The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-23 00:00:00

FROM THE G.

LAST NIGHT. •

DOWNING-STREET, Mencn 19.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to direct that
letters patent be passed under the. Great Seal, granting and
declaring that the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of
Arts, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of
Laws, Bachelor of Music, and Doctor of Music, already
granted or conferred, or hereafter to be granted or conferred
by the University of Melbourne, in the colony of Victoria,
shall be recognised as Academic Distinctions and Rewards
of Merit, and be entitled to rank, precedence, and considera-
tion, in the United Kingdom, and in the colonies and pos-
sessions of the Crown throughout the world, as fully as if
the said degrees had been granted by any University of the
United Kingdom.

DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 21.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Hunter
Cary, Esq., to be Attorney-General for the colony of
British Columbia.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 22.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Jules
Barthelemy Lombard as Consul at Calcutta; M. Pierre
Victor Mauboussin as Consul at Liverpool; M. Edouard
Adolphe Josep Cassimir Tippel as Consul at Edinburgh ;
.and of M. Henri Patrice Hippolyte Vermot as Consul at
Glasgow ; for his Majesty the Emperor of the French.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of ,Don
'Hipolito de Uriarte as Consul at St. John's, Newfoundland,
for her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Robert Dowling as Consul at Cork for the United States of
America.

WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 22.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Major-General John Michel, C. 8.,
to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the
Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.
Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to make
and ordain a Special Statute of the said Most Honourable
Order, authorising the following appointments to the said
Order :
To be an Extra Member of the Military Division of the
Second Class, or Knights Commanders ; viz. :
Colonel Charles Shepherd Stuart, C. 8., of the Bombay
Infantry.
To be Extra Members of the Military Division of the
Third Class, or Companions; viz.:
Colonel Michael William Smith, 3d Dragoon Guards.
Colonel Julius Augustus Robert Raines, 95th Regiment.
Colonel Archibald Inglis Lockhart, 92d Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Price, Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Parke, 72d Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ellington Longden, 10th
Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Dennistoun Campbell, 71st
Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Hope, 71st Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Herbert Gall, 14th Light
Dragoons.
Lieut.-Colonel Edward Steele, 83d Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Scudamore, 14th Light Dragoons.

Major James Robert Gibbon, Royal Artilgry.
Colonel John Kennedy M'Causland, 66th Regiment of
Bengal Native Infantry.
Colonel George Le Grand Jacob, 31st Regiment of Bom-
bay Native Infantry.
Colonel John Liddell, Bombay Infantry.
Colonel Thomas William Hicks, late of the Bombay
Artillery. •
Lieutenant-Colonel George Malcolm, Ist Regiment of
Bombay Native Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Conrad John Owen, 3d Regiment of
Bombay Light Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Samuel Blake, Bombay
Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Henry Robertson, 25th Regi-
ment of Bombay Native Light Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Adam Orr, Madras Artil-
lery.

Major Thomas Pottiness Wilson, 13th Regiment of Ben-
gal Native Infantry.
Major John Dobree Woollcombe, Bombay Artillery.
Major Henry Dyett Abbott, 31st Regiment of Madras
Native Light Infantry.
Major George Hare, 20th Regiment of Madras Native
Infantry.
Major John Granville Lightfoot, Bombay Artillery.
Francis Short Arnott, Esq., M.D., Surgeon on the
Bombay Establishment of her Majesty's Indian Military
Forces. '
William Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Surgeon on the Madras
Establishment of her Majesty's Indian Military Forces.