The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

LONDON GAZE T TE.—This Evening.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 21.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Major-General Henry Sand-
ham to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Lieutenant-Gene-
ral Sir Harry David Jones, G,C.8., deceased.
20th Hussars—Gentleman Cadet Charles Swain° Hogge,

from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, vice A.
W. Gordon Brebner, promoted.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Thomas Mahon to be
Captain, vice Frederick Close, removed to the Super-
numerary List on being appointed Assistant-Superinten-
dent of the Royal Carriage Department; Lieutenant
William Morritt Barneby Walton to be Second Captain,
vice Mahon.
Royal Engineers - Captain Valentine Thomas Mairis to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Sir John
William Gordon, K.C.8., removed as a General Officer;
Second Captain Arthur Reid Lempriere to be Captain,
Vice Mairis ; Lieutenant Henry Cooper Seddon to be
Second Captain, vice Lempriere.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Robert CJosens-Weir
to be Captain, by purchase, vice John Binnie Mackenzie,
who retires; Ensign Arthur Julian Burnett to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Cosens-Weir • Gentleman
Cadet Edward Baynes Nixon, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign4by purchase, vice Burnett ; Sur-
geon William Grantt, M. 8., from the 87th Foot, to be

Surgeon, vice Charles William Woodroffe, who ex-
changes.
7th Foot—Ensign Thomas John Raymond Mallock to bo
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles F. Powell, _e
who
retires ; Gentleman Cadet John H. C. Clarke, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, v 1
Mallock.
17th Foot—Lieutenant William Mogg Rolph to boo.Aindtieud-
tant, vice Lieutenant Alexander Aitkin Ross, app
Paymaster. 'eute
leK to be Li 20th Foot—Ensign John Lacey Mor de stacpoole, who,
by purchase, vice Hubert Cecil Zou%nry
Bainber, from
retires ; Gentleman Cadet Charles Ensign, by purchase,
to be .'
the Royal Military College,
vice John Lacey Ivlorley. sto be retires by purchase,
25th Foot —Captain Henry Pears to
retires ; Lieutenant
vice Astley Campbell S,l.nit.ilain, by purchase vice Pears ;
tl loe u
be NEenassi
go no
John Talbot Coke to be t.z_ RE
Collis to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase,
s,vifcreon,C.otc
by purchase, vi
without purchase, vice Samuel
;Ro- t'aiontylliny
16th Foot, to be Ensign,
thington,deceased.
Yates Worthington, 27th Foot--Serge3l
Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edward Pinckney Simpson
like :Colds.
29thto i;, (iaptain, by purchase, vice Martin Charles Selwyn
Tupper, who retires; Ensign William Evans to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Simpson ; Gentleman
Cadet Stephen John Stevens, from the Royal Military
College to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Evans.
30th Foot—Lieutenant E. St. George Smyth to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Mingaye Green, who retires; Ensign Neil
Bannatyne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smyth ;
Gentleman Cadet Charles Robert Butler, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Burma-
tyne ; Lieutenant Neil Bannatyne to be Adjutant, vice
Lieutenant E. St. George Smyth, promoted.
34th Foot—Captain Julius D. Laurie, from the Seconded
List, to be Captain, vice Arthur Trevor Leake Chap-
man, seconded on appointment as Captain Instructor at
the Schools of Musketry.
36 t h r9O t LaSiS William Hamilton Marriott to be

AQUATICS.

SCULLER'S RACE FOR £3O.

