The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-19 00:00:00

THAMES.

CHEATING A CAB DRIVER.—James Stephenson, a tall,
thin, and strange-looking man, with a moustache, and who
was stated to be a naval captain, but had more the appear-
ance of a military man,was brought up in custody before Mr.
Yardley, charged with unlawfully refusing to pay 65., cab
fare, and ss. costs, awarded by Mr. Paynter, on Thursday,
to be paid to James Cleare, driver of the cab No. 1,943.
The prisoner engaged the complainant on Monday morning
last to take up himself and two other persons, at Alder-
men's-stairs, Lower East Smithfield, and they were con-
veyed, with three packages, to No. 133, St. George's-street,
and from thence to Hanover-square. The fare, including
waiting for an hour and a half, was Bs., and it was
paid. The complainant then drove the prisoner
back to Covent-garden, where he waited three-
quarters of an hour, and then took him back to St. George's-
street, where the cab was detained 20 minutes. The fare
was 6d. for the second job, which the prisoner, who was said
to have come home in the Blackwall East Indiaman, as
seaman or steward, refused to pay, and although the sum-
mons granted by Mr. Yardley was served upon him, he
evaded the warrant granted by Mr. Paynter on Thursday.
This morning (Saturday), Cleare saw the prisoner riding
outside a cab in the Commercial road, and gave him into
custody. _- - _

The prisoner said the charge was an unfair one.
Cleare said he charged no more than his legal fare. And
he lost his situation because ho could not pay his master
for the hire of the cab on Monday.

Mr. Yardley said the prisoner must pay lls, immediately,
and if he did not he would have to pay a good deal more.
The prisoner was removed in custody of a policeman., and
as our reporter was leaving he was reluctantly paying the

money.
IMPUDENT BURGLARY.--JOhD. Sweeney, a dirty-looking
fellow, well known to the police, was brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with having, in concert with another
thief named Henry Brittenden, committed a daring bur-
glary on the premises of Messrs. Garford and Son, linseed
crushers, Limehouse-hole, adjoining the river, and stealing
two rolls of woollen cloth, value £3O, and other property
therefrom.

Brittenden was before Mr. Paynter on Thursday last, and
remanded for a week.

Sweeney was found yesterday by an active police con-
stable, named George Pullen, 161 K, and after a deter-
mined resistance, ho took him into custody.
It appeared that on Wednesday evening last Pullen saw
the prisoner and Brittenden in Limehouse drawing a truck,
on which was a large roll of woollen cloth for bagging,
weighing about 100 lb. Pullen stopped the truck and
asked Sweeney and Brittenden where they had procured
the roll of cloth, and where they were proceeding. They
made no answer, but immediately ran away. Brittenden
was almost instantly taken; Sweeney escaped.

Mr. John Garford, jun., of 31, Russell-square, said the
property belonged to him and his father, and was stolen
from their factory and linseed-oil works at Limehouse on
Wednesday evening.
Mr. William Reynolds, foreman to Messrs. Garford and
Son, steed that the roll of cloth, and another roll about the
tame value, were stolen from a warehouse on their pre-
mises. A watchman was employed, but the burglars
watched the watchman, took a pane of glass out of the
counting-house, and after breaking through several doors,
got into tho warehouse and stole the property mentioned.
Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner until Thursday next.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WHITEHALL, MARCH 16.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Niel
M'Neill to the church of Tobermory, in the island of Mull,
in the parishes of Kilninian and Kilmore, in the presbytery
of Mull, and shire of Argyll, vacant by the transportation
of the Rev. Malcolm M'lntyre to the church and parish of
Boleskino.

DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 16.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Donatien La-
porte, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of
the Island of St. Lucia; John Creighton, Esq., to be a
member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Nova
Scotia ; and Robert Hutchinson and Angus Jas. M'lntyre,
Esqs., to be members of the Legislative Council of the
Island of Prince Edward.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Francis
Spencer Wigley, James S. Berridge, John E. Tudor, James
D. Roger, Stewart L. Davis, Archibald P. Burt, Richard
Challenger, Charles M‘Mahon, William Clukies, and
Richard E. Semper, Esqs., to be Members of the Execu-
tive Council of the Islands of St. Christopher and Anguilla.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 18.

