The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

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TMR,D EDITION:

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'OLocK.

GUILDFORD ELECTION.

CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Garth (Conservative) .
Pocock (Liberal)..
Majority..

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THE BANK OP SPAIN,

INIADnID, Dec. 18.
The Bank of Spain has reduced its rate of dis-
count to 6 per cent.

LONDON GAZETTE —This Evening,

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 15.
Notice is hereby given, that the State apartments of
Windsor Castle will be open to the public on and after
Thursday next, the 20th inst , under the usual regulations.

WAR OFFICE, DEc. 18.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of his Highness Ismail Pacha, Viceroy
of Egypt, to bo an Honorary Member of the Civil Division
of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cress of the Most
Honourable Order of tho Bath.
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WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 18.
Scots Fusilier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and
Captain the Hon. Lionel Edward Massey to be Captain
and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice 1 Charles
George Tottenham, who retires; Ensign and Lieute-
nant Barrhigton Bulkley Douglas Campbell to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. L. E.
Massey ; Gentleman Cadet Inigo Richmond Jones, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign and Lieute-
nent, by purchase, vice Campbell.
Ist Foot—Major George Frederick Berry, from the 12th
Foot, to be Major, vice Henry Francis Bythesea, who
exchanges.
12th Foot—Major Henry Francis Bythesea, from the Ist
Foot, to be Major, vice George Frederick Berry, who
exchanges.
13th Foot—Captain Alphonse Cary, from the 4th West
India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Gould, who ex-
changes.
20th Foot—Ensign Henry Longfield Ricard to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice George E. Bolger, who retires;
Nicholas Plunkett Dunne, Gant., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Ricard.
24th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Hibbert to be Instructor
of :Musketry, vice Lieutenant John Moore Gurnel
Tongue, promoted.
25th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Hickman Mulcahy,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Hamlet Wade Thompson, deceased.
27th Foot—Surgeon Allen Bryson, M.D., from the 76th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice William Arthur Thompson,
M. 8., who exchanges.
30th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Alfred Hooper to be Surgeon,
vice Surgeon-Major Raphael Woolman Read, ap-
pointed to the Staff.
31st Foot—Robert William Forgusson Phillips, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Arthur Annesley Yeo,
who retires.
32d Foot—Lieutenant Randle Jackson to be Captain, by
purchase, vice R. E. Stuart Harrington, who retires ;
Ensign Henry Willoughby Trevelyan to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Jackson ; Arthur William Hammans,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purshase, vice Trevelyan.
36th Foot—Lieutenant Harding° Richard Stracey to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Edwin William Philips, who
retires Ensign William Archibald Smail to be Lieute-
nant,
purchase, vice Stracey; Wilson James Browne,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Smail.
54th Foot—Ensign harles Villiers Ibbetson, from the
85th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Dodgson Hamilton Thomp-
son, appointed to the Bengals9th Foot—Captain Littleton Albert Powys, from the 83d
Staff Corps.
Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Charles Stuart
Baker, promoted to a half-pay Majority, without pur-
chase.

70th Foot—Lieutenant Henry F. Greatwood to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Arthur Strange
Gilbert, promoted.
76th Foot—Surgeon William Arthur Thompson,
from the 27th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Allen Bryson,
M.D., who exchanges.
79th Foot—Lieut. Neill Campbell to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Wm. Henry Mackesy, appointed to the
Bengal Staff Corps; Ensign Chas. Lucas Methuen to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Neil Campbell ;
Gentleman Cadet Francis Neilson Chalmers, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Methuen ; Lieut. Herbert Herbert Stepney to be
Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieut. Chas. E. M'Murdo,
promoted.
84th Foot.—Lieut. Edward Ralph Bromhead to be Instruc-
tor of Musketry, vice, Lieutenant Thomas Griffin, pro-
moted.
103 d Foot—Lieut. Alexander W. B. Caldecott to be Cap-
tain, vice E. W. Trevor, appointed to the Bombay Staff
Corps; Ensign Thomas Price to be Lieutenant, vice
Caldecott; Ensign Edmond G. P. Wood to be Lieutenant,
vice A. M. Hogg, appointed to the Bombay Staff, Corps ;
Gentleman Cadet Henry F. Fisher Heathcote, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Price.
105th Foot—Ensign E. W. G. Williams to be Lieutenant,
vice Henry W. Blair, appointed to the Madras Staff
Corps.
106th Foot—Ensign Edmund Rogers Coker to lie Lieu-
tenant, vice George John Coulson, appointed to the
Bombay Staff Corps; Gentleman Cadet Robert Nicholai
Harrington, from the Royal Military College, to be En-
sign, vice Coker.