Yesterday a race above locks tock place between Robert
Whatford, of East Moulsey, and William Redknap, of Sur-
biton ; the course being from Sharper's Island, at Ditton,
to the Half-mile Tree at Ham, over three miles, for £3O.
They are well known in their respective localities. What-
ford had the best station, and came away with the lead,
which he held for half a mile, when a foul occurred. They
separated, and at 400 yards fouled again. A capital race
home resulted in Whatford coming in two lengths ahead,
the referee, Mr. J. Moore, deciding in favour of Whatford.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

Arrived, Aug. 20.—Sultan, from Cronstadt. _
Arrived, Aug. 21.—Planet, steamer, from Hamburg ;
Christine, from Wismar ; Savanna, from Cronstadt ; Ire-
land, from St. Petersburg; Princess Royal, steamer, from
Hamburg ; Coundon, from Dantsic ; Drie Brooders, from
Worcum.

Mr. A. de SolomC completed last week at Osborne
a crayon portrait of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edin-
burgh, which is shortly to be engraved by Mr. W. 1011,
and published by Messrs. Griffin and Co. of Portsea.
Messrs. Neill Brothers and Co., of New York, in
their cotton circular, dated 7th' August, give the
following respecting the crops in Arkansas :—" As
to the crops on Arkansas River, great improvement
has taken place in the last five or six weeks. The
spring was wet and cold, afterwards hail storms
cut down and damaged the crops, and later the
largest freshet in the river since 1842. But every-
thing has recuperated. No doubt, on the bottom
lands, the crop has been reduced, but still there aro
good prospects for what is left. On the hills and
upland back country the small farmers will turn
out considerable cotton in the aggregate, though
the individual product will be small. Corn looks pro-
mising, and both corn and cotton much better than
in Tennessee, Northern Alabama, and Mississippi.
The information I had on White River goes to show
even better than on Arkansas ; but you must recol-
lect that White River is not, and never has been,
much for cotton ; yet they will, in proportion to
what they have planted, have a better product than
on Arkansas. I find also that, from want of labour,
and from difficulty in managing hands, there must be
large deductions from expectations at the time of
planting, and there are very few if any large
planters who have not been obliged to abandon a
portion of their crop to the grass, so as to save the
balance."

SEVERE HAILSTORM.—A correspondent at Birk-
enhead, Crathes, writes :—." A severe hailstorm,
accompanied by thunder and lightning, broke over Deesido
on Thursday afternoon. For the last fortnight the weather
in the district has been very wet, scarcely a day having
corn
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passed without heavy showers of rain falling. Tuesday and
Wednesday last formed an exception. The mercury gra-
dually rose during these days, and hopes were entertained
that we might have warm and dry weather to bring the
crops to maturity ; but on Thursday morning the mercury
began to fall, and stood at 28.8 several hours before there
Then raahtnalthehbfehhoeegea cilaaslauuotiv.ptodwiip
egreef followed
storm
was the slightest indication in the sky of tho coming storm.
the rain
extremely
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and in the fields. The leavhleesh wind the
the neighbourhood
The country
flowers and the ears of
round has the appearance
f of mid-winter. Mr. Malcolm,
farmer, North Brae o
killed by the lightning ,
while Dorris,
nh.t.thdeafimeladr,e, and
s, two calves
A SAD vis man.
—AD STORY.—On Wednesday , • evening a Ik,-,
bourer, whose name is at present unknown,
Guy's Hospital from the tunnel near Sovt owaakss,b Drought thetntz
with his head frightfully crushed from the falling of a heavy
brick from the roof while he was engaged with other la bourers
in some necessary repairs. On his admission to the hospital
his struggles and cries were frightful. It required the
united strength of six men to hold him down, and even then
he managed to break the bath man's finger, to bite and scratch
the doctor, and to grasp the sister of the ward so tightly by
the throat that tho mark still remains. After a few hours
of intense suffering he expired, the medical officers being
unable to operate on him. Although he has been fir some
time in the service of the company, he is unknown to
them, and has only been recognised among his fellow.
workmen as "Toni." There was found upon him a letter
from a young woman belonging to ono of the boarding-
houses attached to Eton College, who was evidently his
sweetheart. It is couched in terms of warm affection, and
concluded with the expression of a hopo that they should
meet Dever to part again.—Pall Mall Gazette.
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