The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-09 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 6.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. J. W.
May, as Consul in London for his Majesty the King of the
Netherlands.

DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 22.

•
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Downes
Griffith, Esq., barrister-at-law, to be Attorney-General for
the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, FEB. 9.
Royal Artillery—Capt. Robt. Alexander Morse to bo Lieut.
Col., vice T. T. Haggard, removed to the Supernumerary
List; Second Captain George Henry Stone to be Cap-
tain, vice Morse ; Lieut. Walter John Finch to be Se- ,
cond Captain, vice Stone.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
Sampson Freeth to be Colonel, vice R. C. Moody, who
retires upon full-pay ; Captain Fitzroy Molyneux Henry
Somerset to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vico Brevet-Colonel
Freeth ; Second Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles George Gordon, C. 8., to be Captain, vice Somer-
set ; Lieutenant Montague Lambert to be Second Captain,
vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon.
BREVET.

Colonel Richard Clement Moody, retired full-pay, Royal
Engineers, to be Major-General, the rank being honorary
only.

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 6.
Commander Frederick IV m. Richards to be Captain.
Lieutenants John Bayford Butler, George Digby 31orant,
and Francis Lindley Wood, to be Commanders.

001IRSE OF EXCHANGE--This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 17f 11 18f
Ditto 3 Months. 12 2 12 2}
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50 25 57i
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 15 25 25
Ditto 3 Months. 25 50 25 55
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 121 1214
Vienna — 10 65 10 70
Trieste — 10 63 10 70
Petersburgh - 29i 29f
Berlin
Madrid — 461 46f
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 25 67k 25 721

Liverpool Cotton Market. —Tlis Day.

Market opens very strong.
15,000 bales or more.

Sales probably

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

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LoxnoN, Feb. 9.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Westerly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with
rain.

PORTSMOUTH, Feb. B.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Alfred
and Nance, from Havre for Buenos Ayres.
- SWANSEA, Feb. 7.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Theta, for

Coquimbo.
OFF NORTH FORELAND, Feb. 8.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Alliance, from Hartlepool for Cuba.

DARTMOUTH, Feb. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fleeting,
from Teignmouth for Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, Feb. 8.:-Wind S.W.—Arrived—Orion, from
London for Calcutta.

PILL, Feb. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Nereide, from
Sulina.

HOLYHEAD, Feb. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Castilian,
from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro.

FENArmr, Feb. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Miner, from

Surinam.

CLYDE, Feb. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Holyrood, front
Mauritius.

LIVERPOOL, Feb. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—General
Windham, from Charleston.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. B.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Saxon,
steamer, for the Cape Of Good Hope.

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Sailed, Feb. B—Lady Hilda, for Barbadoes ; Nautilus
for St..Kitts.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. B—Commodore, from London from Buenos
Ayres ; Kent, from Kurraehee.

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 19
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13,
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet M. sr. 6.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St Helena Feb. 22.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou:hampton Feb. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton

India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... Feb. 19
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb. i 3.
Ditto, via I/ arseilles .
Mauritius, via Southampton
.. Feb 13
Ditto, via Marseil.ei, .. Feb 13
Newfoundland , Feb. 14.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
United b tates and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet ..

THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE. —The
Times, discussing the Mexican question, admits
that the part which the French Emperor has
played in Mexico is one which the Americans evi-
-1 dently think themselves called upon to protest
against. He has established a form of Government
antipathetic to their own ; he supports it by an
European army on American soil. An Emperor is
enthroned in Mexico, a President is wandering
about with Chasseurs and Zouaves on his track.
And however small in number and influence the
Juarists may be, they will always be, in the opinion
of their neighbours, the Mexican people. It is
enough for the Americans that there is in existence
a President who was duly elected, and has been
forcibly deposed. To him at least a parretse
Mexican population cling. Something resembling
a war continues ; the Mexican 13mftge
Republic is still
maintained by a faithful few, and the passive ac-
quiescence of the whole Mexican people cannot
therefore be asserted by the new dynasty. The
disposition of the people of the United States to
resent the occupation of France and deny the
authority
Johnson, who, Maximilian
siee nis encouraged by Presi-
dent the restoration of peace,
has not thought it necessary to follow the quieter
policy of his predecessor. The tone of Congress,
the refusal of the President to recognise the Mexi-
can Emperor, the strong remonstrances addressed
to the French Government, and the speeches which
certain highly-placed Union officers are said to have
made, tend, on the other hand, to increase the ex-
citement of the people, and to dispose them towards
open acts of hostility to the Imperial power. Un-
doubtedly a very little encouragement on the part
of the Union Government might cause the frontier
provinces of Mexico to be overrun by
American
guerillas. That this is felt in both countries is
evident from the anxiety of the Mexican Govern-
nmeewnst,
fa nAd
inferroimeanthine
terrfeeardeinneeess
iswithl e
vwhich
by t h
alle
classes in the Union. But the Times is still inclined
to think that the Federal Government will do all in
its
ether forays into Mexican
e of cervice under Juarez
territory
by American citizens. Although Mr. Johnson
power
or to
the
cep ta either
views the monarchy with dislike, and his people are
preventac
determined that the French shall quit, there is suf-
ficient temperance of feeling in the community to
make them bide their time.