The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-06 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 5.

The Queen has seen graciously pleased to give orders for
tip appointment of Maj >r-General Lord Howden, K.C.8.,
her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to the Queen of Spain, to be an Ordinary Member
of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand
Cross, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; and of
Percy William Doyle, Esq., late her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Mexican Republic, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Thomas Aiskew L ,rcom, R.E , Under Secretary
to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to be Ordinary Mem-
bers of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Cora
panions of the said Most Honourable Order.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 5.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Reilly,
Esq., to be Police Magistrate for the district of Kingston,
in the Island of St. Vincent ; Francis Ellis, Esq , to be a
Member of the Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands;
George Wall, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative
Council of the Island of Ceylon; Alexander Gordon Fyfe,
Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the
Island of Jamaica; and Alfred Whitman and Robert B.
Dickey, Esqrs., to be Members of the Legislative Counci
of the Province of Nova Scotia.
CRO WN-OFFICE, MARCH 4.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Stamford—Johe Inglis, of Abercrombie-
place, Edinburgh, Dean of the Faculty of Advocate., and
Lord Advocate of Scotland, in the room of Sir Frederic
Thesiger, Knight, who has accepted the office of Lord
High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Borough of Cockermouth—The Right Hon. Richard
Southwell Bourke, commonly called Lord Naas, of Pal-
merstown Naas, in the county of Kildare, Chief Secretary
to the Lord-Lieutenant of Trebled.
Borough of Droitwich—The Right Hon. Sir John Somer-
set Pakington, Baronet, of Westwood Park, in the county
of Worcester, First Commissioner for executing the office
of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Gnat
Britain and Ireland.
Borough of Virenlock—The Right Hon. George Cecil
Weld Forester, of Willey Park, in the county of Salop,
comptroller of her Majesty's Household.
Borough of Bridgenorth—Henry Whitmore, of Sunnis
side, Coal Brook Dale, in the county of Salop, Esquire,
one of the Commissioners for executing the office of Trea-
surer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High
Treasurer of Ireland.
MARCH 5.
University of Cambridge—The Right Hon. Spencer
Horatio eValpole, Master of Arts, one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State.
Borough of Huntingdon—Major-General Jonathan Peel,
of Marble-hill, Twickenham, ono of her Majesty's Princi-
pal Secretaries of St,te.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Menem 5.
2d Regircieut of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. H. St. John
Dick to be Captain, without purchase, vice Loftus, ap-
pointed to the bith Light Dragoons; Cornet William
Thomas Foster to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Dick.
Gth Dragoon Guards--Lieut. Francis G. S. Curtis to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brett, appointed to the
18th Dragoons; Ensign Wm, Gair, from the 3d West
India Regiment, to be Cornet, without purchase, in suc-
cession to Lieut. Vyse, killed in action.
2d Dragoons--Lieut. J. E. Swindley, from the 12th Light
Dragoons, to bo Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet
Lieut.-Colonel Clarke, ,promoted.
3d Light Dragoons—Fred risk Grant Forsyth Grant,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Blundell, pro-
moted.
sth Light Dragoons—Cornet Edward Francis Weaver,
from the let Dragoons, to be Cornet and Adjutant;
Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Luke Barron, M.D.,
to be Surgeon.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Frank Garforth to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Slade, appointed to the
sth Light Dragoons ; Cornet Richard Newsbana Pedder
to bo Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Garforth.
9th Light Dragoons—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
Aisne Ouvry, C. 8., to be Lieutenant Colonel, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel J. H. Grant, K.C.8.,
promoted to the rank of Major-General ; Brevet-Major
William Drysdale to be Major, without purchase, vice
Ouvry ; Lieutenant A. Eastfield Wilkinson to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Drysdale ; Cornet Piers
Thursby to be Lieutsnant, without purchase, vice Wil-
kinson ; Robert Bury, Gent,, to be Cornet, without pur-
chase, vice Thursby.
10th Light Dragoons---Cornet John Gore to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vice Stacy, promoted in the 18th
Light Dragoons.
11th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant E. Harnett to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major Fellowes,
whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive
Rank, under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6. 1854 ; Cor-
net Arthur Peel Gannett to be Lieutenant, without
purchase.