108th Foot—Ensign Philip Justice to be Lieutenant, vice
Arthur Rowley Heyland, appointed to the Bombay Staff
Corps ; Ensign Sydenham Renaud to be Lieutenant,
vice Francis William Bodingfield, who resigns; Gentle-
man Cadet John Liptrott, from the Royal miti+.,..„
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Ist West India Regiment—Major William M'Bean to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Bowland Moffat,
who retires.

4th West India Regiment—Captain Thos. Tyler Gould,
from 13th Foot, to be Captain, vice Cary, who
s. ex-
change

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon-Major Raphael Wool-
man Read, from the 30th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon-
Major, vice Staff-Surgeon Alfred Hooper, appointed to
the 30th Foot ; Staff-Surgeon Thomas Frederick Wall
having completed twenty years' full pay service, to be
Staff Surgeon-Major.

BRE VET.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Fullowes,
Unattached, late Assistant Adjutant-General at the Capo
of Good Hope, having completed the qualifying service
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel,
under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 3d Feb-
ruary, 1866.
Captain Charles Adolphus do Kantzow, Bengal Staff Corps,
to be Major.
MEMORANDUM.—Lieut.-Col. W. J. Hutchins, half-pay, late
12th Foot, has been permitted to retire from the service
by the -sale of his Commission, under the conditions of
the Horse Guards' Circular Memorandum of Feb. 15,
1861.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16
Ditto 3:\ lonths. 11 19
Rotterdam — 11 19
Antwerp — 25 371
Brussels — 25 37i
Hamburg — 13 gi
Paris .....................
Ditto 3 Months. 25 35-
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine —119 i
Vienna — 13 45
Trieste — 13 45
Petersburg,ti
Berlin
Madrid 471
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 27 20
27 20
Palermo
27 20
Messina
Lisbon — 27 20
Oporto ,_ 511
511

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 17—Regina, from Montreal; Michel, from
Buenos Ayres; Julia, from Cronstadt ; Energy, from Win-
dau ; Columba, from Galatz ; Clio, from Ancona ; William
and Clara, from Dieppe ; Cambridgeshire, steamer, from
Dantsic.
Arrived, Dee. 18 —Medusa, from Dantsic ; Seine, steamer,
from Boulogne; Recompense, Kate, and Reward—all from
Guernsey; Lancashire Witch and Erromanga, both
from Cronitadt ; Seraphina, from Genoa ; Annie, from

Terceira.
Bailed, Aug. 18 —Argonaut, for Hongkong.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—Oriana, from Calcutta, for London (in tow).
Anchored—Quintorese, from Sunderland, for Valparaiso.

THE HANLEY EXPLOSION--DISCOVERY OF THE
cAusE.—HANLEY, Tuesday.—The searchers this morning,
while pursuing their duties, stumbled across the dead body
of a blacksmith, by whose side was discovered a lamp with
the top off. This, undoubtedly, caused the accident.

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A person who was recently called inao court for
the purpose of proving the correctness of a doctor's bill, was
asked by the lawyer whether " the doctor did not make
several visits after the patient was out of danger ?" No,"
replied the witness, " I considered the patient in danger as
long as the doctor continued his visits."

The following telegram of Chinese and Japanese
intelligence last Monday has been published, dated
Hong Kong, the Ist of November:--" The French
admiral has sailed to the Coreo, but has decided to
defer active operations until the winter is over. The
American schooner General Sherman has been seized
by pirates in the river leading to the capital. They
set fire to the vessel, after tying to the masts the
crew and two English passengers, who all perished.
Large bodies of Nienfei have made their appearance
on the borders of Shantung and Honan. An inter-
view has taken place between Admiral King and the
Taoti at Shanghai, with reference to the suppres-
sion of piracy.