2d Regiment of Dragoons—William Connel Black, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Williams, promoted in the
Military Train.
Royal Artillery—Captain and Brevet- Colonel Charles
Lawrence D'Aguilar, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Brevet-Colonel Tuite, retired upon full-pay; Second
Captain Charles Edward Mainwaring, on the Supernu-
merary List, to be Captain ; Second Captain and Brevet-
Major William John Williams to be Captain, vice
D'Aguilar; Lieut. Maurice Edward Covey Stocker to be
Second Captain, vice Williams.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain William
Wheatley to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase,
vice Patrick C. L. Paget, who retires ; Ensign and Lieut.
Willoughby Sandilands Rooke to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice Wheatley; James Stephen
Ram, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Rooke.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign Lloyd Evans to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Tymons, who retires. The
Christian names of Lieutenant Placket are William Alex-

ander Henry, and not William Henry Alexander, as
hitherto stated.
2d Foot—John Charles Grant, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Widdrington, promoted.
4th Foot—George Hall Hall, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Holt, promoted.
6th Foot—Ensign Charles Edward Whitaker Roworth to

be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tewart, promoted.
9th Foot—James Edward Henning, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
10th Foot—Alexander Fraser, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice James, deceased.
13th Foot—John Drought Edward Mooney, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice A. F. Cuninghame, promoted.
14th Foot—Philip Alfred Riley, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Edwards, promoted.
19th Foot—William Joseph. Lynch, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice H. W. Hope, promoted in the Gre-
nadier Guards.
20th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Simeon Elliott, from the
North Cork Rifle Regiment of Militia, to be Ensign,

without purchase, vice Egan, promoted ; 'Thomas Alf;ed
Davies, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Foster-
Melliar, promoted ; Charles Edward Hussey, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice De Stacpoole, promoted.
23d Foot—Joseph Napier, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Stanley, promoted.
24th Foot—Ensign Richard A. Farquharson, to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Streatfield, appointed
Paymaster.
27th Foot—James Mortimer Vernon Cotton, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Campbell, promoted.
31st Foot—Brevet-Colonel William Sutton, from the Cape

Mounted Rifles, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-
Colonel George Staunton, who exchanges.
36th Foot—John Dickinson Atkinson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice the Hon. C. J. F. Powys, promoted.
41st Foot—Charles Miller, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Talmadge, deceased ; Seymour Fitz John
Clarke, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Warner,'promoted.
50th Foot—John Harrison Vander-Meulen, Gent., 100 be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Preston, promoted.
55th Foot—A. C. Addison, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice ANin Shutt Bell, who resigns.
56th Foot—W. S. M‘Dowall, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Bell, promoted.
71st Foot—C. B. Murray, Gent., to be Ensign, by, pur-
chase, vice Boulderson, promoted.
74th Foot—Ensign E. T. Sainsbury to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice A. D. Bell, who retires.
77th Foot—Edward Nicholas Mosley, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Bridger, promoted to the Military
Train.
79th Foot—Alexander Bruce Murray, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Kerr, who retires ; Albert Charles
Wood, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice James
Bell Campbell, who retires.
84th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew Stewart, from the 98th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wolseley, who exchanges.
87th Foot—Lieutenant J. Owen Edwards Tucker, from
half-pay 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gibson, pro-
moted, without purchase, to an unattached company ;
Ensign Frederick Flood Devereux to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Tucker, who retires.
89th Foot—Nassau Clark, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Pott, promoted.
98th Foot—Lieutenant John Benjamin Wolseley, from the
84th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Stewart, who ex-

changes.
lst West India Regiment—Ensign Herbert Gaunlett
Pinter to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Leggatt,

deceased.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant James H. H. Lan-
don, has been permitted to retire from the service by the
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sale of his commission.
Cape Mounted Rifles—Brevet-Colonel George Staunton,
from the 31st Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-
Colonel William Sutton, who exchanges.
DEPOT BATTALION.

Captain the Honourable S. Richard Hamilton Ward,
from the 17th Foot, to be Adjutant, Tice Charter, pro-
moted.

UNATTACHED.

Lieutenant James Lazenby, from the Gold Coast Artil-
lery Corps, to be Captain, without purchase.

BREVET

Brevet-Colonel Hugh Manley Tuite, on retired full pay
as Lieut.-Colonel of the Royal Artillery, to be Major-Gen.
in the Army, the rank being honorary only.
Captain Thomas Edward Kennion, Bengal Artillery, to
be Major in the Army.
Captain William Barnham Thomas Rider, retired full-
pay Royal Marines, to have the honorary rank of Major,
under her Majesty's Order in Council of 13th Nov., 1858.
The following promotions to take place in the Indian
Military Forces of her Majesty, consequent on the death of
Lieutenant-General Henry Tuffnell Roberts, C. 8., Bengal
Cavalry, on 3d February, 1859:--Major-General Julius
George Griffith, Bombay Artillery, to be Lieutenant-
General ; and Colonel Stuart Corbett, C. 8., Bengal In-
fantry, to be Major-General.
The following officers of the Indian Military Forces of
hor Majesty, having retired upon full pay, to have a step of
honorary rank, as follows :