The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-19 00:00:00

THE BANK OF SPAIN.

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

LONDON GAZETTE—Last 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 be an Honorary Member of the Civil Division
of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cress of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.
FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 14.
The Queen has boon graciously pleased to appoint
Gerard Francis Gould, Esq., now a Second Secretary in
her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, to bo Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation at Buenos Ayres.
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 Charles
George Tottenham, who retires ; Ensign and Lieute-
nant Barrington 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-
nant, 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 Bythosoa, from the Ist
Foot, to be Major, vice George Frederick Berry, who

exchanges.
13th Foot—Captain Alphonso Cary, from the 4th NVost
India Itigitneut, to try C.tptain, vied Gould, who ex-

changes.
20th Foot—Ensign Henry Longfiald 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,
KB who exchanges.

30th FOot—Staff-Sul:geon' Alfred Hooper to be Surgeon,
vice Surgeon-Major Raphael Woo'man Road, ap-
pointed to the Staff.
31st Foot—Robert William Fergusson Phillips, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Arthur Annesley You,
who retires.
32d Foot—Lieutenant Randle Jackson to bo 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 purchase, vice Trevelyan.
36th Foot—Lieutenant Hardinge Richard Stracey to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Edwin William Philips, who
retires • Ensign William Archibald Smail to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Stracey; Wilson James Browne,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Smail.
54th Foot--Ensign Charles Villiers lbbetson, from the
85th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Dodgson Hamilton Thomp-
son, appointed to the Bengal Staff Corps.
59th Foot—Captain Littleton Albert Powys, from the 83d
Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Charles Stuart
Baker, promoted to a half-pay Majority, without pur-
chase.

70thFoOt—Lieutenant Henry F. Greatwood to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Arthur Strong()
Gilbert, promoted.
76th Foot—Surgeon William Arthur Thompson, M. 8.,
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 bo
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. WI/ludo,
promoted.
84th Foot.—Lieut. Edward Thilph Bromhoad 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 bo Lieutenant,
vice Henry W. Blair, appointed to the Madras Staff
Corps.
106th Foot—Ensign Edmund Rogers Coker to be 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 Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, vice Justice.
Ist West India Regiment—Major William lillean to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Bowland Moffat,
who retires.
4th West India Regiment—Captain. Thos. Tyler Gould,
from 13th Foot, to bo Captain, vice Cary, who ex-
changes. -
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon-Major Riplia.el Wool-
man Read, from the 30th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon-
Major, vice Staff-Surgeon Alfred Ifooper,_ a.ppo.m Wted_to
the 30th Foot ; Staff-Surgeon Thomas Fieduick ai 1
having completed twenty years' full pay service, to be
Staff Surgeon-31.ajor.
BRE VET.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Fellowes,
Unattached, late Assistant Adjutant-General at the Cape
of Good Hope, having completed the qualifying service
with the rank of Lieutenant-Golonel, to be Colonel,
under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 3d Feb-
ruary, 1866.
Captain Charles Adclphusdo Kantzow, Bengal Staff Corps,
to be Major.
MEMOILASDUM.— .- LicutCol. W. J. Hutchins, half-pay, late
12th Foot, has been permitted to retire from the service
by the sale of his Commission, under the coalitions of
the Horse Guards' Circular Memorandum of Feb. 15,
1861.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE —Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16 11 17
RottDiterdto 3 Months. 11 19 11 19}
am
Antwerp — 25 37f 25 421
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 17f 25 25
Ditto 3 Months. 25 35 25 421
Marseilles
Frankfort ou the Maine --119 k 120*
Vienna — 13 45 13 33
13 45 13 55
Trieste
Petersburgti - 301 301
Berlin
Madrid — 471 47i
481 48t
27 20 27 30
27 20 27 30
27 20 27 30
27 20 27 30
27 20 27 30
27 29 27 3U
51* 51f
51k 51i

Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

THE

LTI7.

The following is the weekly return of the Regis-
trar-General of births and deaths in London and in
12 other large towns of the United Kingdom :
General Register-office, Somerset-house, Dec. 17.
In the week that ended on Saturday, December
15, the births registered in London and 12 other
large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,379 ;
the deaths registered 3,028, The annual rate of
mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,029 boys and 1,045
girls, in all 2,074 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years
1856-65 the average number, corrected for increase

of population, was 2,084.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,389. It was the 50th week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week
is, with a correction for increase of population,
1,469. The deaths in the present return are less
by 80 than the estimated-number.
Two cases of cholera and 25 of diarrhoea were
registered last week.
A boiler maker, aged 18 years, died Dec. 9 of
bronchitis after cholera, at 17, Orchard-street,
Woolwich.

The son of a silk dyer, aged one year, died Dec
10 of cholera (21 hours), at 17, Fleet-street, Beth-
nal-green.

Although the epidemic has subsided, isolated cases
still demand the vigilant attention of the authorities.
This is one of the lessons of the year, for while
cholera raged between the Tower, the Isle of Dogs,
and Victoria Park—over the area traversed by the
Blackwall Railway, and the Great Eastern Railway
as far as Stratford and West Ham—among a popu-
lation in uninterrupted communication, through
lines of streets, the Regent's Canal, and the Thames,
with the rest of London and the surrounding dis-
tricts, to which many of the infected persons living
in the east of London fled, the conflagration was
strictly circumscribed within well-defined bounds.
The fierceness of the disease extended thus far and
no further, although the movements of the people
were as free as air. The futility of quarantine lines
is so well known that their establishment was never
proposed in London. The supply of impure water
was at once arrested ; the water engineers grew care-
ful; the sewage was now less inefficient than it had
ever been before, for South London was drained; the
health officers became vigilant; premonitory diarrhoea
was treated; every case as it occurred was published
to the world, and the cholera excreta were destroyed
by carbolic acid and other disinfectants. The disease
was communicated by contact with the poison in a
few cases, but its general diffusion was stopped.

This is the secret of the success of London in con-
trolling an epidemic that during the year has been
so fatal in continental cities.

The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per
1,000 in London, 33 in Edinburgh, and 26 in Dub-
lin; 20 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 32 in Liver-
13col, 28 in Manchester, 27 in Salford, 29 in Shef-
field, 24 in Leeds, 19 in Hull, 41 in Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was
28 per 1,000 during the week ending the Ist inst.,
when the temperature was 2.9 deg. Fahrenheit
lower than in the same week in London, where the
rate was 25 per 1,000.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.678 in.
The barometrical reading decreased from 30-34 in.
on Sunday to 29.19 in. on Saturday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 43.4 deg.,
which is 2.7 above the average of the same week in
50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
highest day temperature was 55 deg., on Thurs-
day. The lowest night temperature was 28.6 deg.,
on Sunday. The entire range of temperature in
the week was, therefore, 26.4 deg. The mean of
the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames
was 43.7 deg. ; that of the lowest was 42.1 deg.
The difference between the mean dew-point tem-
perature and air temperature was 2.7 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 90, corn-
] lete saturation being represented by 100. Rain
fell to the amount of 0.60 in. The general direc-
tion of the wind was south-west. Accqrding to a
return furnished by the engineer of the Metropoli-
tan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of
sewage pumped into the river Thames at the south-
ern outfall works, Crossness, was 208,033 cubic
metres.