The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

JULY 2.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir James
Matheson, Bart., to be Lieutenant and Sheriff-Principal of
the shire of Ross, in the room of Colonel Hugh Duncan
Baillie, deceased.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Most Noble
George Douglas, Duke of Argyll, K.T., Sir Roderick Impey
Murchison, Bart., K.C.8., Sir Wm. Geo. Armstrong, Knt.,
C. 8., Henry Hussy Vivian, Esq., George Thomas Clark,
Esq., Joseph Dickinson, Esq., George Elliot, Esq., Thos.
Emerson Forster, Esq., John Geddes, Esq., Robert Hunt,
Esq., John Beete Jukes, Esq., John Hartley, Esq., John
Percy, Esq., Doctor of Medicine, Joseph Prestwich, Esq.,
Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Esq., and John Thomas Wood-
house, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners to investi-
gate the probable quantity of coal contained in the coal
fields of the United Kingdom, and to report on the quan-
tity of such coal which may be reasonably expected to be
available for use :
Whether it is probable that coal exists, at workable
depths, under the Permian, New Red Sandstone, and other
superincumbent strata.
To inquire as to the quantity of coal at present con-
sumed in the various branches of manufacture, for steam
navigation, and for domestic purposes, as well as the
quantity exported ; and how far, and to what extent, such
consumption and export may be expected to increase; and
whether there is reason to believe that coal is wasted,
either by bad work or by carelessness or neglect of proper
appliances for its economical consumption.
WHITEHALL, JULY 2.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Abel
Bremage Spratt, C. 8., Captain in her Majesty's Navy, to
be one of the Special Commissioners for English Fisheries,
in the room of Rear-Admiral Wallace Houstoun, re-
signed.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Thomas
Abel Bremage Spratt, C. 8., Captain in her Majesty's
Navy, to be one of the Special Commissioners for Irish
Fisheries, in the room of Rear-Admiral Wallace Houstoun,
resigned.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Henry
Alexander Fairlie to the church and parish of Kirkmichael,
in the presbytery and county of Ayr, vacant by the death
of the Rev. John McE wen.

FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 21.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
James Hay Wodehouse, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul
at Para, to be her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-
General in the Sandwich Islands.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
James Do Vismes Drummond-Hay, Esq., C. 8., now Bri-
tish Vice-Consul at Rabat and Sallee, to bo her Majesty's
Consul at Para.

JUNE 25.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Chas.
Wilthew, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Islay, to be
her Majesty's Consul at the Island of St. Croix.

JUNE 26.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Geo.
Strachey, Esq., now a Second Secretary in her Majesty's
Diplomatic Service, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Buenos Ayres.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Charles Stewart Scott, Esq., now a Third Secretary,
to be a Second Secretary in her Majesty's Diplomatic
Service.

JUNE 29.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. August
Wehner as Consul-General in London for his Majesty the
King of Hanover.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of M.
Adalbort Krugo as Consul at Melbourne for his Majesty
the King of Prussia.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of M. Anton
Tango as Consul at Sydney for his Majesty the King of
Denmark. _ _

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Hastings Hicks as Consul at Madras for the Free Hansea-
tic City of Hamburg.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable
Arthur Hamilton Gordon, C.M.G. (now Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of the Province of New Brunswick), to be Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Trinidad and its
dependencies.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles
Frederick Rothery, Esq., to be Assistant Justice of the
General Court of the Bahama Islands.
CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 2.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Hertford—Robert Dimsdale of Essendcm-
place, in the county of Hertford, Esq., in the room of Su*
Walter Minto Townsend Farquhar, Bart., deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JULY 8.

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JUNE 28.

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The undermentioned Sub- Lieutenants and Acting Sub-
Lieutenants have been this day promoted to be Lieute-
nants and Acting Lieutenants : —Mr. Yarborough F. H.
Parker, Mr. Cecil M. Turner, Mr. Thomas James (Act-
ing), Mr. Oswald Peploo Tudor, Mr. Charles John
Hives (Acting), Mr. Richard Henry Byron,
Mr. Robert Clarke Jolliffe, Mr. Gilbert Vallancey Story,
Mr. Charles Philip Giffin Hicks. Mr. John Loftus Wilson,
Mr. Arthur George Fullerton *Mr Albert John O'Rorke,
Mr. Herbert Frederick Gyo, 'Mr. Wm. F. A. H. Russell,
Mr. Edward Burrard Boyle, Mr. John Hugh Bainbridge,
Mr. Alexander de Castro Crawford (Acting), Mr. Wes-
thropp Thomas Mdrgan, Mr. Eustaco Brooke (Acting),
Mr. Frederick John Rendell, Mr. William Sherbrooke, Mr.
Georges Crofton Collingwood Carter, Mr. Charles Ray-
mond Pelly, Mr. Thomas Hyacinth Dicksoc, Mr. Charles
Thomas Farquhar Hodgkinson.
JUNE 30.

Commander Samuel Brookling Dolling has been pro-
moted to be Retired Captain, under the provisions of her

Majesty's Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th J
1864, and 24th March, 1866.
The undermentioned Second Masters have been this
day promoted to the rank of Master in her Majesty's Fleet,
viz. : —James Blake Walker, Esq., William Henry Purvi:4„,
Esq., Edmond H. C. Smith, Esq., Wm. J. Hooper, Esq
John Edwards, Esq., Charley William M'Conachy, Es
Herbert Dyer Walker, Esq., Gecrge White, Esq., (Thirties
Love, Esq., Silas Hiscutt Liddell,lEsq., Vincent Holmes
Lys, Esq. (Acting), and Edward
.Kentish Barnes, EN.
JULY 2
Doctor William Thomas Doraville has this clay beeji
promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals and Fleets, with Seniority of 24th June, 1866.
The Reverend John Robert McWilliams Banapfield
this day been appointed a Chaplain of her mai.,,v,6
Fleet.