The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-12 00:00:00

FEB. 11.

The Queen has been pleased to approvo of Don Tomas
Ortuno as Consul at Hong Kong for her Majesty the
Queeu of Spain.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Georgo T. Helfand as Consul at Victoria, Rong Kong, for
his Majesty tho King of Sweden and Norway.
CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 12.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TILE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Andover.—Sir John Burgess Karslake,
lint., her Majesty's Solicitor-General, in the room of Wil-
liam floury Humphery, Esq., who has accepted the office
of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 12.
17th Regiment of Lancers—Major-General Charles W. M.
Balders, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice General Sir James M
Wallace, deceased.
32d Regiment of Foot—Major-General George Bell, C.B.

from the 104th Regiment:, to be Colonel,-vice , Major-
William G. Gold, transferred to the 53d Regiment.
534 Regiment of Foot-Major-General William George
Gold, from the 32d Regiment, to be Colonel, vice Major-
General Charles William Ridley, C. 8., deceased.
104th Regiment of Foot-Lieutenant-Genentl George
Dixon to be Colonel, vice Major-General George Bull,
C. 8., transferred to the 32d Regiment.
19th Hussars-Gentleman Cadet James Livingston Mac-
kay, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, vice
Joseph Schuyler!Albart Bruffowho resigns. •
7th Foot-Ensign. Henry Hugh Atherton France, from the
15th Foot, to bo Ensign, vice Josiah Philip Crampton
Neville, transferred to the 37th Foot.
Bth Foot-Lieutenant William Albert Bridge to bo' Cap-
tain; by purchase, vice John Vera William Henry Webb,
promoted ; Ensign Manley Chas. M. Dixon to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Charles James Holman Playter,
who retires ; Ensign William Louis to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Bridge ; Gentleman Cadet Rowland
Oakeley, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Dixon ; Gentleman Cadet Ponsonby
M‘Mahon Shaw, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Louis.
9th Foot-Lieut. Nathaniel Forte to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet-Major Bowen Van Straubenzee, pro-
moted, by purchase, in the 100th Foot ; Ensign Augus-
tus Henry Longfield to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Forte; Wm. Frederic Fairlie, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Longfield.
15th Foot-Gentleman Cadet Cecil Lugard Smyth Bran-
son, from the Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Henry Hugh Atherton France, transferred
to the 7th Foot.
24th Foot-Major-Richard Thomas Glyn to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel by, purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel
Edmund Wodehouso, who retires upon half-pay;
Captain William Plutner Gaskell to bo Major, by pur-
chase, vice Glyn; Lient. William Maxwell Brander to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Gaskell; Ensign Fre-
derick Carrington to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Brander ; Gentleman Cadet Thomas George lles-
keth, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Reginald Younghueband,l promoted by
purehase ; Gentleman Cadet Alex. Wright, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Thomas G. Hesketh, transferred to the Rifle Bri-
gade; Gentleman Cadet James F. Jameson, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Carrington.
27th Foot—Captain Francis Eastwood' Igurphy to be Major,
by purchase, vice James Henry Creagh, who retires;
Lieutenant Lawrence William Desborough to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Murphy ; Ensign Robert William
Brownrigg to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Des-
borough; Gentleman Cadet Edward Barton, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
37th Foot -Lieutenant Frederick Flowers to bo Captain,
by purchase, vice Alfred Robert Ord, who retires ; Ea-
sign John Alderson Eastham to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Flowers; Ensign Josiah Philip Crampton
Neville, from the 7th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Eastham.
SGLIa Foot -Ensign Ernest Theodore Evans, from the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Gilbert Wil-
liam Renny Maxwell Waugh, transferred to the 78th
Foot.
74th Foot—Ensign William Frederic Fairlie, from the 9th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice George F. Guyon, transferred
to the 11th Foot.
78th Foot Ensign Gilbert William Renny Maxwell
Waugh, from the 56th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Edward
Richard Massie, who retires.
98th Foot -Ensign George Franklin to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Robert Thorp, who retires; Gentleman
Cadet Ambrose William Staptleton, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Franklin.

100th Foot—Brevet-Major Bowen Van Straubenzeo, from
the 9th Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice James
Clery, dismissed the Service by sentedce of a General
General Court Martial, but allowed to retire by the sale
of his Commission.
103 d Foot—The second Christian name of Ensign Riddell
is Came, and not Carr, as gazetted on the 11th January.
108th Foot—Gentlemen Cadet Thomas Greenaway, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Albert
Munro, promoted.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Thomas George Hesketh, from
the 24th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Walter F. Cavendish,
deceased. _ _

ADMIRALTY, FEn. 8.
M.I. Henry William Robinson Fellow has this day been
proMoted to the rank of First-class Assistant Engineer,
with seniority of 2d February, 1867.
FEBRUARY 11.
The Rev. Alfred Earle has this day been appointed a
Chaplain iu her Majesty's Fleet.

COURSE OF EXOHANGE.—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18!
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 35
Brussels — 25 85
Hamburg — 13 81
Paris Short 25 121
Ditto 8 Mouths. 25 30
Marseilles
Frankfor: on the Maine 120
Vienna, — 13 0
Trieste — 13 0
Petersburg" - 304
Berlin
Madrid ..... . — 47}
Cadiz
26 85
Leghorn
26 85
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina ............
Lisbon: ............ . — 51}
Oporto —51 f

11 17
11 192-
11 14
25 40
25 40
13 9}
25 20
25 37i
25 40
120 i
13 71
13 lu
31
6 26

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26 95
26 95
26 95
26 95
26 95
26 95
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The Governments of Saxe-Altenburg, Schwartz-
bourg, Rudolstalt, Rems (younger branch), Lubeck,
Hesse Darmstadt, Lippe-Detriold, hamburg,
Mecklenbourg-Strelitz, and Oldenbourg, have an-
nounced that they consent to the Parliament of the
North being convoked for the 24th of February,