The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-31 00:00:00

OCT. 29.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom ap-
pointing Sir Hugh McCahnont Cairns, Kut., to be a Judge
of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, in the room of the
Right Hon. Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, resigned.
CROWN-OFFICE, Our. 29.
The Queen has been pleased by letters patent under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom to constitute and ap-
point John Rolt, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel learned
in the Law, to be her Majesty's Attorney-General in all
her Majesty's Courts of Record in England.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Om 30.
Gth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon Richard Gil-
borne baying completed 20 years' full-pay service, to be
Surgeon-Major.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Richard Aufrore Baker
to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Lionel Bridge, de-
ceased; Lieutenant Robert Thomas Hamond to be Se-
cond Captain, vice Baker.
20th Foot—Lieut. Charles E. Hussey to be Adjutant,
vice Lieutenant J. M. Lovekiu, who resigns the appoint-
ment.
24th Foot—Lieut. John F. Caldwell to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Charles Watkins, who retires; Ensign
Russell Upcher to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cald-
well; Gentleman Cadet Hubert F. Thomson, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign,..by purchase, vice
Upcher.
25th Foot—Major Francis 11. Ponder, from the sth•Foot,
to be Major, vice Rowland, who exchanges.
27th Foot—Capt. Henry C. Mansorgli, from the 39th Foot,
to be Captain, vice M. Fanning, promoted to a half-pay
Majority, without purchase.
33d Foot—Lieut. James Maurice Shipton to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Alexander Bruce Wallis, who retiros ;
Ensign George Frederick Arthur to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Shipton ; Gentleman Cadet Baptist
Johnston Barton, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Arthur.
38th Foot -Capt. Andrew Pagan, from half-pay late 65th
Foot, to be Captain, vice David William Martin, who
retires upon half-pay.
40th Foot—Lieut. de Neufvillo Lucas has been permitted
to retire from the Service by the sale of his Commission.
41st Foot—Capt. Cecil James East, from the 82d Foot, to
be Captain, vice Thompson, who exchanges ; Ensign
Harvey Hamilton Kelly to bo Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Francis Blake Eagle, who retires ; Gentleman Cadet

Charles Torkington, fioni the Royal Military College, to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kelly.
58th Foot— Gentleman Cadet Henry Thomas Warde Allatt,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Dickenson, promoted.
60th Foot—Lieutenant George Thomas Whitaker to be
Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Clifford For-
tescue Borer, Who resigns the appointment.
66th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Eales Soady to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Henry C. Spearman, who retires;
Ensign John William Carroll to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Soady.
73d Foot —Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John
Cox Gawler to be Major, without purchase, vice O'Brien,
promoted to half-pay Lieutenant-Colonelcy, without

purchase.
82d Foot—Captain Henry- Masterman Thompson, from
the 41st Fuot, to .be Captain, vice East, who ex-
changes.
10Gth Foot—Lieutenant John Wright to be Captain, vice
George Maunsell, placed upon half-pay ; Ensign Arthur
Corbett Maurice to be Lieutenant, vice Wright ; Gentle-
man Cadet William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, from the Royal
Military College, to bo Ensign, vice Maurice.
107th Foot—Ensign Arthur oney Fisher to be Lieute-
nant, vice Edward Augustus Down, who resigns ' • Gen-
tleman Cadet Bradford Smith, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, vice Fisher.
4th West India Regiment—Ensign Frederick William
Hodges to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Ernest
Robert Finch Jenkins, killed in action; Ensign William
Anton Doorly to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Frederick William Hodges, deceased ; Ensign George
Beresford Deere to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice John James Osborne, deceased ' • Ensign Herbert
William Paterson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hodges, whose promotion by purchase on the 17th July,
1866, has been cancelled • Colour-Sergeant John Wm.

31‘Kay, from the 67th Foot, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Doorly.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Captain John. Wells, from half-
pay, late 86th Foot, to be Captain, vice Richard Henry
Brooke, who retires upon temporary half-pay ; Lieute-
nant William Biddulph Pinchard to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Wells, who retires; Ensign Michael Joseph
Tighe to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
William Guy, deceased; Ensign Alfred Randall
to be Lieutenant, ,by purchase, vice Pinchard;
Gentleman Cadet Arthur Frederick Perkins, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Tighe ; Arthur John Preston, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Randall ; Lieutenant Alfred Randall,
to be Adjutant, vico Lieutenant William Guy, de-

ceased.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. - S taff Surgeon B. Nicholson,
M.D. having completed 20 years' full-pay service, to
be durgeou-Major ; Assistant-Surgeon Arthur Guy
Elkington, from the Sots Fusilier Guards, to be Staff

Surgeon.
HALF-PAY.—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Arm.
Douglas, from the 11th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase.
UNATTACHED.—Lnsign George Marley, Unattached Bengal
List, to be Lieutenant.

BREVET.
The local rank of Brigadier-General conferred upon
Brevet-Colonel 11. D. White, C. 8., half-pay Unattached,
to be dated Ist October, 1866.
The undermentioned officers to have the local rank of
Major in India :—Captain E. W Cuming, 79th Foot, and
Captain D. W. Becher, 104th Foot.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 15}
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 40
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris
•• Short 25 12k
Ditto - 3 Months. 25 40
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine —119 i
Viennb, — 13 2U
Trieste — 13 20
Petersburgti - 291
Berlin
Madrid _ — 471
Cadiz

11 161-
11 19f
11 191
25 45
25 45
13 9
25 20
25 42f
25 45 •

120 f
13 30
13 30

291
6 26i
47.
48fr
27 60
27 60
27 GO
27 60
27 60
27 60
bli •
61}

Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40
511
511

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Days

LONDON, Oct. M.—Wind this day at noon—oi orta-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and Bac.loather, but rather
cloudy.
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Wind S.W.—.A.rrivod—Princoss
Royal, from Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Jane
PORTSMOUTH,
and Ellen, from Rangoon for London, with loss of bow-
sprit, having been in collision.
FALMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Wind N.W—Arrived—Erlprinz
from Cardiff for Rio Janoiro.
LlLoucEsTEit, Oct. 29.--Wind N.W.—Arrived—Minnio,
from Miramichi.
Ki,„/DcaD, Oct. 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Excel
rom Labrador.