The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following appointment was made at the Admiralty
this afternoon :
Clerk—Charles W. King, to the Liffy. ..

LONDON GAZETTE-( THIS E VEXING.)

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov 12.
This day had audience of her Majesty—Senor Fortunate
Corvaia, Envoy Extraordinary and. Minister Plenipoten-
tiary from the Republic of the Equator, to deliver his cre-
dentials ; to which audience he was introduced by the Earl
of Malmesbury, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 13.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Colonel Etienne Paschal Tache, of
Montgomery, Canada.

FOREIGN-OFFICE,
F Nov. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Teodoro
Sanquirico as Vice-Consul at Sierra Leone for her Majesty
the Queen of Spain.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Jas.
Hart as Consul in London for the Republic of Salvador.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 16.
BREVET.
TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN THE ARMY.
Major W. C. Master, C. 8., sth Foot.
Brevet-Major D. D. Muter 60th Foot.
Brevet-Major W. G. Le Meaarier, C. 8., Royal Artil-
lery.
Major C. Sawyer, 6th Dragoon Guards.
Major Sir W. Russell, Bart., C. 8., 7th Light Dragoons.
Major R. Bickerstaff, 6th Dragoon Guards.

TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.
Captain T. C. Dunbar, 75th Foot.
Captain John Forster, 6th Dragoons.
Captain W. D. Bushe, 7th Light Dragoons.
Captain W. H. Kerr, 13th Foot.
Captain C. C. Fraser, 7th Light Dragoons.
Captain John Maguire, 60th Foot.
Captain W. Tedlie, 60th Foot.
Captain Thomas Bott, 6th Dragoon Guards.

TO BE COLONELS IN THE ARMY.

Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. Durand, C. 8., Bengal Engi-
neers.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Coke, CAI., 10th Bengal N.I.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN THE ARiY.
Major W. Adam Orr, Madras Artillery.
Major Richard Hamilton, Ist Madras N.I.
Major George Gordon, 50th Bengal N.I.
Major D. M. Stewart, 9th Bengal N.I.

TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.
Captain H. D. Abbot, 31st Madras N.I.
Captain H. M. Wilson, Bth Bengal N.I.
Captain H. D. Taylor, Ist Madras European Fusiliers.
.Captain F. C. Maisey, 67th Bengal N.I.
Captain A. W. Macintire, Madras Artillery.
Captain R. Larkins, 49th Bengal N.J.
Captain Charles Douglas, Bengal Artillery.
Captain John W. Carter, 54th Bengal N.I.
Captain J. F. Richardson, 49th Bengal N.I.
Captain R. C. Barclay, 68th Bengal N.I.
Captain C. S. Weston' 36th Bengal N.I.
Captain George Hare, 20th Madras N.I.
Captain J. H. Brooks, Ist Bengal Cavalry.
Captain E. J. Lawder, 44th Madras N.I.
Captain A. G. Austen, Bengal Artillery.
Captain W. D. Morgan, 22d Bengal N.I.
Captain J. H. Balmain, 9th Bengal Cavalry.
Captain Robert Bridge, 72d Bengal N.I.
Captain H. C. Anderson, 54th Bengal N.I.
Captain C. Cureton, 38th Bengal N.I.
Captain C. Cookworthy, Bengal Artillery.
Captain F. W. Lambert, 56th Bengal N.I.
Captain Henry Drummond, Bengal Engineers.
Second Captain W. Tod Brawn, Bengal Artillery
Second Captain J. Shaw Gibb, Bengal Artillery.
WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Colonel John Jones, C. 8., of the 60th
Regiment, to be an Ordinary Member of the Military
Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of
the Most Honourable Order o 5 the Bath.
Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to make
and ordain a Special Statute of the said Most Honourable
Order, for appointing the undermentioned officers in her
Majesty's Army and Indian Military Forces, to be Extra
Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or
Companions, of the said Order, viz.:--
Colonel Henry Richmond Jones, 6th Dragoon Guards.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Hinde, Bth Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis 31,oger Palmer, 60th Regt.

Colonel Francis Rowcroft, Bth Regiment of Bengal N.I.
Colonel East Apthorp, 3d Madras European Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Byng, 6th Regiment of Madras
Light Cavalry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Thomas Wilde, 19th Regi-
ment of Madras N.I.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Taylor, Bengal Engineers .
Major Charles Henry Barchard, 20th Regiment of Bengal
N.I.

Major George Moir, Bengal Artillery.
Major William Alexander Mackinnon, Bengal Artillery.
Major Andrew William Macintire, Madras Artillery.
Majerlosoph Fletcher Richardson, 49th Regiment of
Bengal N.I.

Charles Scott, Esq., M.D., Surgeon-Major, late of the
32d Regiment.
John Harrie Ker Innes, Esq., Surgeon, 60th Regiment.
William James Tyrone Power, Esq., Deputy Commissary-
General.

William Brydon, Esq., Surgeon on the Bengal Establish-
ment of H.M.'s Indian Military Forces.
John Henry Orr, Esq., Surgeon on the Madras Establish-
ment of H.M.'s Indian Military Forces.
John Campbell, Esq., M.D., Surgeon on the Bengal
Establishment of H.M.'s Indian Military Forces.
George Mathieson Ogilvie, Esq., M.D., Surgeon on the
Bombay Establishment of H.M.'s Indian Military Forces.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 16.
MEMORANDUM.
An examination of candidates for direct Commissions
will be held at Burlington House, on the 3d, 4th, 6th, 7th,
and Bth of December next.
Candidates desirous of being examined must comply with
the regulations contained in the Memorandum, dated Horse
Guards, Aug. 2.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
West York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Wm. Fletcher
Bowman, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Shirley, re-
signed ; Lieut. Nathaniel Edward Bruce Kindersley to be
I Captain, vice Stansfeld, resigned.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—Arthur Lousada, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Williams, resigned ; Arthur Fredk.
Holdsworth, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Metcalf, resigned.
Forfar and Kincardine Reiment of Militia Artillery—
First Lieutenant Alan John eolquhoun to be Captain, vice
Gibson resigned ; Second Lieutenant James Whitton to be
First Lieutenant, vice Colquhoun, promoted ; Second Lieu-
tenant Thomas McWhanuel to be First Lieutenant, vice
Beattie, resigned.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Ensign William Philip D' Allington Jones to be Lieutenant,
vice Staudidge, resigned ; Ensign Edward Bullock Jack-
son to be Lieutenant, vice Wilkinson, resigned.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Lieut. Henry Gillett
to be Captain, vice Wildes, appointed to the 23d Fusiliers ;
Ensign Samuel Lang to be Lieutenant, vice Gillett, pro-
moted.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieut. Edmund Wig-
ley Severne to be Captain, vice Harrison, retired.
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The portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts had
not come to hand when we went to press.

COURSE OP EXCHANGE.—Tuts DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Brussels
Hamburgh
Paris Sh—ort. 2513 561 . 2513 1721
25 35
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 30 25 35
Frankfort on Maine — 1181 1184
Vienna
103559
34
Trieste
1
Petersburgh —
491
Madrid
49
Leghorn i
49
29 85
Cadiz —.
29 0
26 50
_.45 41
-- 25 1
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
123
123
Messina .. .. 123 i 52
52t-
521
53

Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York

.. • •
E.I. Co's.bls. House . GOd
26 23.
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 2 b3ls 1
Bombay ditto ...... t
26 23
Madras ditt0'........
East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ult. to
the Bth inst.

BenNal £1,201 5 0
Madras 0 0 0
Bombay

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) ....per uz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
17 0 0 0