Com-
mander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, which
the late King of Hanover was pleased to confer upon him,
in approbation of his distinguished services in connection
with Hanoverian Troops of the German Legion employed
against the enemy during the Peninsular War and at
Waterloo.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Charles Hinaman, 8.A.. to the Rectory of Barford St,
Martin, in the county of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury,
the same being void by the promotion of the Honourable
and Right Reverend Father in God Doctor Samuel Walde-
grave to the See of Carlisle.

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVBNING).

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC 12.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE ?RESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Southwark.—Auatin Henry Layard, of No.
130, Piccadilly, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the
room of Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 18.
7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Archibald
Philip Douglas, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Cap-
tain, vice William Digby Wentworth, who exchanges.
3d Light Dragoons—Dodgson Hamilton Thompson, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Barrett, promoted.
4th Light Dragoons—Captain William Digby Wentworth,
from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Archi-
bald Philip Douglas, who exchanges.
sth Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Frederick Walter Carden
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Amyatt Ernie Brown,
who retires; Cornet Alexander Ewing to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Carden ; Richard Moore Sadlier, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Cotton, appointed to the
99th Foot; James George Hubert Fox, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Chaffey promoted.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Arthur L'Estrange
Hamilton Holmes, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant, vice Arthur Hamilton Scrope, who ex-
changes.
11th Light Dragoons—Llewellyn Traherne Bassett Saun-
derson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Russell,
appointed to the 10th Light Dragoons; iohn Delacour,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Calvert, promoted.
12th Light I )ragoons—Lieutenant Arthur Hamilton Scrope,
from the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Arthur L'Estrange Hamilton Holmes, who exchanges.
16th Light Dragoons—Charles Francis Arnold Howard,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Edwin Andrew
Corbet, who retires; James Herbert Lovell, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Edward Philip Salter, who
retires.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Robert Bainbridge to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Charles Steel, promoted, by
purchase, to an Unattached Majority; Cornet Henry
Richard Abadie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Bainbridge.
18th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant William Coxon to be
Captain, by purchase, vice George Eden Jarvis, who re-
tires ; Cornet Harold Esdaile Motet to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Coxon.
Military Train—Lieutenant Edward Jervis to be Captain,
by purchase, vice George Pilkington Blake, who retires ;
Ensign Kilner Augustus Arthur Brasier-Creagh to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jervis ; Samuel Masters
Davies, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Benthall,
promoted.

lsi Regiment of Foot—William Collett Sanders Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cosens, promoted.
2d Foot—Lieutenant George Tumor to be Inspector of
Musketry, vice Page, retired.
4th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Benjamin Lane to be Surgeon,
vice Fisher, placed upon half-pay.
9th Foot—Major Henry James Buchanan, from half-pay
Depot Battalion, to be Major, vice Charles Henry Leslie,
11th
exchanges.
it% Foot—Charles John Wix, Gent., to be Ensign, by
3,Kir,chase , vice Lewis, promoted.
St Yont—Staff-Surgeon Thomas Ligertwood, M. 8., to be
-13t117_6", vice Jackson, appointed to the Staff.
Ensrtglit,-s,William Ernest Anderson Hooper, Gent., to be
18th Foot-2. purchase, vice Churchill, promoted.
3d West Lieutenant William Thomas Croft, from the
Bland ,saw"La Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice John
36th Foot---IVrI 'who exchanges.
Mercer Maxwell, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchaan,°--,1"8
vice s
tn., promoted.
38th Foot—Lieutenent f
Musketry, vice Captain red Stokes to be Instructor of
Wm. Kidstone Elles, who has
resigned that appeintt.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon
Colin Henderson to be Asunia
appointed to the Staff. aut-Surgeon, vice Lawlor,
53,1
Foot Foot—Ens
to be Ensiign
gn, Thomas
vice R
Rendell Morris, from the 92d
who exchanges.
Hutchinson A. Stewart,
, xchanges.
58th Foot—Joseph Barrington Deacon
to be En
by purchase, Tice Webb,
promoted sign, by purchase, vice Foster, promot:,Pent
Donald Georg
-
Anderson, Gent., to be, Ensign, b
be Lieute-
promoted in the Military Tram.
vice brevet-
79th Foot—Ensign Gilbert Walter_ Coventry to
nant, by vice Crawfurd, p_r_o_Taoted.
82d Foot—Captain purchase,William Cooke Oibla ughnessv, from
the 2d West India Regiment, to be Captain,
Major Samuel Peters Jarvis, who retires upon half.pay
87th Foot—Captain James Bailie to be Major, by purel?ase,
vice Charles Frederick Campbell, who retires; Lieut
Richard Throckmorton to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Bailie; Ensign John Leigh Holiest to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Throckmorton.
92d Foot—Ensign Harry Hutchinson A. Stewart, from the
53d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Thomas Rendall Morris,
who exchanges.
96th Foot—Frederick Noel Hill Rocke, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Curteis, promoted.
Ride Brigade—The Hon, Bernard Thomas Howard to be
Ensign by purchase, vice Cary, promoted.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant John Bland Sawyer,
from the 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wm. Thomas
Croft, who exchanges.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—John Fielding Willis Kane,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Francis Pearson
Murray, who retires ; Francis James Baker, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Guy William Frederick
L'Estrange, who has retired ; Ensign John Glover has
been permitted to resign his Commission.
I UNA.rrAcnED—Captain Charles Steel, from the 17th
Light Dragoons, to be Major, by purchase.

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COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.
TO Em ASSISTANT-COMMISSARIES-GENERAL.
Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General John Moria
M`Lean Sutherland. vice Kean Osborn, deceased
Deputy Aaelstant-Commissary -General Theodore Ernest
111ntock, vice Widdrington Tinling, deceased.
Deputy Aveitstant - Commissary - General Alexander

Walter Turner, vice George Shepheard, placed upon retired
pay.
The undermentioned Commissariat Clerks, having passed
the prescribed examination, and having been found to
possess the qualifications considered requisite for promotion
to the rank of Deputy-Assistant-Commissary-General, to
be promoted accordingly :—George James Neill, and
Frederick William Callaghan.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Surgeon James Jackson, from the 13th Foot to be Staff-
Surgeon, vice Ligertwood, appointed to the 13th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Digby William Lawlor, from the 38th
Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice James Stevenson,
whose services have been dispensed with.
BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Lennox Ingall, C. 8., 62d
Foot, having completed five years' service in the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel in the Army.
Lieutenant William Dring, Paymaster, 62d Foot, to
save the honorary rank of Captain under the Royal War-
rtint of 27th January, 1880.
MILNIORANDUM. Brevet-Colonel Graves Chamney
Swan has been permitted to retire from the Service by the
sale of his commission, he being about to become a Settler
in North America.