12th Light Dragooe s—Cornet Wm. Edward Shaw to be
Lieutenant, vice Gemmel, promoted in the sth Light
Dragoons.
14th Light Dragoons —Cornet Percy Dodgson, from the
10th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Giles' promoted;
William Atcherley Atcherley, Gout., to be Cornet,
15th Light Dragoons—Surgeon Wm. Godfrey Watt, from
the sth Foot, to be Surgeon.
16th Light Dragoons—Cornet Leonard Wilson Atkin-
son, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice J. Dynon,
promoted in the sth ight Dragoons.
18th Light Dragoons—Surgeon Henry Mapleton, M.D.,
from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon.
Military Train—The surname of the Lieutenant, promoted
on the Bth inst., is Applin, not Aplin.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensiga and Lieutenant Godfrey
Wentworth Beaumont to be Lieutenant and Captain, by
purchase, vice the Hon. Edward Brownlow, who retires;
Francis W. Garden Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign and
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Beaumont.
2d Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Hatchell to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Dowdeswell, whose ap-
pointment from 89th Foot has been cancelled ; James
Campbell Stratford, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice J. J. Armstrong, who has been superseded,
being absent without leave ; Selwyn Valentine Page,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hatchell.
3d Foot—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieutenant
F. Eteson, from the 52d Foot, vice Daly, who has re-
tired upon full pay ; Lieutenant H. G. E. Somerset,
from the 81st Foot. To be Lieutenant, without purchase
—Ensign Charles Deyman Baillie, vice Reade, promoted.
To he Ensigns, without purchase—Charles Warren Mel-
lor, Gent., vice Baillie ; Wm. Henry Irvine, Geut., vice
Mansvrgb, appointed to 75th Foot.
4th Foot—Ensign Richard Boyce to be Lieutenant without
purchase, vice Cox, whose appointment from 20th Foot
has been cancelled ; John Grant Tomlin, Gent., to be En-
sign, Without purcase, vice Sharpe promoted.
sth Foot—Lieut. John Creagh to be Adj utant, vice Haig,
killed in action; Assistant-Surgeon RobtaMcNab, M.D.,
from 61st Foot, to be Surgeon, the promotion not to
carry pay until sth March.
6th Foot—Major J. E. Robertson to be Lieut.-Colonel,
without purchase ; Captain and Brevet-Major E. J.
Blanckley to be Major, without purchase, vice Robert-
son ; Lieut. John Dawson to be Captain, without pur•
chase, vice Blankley ; Ensign C. Whyte to be. Lieut ,
without purchase, vice Dawson; Wm. Smith, Gent., to
bo Ensign, without purchase, vice Wastle, promoted;
Thomas Greer Saunders, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Bowers, promoted.
7th Foot—The Christian names of Ensign Loveridge are
Henry William, and not Edward Henry, as stated in the
Gazette of the 2d ult.
Bth Foot—Harold John Kinsman, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Mounsteven, died of his wounds.
9th Foot Thomas Elrnes, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Ridsdale, promoted.
10th Foot—Lieut. Charles Hill Fresson, from the 93th
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Fenton,
whose appointment from half-pay, Unattached, as stated
in
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fl2thJamn.o,olrB2sB,, from thehasbeen d csa2ncelled.
13th Foot,
to
be Captain, without purchase.
14th Foot—Lieut. Hugh Lloyd, from the 87th Foot, to be
Captain, without purchase.
15th Foot --The promotion of the undermentioned officers
to be dated 20th, not 9th, Feb., 185 S, as previously
stated :—Brevet-Major George P. Hume, from 58th
Foot, and Brevet-Major John C. Mansergh, from 6th
Foot.
20th Foot —Lieut. Wellington Mitchell has been permitted
to resign his Commission.
22d Foot—Major D. Anderson to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
withont peasapss. To ho Majors, without purchasa
Captain J. If. Graham., vice Anderson ;f Captain
Bowden • Brevet-Major H. D. Neville, rom Ist Foot.
23d Foot—EnsignW. A. Fitzroy to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Hackett, promoted ; Archibald Robert Win-
stanley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fitzroy.
28th Foot - Ensign Charles Thackeray to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice E. S. R. Smyth, who retires ; Arthur
Holden Turner, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Thackeray.
30th Foot—Frederick garoourb Williamson, Gents, to bJ