The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-24 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening.

BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, JAN. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
John George Brabazon, Earl of Bessborough, to bo Lord
Steward of her Majesty's Household, in the room of the
Right Hon. Edward Granville, Earl of St. Germans,
G.C.8., resigned.
MASTER OF THE HORSES'-OFFICE, JAN. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Richard Ed-
mund St. Lawrence, Earl of Cork, to be Master of her
Majesty's Buckhounds, in the room of the Earl of Bess-
borough, who has been appointed Lord Steward of her
Mijcsty's Household.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, •JAN. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Thos.
James Rowsell, M.A., Rector of St Christopher-le-Stocks,
and St. Margaret's Lothbury, London, to be an Honorary
Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland,-constituting and appointing
the Most Noble Edward Adolphus Duke of Somerset,
K.G. ; Admiral the Honourable Sir Frederick William
Grey, G.C.8.; Rear-Admiral Charles Eden, C.B. ; Rear-
Admiral Edward Cennys Fanshawe, C.B. ; Ram--Admiral
the Hon. James Robert Drummond, CA.; and Henry
Fonwick, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners for
executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the said
United Kingdom of Great Britain. and Ireland, and the
Dominions, Islands, and Territories thereunto belonging.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 19.
The following notice is substituted for the notice dated
January 15, 186 G, which appeared in the Gazette of the
IGth inst.:--

The notification in the Gazette of Oct. 31, 1865, of the
appointment of George Buckley Mathew, Esq., to be hor
Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of
Colombia, is cancelled—Mr. Mathew retaining his appoint-
ment as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Cen-
tral America.

JAN. 20.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Robert Bunch, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul-General in
Cuba, to bo her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-
General to the United States of Colombia.
DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 22.
The Queen has boon pleased to appoint William Downes
Griffith, Esq., Queen's Counsel, to be Attorney-Genial
for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
ADMIRALTY, JAN. 20.
Mr. Joseph Forster has this day been promoted to the
rank of First Class Assistant Engineer in her Majesty's
Fleet, with seniority of 19th January, 1866.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Mlles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1865.

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1864. 1.865 1864 ..,.

' L
Belfast and N, Counties 931 99/ 1,7 X6O 1.678
Belfast and County Down 44} 44 532 575
Blyth and Tyne 35 36 1,6 8 2,172
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1214 5,,299 5,319
Caledonian, Scottish Central 415/ 408 26,117 24,422
Cambrian _ _ _
._ 130 /21 1,915 1,778

Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 313/4 - 317 -
Cockermonth and Workin 9 9 3 8 280
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 305 279
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 63/4 63/4 130 114
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 653/4 651 1,414 1.39 i
Deeside l7 17 391 283
Do Extension
Dublin & Belfast Junction-. 63 63 1,328 1.272
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,478 1.435
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 911 2,318 2,(81
Forth and Clyde Junction - -
Furness, &c 5O 5J 3,381 2.638
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 404 404 33.934 34,082
Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,773 1.542
Do Branches 42 41 1,303 1,689
Gt. Nortnn. a Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 410 427
9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3B7* 887* 6,970 6.786
Great Western
Hull & Hornsea
Highland ... 248 246 2,853 2,373
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,65) 1,617
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 39,647 31.675
Limerick and Ennis.., 241 24! 190 164
Limerick and Foynes 261 264 136 129
Llanelly 461 461 613 503
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 2671 15,921 14.936
London, Chatham, & Dover; c 134 127 1 7,042 6.5.:3
all Metropolitan Extension 112 114 j 1,900 1,600
Do. Kent Coast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 93/4 94 1,454 1,330
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,166 1.387
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6773/4 651 f 46,518 44,,523
Midland Gt. Westn. of hind- 2602 260 g 4,072 4.163
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,6J0 2,703
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12063 11601 66.749 53,442
North London ll 9 4,203 2.386
North Staffordshire 258 258 7,854 7.764
Pembroke and Tenby ll3/4 ,113/4 90 53
Ithymney
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 6,611 5,052
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 898 729
South Devon .... . 98 793/4 3.204 3,137
South-Eastern 315 308 19,726 20,301
Taff Vale 6l 61 4,510 5,715
Ulster 1053/4 1051 2,483 ' 350
...,

Vale of Clwyd
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 4 t 416
Waterford and I.imerick 77 77 1,36 T 1,303
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 644 392
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. F.
Austrian B2B 824 50,482 41,696
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction.- 26j 26.1 327 272
Bombay, Baroda, & (:en. India 306 1851 7,378 1.955
Detroit and Milwaukie 169 181 4,638 5.481
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of trance 1551 1483 86,291 81,922
Eastern Bengal . ..... ...
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 22,182 25,390
Great Central of Belgium 285 261 - - Great Indian Peninsula....... 690 553 29,495 15,714
Great Luxembourgl34 134 5,267 3.988
Great Southern or India
Great Western of Canada 345 345 10698 928
Madras , 12,041... 611 633 9,498 5,676
Madrid, Saragossa &A.licant.. 778 713 16,286 12,149
Northern of Canada .......... 94 94 1,035 982
Northern of France 724 724 56,4 t 4 52,96 i
Norwegian Trunk
Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 2006 197 u 160,474 182,079
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 70,936 65,039
Recife and San Francisco, &c 77. 774 1,249 994
Sc.nde lO5 105 1,774 2,375
Do. Punjab, &c 253 45 1,273 :461
South Austrian, &c .. .. 1658 1527 53,443 49,740
Southern of France 863 823 37,154 25,930
Victoria
Welland 25 25 75 59
West & N-Wn. of France