The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-21 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 18.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James
King as Consul at Cape Town for his Majesty the King of
Prussia.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 21.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant-General Sir William Macbean
George Colebrooke, C. 8., to be Colonel-Commandant of
a Brigade, vice General H. Evelegh, deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL. MALL, OCT. 21.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Brevet-Colonel Thomas
Tulloch, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, paying the difference between Infantry and Ca- ,
valry, vice Brevet-Colonel Spottiswoode, who exchanges,
receiving the same ; Major James b Robert Steadmanie
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Sayer to be Lieutenant-Colonel, .y purchase,
Brevet-Colonel Tulloch, who retires Captain Herbert
Dawson Slade -to be Major, by purchase, vice Sayer ;
Lieutenant James Gunter to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Slade.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet John Robert Heron Max-
well, from the Royal Horse Guards, to be Cornet, vice
Churcher, who has retired ; Assistant-Surgeon Charles
Henry Browne, from the Staff, to be Assistant Surgeon,
vice Griffith, who has resigned.
Royal Artillery—Paymaster Fitz Thomas Latders has
been permitted to resign his commission.
Coldstream Guards—Ensign Reginald Archibald Edward
Cathcart, from the 68th Foot, to be Ensign and Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Cameron, deceased.
Gth Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Lewis Blyth Hole to
be Captain, without purchase, vice John Augustus
Fuller, deceased; Ensign William Seymour Selby
Lowndes to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Hole ; Henry Marvin, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Lowndes.
Bth Foot—John Handle Minshull Ford, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Bradford, promoted ; Charles
Louis Constantine de Robeck, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice C, D. R. Madden, promoted.
15th Foot—William Henry Hudson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Mostyn, promoted.
21st Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Edward W. D. Lowe, C.B.
from 32d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-
Colonel Last, who retires upon full-pay, under the 37th
clause of the Royal Warrant of Oct. 14, 1858.
24th Foot—Lieutenant Henry J. Hitchcock to be Captain,
by purchaie. vice Disney, who retires ; Ensign William
Richardson Bie-bsby Chamberlin to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Hitchcock.

A WOMAN ONE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OF
AGE.—There is now in Liverpool a singular person, named
Elizabeth Roberts, or "Betty Roberts," as she is familiarly
termed by her acquaintances, who, according to her own
statement, was born in Northop, Flintshire, in June, 1749,
or in the 22d year of the reign of George 11. She has thus
attained to the age of 110, and from present appearances it
is possible she may survive many years longer. " Betty"
resides at•the back of St. Martin's Market, Scotland-road,
and almost every fine day she may be seen on the south
landing-stage, or about the markets and other public places
in the town. The landing-stage is her principal resort on
Sunday afternoons, where she generally attracts round her
a group of persons, who, astonished at her great age, as well
as amused by her loquacity, frequently drop her a few cop-
pers, although it euz,ht to be stated she never solicits cha-
rity. Her frame is shrunken and withered, but still she is
erect and steady in gait, and with stick in hand she boasts
that she can yet manage to walk three miles an hour. She
attributes her extended life in a measure to her simple
habits, and states that she has never used any intoxicating
liquors.
TRAVELLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A singular in•
cident occurred on Friday last, at the station of the Great
Western Railway, Gloucester. A little girl, the child of re-
spectable parents living in the vicinity of the railway, it ap-
pears, rather late in the evening was close by the rails, and
strolled into a horsebox, into which she was enabled to get
inconsequence of the carriage being then on a siding. Hero
the little thing fell fast asleep, and slept so soundly, that in
a short time afterwards some of the porters went to the car-
riage, and subsequently a horse was placed in it for convey-
ance to Hereford. Undisturbed by these movements, and
undiscovered by the porters themselves, the child slept on,
and the carriage being attached to the 8.15 p.m. train, she
and the horse were soon on their way together. At about
half-past nine they reached Hereford, where, of course, the
animal had t;) be ronoved, and the astonishment of the por-
ters there may be better imagined than described at discover-
ing so.very unusual an occupant of a horse-box. The child
was still asleep. On tidings being learnt respecting her,
she was sent back to Gloucester next morning, her parents
being much pleased at her restoration.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—Last week an accident
of a somewhat singular nature, though serious in its re-
sults, occurred at the soda water manufactory of Whitby
and Co., Orange-grove, Bath. As the foreman, Thomas
Burrows, a careful young man, was engaged in filling
bottles with soda water, one exploded in his hand with a
report like that of a gun, and the splinters flew in all direc•
tions ; the force of the explosion may be estimated when it
is stated that one of the splinters cut through a thick
jacket he wore at- the time, and penetrated the flesh of his
wrist neatly to the bone, severing some of the sinews of
his fingers, whereby it is feared the sufferer will be de-
prived of the use of his fingers. It is customary, we under-
stand, for the persons when tilling the bottles at these ma-
nufactories, to wear masks and thick gloves to guard
against accidents ; but the young man' on this occasion,
had neglected to put the gloves on, and hence the serious
result of-the explosion.—Bath Chronicle.
THE TRADE AND SHIPPING OF THE PORT OF
HULL.—The tonnage of the shipping of the port of Hull
will this year exceed that of last by from 100,000 to 150,000
tons. The consequence is, owing to this excess of tonnage,
that freights have been and are unremunerative. The
timber houses complain of the heavy imports, and we learn
that grain, seed, and other staple articles yield Lttle or no
profit. The immense quantity of imports has, however, the
advantage of supplying the labour-market, and an inereafed
number of persons are employed in the seed- crushing trade.
The deal carriers and labourers generally are also in full
work. With this increase of labour the price of food has
been reasonable, and the working class in the main have but
little to complain of.