The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

BILE VET.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas E. Mulock, C. 8., 70th
Foot, retired upon full-pay, to have the honorary rank of
Colonel.

Major St. George Mervyn Nugent, half-pay Unattached,
and Assistant Quartermaster-General, Nova Scotia, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.

Quartermaster John Bradbury, half-pay, late Ist Dra,•
goon Guards, to have the honorar rank of Captain.

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 2G

The foNowinc,' promotions under her Majesty's Order in
Council of 10th November, 1866, sanctioning an addition of
three General Officers to the present fixed Establishment
of ten General Officers of Royal Marines, have been
made :

Lieutenant-General Sir Fortescue Graham, K.C.B. to be
General.

Major-General Alexander Anderson and Major-General
Thomas Holloway, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Generals.
Colonel Commandant (Supernumerary) and Deputy Ad.
jutant-General George Colt Langley to be Major-Genera]
and Deputy Adjutant-General.
Colonel Commandant Joseph Travers, C.B.,!and Colonel
Commandant William Robert Maxwell, to be Major-
Generals. _ .

General Sir Fortescue Graham, K.C.8., Lieutenant-
General Thomas Holloway, C. 8., and 111.)jor-General
Henry C. Tate, are apportioned to the Marine Artillery.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—Colonel Second Com-
mandant George Lambrick to be Colonel Commandant,
vice Travers ; Colonel Second Commandant Richard G.
Connolly to be Colonel Commandant, vice Maxwell ;
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel William Grigor
Suther, C. 8., to be Colonel Second Commandant, vice
Lambrick ; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Louis to be Colonel
Second Commandant, vice Connolly ; Captain Joseph H.
Jolliffe to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Suther; Captain
John W. A. Kennedy to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Louis;
First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Wm. Henry Wroot to
be Captain, vice Jolliffo; First Lieutenant Chas. Durham
Hocart Robilliard to be Captain, vice Kennedy ; Second
Lieutenant Augustus Bury Liardet to be First Lieutenant,
vice Wroot ; Second Lieutenant Philip Sidney to be First
Lieutenant, vice Robilliard.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening,

Amsterdam Short. 11 15f
Ditto 3 Mouths. 11 18f
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 42f
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 8f
.... _ .

11 16,
11 19'
11 19
25 4T

25 47-i
13 9
25 25
25 40
25 42
120
13 15
18 15

Paris

Short 25 15

Ditto 3 Months. 25 35
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 251193171
Viennb,
13

Trieste
Petersburgn
Berlin
Madrid ..................
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan

30i
6 251
47}
48*
27 15
27 15
27 15
27 15
27 15
27 15
51*
51*

Genoa
Naples
Palermo .
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

6 26,

The Minotaur, armoured iron frigate,
steam basin of Portsmouth dockyard, is being fitted
with the heavy metal racers for her main deck guns,
and otherwise brought in ;the
forward as quickly aspos-
sible for commission in May next as the flagship
of
on
the Channel Squadron. The four central ports
the main deck—two on each side—that were built
in the ship's aide of a larger area than the remain-
der of the ports, so as to admit
:f 12-ton guns
being mounted and fought throuwg with h
the 12-ton gunhem,were found
during the recent experiments
small
an area to work
and carriage to be of too
the gun efficiently under all conditions, and
they will therefore only fightlin the ship's side for the
6i-ton guns in com-
monif' with other ports built
have, however, been
selected out of the
s
same gun. Four othehri
ship's main deck battery for
guns, and are now undergoing
tnhloeunneteinesgsatrhye
enlargement
argein
ent and fitting for that pur-
pose. These por
guns, and are also abaft the
ts are just abaft the four formerly
intended for the large
working parts of the chain cables on the main deck.
The latter circumstances will give additional room
to the crews of the guns in the rear of the slides
.
lic,ht and air to tic cabins on the lower deckwhen at drill or in action. Scuttles for the admis-
sion of
are being cut through the armour-plating. The ai-
ers' cabins on the main deck have been temporarily
takenc down to allow of the gun-slide racers being
fitted to the deck, and from the large amount of cabin
accommodation the ship possesses on her lower deck
and under her poop it is very probable that all the
cabins fitted originally to the after part of her main
deck may not again be erected. As one instance
of the cost of " preserving" iron ships of war
when lying idle on the lists of the steam re-
serves we may mention a very recent circumstance
connected with the Minotaur. On opening some of
the cellular compartments of her double bottom it
was discovered that a certain amount of scraping, or
cleansing, and repainting with red lead or other pro-
tective composition was necessary for the removalof
rust, IN hich it was said had appeared in many parts,
au d for the preservation of the iron.