The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-07 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 5.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Major Harry Burnett Lumsden, of the
Bengal Army, lately employed on a mission to Candahar,
and Major William Henry Rhodos Green, of the Bombay
Army, employed on special duties in Upper Scinde, to be
Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class,
or Companions, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

DEC. 6.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of

Robert Gilmour Colquhonn, Esq., her Majesty's Agent
and Consul-General in Egypt ;
Joseph Tucker Crawford, Esq., her Majesty's Consul-
General at the Havana ;
John Rice Crowe, Esq., her Majesty's Consul-General in
the kingdom of Norway;
John Ward, Esq., her Majesty's Consul-General in the
dominions of the King of Saxony ;
Sir Anthony Perrier, Knt., hor Majesty's Consul at Brest;
and
Harry Smith Parkes, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at
Shanghai;
to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third
Class, or Companions, of the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 5.
The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be issued
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, for summoning Hugh Fortescue, Esq.
(commonly called Viscount Ebrington), to the House of
Peers, by the style and title of Baron Fortescue, of Castle
Hill, in the county of Devon.
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,, granting unto Edward Stephen
Dendy, Esq., Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms, the
office of Chester Herald, vacant by the promotion of Walter
Aston Blount, Esq., to the office of Norroy King of Arms.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 5.
Tho Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Vans
Agnew as Consul at Madras for his Majesty the King of
Sweden and Norway.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEc. 5.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch
from her Majesty's Minister at Vienna, enclosing a trans-
lation of an Austrian decree restricting the customs line of
the free port of Fiume to the port of the town situate upon
the right bank of the River Fiumara.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC 5.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Commissariat Clerks
Edmund John Johnstone and Paul George Frederick Furso
to be Deputy Assistant-Commissary-Generals.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
7th Company of Surrey Rifle Volunteers—Marcus Bores-
ford, Esq., to be Captain.
6th Company of Surrey Rifle Volunteers—Andrew Sig-
son, Esq., to be Honorary Surgeon.
Oxfordshire Volunteer Rifle Brigade—Eyre W. Hussey,
Esq., of Christ Church, to be Ensign of the 2d Company ;
Edward Cecil Coney, Esq., of Corpus Christi College, to
be Ensign of the 3d Company.
let Company Berks Rifle Volunteers—Chas. Stephens,
jun., Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Chas. Simonds, Gent., to be
Ensign.
7th Middlesex Rifle Vaanteers—Alfred Jas. Ebsworth,
Esq., to bo Captain.
2d Devon Regimer_t of Militia—George Edmund Allen
to bo Ensign.
Devon Militia Artillery—William Arundell Yee and G.
Lysaght to be ":,irst Lieutenants ; Frederic Lysaght to be
Second Lieutenant.
2d Cow-rany of tho Devon Volunteer Artillery—Henry
Ede t(, be First Lieutenant, vice Compton, resigned ; 3d
Company—Sir Warwick Helo Tonkin, Knt., to be Cap-
tofai ; Edward A. English to be First Lieutenant.
Exeter and South Devon Rifle Volunteers—William H.
Peters to be Captain, vice George, resigned.
6th Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—William Jopp, Esq.,
to be Captain; George Cadenhead, Esq., to be Lieutenant;
Patrick Cooper, Esq., to be Ensign.
7th Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—Arthur Thomson,
Esq., to be Captain ; John Blaikie, Esq., to be Lieutenant;
Alexander Edmond, Esq., to be Ensign.
7th Company of Cheshire Rifle Volunteers—Arthur
Brooke, Esq., to be Captain; Philip Whiteway, Jun.,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; John Brundrit, Gent., to be
Ensign.

24 Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—